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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.

Prosthetics

A cure for blindness may be first product made in space

An ISS experiment suggests that manufacturing artificial retinas in space will make them more effective at reversing blindness.

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Astronomy

SpaceX wants to save Hubble. NASA may be on board.

NASA and SpaceX may use a Dragon spacecraft to boost the Hubble Space Telescope into a higher, life-saving orbit.

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Startups

You could soon get a piece of $700 million Liquid Death

Canned water startup Liquid Death, now valued at $700 million, is considering going public in the next two years.

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Asteroids

Webb, Hubble capture spacecraft slamming into asteroid

DART collision images captured by NASA's Hubble and James Webb space telescopes show what happens when a spacecraft slams into an asteroid.

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Robotics

Elon Musk demos humanoid robot, which will cost less than $20K

CEO Elon Musk unveiled two prototypes of the humanoid Tesla robot, expected to cost less than $20,000, at his company’s second annual AI Day.

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Medicine

Scientists claim “never before” seen results in ALS clinical trial

The ability of tofersen, a gene-based treatment for ALS, to improve symptoms is being hailed as a “treatment milestone.”

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Food

The key to cheaper lab-grown meat? Magnets.

A new technique for making lab-grown meat uses magnets to eliminate the need for fetal bovine serum, an expensive, controversial substance.

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Robotics

Watch a robot barista create latte art

New funding will allow Seattle-based startup Artly Coffee to bring its robot barista to more US locations.

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Bruce Willis sells his likeness for a deepfake ad

Retired actor Bruce Willis had a "digital twin" made so that his likeness could be inserted into a new project using deepfake tech.

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Memory

Brain-zapping tech improves memory by more than 50%

A brain-zapping "memory prosthesis" funded by DARPA improved trial participants' ability to retain new information by more than 50%.

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