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Venezuela has announced that the pre-sale of its oil-backed cryptocurrency, the petro, has attracted $735 million on the first day. The government has also published a buyer's manual and confirmed that buyers can use "hard currencies and cryptocu

The end of the line is coming for 60 million global apparel workers, mostly in Sootheast Asia.

The National Space Society has a 33-page analysis of heat and energy transport and management for an outline but realistic habitat design.

Fifty SpaceX Falcon BFR could technically enable sustainable orbital colonies for 2 million people by 2040

Elon Musk's SpaceX won an endorsement on Wednesday from Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai to build a broadband network using satellites.

UK needs 12 years to build 440 MW nuclear reactor while China needs 3 years to make 400MWth reactors

Blockchain 3.0 with Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAG) for ten of thousands of transactions per second

Motherboard visits the laboratory of Nikhil Gupta, a professor who is currently working on creating lightweight metal foams that could be a game changer for our transportation of tomorrow.

It's not much now, just a parking lot with a discarded gin bottle and an old exterminator receipt.

Although we're yet to see a Hyperloop system hit its promised subsonic speeds, it is full steam ahead when it comes to route-planning and feasibility studies.

Researchers at the University of Georgia have developed a new stem-cell-based treatment for strokes.

Drink a couple of glasses of wine or beer each night and put on a few pounds

A satellite phone is a life-line for those who live off grid. If you need emergency services and/or rescue you need a reliable way to get help.

Elon Musk's Boring Company has been given an early, and vague, building permit to begin some extremely preliminary work on a section of an underground Hyperloop tunnel in DC. DC officials have not committed to the project long-term yet. DC Depar

Coming to a Home Depot near you: Tesla's "invisible" solar roof tiles and home energy storage units will become available this year

Photons, the elementary particles that make up light, are known to be fast, weightless and to not interact with each other.

Using a stock laser, researchers can carve edible circuits into food. Prepare for cuisine that can communicate.

Are you sure your plastic container isn't made out of toxic materials? A Modern Survival Blog article tackles how to identify food-safe types of plastics that can store your food and water without risk of leaching.

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed non-blood-absorbing hemostatic gauze after repeated experiments. Compared with traditional medical gauze, this new achievement can diminish blood loss by about 60 percent.

Like the horse of Troy, scientists at the Technion have developed a way to sneak synthetic cells right into tumor tissue, where they then begin producing cancer-fighting proteins from the inside. The technique was tested in both cell cultures and in

In this video, Jason Bermas talks about the latest developments involving quantum computing and how the first silicon based quantum computer has now been announced opening the floodgates on this very new and innovative technology.

They're hitchhiking to space with another satellite

Artificial intelligence could be "billions of times smarter" than humans and people may need to merge with computers to survive, a futurist told CNBC on Tuesday.

In the midst of one of the worst flu seasons in several years, a Japanese pharmaceutical company says it has an experimental drug that could make next winter a lot less sickly – not to mention safer.

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed non-blood-absorbing hemostatic gauze after repeated experiments. Compared with traditional medical gauze, this new achievement can diminish blood loss by about 60 percent.

This is so amazing!

In a major advancement in nanomedicine, Arizona State University scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have successfully programmed nanorobots

The three-year Kilopower safe 4 kilowatt nuclear reactor project started in 2015 with a challenging goal of building and testing a full-scale flight-prototypic nuclear reactor by the end of 2017 mid-2018.

For anyone who wanted a pair of Google glasses but didn't want to look like a lazy Borg cosplay, Intel may have just what you need. Just one catch; you have to be OK with a laser firing photons directly into your retina.

Flying taxis still seem very much like something pulled right out of science fiction, but when transport heavyweights like Boeing, Airbus and Uber start pumping millions of dollars into their development, it might be time to take all of this a bit mo

Seawater is a complex cocktail of useful minerals, but it's hard to separate out the specific ones we need.

Last year Wikileaks released documents detailing how attackers can compromise offline computers. This new study goes one step further, exposing the fallibility of Faraday cages

Washington (AFP) - Could the International Space Station become a commercial venture run by private industry?

2018 will be a transformative year for Tesla Motors. Elon Musk is all-in on creating a making his multi-layer assembly line and capital efficient robotic assembly.

Bitcoin's latest fork is just weeks away and this one's a little different from the rest. Rather than simply tinkering with Segwit or adjusting block sizes, Bitcoin private (BTCP) is adding zk-Snarks.

Continuous low doses of far ultraviolet C (far-UVC) light can kill airborne flu viruses without harming human tissues, according to a new study at the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC).

TAE Technologies, Inc. (formerly Tri Alpha Energy), the world's largest and most advanced private fusion company, has announced that its proprietary beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma generator, "Norman," surpassed a new tec

In the early '90s, Elizabeth Behrman, a physics professor at Wichita State University, began working to combine quantum physics with artificial intelligence--in particular, the then-maverick technology of neural networks.

The flying taxi could soon be spotted in Dubai and Las Vegas.

One of the overlooked takeaways from the recent Tesla earnings call was connected to automation in battery module production.

Work on styling has been completed and is expected to usher in a new design language for the brand.

SpaceX is producing about 5 engines per week and has the factory capacity for 400 engines per year or about 8 engines per week.

Think and plan a lot bigger in space as the SpaceX BFR will give 1000 times old space capabilities

Companies should forget about trying to close the massive decade plus lead that SpaceX now has with large reusable rockets.

Cancer cells use sugar to divide; starving them of sugar can slow their progression Thursday, February 08, 2018 by: Ralph Flores Tags: anti-cancer, apoptosis, badfood, calcium, cancer, Cancer Cells, cell death, food science, goodcancer, goodme

Higher terahertz frequencies are usable for data transmission which will boost data 100 times over microwaves

With its high theoretical capacity and low electrochemical potential, Li would be the ideal anode for Li-ion batteries. However, practical use of the Li anode has been hindered by its tendency for dendritic growth, which leads to unstable solid elect

(Natural News) Contaminated water contains all sorts of harmful toxins that can result in dangerous diseases in humans. This has led scientists to devise various ways to decontaminate water ---so much so that decontamination has become an industry o

Worse this has bankrolled monopoly enterprises outside the control of any government. One could almost tolerate all this, except the guiding minds are naturally fascists and believe the human population must decline to around 500,000,000 or that ele

Elon Musk has suggested the possibility of a Falcon Super Heavy -- a Falcon Heavy with extra boosters.