Kristin Houser

Kristin Houser

Kristin Houser is the Managing Editor of Big Think. 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 Big Think, she was a staff writer for Futurism, launched an LA-based music blog, and wrote several animated and live action web series.

A laser beam is coming out of a large dome.
Tech designed to fuse atoms might be able to clean up space, too.
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Former GitHub CEO Nat Friedman just invested $100 million into the company.
A woman is working on a robot in a factory.
NASA gave three robots plans for a moon shelter, and the robots figured out how to build it.
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Meta and NYU’s robot can navigate and clean rooms it’s never seen before.
An image of a man punching a ball.
They call it “Judo T-cell therapy,” and it’s 100 times more potent than regular CAR-T cells.
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We don’t yet know if these strange “obelisks” are helpful or harmful.
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The study suggests that human ancestors expanded across Europe faster than previously thought.