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  we made a map! gap-map.org is a tool we built to help you explore the landscape of R&D gaps holding back science - and the bridge-scale fundamental development efforts that might allow humanity to solve them, across almost two dozen fields

  

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  ) built the MOTHRA telescope to see the universe's faintest structures, and helped uncover how a dying star's material is recycled. This is the kind of scientific bottleneck FROs are built to solve. Congrats

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  We're searching for X-Lab-shaped bottlenecks around Quantum Interconnect and Integrated Photonics (the second NSF X-Lab topic area) -- and for leaders who want to build new organizations to solve them. essentialtechnology.blog/p/searching-fo…

  

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  NSF not only ran with the X-Labs concept, but committed $1.5B This is a bold and exciting opportunity. We want to find the scientists and entrepreneurs who want to make the most of this moment.

  

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