Fusion startup Xcimer Energy has activated Phoenix, a krypton-fluoride excimer laser system the company describes as the largest privately owned laser in the world. The system is a deliberate step toward a commercial laser-fusion power plant the company hopes...
In the Senate Estimates on Friday, Department of Education officials revealed a handful of students accessed the program. According to Innovation Aus, $80,000 in funding was released before it was discontinued in last month’s federal budget.
The Startup Year scheme...
This is the paradox that haunts modern entrepreneurs. You played by the rulebook: work hard, scale fast, push through the obstacles, and eventually, you will arrive. And it worked. But the same system that crowned you is now the...
Vinyl (ASX:VNL) is acquiring 100% of Pedestrian Group from Nine Digital for “nominal consideration” with no other cash, debt, scrip or ongoing royalties involved.
The embattled TV and publishing empire (ASX: NEC), which has fallen from a $4 billion valuation...
The pattern is familiar to anyone who has watched a layoff round move through a company. Someone gets the news in a glass-walled conference room, nods, shakes a hand, walks back to their desk, packs a box with the...
Fusion startup Xcimer Energy reportedly activated its Phoenix laser system in Denver, claiming the title of the world’s largest privately owned laser. The 38-metre-long machine is described as a deliberate step toward a commercial fusion power plant the company...
One World Lithium is developing proprietary extraction technologies and pursuing strategic partnerships to commercialize lower-impact, scalable production from brines and clay slurries.
Unlike traditional methods that tend to produce intermediates requiring additional downstream chemical processing, the Canadian firm’s objective is...
UBC’s HATCH Venture Builder is celebrating the graduation of six research-based startups, highlighting the depth and diversity of venture creation emerging from the university’s innovation ecosystem.
The accelerator, which supports established UBC research-based spin-off companies, celebrated the graduating ventures on...
Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), a superconducting quantum hardware spinout from Oxford University, has closed a £260 million Series C. It is the largest private quantum computing round ever raised in Europe, according to Tech.eu. The round was led by...
A tardigrade dropped into liquid helium at -272°C, boiled in a beaker, irradiated with a dose that would kill a human a thousand times over, or exposed to the raw vacuum of low Earth orbit will, in most cases,...
