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socaltech.com Los Angeles-based XPRIZE, the nonprofit which uses prizes to encourage the development of solutions to some of the worlds biggest challenges, says it has awarded prizes for a challenge it has been running to develop next generation masks, which it kicked off shortly after the issues with masks came to light with the pandemic. According to the nonprofit, it has awarded $500,000 to the top team in the challenge, Luminosity Lab, which is developing a mask which uses a "bifurcateriz...

ASU Luminosity Lab members calibrate the Variable Exploratory Lunar Observation System (VELOS). Students from Arizona State Universitys Luminosity Lab are one of eight teams to reach the final round of NASAs 2020 BIG Idea Challenge, a competition to create a system for studying permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) at the moons poles. Scientists think lunar PSRs, which receive no sunlight due to their orientation, may hold ice that could provide water or rocket fuel to support human exploration....