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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.

Sustainability

Human composting is now legal in five states

California is now the fifth state to legalize human composting, a more environmentally friendly alternative to burial or cremation.

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This Stable Diffusion mod will turn you into a Pokémon

Stable Diffusion, an open-source text-to-image AI, has been modified to generate Pokémon-like characters from simple text prompts.

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Asteroids

Watch NASA’s DART spacecraft slam into an asteroid

NASA has slammed its DART spacecraft into an asteroid in the world’s first demonstration of planetary defense technology.

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Aerospace

Elon Musk: Starship rocket “highly likely” to fly in November

SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket is “highly likely” to complete its first orbital test flight in November 2022, according to CEO Elon Musk.

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Aerospace

China has discovered a brand new moon mineral

A new moon mineral discovered by China contains helium-3, an element that could one day fuel nuclear fusion reactors on Earth.

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Animals

World’s first cloned arctic wolf is now 100 days old

After two years of effort, China's Sinogene Biotechnology has created the world’s first cloned arctic wolf.

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Asteroids

NASA’s DART spacecraft is about to smash into an asteroid

The DART spacecraft is now close enough to image the asteroid system it plans to slam into as part of NASA’s planetary defense efforts.

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Medicine

New treatment “starves” aggressive brain tumors in mice

A treatment that “starved” aggressive glioblastoma tumors in the brains of mice suggests a way to finally fight the deadly cancer in humans.

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Clean Energy

This rock-bending tech may change clean energy

A technology that stores energy underground could make enhanced geothermal systems more cost competitive.

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Psychology

Americans are becoming more likely to cooperate with strangers, not less

Americans are more likely to cooperate with strangers today than they were in the 1950s, according to the American Psychological Association.

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