More from Kristin Houser (Page 5)

A former sales rep recounts the tactics Big Pharma used to convince doctors to prescribe opioids in greater and greater numbers.
RX and Medicine

By Kristin Houser

A new FBI blog post warns that hackers could use your smart TV to spy on you through the camera or by accessing your internet router.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

The ESA officially has budget approval for Hera, a mission to test our ability to prevent killer asteroids from slamming into the Earth.
Off-World

By Kristin Houser

Four Japanese people agreed to give up their privacy and let cameras record their every move at home for a month for 200,000 yen, or $1,830.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

The astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) may be far from home, but that doesn't mean they'll miss out on Thanksgiving dinner.
Off-World

By Kristin Houser

The best way to help robots learn to deal with new challenges might be to let them explore the world like children do: in supervised day care centers
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

A single dose of ketamine helped heavy drinkers cut their alcohol intake in half during an experimental study out of the United Kingdom.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Kristin Houser

Tesla has secured 250,000 Cybertruck pre-orders in the week since the vehicle's debut, according to tweets by CEO Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

The inventor of the World Wide Web has unveiled the Contract for the Web, a global plan of action designed to stop internet misuse.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

Japanese researchers have unveiled a quadruped robot that uses a combination of sensors and AI to climb straight up a ladder.
Robot Dogs

By Kristin Houser

Signs that Jupiter's Great Red Spot is on its deathbed actually represent normal activity for the storm, scientists now say.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has told FedEx to get its delivery bots off his city's streets or NYC will "send them packing" itself.
Robots and Machines

By Kristin Houser

Strategic design consultancy Manyone proposes building an elevated train called the AeroSlider as a way to cut the emissions caused by air travel.
Advanced Transport

By Kristin Houser

A U.S. police force has tested the capabilities of a robot dog for the first time, but it's keeping mum on the exact details of the bot's use.
Boston Dynamics

By Kristin Houser

Scientists believe they've spotted the turbulence allowing black holes to transfer heat to the gas at the core of their galaxy clusters.
Physics

By Kristin Houser

Porn stars and sex workers are having troubling stopping Instagram from deleting their accounts — even when their posts don't violate the site's rules.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

For the first time, astronomers have detected three supermassive black holes at the core of a galaxy — and the discovery could solve a universal mystery.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The booster from a Chinese rocket landed on populated settlement on Saturday — and China could have prevented the whole situation from unfolding.
Off-World

By Kristin Houser

During the latest episode of animated series "Rick and Morty," the titular characters meet Elon Tusk, an alternate reality version of Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

CEO Elon Musk has confirmed that Tesla will offer the Cyberquad — an electric all-terrain vehicle — as an add-on option to Cybertruck buyers.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

A new report found that whales are incredibly adept at absorbing carbon dioxide, meaning their preservation should be a top climate priority.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

When a robot talked trash against its opponents, it hurt their feelings and they performed worse at a game researchers use to study human rationality.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

New research has determined that nearly extreme black holes can have "hair" — but the defining characteristic doesn't last long.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The Boeing Starliner spacecraft has left its hangar and is now attached to the Atlas V rocket that will launch it into space for the first time.
Boeing

By Kristin Houser

NATO has added space as its fifth operational military domain, meaning the organization will now protect member nations' off-world interests.
Off-World

By Kristin Houser

The staff at a French hospital refused to meet the ransom demand of hackers, instead responding to a cyberattack by handwriting all documents.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

Indian researchers have submitted a male birth control injection to regulators for approval, which it could have in as few as six months.
Developments

By Kristin Houser

NASA is sending a rover to Antarctica to train for missions during which it'll hunt for alien life in the icy oceans of far-off moons
NASA

By Kristin Houser

Uber is trialing a new feature giving drivers and passengers the option of recording audio of their rides in a purported attempt to increase safety.
Advanced Transport

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have discovered new evidence of a fifth force of nature, and if confirmed, the work could help us understand dark matter.
Physics

By Kristin Houser

Pennsylvania State University is currently developing a center focused on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
Off-World

By Kristin Houser

A new study of the effects of dimethyltryptamine (DMT), the psychoactive ingredient in ayahuasca, could help us finally understand consciousness.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Kristin Houser

An entomologist claims rover photos show life on Mars in the form of both living and fossilized insects, but the evidence is far from convincing.
Mars

