Shellworks raises $15M to scale sustainable plastic alternative Vivomer
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - London-basedbiomaterials company Shellworks has raised $15 million in a Series A fundinground led by Paris-based impact investment fund alter equity. The round alsoincluded participation from Nat Frie...
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French synbio baCta snaps €7M: Can AI yeast crack the €1B astaxanthin market?
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Industrial biotech startup baCta has raised €7 million in seed funding to accelerate its vision of replacing petrochemical…
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London-based AI startup Polaron raises €6.7 million to build the “intelligence layer for materials science”
Rahul Raj / eu-startups - London-based Polaron, an AI-first materials company building the intelligence layer for the physical world, has raised €6.7 million ($8 million) to expand its engineering team, accelerate deployment of generative design tools, and support customer demand …
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Twogee Biotech Raises €2.2M Seed Round To Advance Circular Biomass Technology
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Munich-based Twogee Biotech, a biotech startup creating custom enzyme solutions for the industrial conversion of biomass into sustainable raw materials, has closed a €2.16 million seed funding round. Investors include High-Tech Gründerfonds, Bayern Kapita…
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Carbonaide raises €3.7M to commercialise CO₂-curing and permanent carbon storage in concrete
Cate Lawrence / tech - Green concrete startup Carbonaide has raised €3.7 million to transform the concrete industry through carbon dioxide curing and permanent CO₂ storage. Carbonaide’s technology has been in commercial pro...
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Düsseldorf-Based Co-Reactive Raises €6.5M To Decarbonise Cement Production
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - Düsseldorf-based Co-reactive, a ClimateTech startup targeting large-scale decarbonisation of the construction industry, has raised €6.5 million in Seed funding to scale its CO₂ mineralisation technology. The round was led by HTGF, with backing from NRW.Ba…
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Anzen Industries Secures $2.2M Funding In Pre-Seed Round
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - UK-based deeptech startup Anzen Industries has raised $2.2 million in pre-seed funding, led by LocalGlobe and Creator Fund, with support from strategic angel investors across the UK, EU and US, including Konstantin von Unger and early-stage investor Cory …
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James D. Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead At 97
BeauHD / slashdot - ole_timer shares a report from the New York Times: James D. Watson, who entered the pantheon of science at age 25 when he joined in the discovery of the structure of DNA, one of the most momentous breakthroughs in the history of science, died on Thursday …
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Claude enters the lab: Anthropic bets big on life sciences - Financial Times
google - Claude enters the lab: Anthropic bets big on life sciences Financial Times
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Building ordered polymers with metal
John Timmer / arstechnica - Structured polymers called metal-organice frameworks get the chemistry Nobel.
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Penguin guano fuels Antarctic cloud formation
New research highlights how ammonia-rich penguin droppings help generate clouds over Antarctica, subtly cooling the region. In a twist of nature’s own climate engineering, these unlikely contributors to cloud formation are receiving unexpected scientific attention – who knew penguins moonlighted as meteorologists?
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Meta Unveils Breakthrough Chemistry AI Dataset and Tools
Meta, in collaboration with Berkeley Lab, has introduced OMol25—a massive open-source dataset and a complementary universal AI tool designed to accelerate molecular research in chemistry and neuroscience. This move aims to push the boundaries of AI-driven scientific discovery.
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Physicists momentarily transmute lead into gold in high-speed experiment
In a fleeting yet groundbreaking experiment, researchers have converted lead into gold using high-speed particle collisions. The astonishing transformation, lasting just a fraction of a second, bridges ancient alchemical dreams with modern nuclear physics, leaving the scientific community both bemused and impressed by its ephemeral brilliance.
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