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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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Education
Living in the information age has not insulated us from misinformation. When the Crown controls education it controls the very lens through which we see the world. To see the world as it is requires us to re-evaluate how we educate ourselves, and others.
Super low altitude satellite to operate at 180 kilometers...
Japan Tsubame, Super Low Altitude Test Satellite, is a JAXA satellite intended to demonstrate operations in very low Earth orbit (below 200 km), using ion engines to cancel out aerodynamic drag and equipped with sensors to determine atomic oxygen den
The Age of Graphene: Samsung's Revolutionary Battery Technology
Pre-historic times and ancient history are defined by the materials that were harnessed during that period. We have the stone age, the bronze age, and the iron age. Today is a little more complex, we live in the Space Age, the Nuclear Age, and the In
EXCLUSIVE: The secret deals which shaped our lives...
Author Jacques Peretti has shed light on the backroom deals between big businesses that have ultimately shaped the way we eat, shop, and even choose medication.
The 6 Coolest Material Breakthroughs Of 2017
Materials are a designer's paint and canvas-and for the most part, they've remained pretty static in recent decades. But over the past few years, and in 2017 in particular, we saw new advances in material science that gave creators plenty of ex
SpaceX BFR 150 Top Target should be Moon Colonization
Spacex BFR construction will start in 4 to 6 months.
would have bigger than Saturn V payloads plus the magic of reusuability. How reusable is of course the trick, but in the optimal case that Brian has written about, to quote Brian:
at $7 million
How to Prepare a Spacecraft to Fly Through the Sun's Atmosphere
The Parker Solar Probe will fly closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history, so it better be able to handle the heat.
Progress to turning silicon transistors into qubits which could enable billion qubit ...
Japanese RIKEN researchers are trying to adapt existing the silicon metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) to integrate qubits with current electronics, offering the potential for scaling up quantum devices and bringing quan
Atomic Diffusion Additive Manufacturing to Print Metal Parts
The Metal X Industrial 3D Printer from Markforged creates parts with stainless steel.
Desktop Metal's 3D printer makes metal manufacturing less messy
Metal fabrication with traditional processes like injection molding, can be noisy, create welding fumes and exhaust, and require the use of lots of chemicals by workers. Desktop Metal's new additive manufacturing method uses FDM techniques that are s
Desktop Metal Production System is about to take 3D printing into the mainstream
100 times faster and 20 times cheaper than laser-based 3D metal printers, this system could revolutionize manufacturing by making the cost and speed of 3D metal printing competitive with traditional processes like casting, machining and forging.
The most read New Atlas stories of 2017
Here at New Atlas we cover a wide variety of topics, so it's always interesting to arrive at the end of another year and see what most struck a chord with readers over the past 12 months.
OneWeb will fully deploy multi-gigabit global satellite network by 2021...
OneWeb received permission from the FCC in June to deploy a global network of 720 low-Earth orbit satellites using the Ka (20/30 GHz) and Ku (11/14 GHz) frequency bands. Earlier in 2017, OneWeb started building a satellite manufacturing factory which
NIST creates spectrometer with 10,000 times more precision than standard devices
A new NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) spectrometer measures single photons with great precision.
Progress to scalable Molecular Machines
Researchers detail an artificial molecular machine that moves a substrate between different activating sites to achieve different product outcomes from chemical synthesis.
Super aluminum-graphene battery has a 5-second charging time
Material and engineering researchers at East China's Zhejiang University unveiled a "super" aluminum-graphene battery that can be fully charged in 5 seconds and then last for two hours.
Ice Age Earth
Global FREEZE lasting 120 YEARS threatens 'more intense' winters from 2019
Checkmate Humanity
In four hours, a robot taught itself chess, then beat a grandmaster with moves never devised in the game's 1,500-year history and the implications are terrifying
33% improvement in superconducting magnets to 32 Tesla and 100+ Tesla magnets are on the horizon
The Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has shattered another world record with the testing of a 32-tesla magnet -- 33 percent stronger than what had previously been the world's strongest superconducting
Two-Layer Graphene becomes a Diamond-Hard Material on Impact which could make super armor
Scientists at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the Graduate Center, CUNY, worked to theorize and test how two layers of graphene -- each one-atom thick -- could be made to transform into a diamond-like material upon impact at room tem
Researchers have designed a new solar device that may finally make hydrogen cars a reality
(Natural News) Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles have crafted a device that can utilize solar energy to effectively and cheaply create and store energy, which could then be used to power electronic devices, and to harness hydro
AI will allow humans to 'communicate via TELEPATHY'
HUMANS may soon be able to communicate without speaking a word as a leading tech company develops "brain augmentation".
