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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 world's 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 "bifurcaterizd filtration chamber". The top team was founded by five students out of Arizona State University--i...

ASU Luminosity Lab members calibrate the Variable Exploratory Lunar Observation System (VELOS). Students from Arizona State University's Luminosity Lab are one of eight teams to reach the final round of NASA's 2020 BIG Idea Challenge, a competition to create a system for studying permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) at the moon's 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. To study them, NASA needs something cheap, light and able to withstand temperatures colder then ...