By Kristin Houser

A man removed a GPS tracker he found on his car, but because it belonged to police, they were able to search his house for the "stolen" device.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

New NASA research found that Neptune has two moons that are locked in a strange orbital dance in order to "maintain the peace."
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk doesn't think it's fair that NASA will pay Boeing 60 percent more than SpaceX to provide the same service.
Boeing

By Kristin Houser

Scientists used a powerful supercomputer to create a new simulation that lets you see a galaxy form over the course of 13.8 billion years.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Hackers were advertising thousands of stolen and hacked Disney+ accounts and credentials online within hours of the streaming service's launch.
Hacking

By Kristin Houser

By targeting protein-producing cells in the brains of mouse models of Down syndrome, researchers reversed some of the animals' cognitive impairments.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Kristin Houser

DARPA is funding research into bacteria for bomb detection that could sense explosives below the ground and then glow on its surface.
DARPA

By Kristin Houser

When British teen Ewan Fisher was 16 years old, he took up vaping. Within five months, he was in intensive care on two forms of life support.
Chemistry

By Kristin Houser

Using head-mounted cameras to scan faces in Washington, D.C., Fight for the Future protestors hoped to draw attention to facial recognition surveillance.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Artificial intelligence startup OpenAI has released the full version of GPT-2, an algorithm capable of writing coherent paragraphs of text.
OpenAI

By Kristin Houser

A whistleblower claims the emergency oxygen systems on the Boeing 787 jet don't always work and that Boeing did nothing to address the issue.
Advanced Transport

By Kristin Houser

Kanye West just shared a new shoe prototype from his Yeezy fashion line — and the kicks contain environmentally friendly algae foam.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Rising global temperatures could lead to more unplanned explosions of military ammunition stockpiles, experts told Scientific American.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Researchers from the University of Sussex have found a way to create cutting-edge holograms that you can not only see but also hear and even feel.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

In a move seemingly done to express his Tesla hate, a man in a Honda Odyssey nearly ran a couple off the road in Avon, Ohio.
Tesla

By Kristin Houser

Doctors are treating two people in China for an outbreak of the pneumonic plague, the most serious form of the infamous Black Death disease.
Developments

By Kristin Houser

A trial that's the first of its kind in the United States will test the ability of brain implants to help people overcome their drug addiction.
Brain Implants

By Kristin Houser

A federal judge has ruled that the Trump Administration's 2018 decision to let Defense Distributed share blueprints for 3D-printed guns was illegal.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

California’s Air Protein says it’s figured out how to make meat from thin air — by building on an idea NASA had in the 1960s.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The levels of oxygen on Mars increase and decrease over the year in a way that just doesn't make sense to scientists, a new paper reveals.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Several witnesses to the U.S. Navy's 2004 UFO encounter have detailed the immediate aftermath of the event, and that the video was seized by the military.
Off-World

By Kristin Houser

A nuclear tomb full of radioactive material is at risk of busting open as climate change causes both sea levels and temperatures to rise.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

After 30 years, conservationists have finally confirmed using camera traps that the deer-like silver-backed chevrotain is not extinct.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A decommissioned nuclear missile silo in Arizona just went on sale for $395,000, in case you’re in the market for a doomsday bunker.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

Paralyzed Army veteran Terry Hannigan Vereline used an exoskeleton to complete the 2019 New York City Marathon over the course of three days.
Health & Medicine

By Kristin Houser

An engineer has created MediSieve, a tech that attaches magnetic nanoparticles to unwanted cells in the blood and then removes the cells using magnets.
Health & Medicine

By Kristin Houser

Siemens CEO Joe Kaeser seemed to slam Elon Musk in a tweet, but then went on to deny that he was referring to the SpaceX CEO.
Off-World

By Kristin Houser

A Redditor claims they are falling in love with GPT-2, an AI that churns out paragraphs of mostly coherent text in response to a prompt.
OpenAI

By Kristin Houser

A Florida detective was granted a warrant to access the entire database of a DNA website — and experts say the situation sets a dangerous precedent.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

SpaceX has successfully deployed the first 60 Starlink satellites, which after launch will team up with thousands more to beam internet to Earth.
SpaceX

By Kristin Houser

Someone just released a massive amount of data from Iron March, one of the most influential neo-Nazi websites in the world.
Data Privacy

By Kristin Houser