More from Jon Christian (Page 8)

Robotics

This Researcher Is Worried About Child Sex Robots

By Jon Christian

Mars

NASA Is Studying Whether a Mars Crew Would Need a Class Clown

By Jon Christian

Climate Change

Australia Is Planting a Billion Trees to Fight Climate Change

By Jon Christian

Mars

The Dead Mars Rover Didn’t Actually Say That “My Battery” Thing

By Jon Christian

Climate Change

Research: Planting Trillions of Trees Could Cancel Out CO2 Emissions

By Jon Christian

Starship

NASA Chief: SpaceX’s Starship Tougher Than Any NASA Project, Ever

By Jon Christian

Future Society

Sex Researchers: For Many, Virtual Lovers Will Replace Humans

By Jon Christian

Elon Musk

Napster Co-Founder Chides Elon Musk: Worry About Gene Editing, Not AI

By Jon Christian

Physics

New Map of Dark Matter Breaks Scientists’ Understanding of Physics

By Jon Christian

NASA

NASA Astronaut Runs for Senate, Warns Of “Retreat From Science”

By Jon Christian

Future Society

Dating App for Smart Fridges Matches Singles Based on Leftovers

By Jon Christian

Mars

Elon Musk: A Round-Trip Ticket to Mars Will Cost Just $100,000

By Jon Christian

Mars

Mars One Planned to Colonize the Red Planet. Now It’s Bankrupt.

By Jon Christian

Health & Medicine

New Senate Bill Would Legalize Marijuana Nationwide

By Jon Christian

Drones

Someone Is Terrorizing People By Peering In Windows With a Drone

By Jon Christian

Exobiology

Astronomer Warns Against SETI: “Maybe They Will Come and Eat Us.”

By Jon Christian

3D Printing

This 3D Printed Electric Motorcycle Looks Like Something From “TRON”

By Jon Christian

Chemistry

New Chemistry Technique Turns Waste Plastic Into Clean Fuel

By Jon Christian

Moon

NASA Head: “This Time, When We Go to the Moon, We Will Stay.”

By Jon Christian

Robots and Machines

The US Army’s Strange Inspiration for Its Next Rifle: The iPhone

By Jon Christian

Cryptocurrency

Did a Crypto CEO Fake His Own Death? The Great Quadriga Conspiracy, Day 6

By Jon Christian

Robots and Machines

Hacker Figures out How to Drain $1 Million in Cash From ATM

By Jon Christian

Prosthetics and Devices

Doctors Wired a Prosthetic Hand Directly Into a Woman’s Nerves

By Jon Christian

Prosthetics and Devices

Inclusive New Emoji Include Prosthetic Arms and Legs

By Jon Christian

Future Society

New Projection: World Population Will Level off, Then Fall Forever

By Jon Christian

Off-World

Russia Says the American Toilet on the Space Station Blew Up

By Jon Christian

Robots and Machines

Russian Navy Says New Weapon Makes Enemies Hallucinate

By Jon Christian

Tesla

Tesla Just Bought An “Ultracapacitor” Manufacturer

By Jon Christian

Artificial Intelligence

China Built an AI to Detect Corruption and Officials Shut it Down

By Jon Christian

Artificial Intelligence

New Robot Is “On The Path to Machine Self-Awareness,” Says Creator

By Jon Christian

Drones

The US Army Is Equipping Soldiers With Pocket-Sized Recon Drones

By Jon Christian

Artificial Intelligence

Godfather of Deep Learning: China’s AI Tech Is “1984 Big Brother”

By Jon Christian

Prosthetics and Devices

Rogue Bitcoin-Funded Biohacker Wants to Gene-Hack Designer Babies

By Jon Christian

SpaceX

Elon Musk Blames SpaceX Layoffs On “Absolutely Insane Projects”

By Jon Christian

Future Society

Live Concert Inside “Fortnite” Drew More Viewers Than Woodstock

By Jon Christian

Self-Driving Vehicles

Elon Musk: Teslas Should Have “Full Self-Driving” by End of 2019

By Jon Christian

Energy

Bizarre New Data Suggests That Dark Energy Is Getting Stronger

By Jon Christian

Robots and Machines

Bizarre Apple Bug Let FaceTime Callers Spy on Each Other

By Jon Christian

Prosthetics and Devices

Nobel Prize Winner Knew About Gene-Edited Babies, Kept Quiet

By Jon Christian

NASA

NASA’s Opportunity Rover Feared Dead: “An Honorable Death”

By Jon Christian

Climate Change

Scientists Just Drilled All the Way Through Antarctica’s Ice

By Jon Christian

Off-World

New Theory: Life on Earth Came From Impact With Another Planet

By Jon Christian

Future Society

Grindr-Like Chinese App Tells You If “Deadbeat Debtors” Are Nearby

By Jon Christian

Physics

New Theory: Vast, Ancient Black Holes Formed Because of Dark Matter

By Jon Christian

Evolution

Human Mutation Is Slowing Down

By Jon Christian

Nuclear Fusion

Hackers Hijacked a Family’s Smart Home, Spammed Nuclear Missile Alerts

By Jon Christian

Mars

Trump Offered NASA an Unlimited Budget if It Sent Humans to Mars

By Jon Christian

Off-World

Europe Wants to Extract Rocket Fuel From Lunar Surface in 2025

By Jon Christian

Pollution

China Plans “Punishment” for Officials Who Miss Pollution Goals

By Jon Christian

Black Holes

Here’s the Best-Ever Image of the Black Hole Devouring Our Galaxy

By Jon Christian

Robotics

“Digisexuals” Are Falling In Love With — And Lusting For — Robots

By Jon Christian

Off-World

Experts Respond to Orbiting Space Billboards: “Harmful”

By Jon Christian

Advanced Transport

Ducati Is Working on a Futuristic Electric Motorcycle

By Jon Christian

Health & Medicine

WHO: Anti-Vaxxers Now One of the Greatest Threats to World Health

By Jon Christian

Universal Basic Income

India Is Launching the Largest Basic Income Experiment in History

By Jon Christian

Robotics

People Are Brutally Assaulting Robots. Experts Want to Know Why

By Jon Christian

Future Society

China Is Facing A “Precipitous” Population Decline

By Jon Christian

Off-World

The U.S. Secretly Funded Research on UFOs, Wormholes, and Warp Drives

By Jon Christian

Moon

Bad News: That Moon Plant Everybody Was Talking About Is Dead

By Jon Christian

Moon

China Announces Plans for Moon Base

By Jon Christian

Physics

Vast New Particle Accelerator Would Dwarf Large Hadron Collider

By Jon Christian

Exobiology

Harvard Astronomer Defends Hypothesis That Object Is Alien Probe

By Jon Christian

Exobiology

Harvard Astronomer Predicts What First Alien Contact Will Be Like

By Jon Christian

Black Holes

A Black Hole Inhaled a Star. Then It Started to Shrink

By Jon Christian