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Elon Tells Rogan the Real Reason Democrats are Prolonging the Government Shutdown [WATCH]

Newsom: Trump Is Trying to Rig the Election -- He Knows GOP Will Lose

There is zero justification for the Department of Justice's silence while the most serious...

Gabbard Says Trump Has Ended America's Era Of 'Regime Change'

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Graphene Dream Becomes a Reality as Miracle Material Enters Production for Better Chips, Batteries

Virtual Fencing May Allow Thousands More Cattle to Be Ranched on Land Rather Than in Barns

Prominent Personalities Sign Letter Seeking Ban On 'Development Of Superintelligence'

Why 'Mirror Life' Is Causing Some Genetic Scientists To Freak Out

Retina e-paper promises screens 'visually indistinguishable from reality'

Scientists baffled as interstellar visitor appears to reverse thrust before vanishing behind the sun

Future of Satellite of Direct to Cellphone

Amazon goes nuclear with new modular reactor plant

China Is Making 800-Mile EV Batteries. Here's Why America Can't Have Them

China Innovates: Transforming Sand into Paper

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The Crown has claimed regulatory control of every means of conveyance, stifling the free travel of individuals and their property. This is an intolerable act. Superior transportation technologies already exist, but are suppressed by regulations.

Positron Dynamics Installed Antimatter Propulsion Related Gear

In March 2020, Positron Dynamics completed a new source installation at Berkeley. They continue to make progress on experiments and designs.

Lightweight Nuclear Electric Space Propulsion With Ten Times the Power

The Swarm-Probe Enabling ATEG Reactor, or SPEAR, is a nuclear electric propulsion spacecraft that uses a new, lightweight reactor moderator and advanced thermoelectric generators (ATEGs) to greatly reduce overall core mass.

NASA NIAC Funds Giant Lunar Crater Telescope

An ultra-long-wavelength radio telescope on the far-side of the Moon has tremendous advantages compared to Earth-based and Earth-orbiting telescopes.

Two new solar cells break records, including highest efficiency ever

Solar cells are constantly improving on the road to maximum efficiency. Now, three records have been broken by two different devices, including one that pushes the highest overall solar conversion efficiency towards the 50-percent mark.

Newly-Developed Solar Cell Earns Two World Records for Its 'Extraordinary' Efficiency

Each of the cell's six junctions (the photoactive layers) is specially designed to capture light from a specific part of the solar spectrum.

Virgin Orbit puts its 747 "flying launchpad" through a full rehearsal

Virgin Orbit continues to edge closer to its objective of firing satellites into space form an airborne 747, this time completing an end-to-end launch rehearsal designed to put all of its systems through their paces.

NASA funds concept for gigantic radio telescope on far side of Moon

NASA is exploring the potential of building an enormous radio telescope on the far side of the Moon in a vast, hollowed-out crater. The telescope's reflector would be comprised of a 1-km (0.6-mile) diameter wire mesh that would be pulled into place

REE showing progress in its mission to upend the automotive industry

REE's quiet plans for world automotive industry domination are coming along quite nicely, thank you. This Israeli company's revolutionary approach to vehicle development upends all traditional approaches and offers some huge advantages moving into th

Alphabet's Wing drones are delivering toilet paper and cookies...

Demand for Alphabet's drone delivery Wing is soaring in a Virginia town amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Simple new method makes graphene "paint" possible

Graphene may be versatile, but there's one thing it's not all that good at – dispersing in water. Now, researchers at Umeå University have found a relatively simple way to do it. Graphene oxide is a different form of the material that can make

Li-ion co-inventor patents glass battery that could upturn auto industry

And the new glass battery promises to accelerate the shift away from internal combustion engines because it will deliver a significant increase in storage capacity.

SpaceX's Elon Musk reveals next Starship's Raptor engines, explains latest failure

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to better explain what happened when the latest full-scale Starship prototype failed during one of its first tests, while later revealing the rocket engines set to power a future prototype's first flight.

Cadillac Celestiq Luxury EV Sedan Previewed In Exclusive Rendering

Some say the sedan body style is on its way out, but Cadillac's upcoming flagship would beg to differ.

Stratolaunch hypersonic vehicle to launch from world's largest plane

Stratolaunch, the company behind the world's largest plane, has unveiled plans for a hypersonic vehicle it hopes will offer customers a way of rapidly testing advanced flight technologies.

NASA unfolds James Webb Telescope's huge mirrors in deployment test

The James Webb Space Telescope has crossed another milestone on the path to its long-awaited launch. NASA engineers have now completed a deployment test, unfurling the telescope's gigantic mirror into the configuration it will take in space.

Evoy launches the world's most powerful electric outboard motor

It might be a 90-pound weakling next to the biggest and baddest of the combustion world, but Evoy's new zero-emissions electric outboard motor and powertrain solution will put it at the pointy end of the all-electric market.

BYD Reveals Ultra-Safe Blade Battery: Pierces It With A Nail

BYD Blade Battery leverages safety and improves volumetric energy density. Blade Battery will debut in the BYD Han (June 2020).

UK Shop Makes World's First Electric Classic Mercedes-Benz SL

It's an EV conversion carried out on the iconic SL R107 from the 1970s.

SpaceX Starship SN3 Prepares To Hop | SpaceX in the News

SpaceX Starship SN3 Prepares To Hop | SpaceX in the News Episode 85. Today we get our hype on for Starship SN3 progress; talk crew dragon updates; look into the upcoming launch manifest, including for Falcon Heavy; and finish with the honorable menti

SpaceX SN3 Starship Stacked and Will Test Hop 150 Meters Next Week

The SpaceX SN3 Starship is stacked and will have a test hop for 150 meters next week. This is assuming that the pressure tests and other preparations have no issues.

