More from Kristin Houser (Page 11)

Inventor Franky Zapata's attempt to cross the English Channel on his flying hoverboard ended in failure on Thursday when he fell into the water.
Advanced Transport

Flying Hoverboard Inventor Fails to Fly Across English Channel

By Kristin Houser

A flame shot out from the top of SpaceX's Starhopper during what was supposed to be its first flight test on Wednesday, leading SpaceX to abort the test.
SpaceX

SpaceX Aborts Starhopper’s First Flight Test After Fiery Start

By Kristin Houser

Pelaton's Automated Following system lets a human-driven "lead" truck serves as the guide for an autonomous "follow" truck.
Advanced Transport

New “Automated Following” Tech Lets One Driver Control Two Trucks

By Kristin Houser

A new study suggests that C. auris evolved the ability to infect and kill humans thanks to climate change, specifically rising global temperatures.
Climate Change

Climate Change May Have Prepared This Superbug to Kill Humans

By Kristin Houser

An HIV implant that delivers preventative medications proved effective and well-tolerated in an initial trial, according to its developer.
Health & Medicine

This Tiny Implant Could Prevent HIV for an Entire Year

By Kristin Houser

In a new piece for Quartz, professor David Carroll argues that the U.S. is a surveillance state not entirely unlike China.
Future Society

Professor: US Surveillance State Is a Lot Like China’s

By Kristin Houser

Researchers call for a ban on aspartame, the artificial sweetener better known as NutraSweet, until regulators conduct a new review of its health effects.
Health & Medicine

Aspartame Still Hasn’t Been Proven Safe to Eat, Say Scientists

By Kristin Houser

Presidential hopeful John McAfee is missing, and according to his campaign manager, unless he's found, "secreted data" will be released.
Data Privacy

John McAfee’s Manager Threatens to Release Secret Data “Payloads”

By Kristin Houser

Airbus has unveiled a new airplane design inspired by birds of prey, and it hopes the wild-looking concept will inspire the next generation of engineers.
Advanced Transport

Airbus Debuts Wild Plane Concept Inspired by Birds of Prey

By Kristin Houser

Quantum Darwinism, a mind-bending theory that pulls from biology to reconcile quantum mechanics and classical physics, holds up in three sets of tests.
Physics

Mind-Bending “Quantum Darwinism” Theory Passes Experimental Tests

By Kristin Houser

Giving birth in space might cause changes to the human body, including new skin tones and bigger heads, predicts evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon.
Off-World

Biologist: Babies Born in Space Might Not Be Fully Human

By Kristin Houser

Unrestored tapes of the first Moon walk just sold for more than $1.8 million at auction — more than 8,000 times the price paid by their owner in 1976.
Moon

Someone Just Paid $1.8 Million for Videos of the First Moon Walk

By Kristin Houser

The forced-swim test used to detect depression in lab animals may be on the way out, as both scientists and animal rights activists rally against its use.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Are Reconsidering an Incredibly Cruel Animal Experiment

By Kristin Houser

Students in Oregon can now miss school for "mental health days," making the state one of the first to offer excused absenses for mental illness.
Mental Health

New Law Lets Students Miss School For “Mental Health Days”

By Kristin Houser

Authorities in Colombia have quarantined four plantations after noticing symptoms of the banana disease TR4 amongst the crops.
Science & Energy

Bad News: A Banana-Killing Fungus Has Likely Reached the Americas

By Kristin Houser

In a recent trial, a tongue stray currently used to treat multiple sclerosis symptoms seemed to help people battling cannabis dependence quit smoking weed.
Health & Medicine

There’s Now a Tongue Spray to Help You Stop Smoking Weed

By Kristin Houser

To demonstrate the potential military benefits of the Flyboard Air, the inventor of the flying hoverboard rode it above a parade while wielding a rifle.
Advanced Transport

Someone Carrying a Rifle Just Flew Over Paris on a Hoverboard

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. military says it downed an Iranian drone using a new directed-energy weapon — but Iran is denying to incident even took place.
Drones

US Navy’s Energy Weapon Gets First “Kill,” Shoots Iranian Drone

By Kristin Houser

Franky Zapata's second attempt to cross the English Channel on his flying hoverboard was a success — and now he's turning his attention to his flying car.
Advanced Transport

Inventor Set to Fly Across the English Channel on His Hoverboard

By Kristin Houser

The FaceApp aging filter may be a viral sensation right now, but earlier versions of the smartphone app were incredibly racist.
Future Society

Earlier Versions of FaceApp Were Incredibly Racist

By Kristin Houser

Scientists believe they were able to make mice hallucinate by stimulating just 20 of their brain neurons, raising new questions about the human brain.
Science & Energy

