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A hacker forced a smart coffeemaker to turn on its heating element and spit steaming water onto it while showing a ransomware message.
Robots and Machines

Watch a Hacked “Smart Coffeemaker” Spew Steaming Water

How much harm could a hacked coffeemaker do?

By Jon Christian

A new brain-computer interface system can generate an image of a face based just on someone's neural activity as they picture certain characteristics.
Neuroscience and Brain

New System Reads Your Brain Waves, Draws a Picture of What You’re Thinking About

The brain-computer interface was able to generate faces as people pictured them.

By Dan Robitzski

Army officials want to upgrade SpaceX's Starlink satellites to serve as a navigational network more precise and secure than GPS.
Military

The US Military Wants Access to SpaceX’s Satellite Constellation

"If you have a million times more opportunity to send information down from your satellite, the data can be much closer to the truth."

By Dan Robitzski

In a recent interview, Elon Musk suggested that oil tycoons might not have known how much they were damaging the planet when they got into the business.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: “I Feel a Bit Bad About Hating on the Oil and Gas Industry”

What changed, man?

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists say they've ascertained how radioactive the Moon is — a finding that could have implications for the future of space travel.
Moon

Bad News: The Moon Is Surprisingly Radioactive

The Moon is about 200 times as radioactive as the Earth, according to new research.

By Jon Christian

The Air Force just awarded a contract to develop lasers that can detonate landmines and other hazards from a safe distance.
Military

The Air Force Is Getting a Laser That Detonates Landmines From Afar

The ZEUS laser will detonate any mines or explosives blocking airfields.

By Dan Robitzski

An AI algorithm learned how to dose anesthetized patients during surgery. In a simulated environment, it outperformed what doctors use today.
Developments

MIT Trains Neural Network to Keep Patients Anesthetized During Surgery

The AI system outperformed existing tech on simulated patients.

By Dan Robitzski

Later this month, NASA is scheduled to launch an unusual payload — 10 bottles of a face cream by cosmetics company Estée Lauder.
NASA

NASA Is Using Its Astronauts to Help Promote a Cosmetics Company

A scheme for NASA to promote cosmetics in space is prompting backlash.

By Jon Christian

New research shows that personally experiencing wildfires makes people more likely to support anti-climate change policy, regardless of political leanings.
Climate Change

Scientists: When People Experience Climate Change Firsthand, They Get Serious About It

"If weeks of pervasive wildfire smoke become the new normal in the American West, it could be the reality check that loosens some of the partisan logjams about climate change politics in our region."

By Dan Robitzski

Cosmonaut Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, who's heading to the International Space Station next month on a Soyuz rocket, says he would be nice to any aliens he met.
Exobiology

Space-Bound Cosmonaut: If I Meet Aliens, I Will Be Nice to Them

Take me to your leader!

By Jon Christian

After about a year, NASA and Roscosmos have just about narrowed down the source of the ongoing air leak on the International Space Station.
Science & Energy

NASA Says It’s Almost Found the Leak on the International Space Station

Unfortunately, investigators have hit a nasty snag.

By Dan Robitzski

When the world around them quieted down, white-crowned sparrows living near San Francisco learned a new, more intricate song.
Biology

Birds Learned a New Song During the Pandemic

The white-crowned sparrow sang differently as the world quieted down.

By Dan Robitzski

Investigations reveal that hundreds of elephants died due to cyanobacteria, toxic microscopic algae found in larger bodies of blue-green water.
Environment

Hundreds of Elephants Suddenly Dropped Dead Because of Neurotoxin, Experts Say

Finally, answers.

By Victor Tangermann

The smart doorbell company Ring just announced a drone that flies around and records video inside your home. It sounds like a privacy nightmare.
Drones

Amazon Announces Security Drone That Flies Around Your Home

What could possibly go wrong?

By Dan Robitzski

An open-source hearing aid built using off-the-shelf parts could slash the price of otherwise prohibitively expensive hearing aids to a single dollar.
Prosthetics and Devices

Researchers Invent $1 Hearing Aid

"We have shown that it is possible to build a hearing aid for less than the price of a cup of coffee."

By Victor Tangermann

To fight climate change, experts suggest gene-hacking plants and animals to cut emissions and better sequester carbon from the atmosphere.
Climate Change

Report: Gene-Hacking Plants and Animals Could Fight Climate Change

Gene-hacked plants could sequester more carbon out of the atmosphere.

By Dan Robitzski

A number of airports in Europe are working to bring 30 minute COVID-19 tests to airports, in the hopes of breathing new life into the industry.
Advanced Transport

Airports Are Rolling Out 30 Minute COVID Tests

"We need the system to work and work quickly. Otherwise this industry will not survive."

By Victor Tangermann

In a recently uploaded preprint, researchers argue that the discovery of phosphine on Venus could be chalked up to asteroids grazing Earth's atmosphere.
Science & Energy

Life May Have Hopped From Earth to Venus on Asteroid, Scientists Say

Plenty of asteroids have already made such a trip — but could life survive it?

By Victor Tangermann

Space debris could pose an even bigger threat than we thought, thanks to new research that found smaller pieces of junk that were never cataloged.
Science & Energy

Research: Most Geosynchronous Space Junk Has Never Been Catalogued

Tiny bits of garbage, whipping around our planet, could be a bigger hazard than we thought.

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists think they may have discovered an exoplanet that resembles Saturn in another galaxy, but it could be decades before they know for sure.
Science & Energy

Scientists Claim to Find First-Ever Planet in Another Galaxy

"There's absolutely no reason to think there wouldn’t be planets in other galaxies."

By Dan Robitzski