More from Jon Christian (Page 8)

It sounds like the premise to a young adult novel: a totalitarian government sends its kids to a special facility to train them for life at a Mars colony.

China Is Sending Teens to a Simulated Mars Colony

By Jon Christian

After an outpouring of anger about the project on social media, PepsiCo no longer says it plans to launch a space billboard.

After Backlash, Pepsi Says It Never Planned a Space Billboard

By Jon Christian

PepsiCo says it's struck a deal with a Russian startup called StartRocket to display an enormous energy drink advertisement in the night sky.

Pepsi Plans to Project a Giant Ad in the Night Sky Using Cubesats

By Jon Christian

A group of scientists associated with Elon Musk say they've invented a new way to wire a brain implant into the brains of rats.

Scientists Invent “Sewing Machine” to Implant Brain Electrodes

By Jon Christian

An MIT scientist asks whether we're protagonists in a simulated reality or so-called NPCs who exist to round out a player character's experience.

MIT Prof: If We Live in a Simulation, Are We Players or NPCs?

By Jon Christian

In a new interview, "The Simulation Hypothesis" author and MIT professor Rizwan Virk asserts it's more likely we're living in a simulation than not.

MIT Prof: It’s More Likely We’re Living in a Simulation Than Not

By Jon Christian

Scientists say they've devised antibodies that block a specific gene related to brain aging — causing old mice to regain lost cognitive abilities.

“The Mice Became Smarter”: New Treatment Restores Aging Brains

By Jon Christian

The bombing isn't an act of space vandalism. The goal is to blow a 10-meter crater in asteroid in order to see what it looks like on the inside.

Science & Energy

Japan Lobs Bomb to Blow Hole in Asteroid… For Science

By Jon Christian

NASA is sending a pair of "robotic bees" to the ISS — a project the space agency is positioning as one of the most advanced experiments in space robotics.

NASA Is Sending Cute “Robotic Bees” to the Space Station

By Jon Christian

Scientists at the University of Central Florida say they've figured out how to make pulses of light travel 30 times as fast as usual — or even backward.

Science & Energy

Scientists Say They Can Make Light Travel 30x Faster Than Normal

By Jon Christian

Russia's military says that its "super soldiers" are able to use "parapsychology" techniques to crash computers with telepathy they learned from dolphins.

Russia Says “Super Soldiers” Can Crash Computers With Telepathy

By Jon Christian

Don't get us wrong: there's nothing wrong with being a furry. But here are five things Musk could be working on instead of tweeting.

6 Things Elon Musk Could Be Doing Instead of Denying He’s a Furry

By Jon Christian

The FDA, the United States' consumer health watchdog, is now raising the alarm that they could be associated with dangerous seizures.

Health & Medicine

The FDA Is Investigating Whether Vaping Causes Seizures

By Jon Christian

At a test flight for UK startup Gravity's "jet suit," UK Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson enthused about using similar suits for combat missions.

UK Military Could Deploy Iron Man-Style Jet Suit in Combat

By Jon Christian

A fascinating new story looks at the growing market for mice that have been gene-edited to mimic human disease ranging from prostate cancer to diabetes.

Health & Medicine

These $17,000 Mice Are Gene-Edited to Mimic Human Diseases

By Jon Christian

A Nobel Prize winning scientist says that high-intensity lasers could one day render nuclear waste harmless in just a few minutes.

Nobel Prize Winner: Lasers Could Permanently Destroy Nuclear Waste

By Jon Christian

The goal is to look past the space debris to see its event horizon.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Are Teasing the First-Ever Photo of a Black Hole

By Jon Christian

It sounds like an April Fools prank, but scientists say that music by dubstep star Skrillex can keep mosquitoes from biting.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Say Skrillex Stops Mosquitoes From Biting

By Jon Christian

USC researchers claim evidence of a deep Martian groundwater system that spills out through surface cracks to form visible above-ground streams.

Researchers Detect “Deep Groundwater” on Mars

By Jon Christian

Instead, according to scientist and philosopher Bernardo Kastrup, some are starting to suspect that matter and reality are complex illusions.

Physicists Are Starting to Suspect Physical Reality Is an Illusion

By Jon Christian

A startup says it's building a futuristic facility that'll suck as much CO2 out of the atmosphere of every year as 40 million trees.

