DTN 028: Fusion is having a moment

The Big Picture

Fusion Is Having a Moment

“Virtually unlimited fusion energy appears to be, if not right around the corner, at least within hailing distance. Last December, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s National Ignition Facility finally succeeded in forcing the hydrogen isotopes deuterium and tritium to undergo a self-sustained fusion reaction. It was an encouraging advancement, though not exactly a breakthrough. NIF’s small net energy gain didn’t factor in the energy it took to fire up the 192 ultraviolet lasers that initiated the reaction, which lasted “for the briefest blink of a moment.” While there are lessons to be learned from NIF’s successes and failures, laser-based inertial confinement fusion doesn’t yet provide a practical path to commercial-scale power generation.” (IEEE Spectrum)

Can You Decode an Alien Message?

“To ponder the question and practice decoding an extraterrestrial epistle, an artist-led team has created a mock message from the stars to test us Earthlings. On May 24 the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter beamed the note from Mars toward Earth. Three observatories detected the transmission 16 minutes later: the Medicina Radio Observatory in Bologna, Italy; the Allen Telescope Array in northern California; and the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia. The message, though written for humans by humans, was as nonanthropocentric as one could hope for, perhaps the most alien missive the world had ever received.” (Scientific American)

Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

“Recently, Sukbae Lee et al. reported inspiring experimental findings on the atmospheric superconductivity of a modified lead apatite crystal (LK-99) at room temperature. They claimed that the synthesized LK-99 materials exhibit the Meissner levitation phenomenon of superconductors and have a superconducting transition temperature (Tc) higher than 400 K. Here, for the first time, we successfully verify and synthesize the LK-99 crystals which can be magnetically levitated with larger levitated angle than Sukbae Lee's sample at room temperature. It is expected to realize the true potential of room temperature, non-contact superconducting magnetic levitation in near future.” (arXiv)

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Deep Tech News

• Derek Lowe on AOH1996: A New Mode of Cancer Treatment
• Taming the Flame of Aging: Key Pathway for Chronic Inflammation Revealed
• IBM and NASA deploy open-source geospatial AI foundation model on Hugging Face
• Two Big Nuclear Regulatory Milestones for Idaho NuScale SMR Project
• OpenAI filed a patent for GPT-5
• Electrified cement could turn houses and roads into nearly limitless batteries
• Solving artificial gravity with gravityLab
• Voyager and Airbus will operate Starlab private space station via ‘transatlantic joint venture’
• Renewed efforts to build solar cells from moondust
• Archer Aviation snags eVTOL purchase contract from US Air Force worth up to $142M

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Peer Review

• Novel liquid metal nanoparticles for cancer photoimmunotherapy synthesized
• Experimental Alzheimer's Vaccine Shows Promise in Mice
• Cancer pill AOH1996 shows promise in annihilating all solid tumours
• New drug delivery system containing RNA therapy can target cancer cells in bone marrow
• Using AI to accurately quantify the amount of entanglement in a system
• Research team achieves near-perfect light absorption in atomic-scale material
• True shape of lithium revealed for the first time
• Progress Reported On Proton Batteries, With Green Hydrogen Bonus
• Carbon-cement supercapacitors for bulk energy storage

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Funding x M&A

• Reed Jobs, son of Steve Jobs, takes the wraps off a $200 million venture fund that will back new cancer treatments
• Inworld AI raises new round at $500M valuation for AI game characters
• Newlight Technologies, a startup using natural microorganisms to convert greenhouse gas into high performance AirCarbon, raised $125M
• Tenstorrent, a Toronto-based computing company focused on building computers for AI, raised $100M
• Amber Bio, a gene editing startup, raised a $26M seed round
• Nuada, a carbon capture startup, raised $4.3M
• Chemify, a startup digitizing chemistry, raised a $43M Series A
• Carbon Upcycling Technologies, a decarbonization solutions startup for the cement, steel, and mining industries, raised a $26M Series A
• Ground segment services provider for satellite operators Leaf Space raised a $22M Series B

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Miscellanea

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