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To stimulate and access hardware technology innovation in the private sector, the Defense Department launched a program called National Security Innovation Capital. Located in Mountain View, California, NSIC addresses the shortfall of trusted funding from private venture capital sources for the development of new hardware technologies that have both commercial and national security applications, said…

(Reuters) – Last September, in the arid hills of northern Nevada, a cluster of flowers found nowhere else on earth died mysteriously overnight. Conservationists were quick to suspect ioneer Ltd, an Australian firm that wants to mine the lithium that lies beneath the flowers for use in electric vehicle (EV) batteries. One conservation group alleged…

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The aerospace industry is seeing rapid changes in aircraft design, applications, propulsion, and performance requirements. If eVTOLs are to reach their full potential and meet the requirements of customers and regulators, they must achieve very high levels of performance and reliability. Magnets drive electric motors. Today, there are many companies looking to innovate in electric…

Advanced Magnet Lab, Inc. has launched a new line of magnets for applications requiring highly uniform magnetic fields such as quantum computing, manufacturing, medical and research. The company says that its new Perfect-Field Magnets offer markedly improved magnetic field quality at higher magnetic field with less power and a smaller footprint than found in comparative Helmholtz coils.   “It’s really magnetics 3.0, you won’t find this with existing…