Deep Fission (FISN), a Nasdaq-listed company developing small modular reactors buried deep underground, faces significant commercialization challenges including uncompetitive energy costs ($170/MWh estimated vs. $50-70/MWh claimed), regulatory delays, and insufficient funding with less than twelve months of cash runway. The company's customer pipeline lacks binding commitments, and its technology remains years from market despite targeting data center power solutions.
Scientists initially believed quantum effects might explain biological efficiency, particularly in photosynthesis, but Princeton chemist Gregory Scholes now argues that life doesn't actually use quantum mechanics—instead, classical biological networks produce mathematical patterns that mimic quantum behavior without being truly quantum.
The crisis of the late Middle Ages was a series of demographic, political, and religious upheavals across 14th–15th century Europe, including the Great Famine, Black Death, and widespread warfare, that ended centuries of stability and reshaped European societies. Scholars have long debated whether 'crisis' accurately describes this transformative period, with some arguing it represents decline, transformation, or merely transition to modernity.