Bill Gates-backed TerraPower begins nuclear reactor construction
Anna Washenko / engadget - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted approval to TerraPower to begin construction of a reactor in Wyoming. The project is the first new US commercial nuclear reactor in about a decade, according to The New York Times. TerraPower was founded by Bi…
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Human Brain Cells On a Chip Learned To Play Doom In a Week
BeauHD / slashdot - Researchers at Cortical Labs used living human neurons grown on a chip to learn how to play Doom in about a week. "While its performance is not up to par with humans, experts say it brings biological computers a step closer to useful real-world applicatio…
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NASA overhauls Artemis program, delaying Moon landing to 2028
Igor Bonifacic / engadget - NASA is making major changes to its Artemis Moon program. On Friday, Administrator Jared Isaacman announced the space agency would carry out an additional flight in 2027 to test commercial lunar landers from SpaceX and/or Blue Origin. The new mission will…
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Proxima Fusion secures €400M from Bavaria to build €2B fusion test facility in Munich
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Europe is working hard to achieve energy independence and net-zero goals, but still lacks a scalable, home-grown solution…
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BeyondMath Completes $18.5 M Seed Round To Scale World’s Largest Foundational Physics AI Model
Kailee Rainse / startuprise - BeyondMath, a London-based deeptech company developing a novel generative physics model, has secured a $10 million seed extension led by Cambridge Innovation Capital, with participation from existing investors including UP.Partners, Insight Partners and I…
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After a Near-Perfect Test, NASA’s Artemis 2 Rocket Is Rolling Back to the Garage
Ellyn Lapointe and Passant Rabie / gizmodo - NASA has delayed the launch of this historic mission to April, but repairs could take even longer.
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NASA moon rocket hit by new problem, putting March launch with astronauts in jeopardy
abcnews - NASA's new moon rocket has suffered another setback, putting next month's planned launch with astronauts in jeopardy
- Boeing Starliner failures shake confidence in crewed Artemis support (2)
- Helium flow fault forces Artemis II delay, schedule uncertain (5)
- SLS rolled back to hangar for detailed repairs (3)
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Boeing Starliner failures shake confidence in crewed Artemis support
Helium flow fault forces Artemis II delay, schedule uncertain
SLS rolled back to hangar for detailed repairs
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NASA targets March 6 for Artemis 2 launch to take astronauts around the Moon
Kris Holt / engadget - The Artemis 2 launch is edging closer as NASA has now set a target date for the 10-day mission to get underway. The agency is aiming to launch as soon as March 6 following a successful wet dress rehearsal on Thursday. The first attempt, which took place i…
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Microsoft's new 10,000-year data storage medium: glass
John Timmer / arstechnica - Femtosecond lasers etch data into a very stable medium.
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French VC Quantonation raises €220 million for flagship quantum and deep-physics fund
David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - Quantonation Ventures, a Paris-based venture firm for quantum and physics-based technologies, has closed its second flagship fund above target at €220 million. With this close, Quantonation reportedly becomes the largest dedicated quantum investment firm …
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NASA confirms target date for crewed Artemis II lunar flight
digitaltrends - NASA has announced a date for the second wet dress rehearsal for the SLS rocket that will send a crew of astronauts on a voyage around the moon in the highly anticipated Artemis II mission. The space agency also confirmed that the earliest the rocket coul…
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Google Deepmind upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think for complex science and engineering tasks
Matthias Bastian / the-decoder - Google Deepmind says its upgraded Gemini 3 Deep Think mode leads major reasoning and coding benchmarks.The article Google Deepmind upgrades Gemini 3 Deep Think for complex science and engineering tasks appeared first on The Decoder.
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ETH Zurich spinout Chiral bags $12M to scale robotic platform for graphene chip integration
Abhinaya Prabhu / techfundingnews - Swiss deeptech startup Chiral has secured $12 million in seed funding to commercialise its robotic platform designed for…
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NASA moves Artemis 2 launch to March after hydrogen leak during testing
Mariella Moon / engadget - NASA started making the final preparations for the Artemis 2 mission in early January, with the hopes of opening its launch window as soon as February 6. After issues showed up during the mission’s wet dress rehearsal in the early hours of February 3, how…
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Constructor Capital closes $110M Fund I for science-first founders
Tamara Djurickovic / tech - Constructor Capital, the Swiss venture arm of theConstructor Group ecosystem, has closed its first fund at $110 million toinvest in seed and Series A startups across deeptech, software, and edtech.The...
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Pasqal backer daphni closes €260M Blue fund to transform lab breakthroughs into startups
Sofia Chesnokova / techfundingnews - Europe is packed with scientific talent, with 2.2 million researchers. France alone pours €60B a year into labs.…
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OpenAI Releases Prism, a Claude Code-Like App For Scientific Research
BeauHD / slashdot - OpenAI has launched Prism, a free scientific research app that aims to do for scientific writing what coding agents did for programming. Engadget reports: Prism builds on Crixet, a cloud-based LaTeX platform the company is announcing it acquired today. Fo…
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The Fastest Human Spaceflight Mission In History Crawls Closer To Liftoff
BeauHD / slashdot - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Preparations for the first human spaceflight to the Moon in more than 50 years took a big step forward this weekend with the rollout of the Artemis II rocket to its launch pad. The rocket reached a to…
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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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GPT-5.2 Pro for solving another open Erdős problem. Going to be a wild year for mathematical and scientific advancement!
@gdb / x - GPT-5.2 Pro for solving another open Erdős problem. Going to be a wild year for mathematical and scientific advancement!Neel Somani (@neelsomani)I've solved a second Erdos problem (#281) using only GPT 5.2 Pro - no prior solutions found.Terence Tao calls …
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