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Tellurium nanoparticles can triple the evaporation rate of solar desalination and can raise the temperature of water from 29° to 85°C within 100 seconds.

The housing industry is like a roller coaster. The housing crash left houses empty and people homeless. Some neighborhoods are still littered with empty and decaying homes, some having stood empty going on 10 years now.

Boeing has selected mach 5.0 as the top speed for a hypersonic passenger jet because that greatly simplifies the structural materials and the propulsion. Standard titanium alloys used in aircraft and jet engines today are strong enough to survive the

If you're building a spacecraft that's going to be landing on a planet that has an atmosphere, then you'd better equip it with a heat shield.

More details appear on the Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. (CATL) lithium-ion battery plant in Thuringia, Germany announced by the way of a €4 billion (€4.7 billion) deal with BMW.

China initially announced 25% tariffs on $16 billion worth of US imports, including oil products, LPG and coal in a new list of affected goods but left off import duties on US crude oil.

Physical Review Accelerators and Beams – Quasimonoenergetic laser plasma positron accelerator using particle-shower plasma-wave interactions

OpenAI has determined that the computing used in Artificial Intelligence projects has doubled every 3 months since 2012. This has been an increase of 300,000 times since 2012 versus 12 times if it was following a Moore's law doubling every 18 month

Samumed has raised $438 million with a $12 billion valuation. Samumed is a leader in medical research and development for tissue-level regeneration.

Spinal injuries can be like downed power lines – even if everything on either side of the injury is perfectly functional, the break can effectively shut down the whole system.

Recently I has approached by a self-described "insider" who had at one time worked for DARPA. He insisted that the new 5G technology being rolled out across the country was both lethal and contained mind control elements that should alarm all peo

The condom of the future: Extra-slippery 'hydrogel' contraceptive that feels like you're wearing nothing at all wins $1million in government backing

If global warming causes catastrophic flooding that inundates most of the world's coastal urban areas by the end of the century, how will we cope?

When a clot blocks a blood vessel in the heart, a heart attack is the unfortunate result. Frequently, surgery is required in order to remove that clot. Thanks to an experimental new drug-delivery system, however, that approach may become increasingly

At the recent Farnborough Air Show 2018, aerospace engineers from Britain's University of Central Lancashire presented what they state is the world's first graphene-skinned aircraft. Known as Juno, the 3.5 meter-wide (11.5-ft) unmanned plane could be

huge molecular possibilities...AI is revolutionizing medicine including radiology, pathology, and other medical specialties. Deep learning (DL) technologies are beginning to find applications in drug discovery including areas of molecular docking, tr

Mars Workshop Photos

This past February news.Bitcoin.com reported on the firm Coingeek announcing funding the Electron Cash programming team. Since then, the bitcoin cash (BCH) centric wallet Electron Cash has seen a bunch of development with Coinshuffle integration, and

Floating almost motionless at an altitude of 70,000 feet, Airbus SE's Zephyr spy drone has extended the record for the longest flight within the Earth's atmosphere to 25 days, two-thirds more than the previous best.

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made a silicon chip that distributes optical signals precisely across a miniature brain-like grid, showcasing a potential new design for neural networks.

Personal home robots that can socialise with people are starting to roll out of the laboratory and into our living rooms and kitchens. But are humans ready to invite them into their lives?

From her home in a wooded hollow in Virginia hill country, Brianna Smith and her two-year-old son Jack entered the aviation record books on Tuesday.

Just over a decade ago, Samsung announced the imminent arrival of the first laptops to come with 32 GB NAND flash storage.

When NASA announced the astronaut crews for the first SpaceX and Boeing crewed launches in 2019, they showed them with the new SpaceX and Boeing spacesuits.

Kyoto University Hospital will start clinical trials for Parkinson's disease that transplants dopaminergic progenitors generated from induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.

Injecting Placental stem cells into old mice at the end of their lives can boost longevity by 50%. It extends the life of 2-year-old mice to three years.

Tokyo Technology has fixed one of the major disadvantages of all-solid-state batteries by developing batteries with a low resistance at their electrode/solid electrolyte interface.

In 2017, Chinese Academy of Engineering completed a detailed design for an 84 mile long Tunnel to Taiwan. The Academy is the largest central governmental advisory body on infrastructural construction.

Ocean Farm 1 is the world's first deep-sea aquaculture farm. It is designed by leading salmon farmer SalMar ASA (of Norway). They paid China Shipbuilding Industry $300 million for six facilities.

Up until now small variations in the current passing through a memristor device was not precise enough for numerical calculations.

Fracture-resistant "rebar graphene" is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene.

NASA announced winners of the 3D printed Mars habitat design challenge.

DARPA has revealed the research teams selected to drive two efforts to go beyond Moore's law.

Bioengineered lungs have been grown in a Texas lab and transplanted into adult pigs with no medical complication.

It's going to cost the mobile-phone companies, chipmakers, device manufacturers and software developers about $200 billion a year in research and capital spending to get 5G fully deployed.

Russians have built the vast majority of planes that leverage Wing in Ground Effect. Flying low above the water or land can provide extra lift to enable planes with far more cargo capacity.

Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the company Diamond Materials have developed 6 inch wide diamond disks for window units to heat the plasma in fusion reactors.

Here is a rundown of the various nuclear fusion projects.

After years of vehicle development and building anticipation, NASA has now put the crew in commercial crew spacecraft.

Waymo has been testing self-driving cars without any safety drivers in Phoenix for nearly a year.

NASA and the US Army have tested 100 megabit per second laser communication with a cubesat.

Being able to identify trees can not only be a source of pleasure, as the first Boy Scouts Handbook opined, but a matter of survival.

When it comes to organ transplants, the waiting list and donor list don't quite line up, and even if a patient is lucky enough to receive the surgery, there's a chance their body may reject the foreign organ.

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.

A new study from researchers at the Mayo Clinic may shed some light on why certain people can lose more weight than others despite adhering to the same regime of exercise and caloric restriction.

3D printing has come a long way and this can be seen in a hyper-detailed one-tenth studio scale model of the Discovery spaceship from the 2001 movie.

Haug has recently introduced a new maximum velocity for subatomic particles (anything with rest mass) that is just below the speed of light. This is combined with the relativistic rocket equation in order to assess how much fuel would be needed to ac

It's a novel idea, using light diffracted through numerous plates instead of electrons.

Just a couple of months ago, Geneinno successfully Kickstarted its Titan underwater drone, which users can remotely-control from above the surface.

Here is a rundown of the various nuclear fusion projects. Overall there many interesting projects with decent funding.