DTN 035: Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Keeps Getting Better

Plus: China considers lunar cave base, the first drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials, the climate crisis is driving people to substance abuse, and more.

The Big Picture

Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough Gets a Bigger Burst of Laser Energy

“In July, scientists at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California generated a burst of energy by bombarding a pellet of hydrogen with 192 lasers, reproducing for a brief moment the process of fusion that powers the sun. It was a repeat of an experiment last December, but this time the scientists generated even more energy with nearly a factor of two in gain compared with the energy of the incoming lasers. The better-than-predicted result indicates that with a few tweaks, laser fusion can become markedly more efficient.” (The New York Times)

Chinese astronauts may build a base inside a lunar lava tube

“On the moon, astronauts will need protection from a different set of hazards. They'll have to contend with cosmic and solar radiation, meteorites, wild temperature swings, and even impact ejecta. The idea is to build a base inside a lunar lava tube, where astronauts gain additional protection from the thick rock ceiling overhead. China is considering the idea now and planning a robotic system that can explore caves. China's future plan, after successful exploration, is a crewed base. It would be a long-term underground research base in one of the lunar lava tubes, with a support center for energy and communication at the tube's entrance. The terrain would be landscaped, and the base would include both residential and research facilities inside the tube.” (Universe Today)

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Deep Tech News

• World’s first drug to regrow teeth enters clinical trials

• Internal Emails Show Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to LAPD

• French AI startup Mistral releases ‘unmoderated’ chatbot via torrent

• Ethics rules needed for human research on commercial spaceflights, panel says

• Mysterious antimatter observed falling down for first time

• Starpath Robotics wants to mine moon water for rocket fuel for off-world colonies

• Hollywood writers’ strike ends with first-ever protections against AI

• SpaceX’s defense-focused Starshield satellite internet business lands first contract

• Vay hires its first teledriver to remotely operate its vehicles in the US

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Peer Review

• Farm robots inspired by ant brains

• Scientists discover a new way to test for life on Mars

• Machine learning unravels mysteries of atomic geometry

• Chemists used machine learning and molecular modeling to identify potential anticancer drugs

• A new kind of chip for quantum technology

• A breakthrough discovery could accelerate the arrival of controlled fusion energy on Earth

• Scientists develop 3D-printed epifluidic electronic skin

• Ultrafast quantum simulation of large-scale quantum entanglement

• Phosphorus-arsenic nanoribbons may improve solar cell performance

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Funding x M&A

• Redstone announces quantum push with new €52m VC fund

• AI chip company Kneron raises $49M to scale up its commercial efforts

• Sierra Space raises $290M at a $5.3B valuation

• BXVentures is raising up to $250M to fund early-stage climate tech startups

• EV boat startup Arc raises $70M in fresh funding

• Afference raises $1.5M to develop wearable neural interface platform

• DOE closes $3B partial loan guarantee with Sunnova in agency’s largest single commitment to solar

• Industrial battery tech startup Morrow Batteries raised a $74M round

• Gene silencing platform Laverock Therapeutics raised a $16.5M seed round

• UnitX, a robotics company focused on AI vision systems for the manufacturing industry, raised $5M

• Evozyne, a generative AI drug discovery platform, raised an $81M Series B

• H55, a Swiss startup providing electric propulsion technologies for the aviation industry, raised a $45M Series C

• CellFE, a life sciences tools company developing a microfluidics-based cell engineering platform, raised a $22M Series A

• Adela, a Foster City, CA-based company that specializes in blood testing for monitoring and detecting cancer, raised $48M

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Miscellanea

Lego Says It Won't Use Recycled Plastic Because It Doesn’t Help the Planet / Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann denies using vibrating sex toy to cheat / Why Do Cats Love Boxes So Much? / BingGPT is now infested with malware / A new era for Arecibo: legendary observatory begins next phase / Techies are paying $700 a month for tiny bed ‘pods’ in San Francisco / Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World’s Deepest Ocean Trench / Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe? / The Climate Crisis Is Driving People to Substance Abuse / U.S. researchers brace for likely government shutdown / October 14 eclipse to cost US states up to 17% of daily solar generation / The American Climate Corps Will Put Thousands To Work / More than 100 dolphins dead in Amazon as water hits 102 degrees Fahrenheit

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