More from Kristin Houser (Page 3)

In the future, doctors could treat damaged nerves with a newly unveiled biodegradable "bridge" created by University of Pittsburgh researchers.
Prosthetics and Devices

By Kristin Houser

Scientists from Purdue University have built the world's fastest-spinning object, a nanoparticle capable of completing 300 billion revolutions per minute.
Quantum Physics

By Kristin Houser

The wildfires raging in Australia could release a billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere by the end of the fire season, says Stanford scientist.
Renewable Energy

By Kristin Houser

A team of researchers discovered 28 never-before-seen ancient viruses in 15,000-year-old ice sourced from a Tibetan glacier.
Viruses

By Kristin Houser

The "Please Try This At Home" biohacker conference focused on carving out a space for people harmed by mainstream healthcare systems.
Developments

By Kristin Houser

In April, Japan will launch the Space Domain Mission Unit to protect its space-based assets, according to an Associated Press story.
Off-World

By Kristin Houser

The crown prince of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman, sent a video to Jeff Bezos that allowed the nation to hack his phone, The Guardian reports.
Jeff Bezos

By Kristin Houser

U.S. President Donald Trump couldn't say enough nice — and baffling — things about billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk during a recent interview.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

A biological anthropology professor has written a book suggesting that it's not extraterrestrials piloting UFOs, but time-traveling humans from the future.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Space Force caused a social media frenzy by tweeting out a photo of its utility uniform nametapes on camouflage uniforms.
Space Force

By Kristin Houser

Astrobiologist Samantha Rolfe has published an essay explaining how invisible aliens could already be living on Earth — and how they might have gotten here.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

President Donald Trump regrets getting personally involved in his administration's vape ban, which could help curb teen vaping.
Chemistry

By Kristin Houser

Researchers couldn't find any reason why human hibernation shouldn't be possible — and cracking it could help us explore the cosmos.
Developments

By Kristin Houser

Astronomers have built a new model that could answer lingering questions about Betelgeuse — by positing that it was once two stars.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A small Michigan town is spending $3,400 on a Nasal Ranger, a bizarre-looking device it hopes will help it sniff out illegal marijuana plants.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

The blob, a patch of warm water in the Pacific Ocean, caused the deaths of an estimated one million seabirds, according to a new study.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created a "strange metal" that could help us harness the potential of the quantum world in a practical way.
Quantum Physics

By Kristin Houser

Quorn Foods will be the first major food brand to add carbon footprint labels to all of its food products, according to a new Guardian story.
Food

By Kristin Houser

A housing developer has a plan to bring affordable housing to San Francisco: pack people into tiny underground sleeping pods.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) compared facial recognition tech to the dystopian sci-fi series "Black Mirror" during a House committee meeting.
Facial recognition

By Kristin Houser

The decision by Delta Flight 89 pilots to dump jet fuel over a populated area and from a Boeing at an elevation of just 2,300 feet has left experts baffled.
Advanced Transport

By Kristin Houser

A piece of astronaut Christina Koch's helmet fell off during an ISS spacewalk on Wednesday, forcing her to rely on her partner Jessica Meir for light.
Off-World

By Kristin Houser

Researchers from UCLA have identified six shape-shifting G objects orbiting the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Army is developing tech that uses facial recognition software to identify targets from up to .5 kilometers away, even in the dark.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Harvard Law Journal has published a bold — but entirely constitutional — plan to save democracy by creating 127 tiny new states.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

Even tardigrades — one of the most resilient creatures in the known universe — might not be able to survive global warming, according to a new study.
Global Warming

By Kristin Houser

A new book takes a deep dive into panpsychism, a millennia-old theory that argues that all forms of matter experience consciousness.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A new report has found that Grindr, Tinder, and other dating apps have been covertly selling users' sensitive information to third-party companies.
Data Privacy

By Kristin Houser

Microsoft has created a tool that analyzes text-based chats for signs of pedophiles online — and it's giving it away for free.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

A scientist has compared the amount of heat causing ocean warming to the amount of energy released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Many of San Francisco's recently opened robot restaurants are already going out of business, as pointed out by a new Business Insider story.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

A link between the protein Sestrin and exercise could one day allow us to enjoy the benefits of physical activity without ever leaving our couches.
Treatments

By Kristin Houser

A journalist crashed Segway's new S-Pod into a wall at CES 2020, bringing an end to the self-balancing electric wheelchair's demonstration.
Advanced Transport