Scientists Made Mice Hallucinate by Shining Light Into Their Brains

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk tweeted that the company may test a hovering Roadster at the "end of next year" — keeping the dream of a floating Tesla alive.
Tesla

Tesla May Test “Hovering” Roadster in Late 2020

By Kristin Houser

Chinese researchers have created a CRISPR alternative called LEAPER that they say is less likely to trigger an unwanted immune response.
Health & Medicine

Chinese Scientists Say They’ve Found a Safer Alternative to CRISPR

By Kristin Houser

A new study suggests resveratrol, a compound found in red wine, could preserve the muscle mass and strength of astonauts exposed to Mars' microgravity.
Mars

Red Wine Compound Could Keep Astronauts Strong on Mars

By Kristin Houser

Georgia Tech researchers have built tiny microbots that move in response to vibrations — and they could one day attack diseases in your body.
Robotics

These Vibration-Powered Microbots Are Almost Too Small to See

By Kristin Houser

Using its Hololens device and AI tech, Microsoft can make it appear like a person is standing in front of you, speaking a language they don't really speak.
Virtual Reality

Microsoft’s Tech Can Make Your Hologram Speak Another Language

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told TIME he thinks "we could land on the Moon in less than two years" — but that "we" might not include NASA.
Moon

Elon Musk: We Could Land on the Moon In “Less Than Two Years”

By Kristin Houser

IBM's new electronic tongue Hypertaste is portable, fast, and capable of identifying a range of liquids, filling a gap in today's offerings.
Artificial Intelligence

IBM Unveils New “Electronic Tongue” to Taste and Identify Liquids

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have built a quantum gate incorporating qudits as opposed to qubits — and it could help usher in the era of quantum computing.
Quantum Physics

Forget Qubits — Scientists Just Built a Quantum Gate With Qudits

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk's Neuralink hopes to one day use laser beams, and not a mechanical dril, to bore brain implant holes in the skull.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Will Use Lasers to Drill Holes In Your Skull

By Kristin Houser

Neuroscientist Vivienne Ming used tech to give her autistic son the ability to read emotions, but what happens when everyone wants to be a cyborg?
Prosthetics and Devices

“Mad Scientist” Mom Turns Autistic Son Into a “Cyborg”

By Kristin Houser

A Germany man just set a new Tesla record for highest mileage, racking up 559,350 miles (900,000 kilometers) in his Model S P85.
Tesla

Tesla Owner Breaks Record, Drives Car 900,000 Kilometers

By Kristin Houser

Congress wants to know if the US miltary experimented with creating bioweapons out of ticks and other insects — and then released them into the wild.
Health & Medicine

Congress to DoD: Are Disease-Carrying Insects Escaped Bioweapons?

By Kristin Houser

Australian futurist Richard Hames told news.com.au that he believes we're overdue for a drone assassination and that one will take place within three years.
Future Society

Sketchy Futurist Says We’re Overdue for a Drone Assassination

By Kristin Houser

We're one step closer to invisibility cloaks thanks to a new artificial intelligence that designs metamaterials with specific optical properties.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Is Helping Scientists Develop Invisibility Cloaks

By Kristin Houser

An AI-developed flu vaccine is now undergoing clinical trials, meaning we could be headed toward an era of fewer flus and more AI-developed drugs.
Artificial Intelligence

First Human Drug Developed Solely by AI Is a Vaccine

By Kristin Houser

Neural Implant Sends Camera Feed Into Blind People’s Brains
Brain

Neural Implant Sends Camera Feed Into Blind People’s Brains

By Kristin Houser

Carbon capture will be key to addressing climate change, and now, scientists have found a gene that could make plants better at capturing and storing CO2.
Renewable Energy

Scientists Gene Edit Plants to be Better at Carbon Capture

By Kristin Houser

Neuralink, a company Elon Musk founded to link the human brain to computers, is finally ready to update the world on what it's been doing for two years.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s Brain-Computer Startup Neuralink Breaks Silence

By Kristin Houser

MIT's Baxter robot uses its ability to mimic human motions to tackle the viral #bottlecapchallenge in a decidely different way.
Robotics

Watch an MIT Robot Attempt the Bottle Cap Challenge — Sort Of

By Kristin Houser

Donald Trump tweeted his distaste for cryptocurrency on Thursday, calling the digital assets "not money" and "based on thin air."
Bitcoin

Trump: Cryptocurrencies Are “Not Money,” “Based on Thin Air”

By Kristin Houser

Former employee Guangzhi Cao admits to copying Tesla's Autopilot code — but denies accessing or making any use of the files after quitting.
Tesla

