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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.

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Revolutionizing EV Fast Charging with Electric Era’s Quincy Edmund Lee

Quincy Edmund Lee is the CEO and cofounder of Electric Era, a startup on a mission to accelerate electrification with affordable and ubiquitous next-generation EV fast-charging technology.

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DTN 052: SpaceX Starship Nails Orbital Demo

Plus: Among the AI doomers, AI plays Goat Simulator, Colossal creates elephant stem cells to resurrect the wooly mammoth, Danish chef to launch gourmet dining to stratosphere, and more.

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Building Stratospheric Robots with Near Space Labs’ Rema Matevosyan

Rema Matevosyan is the CEO and cofounder of Near Space Labs, which builds robotic platforms for very high resolution and rapid response imagery from the stratosphere.

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DTN 051: First AI Discovered Drug Reaches Phase II Clinical Trials

Plus: F-35A certified to carry nuclear bomb, Pentagon swears it's not investigating alien tech, MIT claims superconducting breakthrough, analyzing bloodstains in space, and more.

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Social Robotics and Investing in Deep Tech with Calibrate Ventures’ Paolo Pirjanian

Paolo Pirjanian is the CEO and cofounder of the social robotics company Embodied and a general partner at Calibrate Ventures, an early stage deep tech investment firm. The following interview has been lightly edited for clarity and length.

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DTN 050: Hydrogen is losing the race to power cleaner cars

Plus: A new type of jet engine, the first wooden satellite, Musk sues OpenAI, human vein implants, bionic jellyfish, DOOM toothbrush, and more.

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Life Insurance for the Bitcoin Economy with Meanwhile’s Zac Townsend

Zac Townsend is the CEO and founder of Meanwhile, the world’s first Bitcoin native life insurer.

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DTN 049: Intuitive Machines Becomes First Private Company to Land on Moon

Plus: Disney star goes deep tech, Blue Origin gets it up, a new type of magnetism, a gun that never misses, science journal retracts article featuring a well endowed AI-generated rat, and more.

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Building a Gun that Never Misses with ZeroMark’s Joel Anderson

Joel Anderson is the founder and CEO of ZeroMark, a defense tech startup that used AI and robotics to build a “gun that never misses” to protect warfighters from a growing drone threat.

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DTN 048: DOE Looks to Robot Worms to Move the Power Grid Underground

Plus: Japan becomes 5th country to land on the moon, Scientists clone first rhesus monkey using new method, God commands pastor's crypto scam, AI develops new low-lithium battery design, and more.

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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.