Renewable Energy

New Facility Aims to Capture 40 Million Trees’ Worth of CO2 Every Year

By Jon Christian

The U.S. Navy says that it's going to outfit a destroyer with a laser system made by military contractor Lockheed Martin.

The U.S. Military is Mounting a Giant Laser Cannon on a Destroyer

By Jon Christian

Scientists at Scripps Research say they've found a way to reverse rats' alcoholism by blasting particular neurons in their brains with lasers.

Scientists Reversed Rats’ Alcoholism by Firing Lasers at Their Brains

By Jon Christian

Faced with a critical land shortage, the city of Hong Kong is planning to build one of the most ambitious artificial islands in the history of the world.

Hong Kong Is Planning a $79 Billion Artificial Island

By Jon Christian

NASA collaborators admitted that they're not sure what's wrong with the InSight lander's instrument that was supposed to dig into the surface of Mars.

NASA Isn’t Sure What’s Wrong With Its InSight Mars Lander

By Jon Christian

Chinese officials have cloned a top-performing police dog, state media announced, with the goal of stamping out genetically identical dog cops.

Science & Energy

China Clones Top Police Dog, With Goal of “Mass Production”

By Jon Christian

NASA just announced that one of its spacecrafts has made a surprise discovery: "particle plumes erupting" from the surface of a large asteroid called Bennu.

NASA Shocked by “Plumes Erupting From an Asteroid’s Surface”

By Jon Christian

Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates issued a grave warning Monday, comparing advanced artificial intelligence to nuclear weapons.

Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates Compares Artificial Intelligence to Nuclear Weapons

By Jon Christian

Scientists at Cambridge University say they've grown a miniature brain in a petri dish that seizes control of nearby spinal cords around it.

Lab-Grown Brain Uses “Tendrils” to Grab, Control Spinal Cords

By Jon Christian

Researchers at Harvard University say they've identified a "DNA switch" that allows animals to regrow entire portions of their bodies — a finding that, with a few important caveats, could pave the way to helping human patients' bodies regenerate lost limbs like lizards.

Health & Medicine

New Harvard Research Could Be a Step to Human Limb Regeneration

By Jon Christian

An international team of researchers says it's found 83 new supermassive black holes at extreme end of the visible universe.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Just Found 83 Giant Black Holes at Universe’s Edge

By Jon Christian

The Pentagon Wants an Orbital Space Weapon to Blast Enemy Missiles

The Pentagon Wants an Orbital Space Weapon to Blast Enemy Missiles

By Jon Christian

nasa-engineer-humans-settling-titan

NASA Engineer: Humans Should Consider Settling Saturn’s Moon Titan

By Jon Christian

The makers of a new hypersonic rocket engine say it could whip flights from London to Sydney in just four hours, traveling at five times the speed of sound.

Advanced Transport

New Rocket Engine Could Whip You From London to Sydney in 4 Hours

By Jon Christian

Tests show that dormant herpes viruses reactivate in more than half the astronauts who travel on the Space Shuttle and International Space station.

NASA: Space Travel Is Causing Astronauts’ Herpes to Flare Up

By Jon Christian

“Halo Drive” Would Use Black Holes to Power Spaceships

“Halo Drive” Would Use Black Holes to Power Spaceships

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk took to Twitter Tuesday to announce that the Boring Company plans to complete a tunnel in Las Vegas by the end of 2019.

Elon Musk: Las Vegas Tunnel Will Be “Operational by End of Year”

By Jon Christian

A new website called This Airbnb Does Not Exist whips up plausible-yet-slightly-incoherent apartment listings using machine learning.

Artificial Intelligence

This Site Uses Deep Learning to Generate Fake Airbnb Listings

By Jon Christian

That's why doctors are excited about a new experimental treatment that could provide broad protection against many strains of the flu.

Health & Medicine

A New Drug Might, Possibly, Have Cured the Flu

By Jon Christian

New data collected by NASA, using two space telescopes, shows that the vast majority of our galaxy's mass is dark matter.

New NASA Measurements: Milky Way Galaxy Is “On the Beefier Side”

By Jon Christian

New malware is targeting safety systems at industrial plants around the world — the same systems, ominously, that protect nuclear power stations.

Science & Energy

Bizarre Malware Is Disabling Safety Systems at Industrial Plants

By Jon Christian

A group of Tesla investors is suing CEO Elon Musk for what they say has been erratic behavior on Twitter that they say could harm the electric car company.

