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Dr Ben Miles decodes the breakthroughs reshaping the world, from fusion reactors to impossible chips, for a global audience of more than three million. A few of the latest.

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Nuclear Turbines raises £15m pre-seed to put a reactor next to the factory

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Where media meets venture.

Deep tech, at the cutting edge.

The world's first fusion plant applies to join the grid

How Huawei just built an impossible chip

The battery that doesn't need lithium, now in mass production

The most advanced drill in human history

Rounds, milestones and press.

Nuclear Turbines raises £15m pre-seed to put a reactor next to the factory

Empirical Ventures leads £2m seed round in Healome

Empirical Ventures backs Proxima Fusion, Europe's leading fusion company

Neuronostics raises £3m to scale its epilepsy diagnostic

Empirical Ventures follows on into HotGreen Solutions

Silveray raises £5m pre-Series A for flexible digital X-ray

Empirical Ventures backs Optera in its £3m round

Empirical Ventures invests in Caudal Energy

Empirical Ventures invests in DiPOLE Systems

FermTech raises £2.5m to ferment low-carbon ingredients

Lucida Medical raises £8.7m to scale its prostate-cancer AI

Empirical Ventures backs Seloxium's metal-recovery technology

EnsiliTech's Asel Sartbaeva featured by the United Nations

OrthoFuse raises £2.2m seed for 3D-printed implants

OutSee closes £2.5m pre-seed for AI drug discovery

QV Bioelectronics raises £4.5m for its glioblastoma therapy

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust launches a UK pilot of BioEP

Neuronostics named Most Transformative HealthTech

MitoRx Therapeutics raises £5.5m pre-Series A

Lucida's Pi AI featured on BBC News, The Telegraph and The Times

Hot Green raises £1.2m to build ultra-efficient industrial heat pumps

Our GP Dr Ben Miles supports the Schmidt Science Fellows

CheMastery joins the Women Advancing Venture cohort

OSSTEC's partial knee implant reaches cadaveric testing at King's

BoobyBiome raises £2.5m seed to harness the breast-milk microbiome

EnsiliTech raises £4.5m seed to deliver biologics without refrigeration

OutSee raises £1.8m to expand its therapeutic pipeline with predictive genomics

OSSTEC raises £2.5m for the world's first fully 3D-printed cementless partial knee

Knowledge-Intensive SEIS as a catalyst for deep tech

Xgenera raises £3.5m to develop a novel multi-cancer early-detection test

Exciting Instruments raises £4m for high-throughput smFRET and FCS

Silveray closes £4m to develop flexible digital X-ray detectors

MintNeuro secures £1m to advance semiconductor tech for neural implants

Argonaute develops dual gene-targeting therapies for cardiovascular disease

Signapse closes £2m seed to accelerate accessibility for Deaf people

In The Times: what I learnt from making 65 angel investments

In Forbes: a public/private fund to boost deep-tech investment

Neuronostics raises over £2m in oversubscribed seed round

Empirical Ventures targets £10m fund to lead deep-tech rounds

WASE secures over £8.5m to scale waste-to-energy technology

Albotherm raises £1.6m to develop low-carbon cooling technology

Halo Therapeutics raises £1.5m to bring its antiviral spray to clinic