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DTN 038: One Large Step Toward Space Babies
The Big Picture
This startup wants to find out if humans can have babies in space
“SpaceBorn Unite is a biotech startup seeking to pioneer the study of human reproduction away from Earth. Next year, he plans to send a mini lab on a rocket into low Earth orbit, where in vitro fertilization, or IVF, will take place. If it succeeds, CEO Egbert Edelbroek hopes his work could pave the way for future space settlements. A report released in September by the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine points out that almost no research has been done on human reproduction in space, adding that our understanding of how space affects reproduction is “vital to long-term space exploration, but largely unexplored to date.” (MIT Technology Review)
Inside the quest for unbreakable encryption
“Computer scientists, mathematicians, and cryptographers are on a quest to find new encryption algorithms that can withstand attacks not only from today’s conventional computers but also from tomorrow’s quantum machines. For the last seven years, the job of finding the best candidates has been spearheaded by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the US government body charged with collecting, testing, and standardizing cryptographic algorithms for public use. NIST has been running dozens of potential “post-quantum” algorithms through a gauntlet of tests and making them available for outside testing. The process has winnowed the field to a few finalists, and in August NIST announced that one called CRYSTALS-Kyber, which takes an approach believed to be robust enough to counter quantum attacks, will be the first to be officially recommended for public use by 2024.” (MIT Technology Review)
Deep Tech News
- New US rocket Vulcan Centaur set to launch on December 24
- Mouse embryos grown in space for first time
- 1st Autonomous, Electric Aircraft In World To Get Approval For Commercial Flights
- Toyota Takes Aim at EVs with Ammonia Engine
- $9.5B of key metals in overlooked electronic waste: UN
- Waymo says insurance data shows its driverless cars are safer than humans
- The Space-Based Drug Factory That Can’t Come Home
- California DMV immediately suspends Cruise’s robotaxi permit
- The first turbine is up at the US’s first commercial offshore wind farm
- Meta recreates mental imagery from brain scans using AI
- Hacker leaks millions more 23andMe user records on cybercrime forum
JPEG of the Week
(via IEEE Spectrum)
Peer Review
- AI 'breakthrough': neural net has human-like ability to generalize language
- Controlling waves in magnets with superconductors for the first time
- Scientists demonstrate electric control of atomic spin transitions
- DNA origami nanoturbine sets new horizon for nanomotors
- NASA's innovative rocket nozzle paves way for deep space missions
- New 3D-printed tumor model enables faster, less expensive and less painful cancer treatment
- 3D-printed hairs: Professor developing tiny sensors to detect flow and environmental changes
- Scientists create artificial protein capable of degrading microplastics in bottles
Funding x M&A
- Lab-grown leather startup Gozen raises $3.3M
- Pony.ai gets $100M, establishes JV with Saudi Arabia’s Neom
- Inlyte Energy reels in $8M seed round to revive a 50-year-old battery technology
- Brilliant Labs raises $3M for generative AI-based AR glasses
- Urban Sky closes $9.75M Series A to scale Earth imaging operations using reusable balloons
- Xpanceo, a deep tech startup, raises $40M to focus on smart contact lenses
- Reality Defender raises $15M to detect text, video and image deepfakes
Miscellanea
How bioelectricity could regrow limbs and organs / Pope launches a coding program for kids / Why is a second equal to the duration of exactly 9,192,631,770 periods of radiations? / Ham Radios Crowdsourced Ionospheric Science During Eclipse / Roosters may have passed the self-recognition test / Spy satellites reveal hundreds of undiscovered Roman forts / Mathematicians Found 12,000 Solutions to the Notoriously Hard Three-Body Problem / There are 14,000 potentially hazardous city-killing asteroids left to find / Do-it-yourself breast ultrasound / NY bill would require a criminal history check for the purchase of a 3D printer / Asteroids Are Hiding Never-Seen Elements from Beyond the Periodic Table / Inside the booming AI-generated porn industry / Roland Griffiths, Who Led a Renaissance in Psychedelics, Dies at 77
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