Conversations

Capitalizing Climate Tech at Scale with Third Sphere’s Shaun Abrahamson

Shaun Abrahamson is the managing partner and co-founder of Third Sphere, an early-stage fund investing in rapidly scalable technologies for climate change adaptation and resilience. 

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DTN 075: Tough Times for Synthetic Biology

Plus: DoD plans drone 'hellscape,' SpaceX prepares for first spacewalk, DNA data storage, mysterious 'Wow!' signal deciphered, rocket explosions, AI scientists, and more.

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Interstellar Space Travel with Limitless Space Institute’s Sonny White

Harold “Sonny” White is the Director of Advanced Research and Development at Limitless Space Institute, a nonprofit whose goal is to inspire and educate the next generation to travel beyond our solar system and to research and develop the advanced power and propulsion technologies to make it happen.

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DTN 074: Brain Tech Breakthrough Restores ALS Patient’s Ability to Speak

Plus: Beer in space, defense tech investing slowdown, new semiconductor material promises more energy-efficient and powerful electronics, the birth of TechMed, and more.

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AI and the Birth of TechMed with DCVC’s Alan Cohen

Alan Cohen is a general partner at DCVC, a deep tech VC firm backing entre­pre­neurs using compu­ta­tional approaches to solve trillion-dollar problems.

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DTN 073: Quantum Cryptography Has Everyone Scrambling

Plus: Space balloons for tourists, 3D printed blood vessels, the case for analog computing, robots playing ping pong, and more.

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Turning Sunlight Into Natural Gas with Terraform Industries’ Casey Handmer

Casey Handmer is the founder and CEO of Terraform Industries, a company that produces renewable synthetic fuel at scale by combining solar energy with atmospheric CO2 and water.

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Space Tugs and Orbital Factories with Obruta’s Kevin Stadnyk

Kevin Stadnyk is the CEO and co-founder of Obruta Space Solutions, a company working to ensure the sustainability of the orbital economy with autonomous spacecraft navigation systems. 

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DTN 072: The US Needs a Silicon Revolution

Plus: Everyday exoskeletons, microgravity laboratories, world's first robotic dentist, a doomsday vault on the Moon, and more.

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DTN 071: The Return of Thermonuclear Spaceships

Plus: Robots mapping the ocean floor, the Pentagon's $141B doomsday plan, graphene brain implants, UK's laser weapon, and more.

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Eco-Friendly Deep-Sea Mining with Impossible Metals’ Oliver Gunasekara

Oliver Gunsekara is the CEO and co-founder of Impossible Metals, developing an innovative fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) designed to selectively harvest polymetallic nodules from the ocean floor while minimizing environmental impact.

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DTN 070: The Race for Space-Based Solar Power

Plus: AI-driven copper mining, freeze-dried woolly mammoths, 3D printer for rockets, National Guard's pocket-sized drones, and more.