Former Employee Admits to Copying Tesla’s Autopilot Code

By Kristin Houser

Nickelodeon is sending a batch of its iconic slime to the astronauts aboard the ISS to be used for experiments, which will be filmed and later broadcast.
International Space Station

Astronauts on the ISS Are About to Get Slimed — for Science

By Kristin Houser

Startup Luminar has announceda production-ready lidar system for autonomous cars that costs just $500 — a huge decrease in price over existing systems.
Elon Musk

This $500 Lidar System Could Prove Elon Musk Wrong

By Kristin Houser

Robot umpires are making their way into professional baseball, calling strikes and balls at the Atlantic League's all-star game Wednesday night.
Future Society

Robot Umpires Make Professional Baseball Debut

By Kristin Houser

Israeli startup REE has unveiled a modular car design that puts everything typically found under the hood of an electric vehicle into its wheels.
Advanced Transport

Startup Thinks Its Modular Car Design Is the Future of EVs

By Kristin Houser

A Russian sub caught fire on Monday, killing 14 sailors — and Russia won't say what kind of sub it was or what it was doing near the ocean floor.
Advanced Transport

Russian Sub That Caught Fire Possibly Sent to Cut Internet Cables

By Kristin Houser

Once the cost of testing an embryo for genetic conditions drops, most parents will forgo traditional reproduction, according to author Henry T. Greely.
Health & Medicine

The Era of Sex for Reproduction Is Coming to an End, Says Author

By Kristin Houser

Robots might one day steal the right to raise children away from humans, according to author and AI ethics expert John C. Havens.
Artificial Intelligence

Expert: Future Robots Could Steal Your Children

By Kristin Houser

New research suggests that some moons may escape their host planets' orbits to become "ploonets" — and Earth's own Moon could eventually join their ranks.
Science & Energy

Our Moon Could Escape Earth’s Orbit and Become a “Ploonet”

By Kristin Houser

A woman in Cleveland is now the second in the world and first in the U.S. to give birth using a uterus harvested from a deceased donor.
Health & Medicine

New Mom First in US to Give Birth Using Deceased Donor’s Uterus

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have found radiation levels up to 800,000 times higher than expected in the sea water around a sunken nuclear sub.
Nuclear Fusion

This Sunken Nuclear Sub Is Leaking Radiation Into the Ocean

By Kristin Houser

Thirteen paralyzed patients can now use their hands again thanks to Australian Natasha van Zyl's pioneering nerve transfer surgery.
Health & Medicine

Surgeon Transfers Nerves to Let Paralyzed Patients Use Hands

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created a two-in-one device that purifies salty or contaminated water while simultaneously producing solar power.
Solar Power

New Device Purifies Water While Generating Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

German researchers have created a new sytem that enables a fully autonomous landing on any airplane runway, not just ones at larger airports.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Watch This Tiny Plane Nail a Fully Autonomous Landing

By Kristin Houser

Solar Foods is using renewable energy and the carbon dioxide polluting our air to create an environmentally friendly alternative protein.
Food

A Finnish Startup Is Making Food out of Carbon Dioxide

By Kristin Houser

Watch as a glider-style drone composed of five mini-drones inspired by tiny seed pods bursts apart in mid-air to deliver its payloads.
Drones

This Bizarre Drone Splits Into Five Mini-Drones Mid-Air

By Kristin Houser

Scientist have created an AI glass that can recognize images without any need for sensors, circuits, or even a power source.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Create an AI From a Sheet of Glass

By Kristin Houser

We need to create a World Carbon Bank to incentivize developing nations to go green, according to Harvard University economist Kenneth Rogoff.
Climate Change

Economist Calls for World Carbon Bank to Fight Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Officials from the FBI, ICE, and other government agencies are using facial recognition tech to scan databases of DMV photos.
Artificial Intelligence

The FBI Is Scanning DMV Photos of Law-Abiding Americans

By Kristin Houser

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in a tweet that it'll take a "massive effort" to create the Autopilot software needed to facilitate safe autonomous driving.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: It’ll Take “Massive Effort” to Create Safe Autopilot

By Kristin Houser

Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov says he's found five couples who want him to use CRISPR to ensure their offspring do not inherit their deafness.
Prosthetics and Devices

Five Couples Agree to CRISPR Their Babies to Avoid Deafness

By Kristin Houser

Federal agents used postage bought online to track down two dark web drug dealers selling methamphetamine they marketed as Adderall.
Future Society

Feds Bust Dark Web Drug Dealers After They Buy Postage Online

By Kristin Houser

Buzz Aldrin: Stephen Hawking Said We Shouldn’t Colonize Mars Yet
Mars

Buzz Aldrin: Stephen Hawking Said We Shouldn’t Colonize Mars Yet

By Kristin Houser