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Private investment in fusion energy has jumped from ten billion to fifteen billion dollars in a matter of months, and the money is coming from some surprising corners of the financial world. Fusion has famously been twenty years away for decades, but investors are now betting the science has finally caught up with the ambition.
Shifting from atoms to algorithms, a startup called ten x Science has raised four point eight million dollars in seed funding with a specific and urgent goal: helping pharmaceutical researchers figure out which AI-generated drug candidates are actually worth pursuing. Artificial intelligence is producing potential treatments faster than ever, but sorting signal from noise remains the hard part.
And from the frontier of space, NASA has released a striking image captured by the Artemis Two crew on April second, two thousand twenty six, during their journey to the Moon. The photograph shows Earth's terminator, the razor-thin line dividing night from day, a reminder that some of the most useful science about our home planet can only be gathered from somewhere far beyond it.
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