This week’s dose of optimism covers stories including an underwater telescope detecting the highest energy neutrino ever recorded and a new blood test for pancreatic cancer:
The KM3NeT telescope has determined the origin of a 220 million billion electronvolts neutrino, which could have been caused by a black hole or gamma-ray burst.
The PAC-MANN diagnostic assay uses protease activity to identify all stages of pancreatic cancer from a blood sample, outperforming existing clinical biomarker CA 19-9 with 98% specificity and 73% sensitivity.
Denver Rayburn suggests that increases in AI, automation and lower energy costs are set to make US-based manufacturing financially competitive again.
Anduril is to take over Microsoft’s Mixed Reality headset project for the US Army’s Integrated Visual Augmentation System, which is worth $22bn over 10 years.
Quantum computing company QuEra, which was born out of Harvard and MIT, has raised $230m, one of the largest investments in a quantum company to date.
