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Cab-less truck glider leaps autonomously between road and rail

Can Tesla DOJO Chips Pass Nvidia GPUs?

Iron-fortified lumber could be a greener alternative to steel beams

One man, 856 venom hits, and the path to a universal snakebite cure

Dr. McCullough reveals cancer-fighting drug Big Pharma hopes you never hear about…

EXCLUSIVE: Raytheon Whistleblower Who Exposed The Neutrino Earthquake Weapon In Antarctica...

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Dark Matter: An 86-lb, 800-hp EV motor by Koenigsegg

Spacetop puts a massive multi-window workspace in front of your eyes

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Core Tubular Steel Slabs are up to 20 times lighter than reinforced concrete

Broad Group which has built factory mass produced skyscrapers has a new construction innovation – Core Tubular Steel Slabs (CTS).

Engineering The Strongest Foam in the World

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.

Precise control of the properties of plastics

A team of researchers at the Institute of Synthetic Polymer Materials of the Russian Academy of Sciences, MIPT, and elsewhere has found out how the regularity of polypropylene molecules and thermal treatment affect the mechanical properties of the en

Super-strong aluminum as strong as steel

Researchers have demonstrated how to create a super-strong aluminum alloy that rivals the strength of stainless steel, an advance with potential industrial applications.

Flatpack Urban Farm Grows 6.6 Tons of Food in 538 Square Feet

This flatpack urban farm only takes up 538 square feet, but its creators say that it can yield as much as 6 tonnes (6.6 tons) of fresh produce per year.

Proto-molecular nanotechnology –

– Programmable Molecular Fabrication of trillions of functionalized carbon nanotubes

Graphene superlattices could be used for superconducting transistors

Researchers created a "superlattice" of two graphene sheets stacked together -- not precisely on top of each other, but rotated ever so slightly, at a "magic angle" of 1.1 degrees.

Plimp Airships

who we are The PLIMP airship represents an innovative new class of aircraft, developed by Egan Airships.

Scientists unleash graphene's innate superconductivity

Already renowned for its potential to revolutionize everything from light bulbs and dental fillings through to semiconductors and motorcycle helmets, graphene can now add innate superconductivity to its repertoire

Russia Claims It Now Has Lasers To Shoot Satellites

A defense source tells Russian media that military engineers have advanced work on the next big anti-satellite weapon.

Elon touts Global gigabit broadband

Elon Musk tweets that the Starlink constellation of thousands of gigabit per second internet satellites will help get internet to the last billion and areas in the developed world with bad internet service.

'Star Trek Online' Offers Custom 3D-Printed Starships

"Star Trek Online" players can put a lot of time into choosing, outfitting and customizing their starships, and now that work can follow them into the real world -- with hand-painted 3D-printed starships based on their exact designs.

Bigelow Aerospace Launches New Company to Operate Private Space Stations

A company that builds big, inflatable space habitats has launched a new venture that will market and operate these structures in Earth orbit and beyond.

Heating and ventilating a 10,000 person space station

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

Scientists Discover Hundreds of 2D Materials That Could Be The Next Graphene

This is so amazing!

New desalination membrane produces both drinking water and lithium

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

NASA's X3 ion thruster smashes records in test firings

A human settlement on Mars is rapidly moving from science fiction to fact, with Elon Musk envisioning Battlestar Galactica-style fleets blasting off to the Red Planet in coming decades.

Graphene Nanoribbons are 100 times brighter than previous single molecule devices

Researchers observed a bright and narrow band emission of red light from individual graphene nanoribbons, only 7-atom-wide, at a high intensity comparable to bright light-emitting devices made from carbon nanotubes.

Graphene aerogel is seven times lighter than air, can balance on a blade of grass

Chinese material scientists have created the world's lightest material: A graphene aerogel that is seven times lighter than air, and 12% lighter than the previous record holder (aerographite).

Los Alamos quantum dots will make cost effective double-pane solar windows

Using two types of "designer" quantum dots, researchers are creating double-pane solar windows that generate electricity with greater efficiency and create shading and insulation for good measure. It's all made possible by a new window architec

Hitachi and Honda team up for cheaper electric motors

As electric cars become more common, manufacturers are battling to find new ways to improve their hardware and lower costs.

How we look kilometers below the Antarctic ice sheet

Antarctica is a vast and dynamic place, but radar technologies -- from World War II-era film to state-of-the-art miniaturized sensors -- are enabling scientists to observe and understand changes beneath the continent's ice in unprecedented detail.

DARPA aims for 100-fold performance improvement for defense-related sensors and devices

The performance and reliability of quantum sensors and devices is dependent on the length of time the underlying quantum states can remain coherent.

