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• In partnership with the University of Washington's DiRAC Institute, Asteroid Institute developed a novel algorithm called Tracklet-less Heliocentric Orbit Recovery (THOR), which runs on a cloud-based, open-source astrodynamics platform called Asteroid Discovery Analysis and Mapping (ADAM).
• Google Cloud's Office of the CTO collaborated with Asteroid Institute to help it scale and tune its algorithms on ADAM using Google Cloud.
• Large-scale image storage: Asteroid Institute leverages Google Cloud Storage for millions of images from NOIRLab to use in verification of asteroid discoveries, as well as durable storage for billions of data points across the asteroid discovery pipeline.
• Asteroid Institute and Google Cloud have partnered since 2017 with the goal of transforming asteroid discovery.

• Morphoceuticals Inc. , a new biotechnology company pioneering AI-guided electroceuticals for tissue repair and organ regeneration, today announced the appointment of veteran biotech executive Jim Jenson, PhD, as CEO.
• Jenson joins a growing team and will lead the company as it advances its novel regenerative medicine technology platform.
• Jenson has more than 35 years of experience in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, as both an entrepreneur and executive leader.
• He most recently served as the Co-founder and CEO of CytoSite Biopharma Inc., which develops new technology to predict and monitor responses to immuno-oncology therapy.

• BOSTON, April 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Membrane materials are of fundamental importance for fuel cells, even giving their name to the specific type of fuel cell, as is the case for Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) fuel cells.
• The IDTechEx report on the topic, " Materials for PEM Fuel Cells 2024-2034: Technologies, Markets, Players ", gives a detailed technical overview of membranes and other key components for PEM fuel cells and predicts the beginning of a transition away from PFAS membranes to alternatives within the next three to five years.
• Proposed PFAS regulations will necessitate the development of alternative membrane materials for PEM fuel cells.
• For more details on the materials demand, trends, and emerging novel alternatives to the incumbents for PEM fuel cells, see the IDTechEx market report "Materials for PEM Fuel Cells 2024-2034: Technologies, Markets, Players".

• His unparalleled legacy, epitomised by the discovery of the Higgs boson, continues to profoundly shape the future of particle physics like no other discovery before it.
• When Higgs was born in 1929, our understanding of matter was completely different.
• Physicists had developed a simple model of matter with three fundamental, or elementary, particles (those that can’t be broken down into smaller particles).
• At the time Higgs began working on his ideas in the 1960s, the question of how elementary particles acquired mass was a central issue in physics.

• However, for a theory that should explain mass, a viable solution couldn’t depend on a specific medium or material.
• Later, Higgs and other theorists developed a model that overcame this difficulty.
• On July 4 2012, images of Higgs, moved to tears by the announcement, went around the world.

• In the decade since its discovery, many of these interactions have been observed at the LHC.
• If current measurements of that particle are correct, the universe isn’t stable in its current state.
• To answer these questions, Europe, the US and China have proposed plans for building new particle colliders focused on studying the Higgs boson.
• It would be entirely fitting if Peter Higgs’ legacy, which transformed our understanding of particle physics, also transformed our approach to research.

Martin Bauer does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.