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Department of Energy will build the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC), a cutting-edge particle collider, at New York's Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Physics

By Kristin Houser

Spanish startup Novameat has unveiled its latest product: Steak 2.0, a plant-based steak it says is the "most realistic" yet.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

A study of mass mortality events involving feral pigs could yield insights that help Australia repair its ecosystem after its devastating brushfires.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Boeing has released internal communications regarding its 737 Max — and the contents of some of the messages are downright disturbing. 
Advanced Transport

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX hopes to prove that NASA astronauts will be safe aboard Crew Dragon by deliberately destroying a Falcon 9 rocket soon after launch.
Falcon

By Kristin Houser

Surveillance vendor Special Services Group has created a truly bizarre collection of tech for cops — including a spy camera hidden in a tombstone.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

The Radcliffe Wave is an unbroken stream stars and stellar nurseries 9,000 light-years long — and it may be the biggest structure in the Milky Way.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Scientists have found a way to increase the lifespan of C. elegans worms fivefold, which would be equivalent to a human reaching the age of 500.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The eight "mighty mice" NASA sent to space have returned to Earth from the ISS, potentially bringing with them insights on humans avoiding muscle loss.
NASA

By Kristin Houser

Police charged a man with careless driving for flossing his teeth while his Autopilot-enabled Tesla Model S was driving 84 miles per hour.
Tesla

By Kristin Houser

Japanese robotics company Vstone has created Hiro-chan, a faceless robot baby that transitions from crying to laughing when held.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

Two more United States websites have been hacked to display pro-Iranian propaganda, though it's still unclear whether Iran itself is behind the attacks.
Hacking

By Kristin Houser

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa is testing the theory that a basic income could increase happiness — by giving away $9 million to his Twitter followers.
Universal Basic Income

By Kristin Houser

Cybersecurity firm Check Point has uncovered major security flaws in TikTok, which was already under intense scrutiny by the U.S. government.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

On Monday, SpaceX deployed 60 Starlink satellites, enough to earn the company the title of world's largest commercial satellite operator.
SpaceX

By Kristin Houser

Researchers from Italy claim to have discovered two new cannabinoids, including one they say is 30 times more potent than THC.
Chemistry

By Kristin Houser

Helen Sharman, the first British astronaut, firmly believes that aliens exist and that they may even be on the Earth already.
Off-World

By Kristin Houser

Hackers placed a pro-Iran propaganda image of U.S. President Donald Trump being punched in the face on the homepage of a U.S. government-run website.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

Newly leaked videos and a tweet by Pranav Mistry offer a sneak peak at NEON, a Samsung project focused on the creation of "artificial humans."
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

The fires currently raging in Australia are turning New Zealand's glaciers brown and potentially speeding up their melting.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Samsung has built an "artificial human" called NEON that it plans to unveil at the Consumer Electronics Show kicking off on January 7.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Iran's vow of "crushing revenge" for the murder of military general Qassim Suleimani has America on high alert for a Iranian cyberattack.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

Nissan exec Ivan Espinosa said that the weight of the charging cable can make owning an electric vehicle (EV) a hassle for female drivers.
Advanced Transport

By Kristin Houser

Images of the Australian wildfires taken from space show the full extent of the devastation, putting the ongoing catastrophe in terrifying context.
Space

By Kristin Houser

The newly announced Segway S-Pod transportation scooter looks eerily similar to the hover chairs featured in the dystopian Pixar film "WALL-E.
Advanced Transport

By Kristin Houser

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have announced the Earthshot Prize, an initiative designed to solve Earth's greatest environmental problems before 2030.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Astrophysicist Ron Mallett believes he's figured out how to build a time machine that would allow someone to travel to the past.
Physics

By Kristin Houser

Tokyo's Penguin Café hosts a popular event for robot dogs and their owners, many of whom dress the bots up, and even celebrate their birthday at the cafe.
Robot Dogs

By Kristin Houser

Mysterious Swarms of Giant Drones Have Officials Baffled
Drones

By Kristin Houser

Chinese state-run news agency Xinhua has confirmed that a third gene-edited baby has been born as part of researcher He Jiankui's controversial experiment.
Gene Editing

By Kristin Houser

A Chinese court has sentenced researcher He Jiankui to three years in prison for creating the world's first gene-edited babies.
Gene Editing

By Kristin Houser