Tata Steel’s 2025 R&D 100 recognition spotlights a materials and infrastructure problem at the center of the emerging hydrogen economy: how to move hydrogen safely over long distances. In an interview, Prashant Pathak, Ph.D., explains that the status quo is constrained by hydrogen embrittlement, where steel exposed to hydrogen can suffer degraded properties, including fracture…
U.S. universities unite to revive hydrogen engines for clean energy
As the global race for clean energy solutions intensifies, two prominent U.S. universities are uniting to promote a technology often overlooked in the electric vehicle revolution: hydrogen-fueled internal combustion engines (ICEs). The University of Michigan and the University of California, Riverside, have announced the establishment of the Hydrogen Engine Alliance of North America (H2EA-NA), a…
25 landmark R&D-heavy tech funding rounds of 2024
[Updated December 18, 2024 with new details on Databricks] In 2024, AI-focused startups continued to dominate the funding landscape with industry leaders like OpenAI ($6.6B), xAI ($6B), and Anthropic ($4B) leading the pack. Adding to this trend, MLflow and data lakehouse pioneer Databricks recently secured a $10 billion funding round that was primarily equity-based, at…