More from Kristin Houser (Page 6)

Scientists use an electron microscopy science technique called 4D-STEM to image the molecular structure of materials with the beautiful result of art.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Russian researchers have created an AI that analyzes electroencephalography data and draws what a person is looking at in real time.
Brain

By Kristin Houser

A new cancer drug cuts off tumor cells' food supply while also seemingly supercharging the immune systems' cancer-destroying T cells.
Cancer

By Kristin Houser

Elon Musk donated a million dollars to a campaign to plant trees. The next day, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke pledged a million and one.
Elon Musk

By Kristin Houser

Human traffickers are selling slaves via Instagram and other apps, according to a disturbing new investigation by BBC News Arabic.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

NASA: Four Astronauts Will Stay on the Moon For Two Weeks
Moon

By Kristin Houser

A glitch by third-party text platform Syniverse resulted in the delayed delivery of thousands of texts originally penned on Valentine's Day.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created an unsinkable metal by using lasers to etch an air-trapping pattern onto an aluminum structure's surface.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

In September 2020, Italy will begin making it mandatory for students to learn about climate change in school for 33 hours per year.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

In China, minors are no longer allowed to play video games between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m., or for more than 90 minutes total on weekdays.
Health & Medicine

By Kristin Houser

The likelihood of human extinction in any given year is as high as one in 14,000, but people don't seem to see the loss of humanity as uniquely tragic.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

The self-driving Uber that struck and killed an Arizona woman in March 2018 wasn't programmed to know that people could jaywalk.
Self-Driving Vehicles

By Kristin Houser

NVIDIA researchers have created a new AI that needs one full body photo of a person to make them look like they’re dancing.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

A white supremacist planned to blow up a synagogue, but the bombs he got from undercover FBI agents he met through Facebook were inert.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

On Monday, Boeing's CST-100 Starliner flew for the first time as part of a launch abort test — and during the test, one of its parachutes didn't deploy.
Boeing

By Kristin Houser

Cybercriminals could hack Siri, Alexa, and other voice-activated AI assistants using beams of light, according to new research.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

More than 11,000 scientists in 153 nations have endorsed a newly published statement on climate change — and it does not contain much good news.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Microsoft is pivoting its Bing search engine to focus on businesses, claiming it'll make it easier for employees to navigate companies' intranets.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

Inaccurate police breathalyzers are putting innocent drivers behind bars and guilty ones back on the road, according to a new investigation.
Robots and Machines

By Kristin Houser

Switching to a four-day workweek boosted productivity by nearly 40 percent at Microsoft Japan, a sign that the change could benefit employers and employees.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

Russian startup Promobot says it can create robot clones of any person, from Michael Jordan to William Shakespeare to you.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

Hundreds of schools in the U.S. have traded in the physical hall pass for an app called e-Hallpass — and It has some parents furious.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

Yet another study has calculated the Hubble Constant and come to a different conclusion, raising more questions about the nature of our universe.
Physics

By Kristin Houser

Hyperstealth Biotechnology has filed a patent on a new invisibility cloak material that bends light to make objects disappear.
Military

By Kristin Houser

Dunkin' Donuts has accelerated the nationwide rollout of a breakfast sandwich featuring a plant-based sausage patty created by Beyond Meat.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

ACLU had filed a lawsuit against the FBI, DOJ, and DEA for information on their use of surveillance technology, such as facial recognition software.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

Google has purchased Fitbit for $2.1 billion, but it promises not to try to recoup any of that money by using people's health data to sell ads.
Prosthetics and Devices

By Kristin Houser

Cognizant, a firm providing Facebook with content moderation services, has announced that it plans to end its relationship with the social media company.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

While studying hypersonic jet propulsion, a team of engineers stumbled upon the mechanism that could've led to the Big Bang.
Physics

By Kristin Houser

Japan has unveiled a wooden car two years in the making, but while the vehicle looks cool, it seems far from road ready at this time.
Advanced Transport

By Kristin Houser

A physicist created a calculator that uses mathematical models to determine the likelihood that humanity would survive a vampire attack.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

MIT researchers have created a fleet of robot cubes that can move autonomously, climbing, spinning, and even jumping to form shapes.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

In the video game "Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice," players see the world through the eyes of a young warrior suffering from severe mental health issues.
Health & Medicine