Airbus' 'flying taxi' isn't much to look at, but it's a major step toward electr

A very confused helicopter? Or the future of aerial mobility?

AirSpaceX's autonomous, electric air taxi lands in Detroit

Airspace Experience Technologies, LLC (AirSpaceX) has given a preview of its vision for the future of air taxi services at this year's North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit.

SpaceX Almost Caught Part of a Rocket Using a Boat and a Giant Net

It "missed by a few hundred meters."

Toyota has reduced the rare earth materials used in electric vehicle magnets by 50%

Toyota has developed the world's first neodymium-reduced, heat-resistant magnet. Neodymium magnets are used in various types of motors such as the high-output motors found in electrified vehicles, use of which is expected to increase rapidly in the

Within 24 months SpaceX could begin providing gigabit internet to the USA

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

Coming to a Home Depot near you:

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

TAE Technologies Gen 5 reactor targets tripling confinement with 10 times the power by 2020

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

New Tesla Model 3 Battery Line Could Increase Output By Factor Of 4

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

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

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

Honda's Mobile Power Pack – One Battery Powers Everything From ATV To Tiny Scooter

Honda recently presented its Mobile Power Pack World – a single battery module for all sorts of different applications.

NASA looks at reviving atomic rocket program

When the first manned mission to Mars sets out, it may be on the tail of an atomic rocket engine.

Kilopower, Megapower reactors would revolutionize energy safety and space...

Kilopower, Megapower reactors would revolutionize energy safety and space and military applications

AirSpaceX's autonomous, electric air taxi lands in Detroit

Airspace Experience Technologies, LLC (AirSpaceX) has given a preview of its vision for the future of air taxi services at this year's North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit.

Device creates negative mass and a new way to generate lasers

Most objects react in predictable ways when force is applied to them--unless they have "negative mass." And then they react exactly opposite from what you would expect.

China Air Force Engineers propose space-based laser to remove small space junk

Researchers from the Information and Navigation College, Air Force Engineering University and the Institute of China Electronic Equipment System Engineering Company performed computational analysis for using a space-based laser to remove space junk.

Planetary Resources Arkyd-6 launched and deployed successfully

The Planetary Resources Arkyd-6 spacecraft was launched and deployed in space. This 6U cubesat is packed with power including 17 computing elements.

Interview: David Mayman debuts the faster, safer, six-engine JB11 jetpack

Jetpack Aviation continues to beaver away at the future of personal flight, with a bunch of fascinating projects in the works including a VTOL flying car and an electric jetpack, all while CEO David Mayman gallivants about the place putting on jaw-dr

Virgin Galactic will send tourists into space within MONTHS...

Virgin Galactic has completed another successful glide test of its VSS Unity spaceplane, putting the company on track to send tourists into space within months.

Lawrence Livermore unlocks 3D printing to smaller than 150 nanometer features

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have discovered novel ways to extend the capabilities of two-photon lithography (TPL), a high-resolution 3D printing technique capable of producing nanoscale features smaller than one-hundredt

Status of Quantum computer hardware

D-Wave Systems has commercially sold 2000 qubit quantum annealing systems.

Nvidia is delivering 30 TeraFLOP AI Chip Xavier to customers

With more than 9 billion transistors, Nvidia's Xavier is the most complex system on a chip ever created, representing the work of more than 2,000 NVIDIA engineers over a four-year period, and an investment of $2 billion in research and development.

Intel has 49 qubit superconducting quantum chip and a neuromorphic chip

At CES 2018, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich announced the successful design, fabrication and delivery of a 49-qubit superconducting quantum test chip.

Graphene : Demonstration of Graphene (HRCM) to Indian Scientific delegation led by ...

Grphene : Demonstration of Graphene (HRCM) to Indian Scientific delegation led by Dr.Vijay Bhatkar.

Seasteading: Come for the Algae Bacon, Stay for the Freedom

Joe Quirk is the president of the Seasteading Institute, which hopes to see the world's oceans settled with hundreds of environmentally restorative floating cities.

Stronger and tougher fiber created by MIT

MIT has used new gel electrospinning for thinner fibers. This has enabled them to create materials that are stronger and tougher than Kevlar and Dyneema.

Workhorse's newly approved passenger drone free to fly at CES

We've been keeping a keen eye on the progress of the Workhorse SureFly since it emerged at the Paris Air Show in June, and now the stage is set for its big debut. The two-seat octocopter is preparing to make its first test flight, after receiving off

Yttrium hydrogen compound should be room temperature superconductor when under extreme pressure

The hunt for high temperature superconductivity has been reinvigorated by the experimental discovery that compressed H2S exhibits a Tc of up to 203K at megabar pressures (1Mbar=100GPa).
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