More from Kristin Houser (Page 12)

Using a combination of CRISPR and antiretroviral therapy, researcher eliminated the HIV virus from the genomes of mice engineered to produce human T cells.
Health & Medicine

CRISPR Helps Scientists Cure HIV In Living Animals For First Time

By Kristin Houser

Eleven companies have teamed up to create "Safety First for Automated Driving," an exhaustive guide to developing safe autonomous vehicles.
Self-Driving Vehicles

White Paper: These 12 Principles Are Shaping the Future of Autonomous Cars

By Kristin Houser

Facebooks is changing how it ranks "miracle cures" and unproven medical treatments — but will it be enought to stem the medical misinformation tide?
Meta

Facebook Is Finally Fighting Its Pseudoscience “Miracle Cure” Content Problem

By Kristin Houser

Research scientist Janelle Shane trained a naming AI to conjure up new monikers for self-aware spaceships like those in author Iain M. Banks' Culture books.
Artificial Intelligence

This AI Gives Other AIs Names Like “Ass Federation” And “Hot Pie” Because Robots Can Be Weird Too

By Kristin Houser

California's Exploratorium has teamed up with NASA to broadcast a livestream of the total solar eclipse over parts of South America.
Solar Power

Here’s How You Can Watch Today’s Total Solar Eclipse

By Kristin Houser

Researchers used AI to create a universe simulator that's incredibly fast and accurate, even when they tweak parameters not included in its training data.
Physics

World’s First AI Universe Simulator Knows Things It Shouldn’t

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created a version of an MRI machine that's so scaled down, it can capture detailed images of individual atoms.
Quantum Physics

World’s Smallest MRI Machine Means We Can Now Scan Individual Atoms

By Kristin Houser

NASA tested its Orion spacecraft's Launch Abort System (LAS) on Tuesday — and it seems the astronaut escape plan worked exactly as hoped.
NASA

NASA’s Orion Crew Capsule Aced Its Abort System Test

By Kristin Houser

An in-depth study of 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar visitor to our solar system, seems to finally put to bed the theory that it's an alien spacecraft.
Science & Energy

Sorry, but ’Oumuamua the Asteroid Wasn’t Sent by Aliens, Say Scientists, For Some Reason Dignifying This Yet Again

By Kristin Houser

The most extravagant Fourth of July fireworks can't hold a candle to the stunning cosmic fireworks display the Hubble telescope has captured.
Off-World

Stunning Cosmic Fireworks Display Captured by Hubble, Right on Time

By Kristin Houser

Soldiers in Afghanistan will be the first in the United States military to use its pocket-sized Black Hornet recon drones.
Drones

US Army Announces First Deployment of Its Pocket-Sized Drones

By Kristin Houser

You can now peruse online profiles to pick someone you want to hang out with on a platonic level —as long as renting friends is something you can afford.
Future Society

This Is What You Get When You Rent Friends From the Internet

By Kristin Houser

A month after launch, SpaceX confirmed that three of the 60 Starlink satellites it sent into space have failed — and it won't elaborate as to why.
SpaceX

SpaceX Being Sketch(X) About the 3 Starlink Satellites That Failed

By Kristin Houser

A massive new survey is designed to determine how the general public feels about aliens and what humans should do if ET ever reaches out.
Off-World

Scientists Want Your Input on Our Alien Response Plan

By Kristin Houser

To prevent farm animals from contribute to methane emissions, scientists suggest feeding them foods less likely to produce the greenhouse gas.
Climate Change

Gut Microbe Manipulation Could End Climate-Destroying Sheep Farts

By Kristin Houser

Researchers achieved quantum teleportation within a diamond, an achievement that could shape how we share and store sensitive information in the future.
Quantum Physics

Physicists Just Teleported Quantum Information Inside a Diamond

By Kristin Houser

A new molecule latches onto uranium isotopes, making them easier for the kidneys to guide out of the bodies of people suffering from uranium poisoning.
Health & Medicine

This Molecular “Claw” Pulls Uranium From Irradiated Mice

By Kristin Houser

The White House plans to host a social media summit on July 11, but so far, none of the expected invitees have commented on the event.
Future Society

Trump Slams Tech Titans, White House Announces Social Media Summit

By Kristin Houser

By stacking two layers of graphene, physicists produced entirely new quantum states that they think might help overcome a major hurdle to quantum computers.
Graphene

Stacking Graphene Creates Entirely New Quantum States

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk took to Twitter to compare an Earth-to-Earth trip aboard SpaceX's powerful Starship rocket to a ride on Disney's Space Mountain roller coaster.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Compares Rocket Rides to Disney Roller Coaster

By Kristin Houser

By embedding engineered bacteria into the fingers of a robot arm, researchers have created a biohybrid bot that can "taste" for certain chemicals.
Robotics

Robot Arm Uses Bacteria in Its Fingers to “Taste” Its Environment

By Kristin Houser

JD Composites used more than 600,000 recycled plastic bottles to construct this beachfront home in Meteghan River, Nova Scotia.
Future Society

You Won’t Be Able to Tell This House Is Made From Plastic Bottles

By Kristin Houser

The number of crypto ATMs worldwide passed the 5,000 mark this month, which begs the question, who the hell is actually using these things?
Bitcoin

Who the Hell Is Using the World’s 5,000 Crypto ATMs?

