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Kristin Houser

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Kristin Houser is the Managing Editor of Freethink. Her articles on science and technology have been featured in NBC News, RealClearDefense, and the World Economic Forum’s Agenda, among other publications, and Stephen Colbert once talked about a piece on “The Late Show,” to her delight.

Kristin is currently based in Pittsburgh, and prior to joining Freethink, she was a staff writer for Futurism, launched an LA-based music blog, and wrote several animated and live action web series.

Clean Energy

This startup is making natural gas from sunlight, water, and air

Terraform Industries is using sunlight, water, and air to create synthetic natural gas — and keep methane out of the atmosphere.

Kristin Houser

An astronaut in a spacesuit with a reflective helmet visor stands on the lunar surface

Aerospace

T-Minus: Counting down the 10 biggest “firsts” in space exploration

A special edition of Freethink's weekly countdown of space news, featuring the 10 biggest milestones in humanity's exploration of space.

Kristin Houser

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Medicine

One-shot gene therapy reverses vision loss in small trial

A gene therapy for wet AMD — the most common cause of severe vision loss in seniors — is now in phase 3 trials.

Kristin Houser

an image of the KSTAR nuclear fusion facility

Clean Energy

Korea’s “artificial sun” sets nuclear fusion record

An upgrade to KSTAR, an “artificial sun” in Korea, enabled scientists to set a new world record in nuclear fusion.

Kristin Houser

Hypersonic aircraft startup Hermeus' Quarterhorse Mk 1 on a runway

Aerospace

Hypersonic startup unveils its first aircraft

Hermeus just unveiled its first flight vehicle, putting it a major step closer to developing first-of-their-kind hypersonic aircraft.

Kristin Houser

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Aerospace

China is one step closer to having a nuclear-powered spacecraft

Chinese researchers say they are making progress on a nuclear-powered spacecraft that could dramatically accelerate space travel.

Kristin Houser

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Climate Crisis

How one startup is using the ocean to fight climate change

California startup Ebb Carbon wants to build the world’s largest marine CDR plant to capture CO2 in Port Angeles, Washington.

Kristin Houser

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Aging

One shot recreates younger immune systems, in mice

An antibody treatment designed to revitalize an aging immune system delivers “surprising” results in elderly mice.

Kristin Houser

Embodied AI industrial robot arm conducting a sorting task with various objects.

Does AI need a “body” to become truly intelligent? Meta researchers think so.

We’re finally starting to see what can happen when we put an advanced AI “brain” in a state-of-the-art robot “body” — and it’s remarkable.

Kristin Houser

two hands toasting with beer mugs. One hand and mug has been replaced by streaming digital binary code

AI “tastes” beer — then tells brewers how to make it better

An AI that can predict how to improve the taste of a beer could help brewers develop the next beloved brew.

Kristin Houser