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Chinese researchers have developed a sodium-metal battery that can fully charge in just 4 minutes...
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Chinese Scientists Develop Nuclear Battery Using Carbon-14
Teleoperated humanoid robots complete first-ever live surgery
Floating capsule auto-disinfects water without chemicals or battery
Modular Reactors To Solve Data Center Hysteria?
DeepSeek Developing In-House AI Chip In Bid To Cut Nvidia Reliance
America just took three brand-new nuclear reactors critical in thirty days, a first for any...
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Compasses, not maps: China is building a different type of AI
Transportation
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.
University of Central Florida planetary scientist highlights CubeSat progress
Adrienne Dove, a University of Central Florida (UCF) planetary scientist, physicist, and associate professor, capped off the university's 2018 Distinguished Speaker series with a talk about CubeSats and UCF's involvement with CubeSat-based scienc
Sila Nanotechnologies Silicon anodes will improve lithium ion batteries by up to 40%
Sila Nanotechnologies has silicon-dominant anode products that drop into existing battery manufacturing processes, replace graphite entirely, and deliver significantly higher energy density at the cell-level with lower swelling.
Fiber-reinforced hydrogel is 5 times stronger than steel
Hydrogels have shown significant potential in everything from wound dressings to soft robots, but their applications have been limited from their lack of toughness – until now.
A Real World 'Star Trek' Replicator Is Now Possible Thanks To New Breakthrough
A startup with alumni from MIT and Yale says it's made a breakthrough in creating a next-generation material that should make it possible to 3-d print literally anything out of thin air.
Roll-to-roll chemical vapor deposition system makes long sheets of high quality graphene
MIT has combined a roll-to-roll approach -- a common industrial approach for continuous processing of thin foils -- with the common graphene-fabrication technique of chemical vapor deposition, to manufacture high-quality graphene in large quantitie
MIT researchers develop scalable manufacturing process for graphene sheets
Among the almost limitless use cases for commercial-scale graphene is filtration. MIT engineers say they've now developed a scalable production process for precisely tailored graphene filtration membranes, which could see action in desalination, biol
NASA's Galactic Positioning System will enable autonomous spacecraft
A NASA space telescope called the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) has been used to develop a brand new technology with near-term, practical applications: a galactic positioning system.
SpaceX will build Big Falcon Rocket in Los Angeles rent free for 20 years
The Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti, confirms that the SpaceX Big Falcon rocket will start production development in Los Angeles.
Infrastructure to Integrate and Scale Air Taxi Services in Cities
Watch how Volocopter imagines the future of urban transport to look like. Have a look at the day to day operations transporting up to 10.000 passengers a day with a single point to point connection. Inside the system you can see how you alight, batte
Autonomous Boats Will Be On the Market Sooner Than Self-Driving Cars
About 90 percent of global shipping is done by sea.
World's only Rotor Sail passenger ship goes into service
Last year we detailed how Finland's Norsepower had rediscovered an engineering innovation from the 1920s called the rotorsail, which sees large cylinders installed atop big ships harness wind for propulsion.
Airfish 8
The AirFish 8 (AF8) is an 8-10 seater WIG Craft with a 17m x 15m footprint. It is designed to be operated by 2 crew and carrying capacity for 6-8 passengers in standard civilian transport configuration. It is powered by a powerful yet compact V8 ca
Flying cars?
One day, they'll be landing at this downtown highrise
Startup will launch luxury space hotel in 2021 and charge about $800,000 per night
Startup Orion Span has developed proprietary technology to drive a full order of magnitude of cost out of the design and manufacture of a space station.
Getting to the outer solar system 15X faster with missions over 40 times larger
Centauri Dreams discusses the NASA NIAC Breakthrough Propulsion Architecture for Interstellar Precursor Missions project.
In 2018, SpaceX is launching once every 13 days
Ars Technica reports that SpaceX has flown seven rockets in 2018--six Falcon 9 missions and one Falcon Heavy. This is one launch every 13 days in 2018.
* SpaceX cab use three launch pads in Florida and California
* 18 launches in 2017
* Falcon
RemoveDebris satellite will test space junk removal methods
SpaceX has launched a small satellite provided by the Surrey Space Center known as RemoveDEBRIS that will be deployed through an airlock in the Japanese Kibo module and released into space by the laboratory's Japanese robot arm.
FCC approves SpaceX 4425 internet satellite network
The Federal Communications Commission approved an application by SpaceX to provide broadband services using satellite technology in the United States and around the world. With this action, the Commission takes another step to increase high-speed bro
BMW claims it's developed a process for fast, cheap carbon composite chassis manufacture
If there's one thing motorcyclists want more of in their lives, it's carbon fiber.
Rocket Lab sets date for first commercial launch of its Electron rocket
It's business time for 'It's Business Time'
Breakthrough for rechargeable non-aqueous magnesium-metal battery...
Scientists at the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered a new approach for developing a rechargeable non-aqueous magnesium-metal battery.
Lockheed Martin wins NASA supersonic X-plane contract
Son-of-Concorde may not be daydream for much longer with NASA awarding a US$247.5 million contract to Lockheed Martin to design, build, and test a prototype supersonic aircraft capable of generating no more noise than a car door closing while flying
China Completes 5G Autonomous Driving Test In Showcase Tech City
Technocracy in China works like this: President Xi Jinping personally directed the creation of the development zone, then his 'government' picked Baidu to conduct the driving tests.
