- Protocol Labs awarded a development grant to Juan Benet for a “molecular 3-D printing roadmap,” signaling new open-source funding for atomically-precise manufacturing.  
- The “House of Feynman” half-seriously proposed building a wall to block Antarctic ice-sheet collapse, framing it as a geo-engineering response to the “clathrate gun” methane-release scenario.  
- Discussion surfaced around Gordian’s “embarrassingly parallel in-vivo screening” platform and whether tumors or cancer models could be repurposed for directed-evolution experiments.  
- A new depression-treatment hypothesis was shared: a Cell/Trends in Biochemical Sciences paper (DOI path S0968-0004(24)00037-9) outlining biochemical mechanisms that may underlie novel therapeutic targets.