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Kristin Houser

Managing Editor

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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.

Aerospace

The most anticipated space missions of 2022

2022 will be a big year for space missions, with huge rocket launches, several rover rollouts, and a first-of-its-kind asteroid collision.

Kristin Houser

Drones

New smart mailbox is built for drone deliveries

Indiana-based startup DRONEDEK has developed a smart mailbox that can automatically receive and protect goods from delivery drones.

Kristin Houser

Planet Earth

Online tree of life now connects 2.2 million living species

OneZoom is an interactive “tree of life” that lets you explore the evolutionary connections between more than two million species.

Kristin Houser

Computer Science

IBM and Samsung unveil breakthrough microchip design

IBM and Samsung have unveiled a new microchip design that promises radically faster, more efficient semiconductor chips.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

NASA tosses rockets to prepare for Mars sample return

NASA is developing a system for the Mars Sample Return mission that tosses a rocket into the air just prior to ignition on Mars.

Kristin Houser

World-class choir performs advent carols in VR

The Church of England is releasing performances of advent carols in virtual reality to bring Christmastime to social-distancing parishioners.

Kristin Houser

Food

Viral TikTok recipes fill the menu at virtual restaurants

The new virtual restaurant TikTok Kitchen will feature menu items inspired by viral TikTok recipes, including baked feta pasta.

Kristin Houser

Food

Inside the world’s most advanced cultivated meat facility

UPSIDE Foods (formerly Memphis Meats) is offering consumers tours of “the world’s most advanced cultivated meat production facility.”

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

Water on Mars found hidden in massive canyon

Scientists have discovered a huge store of hidden water on Mars, and it’s just below the surface of the Valles Marineris canyon system.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

The Hubble Space Telescope is dying. Here’s what’s next.

With Hubble living on borrowed time, NASA and its partners prepare to launch the satellite's successor: the James Webb Space Telescope.

Kristin Houser