astro Mechanica, a startup working on making supersonic flight economically viable has gained investment from United Airlines’ venture capital arm, indicating that the company now has a likely route to commercialization.
Convoke has raised $8.6m in funding to speed up the path between drug discovery and patients by using AI to automate and streamline the drug development pipeline.
A new class of origami folds, called bloom patterns, has been developed by an undergraduate at Brigham Young University, opening up a new design and engineering opportunity for antennas, solar panels, telescopes and emergency shelters.
A benchtop device called the Thunderbird Reactor can produce a small amount of net energy through nuclear fusion by bombarding palladium with deuterium ions, and by electrochemically loading the palladium with extra deuterium from heavy water, researchers have boosted fusion rates by 15%.
Joe Liemandt, founder of decacorn Trilogy and founder of Alpha School, a university alternative for influential young people, has been profiled by Jeremy Stern of Colossus.
