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.
Scientists produce a value for the cosmic microwave background that will definitely prove or disprove that the speed of light used to be higher.
Scientists discover that up to 47% of chromosomes isn’t chromatins after all.
A new study looks at how a stronger working memory can reduce depression.
Researchers find that pessimistic pigs’ behavior is strongly influenced by their mood.
A new study looks at our comfort in being around other people as a byproduct of evolution.
A massive complex of ancient stone structures is uncovered in remote Kazakhstan.
The troubling ReAnima clinical trials in India have just been blocked.
A new partnership is leveraging the power of AI to hunt down online sex traffickers.
Electronics factory workers in Shenzen have a their own manufacturing scene going at night.
A huge body of water beneath a Bolivian volcano has scientists excited.
Two sonic branding experts offer commentary on the sound designs that punctuate our days.
Illustrated travel stories told from the perspective of the blind and visually impaired.
The Dalai Lama suggests the anger tearing apart nations is a feeling many have of not being needed any more.
It’s time to stop thinking of just five human senses, since neuroscience is revealing we have many more.
Skeptic John Horgan identifies new theories of matter and the universe that reveal human narcissism.
A new videogame has bad guys that evolve in response to the way you play.
The DOOR CLOSE button on your elevator is there only to make you feel better since it doesn’t actually work.
Google’s Deep Brain team watched neural nets learn to develop their own encryption.
Physicists are investigating the long-term data storage properties of diamonds.
A new study suggests the brain gets more desensitized to lying with each lie you tell.
The ridiculousness of Hollywood science when it comes to memory loss.
Oceanographer Sylvia Earle shares the wonder of experiencing the ocean’s creatures in the wild.
Programmers at MIT publish A.I.-generated scary images scary for Halloween.
We should be exploring the oceans as seriously as we explore space.
Tesla’s Elon Musk gives a grave warning to those trying to hold back self-driving car technology. According to him, we have it all backwards.
A small, icy planet with a weirdly elliptical orbit has been discovered beyond Pluto.
Geneticists and cave paintings identify a lost species they puckishly name the “Higgs bison.”
Meteorologist Cliff Mass explains why and how U.S. weather forecasting is falling behind.
Researchers video chimpanzee mothers teaching their kids how to use tools.
Though the logic of the Nobel committee is pretty easy to glean when it comes to the sciences, in other, less-defined categories, it surprises on a fairly regular basis.