More from Kristin Houser (Page 4)

In a year filled with technological breakthroughs of all stripes, military technology really pushed the limits of what we thought was possible this year.
Military

By Kristin Houser

Boeing's Starliner may not have reached the International Space Station on its first mission, but astronauts are still excited about the spacecraft.
International Space Station

By Kristin Houser

Criminals are using drones to drop items infected with swine flu on herds of pigs in order to force farmers to sell the animals cheaply.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

The United States Navy bans its members from using short video sharing app TikTok on their government-issued mobile devices.
Cybersecurity

By Kristin Houser

U.S. President Donald Trump claimed in a single speech that he both “doesn’t understand wind” and has “studied it better than anybody.”
Wind

By Kristin Houser

Authorities have identified the green slime oozing onto a highway in Michigan as groundwater contaminated with a cancer-causing chemical.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Marijuana can literally change a user's heart, enlarging its left ventricle and impairing function, according to a new study.
Chemistry

By Kristin Houser

A Russian YouTube channel built a knock-off version of Tesla's Cybertruck and then drove it around the streets of Moscow.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

Boeing's Starliner missed its intended orbit for its first mission and burned up too much fuel to complete its planned journey to the ISS.
Boeing

By Kristin Houser

China says its HL-2M tokamak should be operational in 2020, and the “artificial sun” could potentially make nuclear fusion a viable energy option on Earth.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

To fight his alcohol addiction, Frank Plummer agreed to have electrodes implanted into his brain as part of an experimental study.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Kristin Houser

Department store Bloomingdale's incorporated robots into its 2019 holiday window displays — and the whimsical scenes could foreshadow the future of retail.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

A group is developing an AI to finished Ludwig van Beethoven's 10th symphony, which the composer was writing when he died in 1827.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Someone shared GIFs of strobe lights via Twitter and tagged the Epilepsy Foundation in an apparent attempt to trigger seizures in people with epilepsy.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

Former NASA engineer Mark Rober is back with a new-and-improved Glitter Bomb Trap 2.0, an upgrade to his rigged package for "porch pirates."
NASA

By Kristin Houser

Newly discovered "cocoons" of gaseous carbon around young galaxies could help solve the mystery of how the element spread throughout the universe.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Starting in January, Boeing will halt production on its 737 MAX passenger jets, two of which recently crashed, killing everyone on board.
Advanced Transport

By Kristin Houser

A car in the U.K. exploded because its driver sprayed an "excessive" amount of flammable air freshener in the vehicle and then lit a cigarette.
Advanced Transport

By Kristin Houser

The families of children who died or were maimed in cobalt mines are suing Apple, Tesla, and other tech giants for allegedly knowing about the child labor.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

A driver used his Tesla dashcam footage to prove a police officer was wrong in issuing him a ticket for failure to signal at an intersection.
Tesla

By Kristin Houser

A hundred lights that have appeared and disappeared in the night sky over the past 70 years could be signs of the existence of aliens.
Physics

By Kristin Houser

A new study has uncovered 109 genetic variants linked to more than one psychiatric disorder, a discovery that could help identify future treatments.
Health & Medicine

By Kristin Houser

Nonprofit New Story has unveiled the first 3D-printed houses in what will eventually be a community boasting 50 of the unique homes.
3D Printing

By Kristin Houser

The Milky Way might be home to two black holes and not just one — and researchers have a plan for detecting Sagittarius A*'s "hidden friend."
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Russia is launching a center devoted to monitoring meteors, comets, and asteroids to ensure they don't collide with Earth.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Chinese company Futurus's new heads-up display screen for cars takes advantage of the entire windshield and not just a small part of it.
Advanced Transport

By Kristin Houser

Following a bone marrow transplant, a man's semen now contains only his donor's DNA — a strange case that could affect the future of forensic science.
Gene Editing

By Kristin Houser

Twelve former content moderators have filed a lawsuit against Facebook and a contracting firm alleging that the work caused psychological trauma.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

Geneticist George Church created an FAQ for his in-development DNA dating app to address comparisons to the notorious eugenics movement.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

NASA researchers have created a "treasure map" detailing where they believe water ice exists just below the surface of Mars.
Mars

By Kristin Houser

The rats that survive eradication attempts could have sickly offspring — or they could produce "super rats" that are even harder to kill.
Evolution

By Kristin Houser

Turkey's military expects to have its hands on the first Songars, a drone equipped with a machine gun, before the end of 2019.
Drones

