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Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis presented an Abundance 360 webinar on Friday, October 13 on mind-boggling predictions and transformative (even "dangerous") ideas.

Artificially intelligent nano-machines will be injected into humans within 20 years to repair and enhance muscles, cells and bone, a senior inventor at IBM has forecast.

The X3 thruster was designed by researchers at the University of Michigan in cooperation with NASA and the U.S. Air Force.

A 100 meter to 150 meter solar array that is attuned to the lithium ion will be about 70% efficient.

David Kirtley, MSNW, LLC, Magnetoshell Aerocapture for Manned Missions and Planetary Deep Space Orbiters

Concrete has been around for millennia, but that doesn't mean we can't cook up new ways to build with the world's favorite construction material. It's been electrified to melt snow and used as an "ink" in 3D printers to quickly print entire buildings

Truly driverless vehicles are about to hit the streets of California.

The world's food chain is headed toward total automation by robotics and AI, potentially putting tens of millions of farm workers out of employment. Technocrats are planning on Universal Basic Income to mollify the unemployables from rebelling. ?

China's position on cryptocurrency became even blurrier this week after a government official implied that Beijing is considering minting its own state-run digital currency.

A robot masseuse named Emma is offering high-tech back rubs with a gigantic metal arm and warm silicone tips.

Cool if you like 'Quake,' but probably not as scary as it sounds.

On 37 hectares (nearly 4 million square feet) in Hefei, Anhui Province, China is building a $10 billion research center for quantum applications.

Lithium-ion batteries are the current reigning energy-storage champion, powering everything from phones to cars. But as good as it is as an electrode material, lithium is relatively rare, and the cost of mining and refining it can blow out the budget

Taking a balloon up into the lower stratosphere may seem crazy, but to Cameron M. Smith it's an opportunity to fulfill a lifelong dream.

A key focus of electric vehicle (EV) makers is maximizing the range users can get from each charge, and for that reason new battery technologies are poised to play a huge part in driving their adoption.

The private spaceflight company SpaceX successfully launched 10 communications satellites into low-Earth orbit today (Oct. 9) and landed the spent Falcon 9 first-stage rocket booster on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean.

-- but Mars belongs to Elon Musk

Not much is happening economically speaking this Sunday evening so let's ponder the ability to travel back in time such that the future can change the past.

LPP Fusion has submitted a paper for peer review to the journal Physics of Plasmas, in which Lerner and his coauthors claim to have produced a confined mean ion energy of 200 kiloelectron volts, equivalent to a temperature of over 2 billion kelvins.

A research group led by professor Jan D. Miller of the University of Utah's Department of Metallurgical Engineering has received a $191,700 grant to aid the development and commercialization of a solid polymer electrolyte/electrode technology for l

Musk Says Tesla Could Scale Up Powerpack/Solar To Untie Puerto Rico From Grid, Talks Could Soon Be Underway

The Arduino Bootcamp offers over 9 hours of pure knowhow for $15.

The Las Vegas shooting is the latest reminder that human blood isn't enough for massive, unexpected transfusions.

The promise of a powered wakeboard has captured the imagination of thrill seekers and water lovers alike, but there's no consensus on the best way to bring that vision to life. Some companies will tell you electric power is the solution, but Mako doe

When engineers want to make an object weigh less, they literally cut corners.

Roll-up solar panels are being used to help power an island off the coast of Cardiff.

A new technology is here that has the potential to reshape lithium production like fracking reshaped oil.?

allows light waves to pass straight through...(Natural News) Scientists developed a new idea for invisibility technology that would allow light waves to pass straight through a special material without any obstruction, as reported by Science Daily.

Eco Marine Power is preparing to put its rigid solar energy sails through their paces next year.

As useful and ubiquitous as they are, lithium-ion batteries are nearing their limits, and it's unlikely we'll be able to squeeze much more juice out of them.

Wind and solar power are becoming increasingly attractive alternatives to fossil fuels, but renewables are a rich tapestry, and the more threads we can weave together, the better.

The British inventor described his vision for "something quite unique and better" than the status quo in a company-wide email this week.

The television remote could become a thing of the past according to scientists who have developed a new technology that allows the device to be controlled through gestures instead.

"The universal dream of pure human flight."

If you have enough spare change for your own bespoke submarine, you can probably afford one kitted out like a luxury private jet. That seems to be the logic behind Ocean Submarine's Neyk line of submersibles.

China's quantum satellite just facilitated the first intercontinental video call secured using quantum encryption.

The country wants to become a space superpower.

Today, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he hopes to finance his plans to colonize Mars by making SpaceX's entire fleet of vehicles -- the Falcon 9, the Falcon Heavy, and the Dragon spacecraft -- obsolete.

'Anywhere on Earth in under an hour,' Musk says

Growing the size of a space habitat over time.

Direct drive fusion using radiofrequency heating of hydrogen for fusion.

Continuous Electrode Inertial Electrostatic Confinement Fusion

The billionaire entrepreneur and founder of SpaceX wants to make humanity a "multi-planetary species"

Researchers from Finland and Taiwan have discovered how graphene, a single-atom-thin layer of carbon, can be forged into three-dimensional objects by using laser light.

A newly discovered DNA-targeting molecule could inspire the first tissue regeneration therapies. The synthetic molecule can cause stem cells to transform into heart muscle cells.

British vacuum cleaner maker Dyson announced Tuesday that it is working on a "premium" electric car that will go on sale in 2020. They expect to spend at least $2.7 billion (£2 billion) on the car and battery technology.

GoFly, a Boeing-sponsored competition announced today, wants to turn jetpacks from an aviation novelty to an everyday tool.

Adam Crowl considers spaceships if EM-Drive is verified as a real thing.

An inflatable structure(s) can generate a magnetic dipole field at a level of perhaps 1 or 2 Tesla (or 10,000 to 20,000 Gauss) as an active shield against the solar wind and allow the Martian atmosphere to thicken overtime.

[South China Morning Post] China has moved a step closer to creating a supersonic submarine that could travel from Shanghai to San Francisco in less than two hours.