Saudi has $200 billion deal with Softbank for 200 GW of solar by 2030
Saudi Arabia's crown prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Softbank to build 200 GW of solar power by 2030 at a cost of $200 billion.
The Governments Odds of Financial Success is ZERO!
The Governments Odds of Financial Success is ZERO!
Breakthrough Propulsion Architecture gets Phase 2 NIAC funding
The breakthrough architecture uses a kilometer-scale, multi-hundred-megawatt phased-array laser to beam power to a vehicle that converts it to electrical power for a multi-megawatt electric propulsion system that produces a specific impulse of 58,000
Radioisotope Positron Propulsion
Current state of the art in-space propulsion systems based on chemical or ion propellants fail to meet requirements of 21st century space missions.
Mach Effect Propellantless drive gets NIAC phase 2 and progress towards ...
James Woodward and the Space Studies Institute has a Phase 2 NASA Innovative Advanced funded study.
Pulsed Fission-Fusion (PuFF) Propulsion Concept gets Phase 2 NIAC funding
The pulsed fission fusion propulsion (PuFF) system envisions using a pulsed z-pinch to compress a fission-fusion target.
Lockheed Martin Patents Nuclear Fusion-Powered Fighter Jet
Lockheed Martin has secretly been developing a game-changing compact nuclear fusion reactor that could potentially fit into a fighter jet.
"CUORE" experiment seeks to get to the heart of the matter – and antimatter
Deep below the mountain of Gran Sasso in central Italy, under nearly a mile of solid rock, the CUORE (Cryogenic Underground Observatory for Rare Events, and Italian for "heart") experiment is underway to help us understand one of astrophysics's great
Iguana's ingenious amphibious seven-seat cabriolet taxi
The Iguana amphibious seven-seat taxi incorporates the signature retractable caterpillar tracks, at the same time as breaking new ground in passenger cabin design with a retractable hardtop that can be adjusted in height as a sunshade or sealed down
Ford to Use Cryptocurrency for Inter-Vehicle Communication System
Ford has been issued a patent for "Apparatus and methods […] for vehicle-to-vehicle cooperation to marshal traffic." The patent indicates that Ford is seeking to use cryptocurrency technology as a means for cars to communicate with each other w
SpaceX heavy and near term solar sail for manned missions to Near Earth Objects
Centauri Dreams has a published paper by Gregory Matloff who has written extensively on Interstellar Travel and solar sails.
Autonomous boat gets around under wave power
We're seeing many examples of auto manufacturers aiming to remove the human element from the driving experience, but there are also moves to get robot boats on the water, too.
The First SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 should launch in April and each could be reused 10 to 100 times
The current SpaceX Falcon 9 boosters that have been recovered were only designed to be reused 2-3 times but the new SpaceX Falcon 9 block 5 are expected to last for ten reuses.
Norway's Electric Ferry Is So Impressive That 53 More Were Ordered
The first electric ferries – Ampere in Norway (since 2015) and Elektra in Finland (since 2017), have proven their capabilities and operators are now lining up in the queue to purchase more.
Nissan Introduces $2,850 Refabricated Batteries For Older LEAF
Announces exchange costs for new 24, 30 and 40 kWh LEAF batteries too.
Wallpaper Wednesday: Rimac C_Two – Our Top 20 Images
The Rimac C_Two, unveiled at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show, is one of the most beautiful cars ever made and one of the quickest, too.
AeroMobil reveals electric VTOL flying car concept
Like Terrafugia and Pal-V, AeroMobil has developed a flying car/roadable aircraft that requires a runway in order to take off and land. This Wednesday, however, the Slovakia-based company announced its plans for an electric VTOL (vertical take-off an
London to New York in 3.5 hours:
Mini-Concorde Baby Boom plane that will travel at 1,687mph is a step closer to take off after a 'milestone' engine delivery
Advanced Vasimr plasma drives and SpaceX BFR trip times
The Vasimr rocket is on track to a 100-hour continuous firing this summer of the company's VX200SSTM VASIMR® prototype at a power level of 100 kW.
Future of humanity in Space with SpaceX, Planetary Resources, Blue Origin and Starlabs
There were MIT presentations about getting into space and beyond the cradle of the Earth
Google Is Turning Ads Into Games You Can Play
Google is introducing new playable ads inside other games. It's an ad-Inception.
Hyundai Kite – Dune Buggy With Electric Propulsion
Hyundai, in partnership with Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), designed a special all-electric dune buggy concept called Hyundai Kite.
Theoretical progress on producing and storing several grams of antimatter per year
There was a 2016-2017 Kickstarter for Antimatter fuel production.
Astronaut Scott Kelly Now Has Different DNA Than His Identical Twin Brother After One Year In Space
Astronaut Scott Kelly set a record for the longest single spaceflight in history and now NASA is saying the trip made him a "new man" as well.
"Rebar graphene" foam supports 3,000 times its own weight
Graphene spends most of its time in a two-dimensional form, but that makes it hard to make use of its long list of advantages, like its strength, light weight, and electricity and heat conduction.
Kitty Hawk autonomous flying taxi officially unveiled
Kitty Hawk, the same group of California dreamers who introduced the leisure-focused Flyer last year, has revealed an all-electric, self-piloted air taxi in New Zealand.
Elon Musk: Humans Must Colonize Mars To Survive WW3 But AI Is More Dangerous...
Elon Musk: Humans Must Colonize Mars To Survive WW3 But AI Is More Dangerous Than Nukes