By Kristin Houser

Israel-based startup SpaceIL has decided that April's failed Moon mission was actually a success — and that it's time to move on to the next challenge.
Moon

SpaceIL Kills Second Moon Landing Attempt, Teases New “Objective”

By Kristin Houser

An investigation into the potential link between CBD and nightmares confirms that researchers still aren't sure what the cannabis compound can do.
Health & Medicine

CBD Seems to Be Giving People Bizarre Nightmares

By Kristin Houser

Facebook will now help French courts identify users suspected of spreading hate speech on the platform, a deal it hasn't made with any other nation.
Future Society

Facebook to Identify Hate Speech-Spouting Users for France

By Kristin Houser

Eating Crap as a Teen Can Permanently Affect Men’s Fertility
Health & Medicine

Eating Crap as a Teen Can Permanently Affect Men’s Fertility

By Kristin Houser

By analyzing the oldest known minerals from Mars, researchers think they've discovered a 700 million year period during which Martian life could've thrived.
Science & Energy

Mars Had a Chance to Grow Life 4.4 Billion Years Ago, Study Shows

By Kristin Houser

Google has expanded its "Be Internet Awesome" program to include media literacy activities designed to help kids tell if something is "fake news."
Future Society

Google Is Trying to Teach Kids How to Spot Fake News

By Kristin Houser

Dutch startup Lightyear has unveiled the Lightyear One prototype, a solar car it claims has a longer single-charge range than any other car on the market.
Advanced Transport

Startup Unveils World’s First Long-Range “Solar Car”

By Kristin Houser

Toyota's basketball robot CUE3 just set the Guinness World Record for "most consecutive basketball free throws by a humanoid robot (assisted)."
Robotics

Watch Toyota’s Basketball-Playing Robot Set a World Record

By Kristin Houser

The Tibet Air Shower Array has detected extremely high-energy photons from the Crab Nebula, which is some 6,500 light-years away from Earth.
Energy

Crab Nebula Has Hit Earth with Highest-Energy Light Ever Recorded

By Kristin Houser

CBD could prove to be a useful antibiotic, according to a study in which the cannabis compound effectively killed several strains of bacteria.
Health & Medicine

Cannabis Compound Could Be Latest Weapon in War Against Superbugs

By Kristin Houser

Ocean waves are slamming plastic pollution against an island's coastline, causing a potentially dangerous plastic crust to form on the rocks.
Pollution

Why Is a Strange Plastic Crust Spreading on This Island’s Coast?

By Kristin Houser

Science leaders tell STAT there's nothing they can do to stop a Russian scientist's plan to create more CRISPR babies from progressing.
Prosthetics and Devices

Science Leaders: We Can’t Stop Russian’s Plan for CRISPR Babies

By Kristin Houser

Drivers' misconception that Tesla's Autopilot can fully take over driving duties might be due to the system's name, according to a new report.
Tesla

Idiot Drivers Can’t Grasp That Teslas Aren’t Fully Autonomous

By Kristin Houser

Young people are getting plastic surgery in the hopes of looking more like the heavily filtered photos of themselves they share on social media.
Health & Medicine

Doctors Say Selfies Are Pushing More Teens to Get Plastic Surgery

By Kristin Houser

Americans think monitoring asteroids and comets that could hit the Earth is way more imporant than crewed missions to Mars, according to a new poll.
Mars

Americans Don’t Really Care About Reaching Mars, Says Poll

By Kristin Houser

Prototypes of killer robots are already in development and could be ready for action within two years, according to a new Vox story.
Artificial Intelligence

Experts: It’d Be “Relatively Easy” to Deploy Killer Robots by 2021

By Kristin Houser

Spice manufacturer McCormick's new concept grill uses AI to create a soundtrack to the act of grilling, proving AI can't make everything better.
Artificial Intelligence

This Ridiculous Grill Proves We Don’t Need AI for Everything

By Kristin Houser

NASA has funded a project to develop robots capable of autonomously exploring and imaging Moon pits to determine their potential usefulness.
Moon

NASA Funds $2M Study to See if We Could Live in Moon Pits

By Kristin Houser

Hilton shares an imaginative vision for future hotels in which implants control a room's temperature and entertainment in a newly published a report.
Future Society

Hilton: Future Hotels Will Talk to Visitors’ Microchip Implants

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created the first noninvasive mind-controlled robot arm that exhibits the kind of smooth motion that previously required a brain implant.
Brain

New Mind-Controlled Robot Arm First to Work Without Brain Implant

By Kristin Houser

The leader of the world's first formal center for research into magic mushrooms and other psychedlics thinks they could replace traditional antidepressants.
Health & Medicine

Professor: “Magic Mushrooms” Could Replace Antidepressants

By Kristin Houser

New York's state senate has passed a bill banning the recreational use of flamethrowers — but it may be a case of too little, too late.
Future Society

New York Senate Passes Flamethrower Ban

By Kristin Houser

A new pizza AI out of MIT can look at a photo of pizza and determine the ingredients on it as well as the order in which they were added.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT’s New AI Can Look at a Pizza, and Tell You How to Make It

By Kristin Houser

Instead of creating "dead zones," the radiation from black holes could facilitate the emergence of life on a nearby planet, according to a Harvard study.
Science & Energy

Harvard Scientists: Radiation From Black Holes May Create Life

By Kristin Houser

Tesla has announced the Tesla Arcade, a temporary event where people can visit its showrooms to play the games available through the cars' touchscreens.
Tesla

Tesla Uses Arcade Games to Lure Potential Buyers to Showrooms

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have discovered a glue that's both strong and reversible — so of course they used it to suspend an engineering student from the ceiling.
Science & Energy

Snail-Inspired Glue Can Paste You to the Ceiling, Then Let You Go

By Kristin Houser

The first expedition for Boaty McBoatface has taught researchers something new about how climate change in Antarctic waters affects the rest of the world.
Climate Change

Boaty McBoatface Makes Major Discovery on Maiden Voyage

By Kristin Houser

The inward migration of a recently formed exoplanet is causing never-before-seen structures to form in its host star's protoplanetary disk.
Science & Energy

A Baby Exoplanet Is Creating Strange Dust Rings Around Its Star

By Kristin Houser

Twitch is suing the trolls that hijacked its platform to share extreme, sometimes illegal videos — even though it doesn't actually know who they are.
Future Society

Twitch Sues Anonymous Users for Streaming Porn, Murderous Rampage

By Kristin Houser

Through the IAU100 NameExoWorlds competition, every country on Earth has the opportunity to name an exoplanet and its host star.
Science & Energy

Here’s Your Chance to Name an Exoplanet and Its Star

By Kristin Houser

A new Comcast feature pairs with eye-tracking systems to allow customers to use their eyes like they would a remote control.
Future Society

TV Viewers Can Now Change the Channel With Just Their Eyes

By Kristin Houser

A sleeping Tesla driver let Autopilot take the wheel for 30 miles on one of the busiest freeways in the U.S. — and his snooze appears deliberate.
Sleep

“Fully Sleeping” Tesla Driver Cruises 30 Miles on Autopilot

By Kristin Houser

A parody robot video imagines what might happen if a powerful bot decided to take revenge on the engineers testing its "robustness."
Boston Dynamics

Watch a Robot Take Revenge in Brutal Boston Dynamics Parody

By Kristin Houser

A patient who received a fecal transplant died after the procedure — prompting the FDA to put a halt to a number of fecal transplant trials.
Health & Medicine

FDA Halts Fecal Transplant Trials After Patient Dies

By Kristin Houser

NVIDIA researchers have released an online demo for GauGAN, an AI-powered app that transforms crudely drawn images into photorealistic landscapes.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazing Site Uses AI to Turn Your Scribbles into Lovely Landscapes

By Kristin Houser

In an apparent dig at Elon Musk, scientists from Russia sent a tiny toy car with a cutout of Roscosmos' Dmitry Rogozin in the driver's seat into space.
Off-World

To Mock Elon Musk, Russia Just Launched a Toy Car Into Space

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers believe a past galactic collision with Antlia 2 is to blame for large ripples in the Milky Way's outer hydrogen gas disc.
Science & Energy

We Live in the Wreckage of an Epic Galactic Collision, Says Study

By Kristin Houser

Researchers discover that a combination of blue light and the molecule retinal can lead to cell death, explaining how blue light contributes to blindness.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Knew Blue Light From Screens Contributed to Blindness. Now They Know Why.

By Kristin Houser

Researchers discover that leopard geckos can regenerate parts of their brain, potentially opening up a new area of research in treating the human brain.
Science & Energy

Geckos Can Regenerate Parts of Their Brain, Which Could Help Us Heal Our Own

By Kristin Houser

A major auto manufacturing alliance has tapped Google to create the next generation of built-in media displays for its vehicles.
Google

Google Thinks It Can Make Your Car’s Dashboard Not Suck

By Kristin Houser

Rather than using a controller to command their virtual vehicles in a new Tesla racing game, drivers will use their car's actual steering wheel and brakes.
Tesla

New Tesla Racing Game Uses Car’s Actual Steering Wheel and Brakes

By Kristin Houser