The aviation company Pratt & Whitney is exploring whether technology known as additive manufacturing could be used to develop more compact jet engines that could make commercial airplanes lighter and more fuel efficient.
Depuis 4 ans, des chercheurs de l'Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) tentaient d'élucider l'un des mécanismes de défense des bactéries aux antibiotiques. L'idée était de mieux comprendre comment ces bactéries se défendent, pour que les chercheurs puissent ensuite mieux les attaquer. Aujourd'hui, ces chercheurs ont compris comment fonctionne ce mécanisme et le résultat de leurs recherches est publié dans la prestigieuse revue scientifique Cell.
La nuit, les week-ends, que les rues soient vides ou bondées, peu importe. Elles brûlent, les ampoules des lampadaires publics. Quant aux factures, elles gonflent...
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An one of its boldest bets ever, Berlin-based Rocket Internet announced today it was making massive investments in two of the world’s hottest food-delivery startups and creating a separate unit to oversee its sprawling empire of food-related stakes.
Rocket invested $568 million in Delivery Hero, the Berlin-based e-commerce startup that facilitates delivery from local restaurants. Rocket now has a 30 percent stake following the latest investment.
Investors are wont to follow. It therefore shouldn’t be a surprise to see Airtame pick up a VC round of funding.
The Copenhagen-based startup, which is building a nifty wireless HDMI dongle to easily share your computer or phone’s screen to a TV or projector, made headlines in late 2013 for its crowdfunding efforts after raising $1.3 million on Indiegogo in just 60 days.
To add to that pot of cash, the company has closed a $1.4 million seed round led by Danish investment firm SEED Capital and Libratone-founder Tommy Andersen — money it plans to use for a full product launch in the second quarter of this year.
StartX, the Stanford-funded and affiliated incubator, just held its demo day for the Fall 2014 batch of startups at its headquarters in Palo Alto. The 20 companies presenting ran the gamut from Bitcoin and cybersecurity to open source machine learning.
In no particular order, here are the five startups whose pitches piqued our interest:
Leonardo da Vinci always seemed to be hungry for new ideas, but sometimes he may have been just hungry. Some 500 years ago, he designed a roasting jack that powered an automatic rotisserie. It used hot air rising from a fireplace to spin a horizontal vane placed in the chimney above it. The vane was attached to a vertical rod that turned the spit, and, presumably, his dinner.
The jack was one of the world’s first turbines and engineers have been using the same principle inside jet engines and power plants ever since. Since high heat can make turbines more efficient, the hot sections of modern turbines operate at temperatures above 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit, much higher than Leonardo’s design and near the melting point of steel.
Engineers in GE labs have built a penny-sized sensor that can detect the faintest traces of explosives and needs no power to operate. The device uses a special film a tenth the thickness of a human hair to detect chemicals. The team was inspired by their research of the unique iridescence of Morpho butterflies caused by the jagged, forest-like scales found on their wings. (They applied data analytics developed for their bio-inspired Morpho light and temperature sensors to the new radiofrequency (RF) bomb sensors.)
Analyzing the digital health/health IT investment activity of 12 of the top venture firms as identified by our tech unicorn VC analysis and 8 other top tier firms based on our Investor Mosaic models, we analyzed where the smart money is going in digital health / health IT. Specifically, the VC firms whose digital health investments are analyzed include:
