Starcloud’s latest funding round values the space compute company at $1.1 billion, making it one of the fastest startups to reach unicorn status after graduating from Y Combinator.
The company’s Series A, which closed 17 months after its…
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Starcloud achieves unicorn status with $170 million raise for orbital data centers
Starcloud has raised $170 million to accelerate development of its next-generation spacecraft, reaching a $1.1 billion valuation as it awaits permission to deploy an 88,000-strong orbital data center network.
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Agibot reaches 10,000 humanoid units built as real-world demand for robots accelerates
Agibot, a leading robotics company specializing in embodied intelligence, said it has rolled out its 10,000th humanoid robot, becoming one of the first companies in the industry to reach this milestone at scale. More than a production figure,…
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Warming Waters Are Supercharging an Invasive Predator in Alaska
Warming river temperatures are causing invasive northern pike to eat more fish, threatening already declining salmon populations. The trend is expected to worsen with continued climate change, raising concerns about ecosystem impacts. Rising…
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‘This was the real thing’: Meet the woman who alerts the world when an asteroid could hit | Space
The UN official had trained for this moment. She had run drills and table-top exercises at her offices in Vienna, housed inside a grey and unassuming 1970s concrete tower complex next to the Danube River.
Aarti Holla-Maini, a British lawyer with a…
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Study uses AI to rank 10 factors tied to positive substance use recovery outcomes
Researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are using artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to better understand what improves outcomes for individuals receiving treatment for substance use disorders.
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Thawing permafrost becomes 25 to 100 times more permeable, experiments find
Experiments by University of Leeds researchers, published in Earth’s Future, have shown that thawing of permafrost makes it between 25 and 100 times more permeable, allowing more climate change forcing gases to escape.
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Meet the Man Making Music With His Brain Implant
Galen Buckwalter didn’t hesitate to get a craniotomy in 2024 as part of a brain implant study at Caltech. The 69-year-old research psychologist wanted to contribute to cutting-edge science that could help other people with paralysis.
Buckwalter…
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These snakes steal poison from their prey—here’s how they know they have enough
March 30, 2026
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These snakes steal poison from their prey—here’s how they know they have enough
Snakes that gain poisons from eating toads seem to know when they’re toxic by keeping track of what they last ate
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The human cost of cybersecurity and what we should do about it
Cybersecurity professionals love their work. That’s true, isn’t it?
Yes, to a point. A new survey of 501 UK CIOs, security analysts and IT professionals found 96% recommend cybersecurity as an industry to work in.
That’s a great approval…
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