Neogene Therapeutics, an Amsterdam-based biotech startup today announced it has raised $110 million in a Series A financing to develop a new class of fully personalized neo-antigen T cell therapies to treat cancer. The round was co-led by EcoR1 Capital, Jeito Capital, […]
Have you ever wondered how potential asteroids have not hit our planet? We earthlings might have the giant planet that is 10 times larger than the Earth to thank for our very existence. It turns out that Jupiter may be more than just an […]
Recursion, a Salt Lake City-based biotech startup using artificial intelligence technology for drug discovery, today announced that it has raised $239 million in equity financing to advance technology-enabled drug discovery platform and pipeline. The oversubscribed financing, which brings the total funding for the 7-year-old […]
What once seemed like something out of a science fiction movie is becoming a reality. About four years ago, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk came up with the idea of a hyperloop and high-speed tunnel to address the traffic […]
Probably not many people have heard of Dynetics, a defense technology company that has done a wide array of work for the Pentagon and NASA. On December 17, 2019, Dynetics was acquired by defense contractor Leidos for $1.65 billion as Leidos seeks growth opportunities […]
NASA is working to uncover the mystery behind an asteroid that may contain a priceless treasure trove of minerals. The space agency is planning to send an unmanned spacecraft to the chunk of metal known as 16 Psyche. The mysterious […]
Oil giant Chevron Corp announced Wednesday it is investing in Seattle, Washington-based nuclear fusion startup Zap Energy. Chevron joins Italy’s ENI and Norwegian state oil company Equinor who have also backed nuclear fusion startups to reduce their carbon footprint. Zap Energy will […]
ABL Space Systems, a Los Angeles-based tech startup that is developing low-cost launch vehicles for the small satellite industry, today announced it has been awarded two US DoD contracts and secured a large round of funding with a combined value of over $9o […]
In a space race against the United States, China launched its first Mars landing mission Tianwen-1, the heaviest payload ever to be sent to Mars, on Long March-5 carrier rocket from Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in Hainan Province on Thursday. […]
About half of the people in the world are not connected to the internet. Nearly 3.8 billion people don’t have access to the internet, and many more lack what we would consider meaningful access. The unconnected are missing out but […]
Do you have what it takes to design a futuristic toilet that will work on the moon? National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is looking for people to help design and innovate space toilet concepts as part of its Lunar Loo […]
For the first time in nearly a decade, Space X made history to become the first private company to launch NASA astronauts into space from American soil. SpaceX safely launched NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to space on […]
Yesterday, Amazon announced it has banned police from using its facial-recognition technology for a year to give Congress “enough time to implement appropriate rules.” Amazon went on to say it had advocated that governments put in place stronger regulations to govern the […]
Geothermal energy is thermal energy stored within the Earth and is available everywhere, but it has been hampered for use as a significant energy source by limitations in drilling technology, except in select locations on the planet where it is […]
On Wednesday, Space X Demo-2 launch was canceled due to bad weather. The mission marks the first time since the retirement of the space shuttle in 2011 that humans will fly to the space station from U.S. soil. Barring another weather […]
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have boosted their control of the fundamental properties of molecules at the quantum level by linking or “entangling” an electrically charged atom and an electrically charged molecule, showcasing a way […]
Late last year, we wrote about Huka, a Dutch mobility startup that is making it possible for people with disability to travel independently with its Pendel electric wheelchair scooter trike. Now, Scewo, a Zurich, Switzerland-based medical technology startup is on a mission […]
Surgical navigation startup Centerline Biomedical (Centerline), a Cleveland Clinic spin-off company, has announced the successful completion of the first in a series clinical cases in the United States as it begins limited launch of its innovative Intra-Operative Positioning System (IOPS) […]
NASA is helping the medical community address the shortage of ventilators needed to treat coronavirus patients with a ventilator prototype. Today, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the emergency use of a new high-pressure ventilator developed by NASA engineers to […]
Just as people are preparing to go back to work after the coronavirus lockdowns are lifted, Xenex announced it has built a robot that uses UV light to disinfect surfaces that have coronavirus on them. The robot is not a cure for […]
