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At the clinic CityMD, the software allows you to set your "owner" as your emergency contact. We got to the bottom of what's going on.
Developments

Why CityMD Lets You Set Your “Owner” As Your Emergency Contact

Why did this NYC health clinic ask who my owner was? An investigation.

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors still aren't sure if pets can spread COVID-19 to their owners or vice versa, so they recommend assuming that they can in the meantime.
Developments

Scientists Warn That Pets Might Infect People With COVID-19

It's hard to verify, so experts recommend caution while they figure it all out.

By Dan Robitzski

Anti-maskers inspired YouTuber Allen Pan to create a whimsical gadget: a gun that fires masks directly onto its targets' faces.
Prosthetics and Devices

Man Builds Gun That Shoots Masks Onto People’s Faces

"This is a world of opinion and emotion. And if there's one thing that coronavirus protesters actually care about, it's the Second Amendment. Guns."

By Jon Christian

Scientists want to improve our ability to forecast weather in space due to concerns that a solar storm could wipe out our entire electronic infrastructure.
Solar Power

Scientists Are Worried About Solar Storms Frying all our Electronics

They want a space weather forecasting system so we can prepare.

By Dan Robitzski

A team from Arizona State University found nanoplastic particles in all 47 examined human lungs, liver, spleen, and kidney samples.
Developments

Scientists Find Microplastics Inside Human Organs

"In a few short decades, we've gone from seeing plastic as a wonderful benefit to considering it a threat."

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just powered up its Ingenuity Mars helicopter for the first time — not on the Martian surface, but in the middle of interplanetary space.
Mars

NASA Just Powered Up Its Mars Helicopter

"This was a big milestone."

By Victor Tangermann

Five new studies all suggest that COVID-19 survivors could have a more robust resistance to future coronavirus infections than we thought.
Viruses

COVID-19 Survivors Seem to Have Really Solid Immunity, Researchers Say

It's an encouraging sign after months of wondering whether antibodies actually helped.

By Dan Robitzski

By modeling the interior using simulations, an international team of scientists are having a closer look at the unusual watery cores of Uranus and Neptune.
Science & Energy

Scientists: Probe Center of Uranus, You’ll Hit Some Weird Water

"In such exotic physical conditions, we cannot think of ice as we are used to."

By Victor Tangermann

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with the extremely controversial facial recognition tech company Clearview AI.
Future Society

ICE Signs Contract With Controversial Facial Recognition Company

It's a privacy nightmare in the making.

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, mindfulness and meditation can make depression and anxiety worse in a small subset of people who try it.
Health & Medicine

Serenity Not Now: Meditation and Mindfulness Can Make Depression Worse

"People have experienced anything from an increase in anxiety up to panic attacks."

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists have figured out a way to keep a quantum computer system "coherent," or operational, 10,000 times longer than before.
Quantum Physics

Scientists Create Quantum System That Stays Operational 10,000 Longer

"The best part is, it's incredibly easy to do."

By Victor Tangermann

Trump's EPA just rolled back the last of the Obama-era carbon emission regulations that held oil companies responsible for methane leaks.
Climate Change

Trump’s EPA Says Oil Industry Can Relax About Methane Leaks

The removal of Obama-era emissions standards is now complete.

By Dan Robitzski

Jack Dorsey has a message for aspiring tech entrepreneurs: Elon Musk's approach and work ethic is some serious "bullshit."
Elon Musk

Jack Dorsey, Who Once Said He Drinks “Salt Juice,” Called Elon Musk’s Routine “Bullshit”

Dorsey says emulating Musk's endless work hours is a horrible idea.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists refuse to stop using indecipherable, vague acronyms that could have multiple meanings, and it's a serious problem for accessibility.
Science & Energy

Scientists Furious That Scientists Keep Using Indecipherable Acronyms

Shockingly, weird ones like "MAYONNAISE" and "ESPRESSO" aren't the real problems.

By Dan Robitzski

Despite SpaceX just having won a massive US Air Force launch contract, the company's CEO Elon Musk is pissed about ULA scoring 60 percent of the launches.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: SpaceX Competitor “A Complete Waste of Taxpayer Money”

"Nobody would suggest buying airplanes that only fly once and then crash into the ocean."

By Victor Tangermann

The star S62 whips around the Milky Way's central black hole at a dizzying eight percent of lightspeed. It's so fast scientists can see time slow down.
Science & Energy

This Star Is Moving So Fast it Visibly Warps Spacetime

At eight percent the speed of light, it's the fastest in our galaxy.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just blew the distance record for long-range quantum-encrypted messages after beaming one down from a satellite in orbit.
Quantum Physics

Chinese Scientists Figured Out How to Beam Quantum Messages From Satellites

Quantum encryption goes extremely long-range.

By Dan Robitzski

You Can Now Waste $6,000 on an Elon Musk-Themed iPhone
Elon Musk

You Can Now Waste $6,000 on an Elon Musk-Themed iPhone

But, you know, you probably shouldn't.

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to new, skintight sensors, AI may finally be able to learn what's going on with our hands when we make everyday gestures.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Might Finally Decipher Human Gestures

Apparently, the data that trained previous systems was no good.

By Dan Robitzski

The US is going through a massive mental health crisis, according to a CDC study. Minority groups, caregivers, and essential workers are hit hardest.
Health & Medicine

CDC: Over 25% of Young Americans Considered Suicide Due to the Pandemic

The US is going through a mental health crisis of immense proportions.

By Victor Tangermann