Robby Berman
Contributing Writer
I’m a writer, musician, and father living in central New York with my wife, two daughters, one dog, two cats, and countless questions. I’m especially interested in animal rights, creativity, politics, the nature of things and time, and in making a worthwhile contribution. You can follow me @everyrobby.
Infographics tally up our holiday mishaps.
The government decides the risk of research into dangerous viruses is worth the reward.
A study of moose skull sizes on a remote island shows the effects of global warming.
A NYT article says the Defense Department been tracking mystery aircraft.
Researchers are studying the use of sperm cells as micromotors for delivering chemotherapy to cervical cancer patients.
A new study from the University of Chicago shows that monkey brains can control and adapt to robotic limbs.
A new study finds that narwhals race dive deep with their hearts barely beating as they escape humans.
A predictive-keyboard app has just written an utterly crazy new Harry Potter chapter and the internet loves it.
A student’s award-winning explanation of relativity and reference frames is the best one yet.
AI has identified six new dolphin clicks we never knew existed.
The first component of a planned “space kingdom” has been launched into orbit.
Scientists identify for the first time two specific genes that may foster a predisposition for being gay in men.
The UN has commissioned a study of extreme poverty in the most of one of the world’s wealthiest nations, the United States.
A silent gif is sweeping the web because many people think they can hear it.
The researcher behind some well-known gender studies is accused of making them all up.
The Planetary Habitability Laboratory has made up some periodic tables of all of the confirmed and suspected exoplanets so far, plus planetary bodies in our own solar system.
Scientists have discovered an endless energy supply in the naturally occurring Brownian motion of graphene.
Comprehensive DNA sequencing of artifacts reveals the yeti to be bears, mostly Himalayan brown bears.
A study finds that conflicting points of view are more likely to lead to dehumanizing others if they’re written and not spoken.
A new study shows that oxytocin plays a similar role in dogs’ emotions as it does in humans.
A reappraisal of the Chinese Dali skull suggest a more prominent role for China in early human history.
For the first time, an object from outside our solar system is observed traveling through our neighborhood.
Predatory journals are so busy scamming scholars that seven big ones appointed a dog posing as a PhD to review submissions.
Geologists find that when the earth’s spin slows as it has recently, major earthquake activity follows.
The first in-body gene-editing experiment has just begun.
A new study links multiple sex partners and smoking to head and neck, or oropharyngeal, cancer.
A new Credit Suisse report shows 27% growth since 2008 in the world’s wealth, with a disproportionately large share going to the already wealthy.
Which is worse? Alcohol or marijuana?