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Germany Is Requiring All Gas Stations Get Electric Car Chargers
Electric Vehicles

Germany Is Requiring All Gas Stations Get Electric Car Chargers

Germany is getting serious about electric cars.

By Victor Tangermann

Sweden's unusual approach to fighting the coronavirus isn't paying off. Sweden's mortality rate is substantially higher than that for its neighbors.
Developments

Sweden’s Hands-Off Approach to COVID Has Failed Dramatically

"Clearly, there is potential for improvement in what we have done in Sweden."

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers at Harvard have created a tiny cockroach-inspired robot that is only about the size of a penny and weighs only 0.3 grams.
Robotics

Watch Harvard’s Penny-Sized Robot Scuttle Around Like a Cockroach

This terrifying robobug is one of the smallest, fastest robots in existence.

By Victor Tangermann

End-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal has announced a new tool that allows users to blur faces in pictures uploaded to the app from Android and iOS.
Future Society

Messaging App Releases Face-Blurring Tool to Keep Protesters Safe

"One immediate thing seems clear: 2020 is a pretty good year to cover your face."

By Victor Tangermann

A new solar panel-like device can generate clean electricity when it's blocked by darkness and shadows rather than sitting in direct sunlight.
Solar Power

Solar Panel-Like Device Generates Power From Darkness

"We can harvest energy anywhere on Earth, not just open spaces."

By Dan Robitzski

According to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, the company is seeing its business return as passengers leave their homes during "party hours."
Future Society

Uber Says Rides During “Party Hours” Are Keeping it Afloat

Uber is doing better — because more people are ignoring social distancing.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists gene-hacked human cells to fully integrate that structures that let some squids turn transparent, giving the cells the ability to scatter light.
Biology

Scientists Gene-Hack Human Cells to Turn Invisible

They gave human cells squid-like active camouflage.

By Dan Robitzski

NASA might soon end its reliance on Russia to send astronauts into space. In fact, Russian cosmonauts might soon have to chose SpaceX instead.
NASA

NASA: Russia May Be Forced to Launch Cosmonauts With SpaceX

How the tables have turned!

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX is still planning on an orbital test launch of its Starship spacecraft before the end of the year, despite last week's setback.
Starship

After Explosion, SpaceX Still Hoping to Launch Starship This Year

"If everything works, we want to go to Earth orbit at the end of the year."

By Victor Tangermann

In a new study, doctors managed to grow functional, miniature human livers out of stem cells and tested them in living rats.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Grow Mini Human Livers, Transplant Them Into Rats

"You can make a whole organ that can be functional from one cell of the skin."

By Dan Robitzski

The National Guard and law enforcement flew surveillance planes above the heads of thousands of protesters marching in solidarity of George Floyd.
Future Society

Cops Are Using Military Spy Planes to Surveil BLM Protesters

They even flew a Predator drone, often used to kill terrorists, over a Minneapolis protest.

By Victor Tangermann

Jim Peebles, who first theorized about dark matter, argues in a new essay that there's still a lot of work to be done in proving his ideas.
Physics

The Guy Who Invented Dark Matter Has Some Doubts

"We haven’t been issued a guarantee that we can make sense of the physical world around us."

By Dan Robitzski

An open letter signed by hundreds of researchers today points out many glaring issues with a controversial hydroxychloroquine study.
Developments

Major COVID Drug Study Accused of Relying on Falsified Data

The numbers just don't add up.

By Victor Tangermann

Building on existing research, researchers suggest that Mars' moon Deimos will likely be split up into tiny rocks, forming a ring around the planet.
Science & Energy

New Research: Mars May Have Once Had Rings

The strange orbit of one of Mars' moons may reveal a fascinating secret history.

By Victor Tangermann

Artificial intelligence algorithms trained on satellite and mobile data could spot coronavirus victims and help better coordinate humanitarian aid.
Artificial Intelligence

Satellites Are Tracking Poor Nations’ Coronavirus Outbreaks

The goal is to build machine learning that can coordinate aid.

By Dan Robitzski

A 23-year-old federal program lets the Pentagon sell cops military gear and weaponry for the cost of shipping, all without providing training or guidelines.
Military

Here’s How Deadly Military Tech Ended up in Police Hands

"Our research suggests that officers with military hardware and mindsets will resort to violence more quickly and often."

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is actually a genetic hybrid of a bat and pangolin virus that happened to swap genes.
Viruses

Scientists: Coronavirus Likely a Hybrid of Two Other Viruses

Here's an ominous possibility.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are working hard to develop cost-efficient UVC light lamps that could be used to sanitize anything from hospital rooms to subway car interiors.
Viruses

Killing the Coronavirus With UV Light Shows Promise

"The results have been very encouraging."

By Victor Tangermann

Moscow's virus-tracking app is extremely unreliable and is handing out thousands of arbitrary fines. Human rights groups called it an intrusion of privacy.
Developments

Is This the World’s Worst Virus-Tracking App?

It's randomly fining users hundreds of dollars — and worse.

By Victor Tangermann

Multiple scientists have found that greater humidity seems to block the coronavirus from spreading, but experts warn against complacency if cases drop.
Viruses

Two Studies Find That Humidity Prevents Coronavirus Spread

This finding could give us a killer weapon against the pandemic — or lull us into a false sense of security.

By Dan Robitzski