By Kristin Houser

A new lawsuit claims that JUUL shipped a million contaminated vape pods to customers and then fired an exec for voicing his concerns about it.
Chemistry

By Kristin Houser

Doctors in Texas recorded a livestream of a brain surgery during which the person under the knife, Jenna Schardt, was awake and talking.
Neuroscience and Brain

By Kristin Houser

By the year 2069, digital personhood — the granting of rights to machines — could be the norm, a tech expert told Pew Research Center.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

NASA has released an image for Halloween that looks like a ghostly face but is actually two galaxies colliding some 704 million light-years away.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

The same person responsible for the Tesla pickup truck design created a concept called the Model Zero, and it could hold clues to the truck's appearance.
Tesla

By Kristin Houser

According to U.S. President Donald Trump, the military brought a robot along for the raid that led to the death of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
Robotics

By Kristin Houser

A Pentagon report found that Army soldiers' heavy reliance on bottled water won't be sustainable in the future due to climate change.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Five months after returning a rented Ford Expedition, a man can still use a connected Ford app to control the vehicle's doors and engine.
Advanced Transport

By Kristin Houser

A tracked eagle spent five months in an area without data coverage, racking up enough roaming charges to wipe a research team's entire budget.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A technique some worried would lead to the creation of super-smart designer babies isn't technologically up to the task, finds a new study.
Gene Editing

By Kristin Houser

If the Department of Home Affairs gets its way in Australia, a face scan will be used to verify the ages of people visiting porn websites.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

Dubai has unveiled the world's largest two-story 3D-printed building, a 31-foot-tall structure covering an area of 6,889 square feet.
3D Printing

By Kristin Houser

The asteroid Hygiea is actually our solar system's smallest dwarf planet, astronomers determine using Very Large Telescope data.
Solar Power

By Kristin Houser

Population control wouldn't solve climate change, several experts recently told CBC News, as it doesn't address a number of other contributing factors.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Space exploration gives humanity an opportunity to avoid the mistakes it's made on Earth, but it's clear that won't happen without robust space law.
Off-World

By Kristin Houser

Many AI researchers are not fans of the "Terminator" movies as they worry the films misrepresent the abilities — and dangers — of artificial intelligences.
Artificial Intelligence

By Kristin Houser

The White House cybersecurity team is in turmoil, according to an internal memo in which a senior member announces his resignation.
Cybersecurity

By Kristin Houser

Russian biologist Denis Rebrikov is trying to get approval to create the next gene-edited baby — and this deaf woman could be its mother.
Gene Editing

By Kristin Houser

Emma is a life-sized doll designed to show what U.K. office workers could look like in 20 years if changes aren't made to the workplace environment.
Studies

By Kristin Houser

The world's largest 3D-printed boat took just 72 hours to construct using the world's largest 3D printer — and it didn't even push the device to its limits.
3D Printing

By Kristin Houser

Ford Patents Drone That Pops Out of a Car’s Trunk
Drones

By Kristin Houser

Los Angeles is working with TechniSoil Industrial to repave a road using a mixture of recycled plastic and existing asphalt.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

A new study says some screen time is good for young kids, but the scientific community has yet to reach anything close to a consensus on the topic.
Health & Medicine

By Kristin Houser

Temperatures are so high in Qatar, the nation has begun air conditioning its open-air sports stadiums, malls, and markets.
Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

The companies developing lab-grown meat won’t stop at just beef and chicken — they’ll likely cultivate exotic meats, too.
Future Society

By Kristin Houser

A newly discovered monster galaxy fills a gap in astronomers' understanding of galactic formation soon after the birth of the universe.
Science & Energy

By Kristin Houser

Tesla says vehicles with Autopilot engaged were involved in one accident for every 4.34 million miles driven during the third quarter of 2019.
Tesla

By Kristin Houser

Microsoft researchers have developed DreamWalker, a new VR system that lets a user walk a route in the real world while looking at virtual scenery.
Virtual Reality

By Kristin Houser

We could pause global warming for 15 to 20 years if we're willing to spend $300 billion to restore billions of acres of land, say UN scientists.
Global Warming

By Kristin Houser

A startup called MayMaan Research claims it has developed a system that allows an engine to run on an alt-fuel comprising just water and alcohol.
Advanced Transport

By Kristin Houser

People with celiac disease may finally be able to enjoy foods with gluten thanks to a new nanoparticle technology developed at Northwestern University.
Nanotech

By Kristin Houser