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Kristin Houser

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Kristin Houser is a staff writer at Freethink, where she covers science and tech. Her written work has appeared in Business Insider, NBC News, 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.

Prior to joining Freethink, Kristin was a staff writer for Futurism and wrote several animated and live action web series.

Inventions

A new kind of diamond will hold a billion Blu-Ray’s worth of data

Ultra-pure diamond wafers could be used for quantum memory in tomorrow’s ultra-powerful quantum computers.

Kristin Houser

Coronavirus

Moderna applies for approval of COVID-19 vaccine for children

Moderna has asked the FDA to authorize its COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 6 months through 5 years.

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Physics

The Large Hadron Collider is back online

The world's biggest particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), is back online after a three-year hiatus.

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AI can now understand animal behavior

Animal behavior researchers can now turn the task of analyzing footage over to an open-source algorithm that can spot even subtle actions.

Kristin Houser

Coronavirus

America’s “Test to Treat” has failed. Here’s how to fix it.

So far, Test to Treat has largely failed to get antivirals for COVID-19 to patients that need them — but the initiative can still be fixed.

Kristin Houser

Aerospace

Watch a helicopter attempt to catch a falling rocket (Updated)

Aerospace startup Rocket Lab is going to attempt to catch a falling rocket using a long hook dangling from a helicopter.

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Aerospace

Elon Musk’s Starlink fights off Russian attacks in Ukraine

A Pentagon official was impressed by how quickly the Starlink internet network responded to electromagnetic warfare in Ukraine.

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Aerospace

NASA uses “holoportation” in space for first time

Holoportation tech developed by Microsoft virtually sent a flight surgeon to the ISS to talk to an astronaut.

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Robotics

New exoskeleton lets you enter the boxing ring as a robot

Japanese company Skeletonics has developed a new exoskeleton that lets you enter the boxing ring as a nine-foot-tall robot.

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Agriculture

An ancient enzyme could supercharge photosynthesis

Researchers have resurrected an ancient version of the enzyme Rubisco in the hope of supercharging photosynthesis in today’s plants.

Kristin Houser