Tesla Investors Sue Elon Musk For Twitter “Misstatements”

By Jon Christian

A California family is outraged that a doctor told their relative he was going to die imminently — via a telepresence robot.

Doctor Tells Man He’s Going to Die via Telepresence Robot

By Jon Christian

Google parent company Alphabet is preparing to launch what the Australian Broadcasting Corporation says is the first commercial drone delivery service.

Residents Are Furious About Google’s Drone Delivery Service

By Jon Christian

At least two startups are trying to combine lab grown meats and CRISPR to invent the next generation of lab-grown meat, according to Business Insider.

Health & Medicine

Bill Gates Backed Startup Is Using CRISPR to Grow Lab Meat

By Jon Christian

here are persistent rumors among workers at the social giant that the company's security staff installed a secret "panic chute" for Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg Said to Have “Panic Chute” for Escape From Facebook HQ

By Jon Christian

Home invaders tortured a crypto trader with an electric to force him to give up his cryptocurrency, according to a Dutch newspaper.

Robbers Tortured a Man With a Drill to Steal His Cryptocurrency

By Jon Christian

Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren announced a bold plan today to break up tech giants Amazon, Facebook, and Google.

Elizabeth Warren Shares Plan to Break up Facebook, Google, Amazon

By Jon Christian

Farmers in New Zealand have a new tool to herd sheep and cows, according to Radio New Zealand: drones outfitted with speakers so they can bark like dogs.

New Zealand Farmers Are Using Drones to Herd Sheep

By Jon Christian

A new paper suggests that we could spot an alien civilization by looking for signs of starships powered by the radiation thrown off by small black hole.

New SETI Plan: Detect Alien Starships Powered by Black Holes

By Jon Christian

Researchers believe the strange behavior of galaxies could be caused by the combined mass of untold zillions of photons and not dark matter.

New Theory: Mass of Photons Could Explain Effects of Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

A planned space hotel will import its own water from Earth, so that guests won't be forced to drink recycled urine like on the International Space Station.

Luxurious Space Hotel Will Import Water Instead of Recycling Pee

By Jon Christian

China is planning an underwater base that sounds like a bold initiative to learn more about the uncharted depths of the ocean.

Robots and Machines

Details Emerge About China’s Mysterious Underwater Base

By Jon Christian

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a prescription treatment for depression that's based on ketamine, marking a new use for an old anesthetic.

FDA Approves Ketamine-Based Nasal Spray to Treat Depression

By Jon Christian

New research shows that dosages of the drug DMT that are too low to cause hallucinations could indeed reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Health & Medicine

New Study: Microdosing DMT Reduces Depression and Anxiety

By Jon Christian

It's a strange, cyberpunk depiction of a robot goddess with exposed aluminum actuators and electronics and an androgynous human-like face.

People in Japan Are Worshiping a Cyberpunk-Looking Robot Goddess

By Jon Christian

China has announced the "imminent launch" of the first mission to build its new orbital space station, according to state and local media.

China Announces “Imminent Launch” of New Space Station

By Jon Christian

European scientists say that a bone marrow transplant has permanently cured a patient's infection with HIV, which is the virus that causes AIDS.

Health & Medicine

Doctors Say They’ve Permanently Cured a Patient’s HIV

By Jon Christian

A startup is claiming its electric car can charge almost as quickly as it would take to gas up a vehicle with a combustion engine.

Advanced Transport

Startup Says Its Electric Car Charges to 80 Percent in 5 Minutes

By Jon Christian

Weapons makers ranging from Boeing to Lockheed Martin are working on new anti-drone technologies — everything from laser cannons to heat-seeking missiles.

Military Contractors Are Churning out New Anti-Drone Weapons

By Jon Christian

An experiment about reporting news stories with machine learning just released its first effort — a deep dive into Lyft's IPO.

Machine Learning

Journalists Reported a News Story Using Machine Learning

By Jon Christian

Startups that sequence your DNA have a new target market, according to a new story in The Atlantic: your long-dead ancestors.

DNA Ancestry Startups Have a New Target Market: The Long-Dead

By Jon Christian

In an interview newly published by Popular Mechanics, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk shared his thoughts on colonizing Mars — even how they might grow vegetables.

Elon Musk: Mars Base Will Have “Outdoorsy, Fun Atmosphere”

By Jon Christian

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which touched down in 2014, experienced a "hiccup" while booting up last week. For now, it's back online.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Recovers After Serious Glitch

By Jon Christian

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