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.
USC successfully tests an implanted memory prosthesis that improves biological human memory.
AI is leaving human needs and democracy behind in its race to accomplish its current profit-generating goals.
Canadian authorities have decided that the f-word is acceptable language for French Canadian broadcasts.
Breakthrough gene therapy allows doctors to replace 80% of an epidermolysis bullosa patient’s skin.
DEFCON hackers find it’s really easy to hack U.S. voting machines.
NASA and SETI invite the public to nickname a small icy world, or pair of worlds, in the distant Kuiper Belt ahead of a New Horizons 2019 flyby.
Is moral superiority the reason American society is so polarized?
The way that hits are now calculated, impossibly long albums may be on the horizon.
A new study links conventionally produced fruits and vegetables to lower odds of live birth.
The man who first demonstrated the power of neural networks introduces capsule networks.
Scientists share that thing they want everyone to know on Twitter with the hashtag #MyOneScienceTweet.
Scientists model the first virtual neurons to better understand the living brain.
Scientists work out methods for finding the difference between the magnetic moments of protons and antiprotons and see that they’re the same.
A new study shows that adult dogs can learn to distinguish generous and selfish people, but puppies can’t.
Infographics that show how we’re all addicted to something.
CDP releases its 2017 A-List, that reveals more companies making serious efforts to combat climate change.
Scientists are about to set new standards for the kilogram, ampere, mole, and kelvins.
Scientists realize that fish are sentient and intelligent, though unfortunately, they also get depressed.
Researchers look at crowdsourcing as a way to teach ethics to AI.
Infographics detailing the exporting of live animals from Africa, 2001-2015
Children’s drawings of houses rendered as they’d look in real life.
A new report from the IMF shows why income equality hurts everyone and proposes higher taxes on the wealthy and investigating universal basic income.
It’s never too late to consider switching to a career in science.
MRIs reveal the human brain has its own lymphatic system after all.
A video explainer about what opioids do to the brain that makes the drugs so hard to quit.
The secret behind the Em Drive’s thrust, which is real, may be in the long-discarded pilot wave theory.
Scientists discover that ice in space bubbles, pops, and flows.
Feversham Academy in Bradford, England has profoundly improved its students’ performance by adding a lot more music to their curriculum.
Chemists are surprised to find that berkelium electrons seem to live outside of quantum mechanics.
A new organization, Thorn, has been launched to help victims of a new crime called “sexploitation” in which abusers extort victims over the publication of intimate images.