Humans 2.0: meet the entrepreneur who wants to put a chip in your brain
Bryan Johnson's company, Kernel, aims to improve mental function and treat disorders by creating a brain interface
CRISPR-Cas9 technique targeting epigenetics reverses disease in mice
Scientists report a modified CRISPR-Cas9 technique that alters the activity, rather than the underlying sequence, of disease-associated genes. The researchers demonstrate that this technique can be used in mice to treat several different diseases.
New metallic glass material created by starving atoms of a nucleus
Metallic glass is an emerging type of material, so its secrets are still being discovered. While working with the stuff, a team of Yale researchers created a brand new type of metallic glass, by shrinking samples down to the nanoscale until it forms
Game changing nuclear molten salt reactor will be cheaper than natural gas
Recently , Terrestrial Energy Inc.'s (TEI) announced the completion of the first phase of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's (CNSC) pre-licensing vendor design review.
Thorcon floating supertanker molten salt reactors starting with 2021 prototype
ThorCon is a liquid-fuel fission power plant, under development in the US, to be built in a far-east shipyard, then floated to Indonesia, with testing starting in 2021.
Icyball
IcyBall was a name given to two early refrigerators, one made by Australian Sir Edward Hallstrom in 1923, and the other design patented by David Forbes Keith of Toronto, Ontario, Canada (filed 1927, granted 1929), and manufactured by American Powel C
Colorado School of Space Mining
Since the 1990s, the Colorado School of Mines has been a leading institution for the study of space resources and in situ resource utilization (ISRU).
Tesla actually built the world's biggest battery. Here's how it works.
Get amped to learn about lithium-ion energy storage!
Want longer-lasting roads? Just add graphene
It's getting to the point where it seems like adding a dash of graphene can improve just about anything.
Could graphene ripples be tapped into as a clean, limitless energy source?
As if graphene wasn't versatile enough already, researchers at the University of Arkansas have now found a way for the two-dimensional material to be used as a source of clean and potentially unlimited energy.
Gamma rays from lightning found to create antimatter in the air
Lightning is one of Earth's most energetic events, but there's much more to it than just a flashing fork and the rumble of thunder.
Making Sense Out of Tesla's Semi Truck Economics
During Tesla's semi truck unveiling they presented some pretty impressive economic numbers. I must admit that I was a bit overwhelmed and could not get the numbers to add up. Once understood the number DO make sense. Here's why.
ScienceAlert Deal: 8 Insanely Cool Things You Can Do With Raspberry Pi
Mine for Bitcoins.
Brain implant boosts human memory by mimicking how we learn
A "memory prosthesis" brain implant has enhanced human memory for the first time.
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Transistor breakthrough brings liquid computers closer to reality
In a step towards creating a new class of electronics that look and feel like soft, natural organisms, mechanical engineers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing a fluidic transistor out of a metal alloy of indium and gallium that is liquid at
INTRODUCING KERBAL SPACE PROGRAM
KSP is a game where the players create and manage their own space program. Build spacecraft, fly them, and try to help the Kerbals to fulfill their ultimate mission of conquering space.
How this couple earns a six figure annual income with 1.5 acres of land
(Natural News) Can small-scale farming in the modern age really generate enough income for the average family to make an honest living?
When There is No Doctor:
11 Medicinal Herbs To Help You Ease Pain Naturally
Air-Breathing Aqueous Sulfur Flow Battery for breakthrough ultralow cost energy storage
Joule Journal – Air-Breathing Aqueous Sulfur Flow Battery for Ultralow-Cost Long-Duration Electrical Storage
Bigelow and ULA plan expandable B330 orbital lunar space station in 2022
Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance (ULA) are working together to launch a B330 expandable module on ULA's Vulcan launch vehicle. The launch would place a B330 outfitted module in Low Lunar Orbit by the end of 2022 to serve as a lunar depo
Entirely automated giant 3D printing and robotics rocket factory
Relativity Space wants is reimagining the way rockets are built and flown with massive 3D printing.
Stanford Says Its Sodium-Based Battery Beat Lithium On Most All Fronts...
Stanford Says Its Sodium-Based Battery Beat Lithium On Most All Fronts, 80% Cost Reduction Possible
Magnetoshell getting ready for cubesat tests
David Kirtley, MSNW, LLC, Magnetoshell Aerocapture for Manned Missions and Planetary Deep Space Orbiters
A DIY Space Suit for the 99 Percent
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.
Scientists Claim to Have Proof that Time Travel Exists
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.
Learn about your Arduino through 15 awesome projects
The Arduino Bootcamp offers over 9 hours of pure knowhow for $15.
Tech Breakthrough Will Save The Electric Car Market
A new technology is here that has the potential to reshape lithium production like fracking reshaped oil.?
Asphalt-lithium metal batteries fully charge in five minutes
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.