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Making Hydrocarbon Fuels from Nuclear Energy with Valar Atomics’ Isaiah Taylor
Isaiah Taylor is the founder of Valar Atomics, an atomic energy company focused on mass manufacturing nuclear fission reactors.
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DTN 047: Miss America Supports Nuclear Power
Plus: Hemp batteries, a possible replication of LK99 Meissner effect, first functional graphene semiconductor, human remains are headed to the moon, Potemkin Solid-State Batteries, and more.
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DTN 046: The Biggest Deep Tech Stories of 2023
We’re departing slightly from our regular format this week to review the biggest deep tech stories of the past year.
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DTN 045: AI Just Solved an Unsolvable Math Problem
Plus: First supercomputer capable of real-time human brain simulation, a control method for superintelligent AI, nanomaterial stimulates and regrows severed nerves, and more.
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DTN 044: Pentagon Scientists Discuss Cybernetic Super Soldiers
Plus: Iran launches animals to orbit, FDA approves first CRISPR therapy, DNA nanorobots, world's largest experimental fusion reactor comes online, NASA finds lost space tomato, and more.
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DTN 043: An AI Just Expanded All Known Stable Materials by 10x
Plus: an X Prize for aging, Neuralink quietly raises $43M, an enhanced geothermal system begins operations in Nevada, and more.
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DTN 042: Pentagon Fears Chinese Space Nukes
Plus: 'Gay furry hackers' breach national nuclear lab, toward trillion parameter AI models, bioengineered potatoes detect dangerous radiation, spaceflight may cause erectile dysfunction, and more.
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DTN 041: Behind the Scenes at a U.S. Factory Building New Nuclear Bombs
Plus: SpaceX's Starship reaches space, laser pulses 1,000x more powerful than any in existence, AI TikTok Jesus, U.K. becomes first country to approve a CRISPR disease treatment, and more.
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DTN 040: Scientists Restore Mobility in a Parkinson's Patient
Plus: First successful face and whole eye transplant, SpaceX prepares for second Starship flight this week, first US direct-air carbon capture facility, and more.
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Mycotech, Machine Learning, and Mushrooms with Funga’s Josh Parrish
Josh Parrish is the Chief Growth Officer at Funga. Prior to joining Funga, Josh led carbon origination and development at Pachama and spent 15 years at The Nature Conservancy, building carbon programs for landowners.
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DTN 039: Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment with CAR T
Plus: A new asteroid mining method, solar cell prices plunge to all time low, an alien-hunting aerogel core fission fragment rocket engine, and more.
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DTN 038: One Large Step Toward Space Babies
Plus: There's a space drug factory trapped in orbit, Meta recreates imagery from brain scans, biggest airship since Hindenberg approved by FAA, the Pope launched a coding program, and more.