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Plus: NASA wants lunar maglev, DoD thinks Russia launched a space weapon, microplastics in testicles, RIP doge, swarming alien solar systems with picospacecraft, and more.
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Ian Fichtenbaum is the founder and CEO of SpaceRig, a spacecraft logistics company.
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Plus: World's first quantum navigation flight, brain's internal speech decoded, AI blamed for lack of alien contact, borehole battery for energy storage, and more.
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Scott Wharton is the CEO of Tandem PV, a startup commercializing perovskite solar technology.
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Plus: Florida bans lab-grown meat, $8B climate tech comeback, psychedelic toad venom for depression, rifle-armed robot dogs, and more.
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Cat Orman is the COO and cofounder of Flyby Robotics, which is building the first American-made medium-lift drone as a platform for edge AI.
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Plus: Graffiti-fighting drones, Formula 1 driver goes head to head with self-driving cars, hearing with a brain-computer interface, why robots can't outrun animals, and more.
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Adam Draper is the founder and managing director of Boost VC, a pre-seed venture capital firm that writes first checks for deep tech startups across crypto, space, biotech, robotics, and AI.
Plus: Colossal's endangered species biovault, Chinese supercomputer passes US for fastest in the world, the first nuclear clocks, electronics can now be printed on to living tissue, and more.
René Kromhof is a founding partner at Cloudberry VC, Europe's first venture capital firm dedicated to semiconductors, photonics, and advanced materials.
Plus: Valar Atomics goes critical, US battery manufacturing breaks records, first therapy to make cells young again given to a human, autonomous labs are running 24/7, missile production's motor bottleneck, quantum hyperdimensional computing, and more.
Will Edwards is the co-founder and CEO of Firehawk Aerospace, a defense technology company that uses 3D printing to mass-produce rocket propellant, solid rocket motors, and full rocket systems.
Plus: Avalanche's desktop fusion reactor, NASA's X-59 goes supersonic, NY lawmakers pass first in US data center moratorium, China's big bet on big nuclear reactors, and more.
Viktor Shpakovsky is an investment partner at Beyond Earth Ventures, a $30 million venture capital fund investing in transformative deep tech across space tech, robotics, energy, and compute.
Plus: Agtech investment is booming, SpaceX outlines plans for Starfall re-entry vehicles, AI executives call for stricter regulations on synthetic biology, the people who want AI to replace humanity, and more.
Brian Wilcove is the managing director of America's Frontier Fund (AFF), a sovereign-aligned venture capital firm investing in frontier technologies to strengthen U.S. innovation and economic competitiveness.
Plus: Blue Origin's mega-rocket explodes, race to mine the deep sea, IBM's first pure-play quantum chip foundry, NASA selects companies for moon base awards, and more.
Plus: Biomanufacturing to reshape organ transplants, grid batteries are booming, quantum's make-or-break moment, growing chickens in 3D printed eggs, Japan sells out of robot wolves, in-space refueling demo, and more.
Plus: Helium-3 lunar gold rush, Virgin Galactic to begin commercial service, Cowboy files for 20k orbital data centers, non-viral gene therapy, real life gundams, and more.