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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.

an airship outside a hangar with many people standing near it

Transportation

Biggest aircraft since the Hindenburg cleared for test flights

Pathfinder-1, a massive airship developed by Google cofounder Sergey Brin’s LTA Research, has begun flight testing.

Kristin Houser

A group of wegovy pills, a powerful weight-loss drug.

Medicine

Wegovy slashes heart attack risk by 28%

Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss drug Wegovy can reduce a person’s risk of a serious cardiovascular event by 20%.

Kristin Houser

a rendering of the STRATOS direct air capture system

Climate Crisis

BlackRock invests $550M in world’s largest direct air capture plant

Money manager BlackRock has invested $550 million in STRATOS, the world’s largest direct air capture facility.

Kristin Houser

A phone displaying the Waze app's Crash History Alerts on a blue background

Transportation

Waze will now tell you if a road has a history of car accidents

Navigation app Waze’s new Crash History Alerts let drivers know when they’re approaching an area prone to car accidents.

Kristin Houser

a field filled with large mirrors used for concentrated solar power

Clean Energy

Aussie scientists hit milestone in concentrated solar power

A breakthrough at a concentrated solar power facility in Australia could help make solar a more reliable source of energy in the future.

Kristin Houser

Computer Science

Analog computing is undergoing a resurgence

Combining smart sensors with an older technology — analog computing — could dramatically reduce their power consumption.

Kristin Houser

A bald man is having his eye examined by a doctor

Surgery

Arkansas man receives world’s first eye transplant

The world’s first whole eye transplant puts doctors a major step closer to restoring vision with donor eyes in the future.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

T-Minus: NASA’s surprise asteroid, China’s reusable rocket, and more

Freethink's weekly countdown of the biggest space news, featuring a surprising asteroid discovery, a new reusable rocket, and more.

Kristin Houser

Three people, including a man and a woman, standing in a room discussing the effects of Parkinson's disease and spinal implant advancements.

Neuroscience

Spinal implant lets man with Parkinson’s walk again

An experimental spinal implant has given a French man with advanced Parkinson’s disease back his ability to walk.

Kristin Houser

Descriptions of different GPTs that could be found in the GPT Store, along with logos

OpenAI launches a GPT Store for customized AI chatbots (Updated)

ChatGPT users will soon be able to create, share, and potentially monetize customized versions of the chatbot through OpenAI’s GPT Store.

Kristin Houser