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Micron Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of Micron Technology, on Thursday announced to invest $200 million in deep tech startups.The latest investment builds on success of Micron Ventures Fund I and brings total assets under management to $300 million.Since its inception, Micron Ventures has made investments in 25 startups, yielding strong financial returns and multiple unicorn companies within the portfolio, it said in a statement."The future will be built on diverse ideas that aim to address the world's most…

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections on the sun are caused by “magnetic reconnection”—when magnetic field lines of opposite directions merge, rejoin, and snap apart, creating explosions that release massive amounts of energy. Credit: NASA Conceptual Image LaboratoryIn just minutes, a flare on the Sun can release enough energy to power the entire world for 20,000 years. These solar flares are triggered by an explosive process known as magnetic reconnection, and scientists have spent the last half-century attempting to…