Tesla Super Battery: Million Miles, Ultra Fast-Charging, Cheap, Light

Battery technology is advancing quickly and Tesla seems to be ahead of all others.

SpaceX SHS Rocket Switching to 304L Steel and Then Custom Alloy

The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship (SHS) will switch from 301 steel alloy to 304L steel alloy for some parts and then a new custom steel alloy.

Visit the 'most exclusive destination on earth'... for £710k: Tourists offered the chance...

The Mariana Trench is the deepest spot in the world's oceans and only a handful of people have been there.

Building An Electric Motorcycle - Plans Available

Fast enough for highway use, better acceleration than most cars, and more than enough range for the avg person's daily commutes.

EHang flies into Spain to build air taxi test infrastructure

Back in January, China's EHang aced the first flight in the US of its two-seat autonomous air taxi. Now the company has agreed to develop the first Urban Air Mobility pilot program in Seville, Spain.

SpaceX Starship Designed for Relaunch Within 1 Hour

Elon Musk indicated that the SpaceX Starship is designed to be relaunched within one hour of landing. SpaceX Starship could have three launches in one day.

Tiny, telescoping Hitch Hotel camper gets its own trailer wheels

Why would a company that made a big splash with a wheel-less, hitch-mounted camper pull a complete about-face and add wheels?

How Does The New KTM Freeride E-XC Bike Stack Up?

New vs. old version electrics go head-to-head.

The Ultimate Tesla Cybertruck Camper

The futuristic Tesla Cybertruck was designed for function, with the utility of a truck and sports cars like performance, this durable vehicle was built to be capable both on-road and off-road, which makes cybertruck camping perfect.

High-density hybrid powercapacitors: A new frontier in the energy race

Hybrid "power capacitors" that can store as much energy as lithium batteries, but with much higher charge/discharge rates, a huge range of safe operating temperatures, super-long lifespans and no risk of explosion are already in production, says a sm

Could Tesla Disrupt Shipping Industry With Battery-Powered Boats?

Tesla's advances in battery tech could pave the way for much bigger products.

World's first transmission-equipped wheel hub motor

Wheel hub motor - NSK Ltd. announced that it has successfully demonstrated the world's first transmission-equipped wheel hub motor, designed to improve the environmental performance, safety, and comfort of automobiles.

SpaceX aims to launch 70 missions a year from Florida's Space Coast by 2023

They'll build a massive Mobile Service Tower for rockets, too

Is Tesla Cybertruck Outdone By Mahindra Gio With Cheap EV Conversion?

Well, not really, but Technical Partha's electric pickup truck is ready to roll.

Watch Tiny, Tri-Motor Tesla Cybertruck Out Tug A Ford F-150 Pickup

To be fair, the Ford F-150 wins one and loses one. It's the rematch we've all been waiting for.

Virgin Galactic Sees Demand for Million Dollar Premium Sub-orbital Tourism

Virgin Galactic sees demand for premium million-dollar packages for sub-orbital space tourism. They will first expand to spaceports on every continent.

Techrules looks to power everyday EVs and grids with micro-turbines

Those that know Techrules at all know it as the Chinese company behind the micro-turbine-powered, fighter jet-inspired Ren supercar, but it's making a push to be known far outside of supercar fanatic circles.

Chinese rover is the first to investigate the dark side of the moon and finds...

Chinese rover is the first to investigate the dark side of the moon and finds three distinct layers after probing 131 feet below the lunar surface

This Maruti 800 Is The Cheapest EV Conversion We've Ever Seen

We knew electric motors were superior to ICE, but never so literally.

Pentagon Preps Nuclear Moon Rocket

The U.S. government is working on an atomic rocket to send satellites into the vast space between Earth and the moon--before Beijing gets there with its own spacecraft.

Rotary Rocket Had Wheels on Landing Legs As SpaceX Plans for Starship

The Rotary Rocket Company developed the Roton rocket in the late 1990s as a planned fully reusable single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) crewed spacecraft. A full-scale test vehicle made three hover flights in 1999.

Here are all the ways to visit space this decade (if you're extremely rich)

Glamping in zero gravity will cost a few millions bucks at least.

Powering Communication for an Interstellar Probe

There was a November 2019, NASA Workshop on Interstellar Propulsion.

PrufRock Operating and Will Dig Ten Times Faster

Boring Company has completed its first Prufrock boring machine. It is a new and custom design to dig ten times faster than other boring machines.

Tesla Semi Factory Possibly Added at Nevada Gigafactory

Electrek reports that Tesla added a large new building besides its Gigafactory in Nevada.

Space Tourism Company Virgin Galactic Has $6.5 Billion Valuation

Virgin Galactic (ticker symbol SPCE) has tripled in value over the last seven weeks to about $6.5 billion.

SpaceX Completing a Tall Building for Stacking

Elon Musk tweets out Starship nosecone production and a high bay building where Starship parts will be stacked.

Researchers achieve a 10x supercapacitor energy density breakthrough

Supercapacitors can charge almost instantly, and discharge enormous amounts of power if needed.

Meet Nikola Motors' Stunning EV Pickup Truck Competitor To Tesla's Cybertruck

What better name for a company that's going to compete with Tesla than "Nikola Motors"?

The flying machines of the future?

Star Wars-inspired flying motorcycle, an 'egg-copter' and a drone you can SURF on battle in a 'fly-off' for a $1m cash prize from aviation giant Boeing
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