Sandia uses citric acid to extract Rare Earth elements from common coal ash
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There is a literal geopolitical war brewing over the availability of rare earth elements, but now a new process could open the door to almost unlimited quantities. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about...
Z Machine generates six times the world’s energy to create a White Dwarf star on Earth
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The technology we’re developing as a society is increasingly making sci-fi look tame, and we are only just beginning. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. In the past few years we’ve done...
AI researchers clone dragonfly brains to create better missile defences
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Nature manages to pack intelligence into lean, small packages – or brains – and researchers are trying to copy it. Interested in the Exponential Future? Connect, download a free E-Book, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories led by computational neuroscientist Frances Chance are...
Scientists hunt for “Kryptonite to stop CRISPR,” the world’s most powerful gene editing tool
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In time the cost and ease of modifying any living organisms genome and genetic makeup, for better and worse, will fall to almost zero, and as gene editing tools become democratised and sought after by Bio-Terrorists, researchers are trying to find the technology’s Kryptonite –...
