Kristin Houser
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.
The burial spot was found in one of the Herculaneum scrolls charred by Mt. Vesuvius.
Cancers can’t develop without genetic mutations — or can they?
A study of spinal development took a strange turn and made a surprise discovery.
Astranis is on a mission to help everyone in the world get online.
Vaccines targeting some of our deadliest cancers are showing promise in early trials.
It’s 50% stronger than comparable materials used in aerospace.
“Stargate” could be used to train the world’s most powerful AIs.
We may be on the brink of finally seeing human-level intelligence in an AI — thanks to robots.
More than 90% of ticks that bit treated volunteers were dead within 24 hours.
If you guessed “staying up all night to play video games,” you’d be right.
CRISPR study helps answer a question that has long puzzled scientists.
Tech designed to fuse atoms might be able to clean up space, too.
Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman just invested $100 million into the company.
NASA gave three robots plans for a moon shelter, and the robots figured out how to build it.
Meta and NYU’s robot can navigate and clean rooms it’s never seen before.
They call it “Judo T-cell therapy,” and it’s 100 times more potent than regular CAR-T cells.
We don’t yet know if these strange “obelisks” are helpful or harmful.
The study suggests that human ancestors expanded across Europe faster than previously thought.
The futuristic weapon could be ready for the battlefield in 5 years.
The new electrically conductive substrate could be the future of hydroponic farming.
One dose of ibogaine was shown to dramatically reduce depression and PTSD.
The record-breaking transmission could revolutionize deep space communication.
It could perform a speech recognition task with 78% accuracy.
The first-of-its-kind map, which goes all the way down to the level of a single cell, could help prevent common birth defects.
The bots started as windpipe cells, yet they helped nerve cells repair and grow.
It has already been trialed in people and could give us a better way to analyze and stimulate the brain.
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There is currently no easy way to treat high Lp(a). A single shot could change that.
The first human trial of base editing delivered strong results along with some safety concerns.
Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s airship startup hits a major milestone.