Michael Greshko

Jan 7, 2025 | science.org | Paul Voosen |Michael Greshko |Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

NASA is considering two options for the shape of its reworked mission to collect rock samples from the surface of Mars and rocket them to Earth, the agency announced today. Either one would cut billions from the original mission’s cost and speed its development. But the agency will leave the choice to the incoming administration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. The decision reflects both technical and political reality, Bill Nelson, NASA’s outgoing administrator, said in a press briefing.

Dec 10, 2024 | scientificamerican.com | Michael Greshko

With its Artemis program, NASA aims to return humans to the moon for the first time in more than 50 years. And on the eve of a new presidential administration, agency officials have announced both a delay to the program’s next major mission and their intent to make that mission more ambitious in scope.

Nov 18, 2024 | aarp.org | Michael Greshko

“Taking an idea, putting it as a design, and actually having a physical item as a finished product makes me feel like I’m building things again,” the second trial participant said in a post on Neuralink’s website. Neuralink is just one of many private businesses and university research labs developing new BCI technologies, and others are working to improve brain implants we already have.

Oct 28, 2024 | deviations.ghost.io | Michael Greshko

Hello! Of all the links your thumb could have clicked on, thanks for spending a moment on this one. I’m delighted to announce that I’m launching Deviations: a free, roughly biweekly experimental newsletter that will explore science, art, and the data that describe our world. Who are you? I’m a freelance science journalist and contributor to publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Scientific American, Nature, Science, and Quanta Magazine.

Oct 15, 2024 | estadao.com.br | Michael Greshko

Em 1º de agosto, um navio lançou sua carga incomum em uma parte do oceano cerca de 112 quilômetros a noroeste de São Francisco, nos Estados Unidos: três robôs laranja, cada um com mais de 6 metros de comprimento e em formato de torpedo. Por um dia, os drones aquáticos patrulharam as águas de forma autônoma, escaneando quase 130 quilômetros quadrados de fundo do mar. A cerca de mil metros abaixo da superfície, uma aparição apareceu no sonar potente dos robôs.