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Lab assistants work in the cell assembly room at UT Dallas’ BEACONS facility, where specialized features support the assembly of solid-state and other advanced battery chemistries. [Photo: UT Dallas]
Inside BEACONS: UT Dallas’ New Pentagon-Backed Hub for U.S. Battery Technology
by Quincy Preston and Lance Murray | Jul 22, 2025
Backed by the Department of Defense and $200 million in private capital, the new facility helps companies prototype and scale battery technologies for both commercial use and national defense. The launch comes at a time when supply chain independence is a growing priority.
Government and industry leaders recently got a first look.
by Quincy Preston |
Jul 17, 2025
Columbia’s breakthrough points to a new kind of autonomy—because as one researcher puts it, “robots must ultimately learn to take care of themselves.”
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 17, 2025
Current materials crack under stress. Shiyao Lin's nature-inspired composites could make aircraft parts and car components significantly tougher.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 16, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of June 10 with a total of 108 patents granted.
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![The South Island giant moa towered over New Zealand's forests for millions of years before becoming extinct within a century of Polynesian settlement around 1400 CE. Colossal Biosciences plans to resurrect the 500-pound birds using ancient DNA extracted from cave deposits and artificial egg technology. [Source image: Colossal Biosciences]](https://s24806.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Colossal-Moa-940x436.jpg)
The South Island giant moa towered over New Zealand's forests for millions of years before becoming extinct within a century of Polynesian settlement around 1400 CE. Colossal Biosciences plans to resurrect the 500-pound birds using ancient DNA extracted from cave deposits and artificial egg technology. [Source image: Colossal Biosciences]
Colossal Biosciences Takes On De‑Extinction of New Zealand’s 12‑Foot Moa After Dire Wolf Milestone
by Quincy Preston | Jul 9, 2025
The Dallas decacorn is scaling its de-extinction pipeline with indigenous leadership, a New Zealand subsidiary, and economic models for species preservation, including ecotourism opportunities. Filmmaker Sir Peter Jackson helped connect the collaborators, Colossal CEO Ben Lamm says.
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jul 9, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of June 3 with a total of 132 patents granted.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 7, 2025
A new deep-learning system accurately distinguishes between nearly identical pollen grains from fir, spruce, and pine trees. The goal is to develop a comprehensive pollen identification system that can be applied across regions in the United States.
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by Lance Murray |
Jul 2, 2025
UTA and UT Southwestern researchers have built BIT, a new computational framework that helps scientists identify the proteins that switch genes on and off in cancer and other diseases. The work could pave the way to more targeted treatments and boost gene research accuracy.
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UT Dallas Study Tests AI as a Triage Tool in Breast Cancer Screenings
by Lance Murray | Jul 1, 2025
Rather than replace radiologists, UTD researchers say AI could help flag low-risk mammograms for automated review. The approach could cut costs and ease delays as cancer rates rise and the diagnostic workforce shrinks.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 30, 2025
With support from UTA’s Research Enhancement Program, assistant professor Mahmoud Bayat is developing a digital twin platform to help officials adjust evacuation routes on the fly. The platform could inform future systems across cities, counties, and states for what he calls “truly resilient communities.”
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by David Seeley |
Jun 25, 2025
Little Elm's Sachchit Balamurugan, an incoming senior at TOPS, flew to Japan Friday to present his ACC cancer detection app at the International Young Researchers’ Conference. He's also won first place at a BPA national mobile app competition, won an award at the NASA Space App Challenge, started a nonprofit called Youth Opportunities in Tech Innovation—and done lots, lots more.
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IBM has been granted a new patent (USPTO #12309263) for technology that secures edge devices—like sensors and smart equipment—against future quantum threats. Invented by Princeton-based Jeff McNeely, the system uses advanced encryption techniques to protect AI and machine learning workloads running on these devices, even as computing power grows. [Conceptual illustration: iStock/Arkadiusz Warguła]
This week, newly granted patents also include:
- American Airlines' fare classes based on an unconstrained demand forecast
- BMIC's self-healing impact resistant roofing materials and methods of making thereof
- Dell Products' managing unrecoverable errors for data processing systems using out of band communication channels
- Discovery.com's itinerary based on multimedia content of interest
- J. Hench Consulting's mastless wind turbine with stationary sails for improved power generation
- Mazama Energy's processes for stimulating subterranean geologic formations
- McAfee's methods to implement trusted transfer learning on transformer-based phishing detection
- NTT Data Services' pluggable exception handling for robotic processes
- Optics Innovation's high resolution mind-view communicator
- rewardStyle's targeted marketing based on social media interaction
- Segmint's consumer-specific advertisement presentation and offer library
- The University of Texas System and Texas A&M University System's antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory compositions
- Toyota Connected North America's vehicle systems for dynamic crowdsourced delivery
- Verizon's validating and securing caller identification to prevent identity spoofing
Patented: IBM’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Secured Execution Environments for Edge Devices and More North Texas Inventive Activity
by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report | Jun 25, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 11 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of May 20 with a total of 130 patents granted.
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by Lance Murray |
Jun 20, 2025
A scientific footnote from 1922 is now a potential key to treating diabetic nerve pain, a chronic and widespread condition with few effective options. The new study wouldn't have happened without the nonprofit Southwest Transplant Alliance, says UT Dallas neuroscientist Ted Price, who credits the group with making the research possible.
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by Maddie Preston |
Jun 18, 2025
Who knew they were singers? At Southern Methodist University in Dallas, students and researchers are resurrecting the sounds of dinosaurs using breath, code, and 3D-printed skulls. Fresh off international recognition, the Dinosaur Choir’s latest performance is a prehistoric piece titled “Anger at the Asteroid.”
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by Dallas Innovates | Staff Report |
Jun 18, 2025
Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 10 for patent activity out of 250 metros for the week of May 13 with a total of 175 patents granted.
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