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The findings reveal that only a small portion of the world’s geological layers can safely and effectively contain carbon dioxide (CO₂), challenging the long-standing assumption that geological storage capacity is virtually infinite. Instead of providing silver bullet solutions for the climate crisis, the study concludes that carbon storage is a rare and finite global resource. Underground storage reality check For years, carbon storage has been defended as an important weapon in the fight against climate change. By obtaining direct emissions from factories, power plants or air and trapping them deep underground, the process has promised to buy more time to…

Francesco Cacciator is a self-proclaimed skeptic. But after spending 20 years in the European aerospace industry and struck a “crisis,” as he said, he made an undeniably optimistic bet. He started a space company. “You ask yourself, ‘What am I doing?’,” he said in a recent interview. “I offered some interesting opportunities, but then I fell down and realized I wanted to make something myself.” Something turns out to be one of the most challenging problems in aerospace: re-entry. Caxiatoll, along with co-founder Víctor Gómez García, founded Orbital Paradigm, a Madrid-based startup that will build a re-entry capsule to unlock…

The new numbers show that support from UK AI companies reached record levels last year. So they currently donate £11.8 billion to the UK economy and employ more than 86,000 people. Average transactions worth £2.9 billion and £5.9 million in private support have set the stage for further investment and new opportunities for both AI companies and financial aiders. This record-breaking investment will help unlock new growth and promote further development. Investors and regulators are now being urged to go even faster to bring new growth to the UK AI sector as part of the government’s modern industrial strategy. AI…

Professor Stefanie Dehnen, executive director of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Kit), explains how the BICMAT project unlocks new frontiers of material chemistry through the exploration of Bismuth Cluster compounds. Bismuth is a unique element that has been previously overlooked in research compared to other metals and half price in the periodic table. However, its unusual properties and chemical versatility offer untapped possibilities for the development of next-generation materials. The BICMAT project, led by Professor Stefanie Dehnen of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Kit), is working to expand bismuth knowledge and create whole new materials using bismuth-based clusters. Supported by…

Innovation Platform spoke with Sophia Ignatidou, Group Manager, AI Policy, of the Information Committee, about its role in regulating the UK AI sector, balancing innovation and economic growth with robust data protection measures. Technology is evolving rapidly, and as artificial intelligence (AI) is integrated into various aspects of our lives and industry, the role of regulatory bodies like the Information Commission (ICO) becomes important. To investigate the role of ICOs in an AI-regulated environment, Sophia Ignatidou, group manager of ICO AI policy, details the office’s comprehensive approach to managing AI development in the UK, highlighting opportunities for AI to grow,…

As global competition to expand battery production intensifies, the UK is taking a bold move forward. The Faraday Agency has announced a £9 million investment in two transformative research projects that promise to speed up production, reduce costs and unlock next-generation battery technology. The initiative, which is set to commence in October 2025, will not only address Gigafactory’s inefficiencies today, but also address new materials that can redefine energy storage in electric vehicles, grids and aerospace. The initiative is the first step in a series of programs, following the government’s £452 million investment in the battery innovation programme announced in…

New research shows that the bronze statue of a winged lion that long adorned the heart of St. Mark’s Square in Venice comes from a distant land. It was made in China as the guardian of the tomb more than a thousand years ago and may have been imported to Italy by Marco Polo’s father via the Silk Road in the 13th century, researchers found.”Venice is a mysterious city, but it has been resolved. The ‘lion’ in St. Mark was Chinese and he walked the Silk Road,” a study by Massimo Vider, an archaeologist at the University of Padua, said…

French AI startup Mistral AI has finalized an investment of 2 billion euros at a post-money valuation of $14 billion, Bloomberg reported, positioning the company as one of Europe’s most valuable technical startups. Founded by former Deepmind and Meta researchers, the two-year-old Openai rival develops Open Source Language Models and Le Chat, AI chatbots built for European audiences. Mistral has not commented on the report, but the round represents Mistral’s first major pay raise since it was valued at 5.8 billion euros in June 2024. The company previously raised over 1 billion euros from notable investors, including Andreessen Horowitz and…

Scale AI, which helps tech companies prepare data to train AI models, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against one of its former sales employees and rival Mercor. According to a copy seen by TechCrunch, the lawsuit alleges that Mercor hired employees “stole over 100 confidential documents about Scale’s customer strategies and other unique information.” Scale sues Melkor for misappropriation of his occupational secrets and sues former employee Eugene Lin for breach of contract. The lawsuit also alleges that the employee was trying to sell Mellocor to one of the Scale’s biggest clients before officially quitting his previous job. The lawsuit calls…

Astronomers have discovered a very rare system in which at least five galaxies are fused from the early universe. It’s only 800 million years after the Big Bang. The surprising discoveries were made using data from James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Hubble Space Telescope.Galaxy mergers play an important role in the galactic layers of the early universe. Although not generally seen, a merge system occurs and usually contains two galaxies. However, the newly identified merger called Quintet in JWST includes at least five galaxies and 17 galaxies masses.”Finding such a system with five physically linked galaxies is extremely rare…