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk might send a Tesla Cybertruck into space aboard a SpaceX Starship rocket, which he mused on Twitter has "the payload capacity."
Off-World

By Kristin Houser

After analyzing the atmospheres of 19 exoplanets, researchers determined that 14 contained water vapor — more than they'd anticipated.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Toys "R" Us has opened two new stores after closing hundreds in 2018, and these ones are equipped with sensors that spy on every move shoppers make.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Ohio University pulled a press release detailing a professor’s “evidence” that Mars is home to bugs, but won’t say if it stands behind the research.
Mars

By Kristin Houser

In March 2020, SpaceX will deliver cannabis plant cultures to the International Space Station for agri-tech company Front Range Biosciences.
SpaceX

By Kristin Houser

A group of Tesla owners in Croatia organized an ICEing protest at a gas station to bring attention to the problem of non-EVs blocking charging stations.
Tesla

By Kristin Houser

TIME magazine has chosen 16-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg as its 2019 Person of the Year for launching a global movement.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

A bizarre plot to steal a domain name at gunpoint has earned Instagram influencer Rossi Lorathio Adams II a 14-year prison sentence.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

NVIDIA has built an AI that can create a detailed 3D model of an object in less than 100 milliseconds from just a single image of it.
3D Printing

By Kristin Houser

Scientists encoded instructions for creating a 3D-printed plastic bunny in DNA and then embedded the DNA right in the bunny itself.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The European Space Agency has officially approved funding for ClearSpace-1 — the world's first mission dedicated to cleaning up space junk.
ESA

By Kristin Houser

United States forces reportedly killed a terrorist using an R9X missile — a "ninja bomb" that crushes its target while also slicing them up with blades.
Robots and Machines

By Kristin Houser

A Tesla Model 3 with Autopilot engaged crashed into the back of a police cruiser parked on Connecticut's Interstate 95 to help a disabled vehicle.
Tesla

By Kristin Houser

Geneticist George Church is creating a DNA-based dating app that matches people based on their likelihood of not passing genetic diseases to offspring.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

The Tennessee Aquarium's electric eel, Miguel Wattson, can control the lights on a Christmas tree next to his tank through his shocks.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The Centers for Disease Control has released a list of vaping brands EVALI sufferers said they used prior to contracting the lung disease.
Chemistry

By Kristin Houser

A woman developed a rare disease called "cobalt lung" after vaping marijuana for just six months, according to a new case study.
Chemistry

By Kristin Houser

Oregon startup Silo Wellness created a nasal spray that delivers precise amounts of the magic mushroom compound psilocybin with each pump for microdosing.
Chemistry

By Kristin Houser

Scientists found that a single-celled organism could live off of materials from meteorites, which could help in our hunt to find alien life in space.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

SoftBank Robotics has opened the Pepper PARLOR, a cafe where robots work alongside human staff to serve and entertain customers.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

A measles outbreak in Samoa has left 60 people dead, the vast majority of them children under the age of four, prompting a nationwide vaccination campaign.
Developments

By Kristin Houser

An Uber office in Rhode Island had separate bathrooms for the company's drivers and its employees, a move Uber says it "regrets."
Advanced Transport

By Kristin Houser

Music website Genius is suing Google and its lyrics partner, LyricFind, for $50 million for allegedly copying lyrics directly from its site.
Future Society

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

The latest space supply mission to the ISS will include “mighty mice,” rodents genetically engineered to grow larger muscles than normal.
SpaceX

By Kristin Houser

Detecting killer asteroids could become more difficult for astronomers as SpaceX adds more satellites to its Starlink constellation.
SpaceX

By Kristin Houser

Chinese construction company Winsun has finished building a 3D-printed river revetment more than 500 meters (1,640 feet) long.
3D Printing

By Kristin Houser

Researchers used eye-tracking tech on people looking at breasts in the hopes the data would lead to better breast surgery outcomes.
Studies

By Kristin Houser

Infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar's brother Roberto Escobar is now selling a folding phone he claims is practically unbreakable.
Robots and Machines

By Kristin Houser

A Boeing 767 airplane losing the evacuation slide off the jet while flying over a Boston suburb, landing just feet away from where two people were standing.
Advanced Transport

By Kristin Houser

A new study found that fish would flock to dead coral reefs if researchers blasted the sounds of a healthy reef from nearby underwater speakers.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Australia's New South Wales is rolling out a system of AI cameras designed to catch drivers using their mobile phones illegally.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser