DTN 053: Northrop Grumman Plans Lunar Railroad
DTN 053: Northrop Grumman Plans Lunar Railroad
Plus: Patient plays Civilization VI with Neuralink implant, 80-year-old man pleads guilty to breeding genetically modified mega-sheep, SpaceX accused of building network of spy satellites, and more.
"The core simple description of the problem is that EV fast charging consumes thousands of houses’ worth of power on one city block. So a single fast charging station will consume somewhere between 500 to 2000 Ohms worth of power instantaneously during certain times of the day, but it's consuming that load in one concentrated location. So, in order to provide that load, you have to rebuild the entire local grid in many cases or install large very expensive transformers on site that can take years to build and years to install. We get around that problem by augmenting the local grid with energy storage systems that provide that load and supplement the local grid as opposed to rebuilding it entirely. "
The Big Picture
Surgeons Transplant Pig Kidney into a Patient
“Surgeons in Boston have transplanted a kidney from a genetically engineered pig into an ailing 62-year-old man, the first procedure of its kind. If successful, the breakthrough offers hope to hundreds of thousands of Americans whose kidneys have failed.
So far, the signs are promising.
Kidneys remove waste products and excess fluid from the blood. The new kidney began producing urine shortly after the surgery last weekend and the patient’s condition continues to improve, according to physicians at Massachusetts General Hospital, known as Mass General. He is already walking the halls of the hospital and may be discharged soon.” (The New York Times)
Deep Tech News
Constellation Energy’s $900M Green Bond is First in U.S. Directed at Nuclear Power
Musk’s Neuralink shows off first implant patient: "‘like using The Force’
AirMyne taps geothermal energy to scale direct air carbon capture
World’s First Commercial Seaweed Farm In An Offshore Wind Farm
SpaceX building a network of spy satellites for U.S. intelligence, report says
JPEG of the Week
As rising global temperatures have added strain on regions like the Middle East, the United Arab Emirates is using cloud-seeding tech to make it rain. Once [weather forecasters] spot the right cloud, they instruct pilots to take to the air with their specialized aircrafts loaded with hygroscopic flares on the plane’s wings.
Each flare contains about 1 kilogram of salt material components and can take up to three minutes to burn and shoot into the right clouds. After the seeding agent is introduced into the cloud, the droplets increase in size, surpassing the cloud’s capacity to sustain them against gravity, resulting in their release as raindrops. (via Andrea Dicenzo/CNBC )
Peer Review
How do we tell future generations about highly radioactive nuclear waste repositories?
RNA deserves its own massive counterpart to the human genome project, researchers argue
Team proposes using AI to reconstruct particle paths leading to new physics
Research shows plant-based polymers can disappear within seven months
Advances and applications of nanoparticles in cancer therapy
Cleaning up environmental contaminants with quantum dot technology
Quantum tornado provides gateway to understanding black holes
‘A landmark moment’: scientists use AI to design antibodies from scratch
A simple, scalable methods using light to 3D print helical nanostructures
Earth received a message laser-beamed from 10M miles away in NASA test
Powerful new tool ushers in a new era of quantum materials research
Funding x M&A
U.S. DOE invests $44M to advance a clean, reliable electric grid
With backing from NATO Innovation Fund, OTB Ventures will invest $185M into European deep tech
Cure51 raises a €15M seed round aiming to crack the code on cancer survival
Carlsmed, an AI-enabled personalized surgery Medtech company, raises $52.5M in a Series C
Engrail Therapeutics, a precision neuroscience company, closes $157M in a Series B
Flosonics Medical Secures, a leader in wearable medical ultrasound, raised $20M in a Series C
Dutch Innatera raises €15M for mass production of processor that mimics human brain
Portal Biotechnologies, a cell engineering platform company, announces a $5M pre-seed round
AI startup Cohere seeks $5 billion valuation in latest fundraising
Firestorm Labs, an Unmanned Aerial System manufacturer, announces $12.5M in seed funding
Miscellanea
Two men are charged with trying to sell Tesla battery trade secrets / Deep Geothermal Can Solve the Need for Baseload Power / Why adversarial AI is the cyber threat no one sees coming / Guiding Principles for the Church of Jesus Christ’s Use of Artificial Intelligence / Possible TikTok ban has U.S. science communicators on edge / Hiring booms at SpaceX and Blue Origin making it hard for NASA to attract talent / Cosmic cleaners: the scientists scouring English cathedral roofs for space dust / The singing UCI Nobel Laureate who nearly bombed Nevada / DNA tests are uncovering the true prevalence of incest / Encyclopaedia Britannica Seeking $1 Billion Valuation in IPO / A new technique to work out a corpse’s time of death / ‘I know someone who played noughts and crosses on one’: meet the top surgeon who burned his initials on a patient’s liver / 80-year-old man pleads guilty to genetically engineering giant hybrid sheep in 'audacious scheme,' DOJ announces / The economics of pirate radio / In Cleveland, mushrooms digest entire houses: How fungi can be used to clean up pollution / The News Business Really Is Cratering / From luxury bunkers to tactical vehicles, the ultra-rich are preparing for the Big One / To Delay Death, Lift Weights / Why Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization Failed
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