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Chinese researchers have developed a sodium-metal battery that can fully charge in just 4 minutes...

SpaceX Starship Flight 13 in 3 Days - Thursday July 13

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...

Your brain doesn't peak in your 20s after all: Study reveals your mind is at its sharpest betwee

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.

Planetary Resources delivers Arkyd 6 asteroid mining technology demo for launch Dec 2017

Planetary Resources is planning to mine the asteroids in the 2020s. Planetary Resources delivered the Arkyd-6 spacecraft, their second technology demonstrator. The spacecraft has officially begun its journey to the launch pad. In the weeks leading up

Moon, Mars, Asteroid and orbital colonzation and cities

Andy Weir wrote the Martian. His new book is about a lunar colony of 2000 people late in the 21st century. He looked at the science and economics of a lunar colony.

Volkswagen Thing Might Make Comeback As Electric Vehicle

Could debut after the production Microbus-inspired EV.

Hubble Heritage Gallery of Images

Hubble Heritage Gallery of Images

2018 Vespa Eletricca Goes 62 Miles Per Charge, Or 124 With Gas Range Extender

There are not many brands with the cache of cool that Vespa effortlessly carries in its fluid lines.

UberAir flying cars coming to Los Angeles in 2020

Uber says that by 2020 they will be testing a few flying cars in Los Angeles and a real commercial flying car service will follow a few years later.

150 kw Laser should begin testing on an AC-130 in 2018 and a megawatt laser drone...

150 kw Laser should begin testing on an AC-130 in 2018 and a megawatt laser drone possible in the 2020s

Waymo to Offer Paid-Ride Robot-Only Chauffeurs 2018

Waymo vans loaded with laser LiDAR, radar, cameras, computers, AI and no human safety drivers will pick up Arizonans registered in its "Early Riders" program within a few months. Commercial, paid-ride service starts in 2018.

Electric Lamborghini Terzo Millennio Houses Battery In Body, Sports 4 In-Wheel Motors

With a bodyshell that doubles as a battery and self-healing carbon-fiber construction, this is as far-out as concept cars get. We love it.

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.

China will launch a reusable spaceplane in 2020

China plans to launch its reusable spaceplane in 2020, according to a statement from China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation.

Project Formula: Russian hoverbike creators take aim at VTOL flying car

The Russian team that brought us the terrifying Scorpion Hoverbike (now being flown by the Dubai police department) is working toward a 5-seater VTOL air taxi.

Protean Electric in wheel motors will first get adopted by chinese carmakers

Protean Electric is an award-winning technology company that has developed an in-wheel electric drive system for hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery electric light-duty vehicles.

Bitcoin ASIC maker pivots to AI tensor ASIC chips

Bitmain announced its first products for accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) applications, applying its industry-leading expertise in Bitcoin mining hardware and system design.

Airbus flying electric taxi is on track for flight tests in 2018

City Airbus Project multi-passenger, self-piloted electric vertical take-off and landing (flying electric taxi) is on track for maiden flight in 2018.

"Luxury tourism" version of world's largest aircraft is in the works

Airships may indeed be well-suited to tasks like cargo transport, surveying and surveillance, but what really captures peoples' imaginations is the thought of travelling aboard one as a tourist. Well, according to Britain's Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV),

Former US president George HW Bush apologizes after --

-actress claims he 'sexually assaulted' her from his WHEELCHAIR in this photograph- - with his wife Barbara standing by his side

Mitsubishi e-EVOLUTION Concept Unveiled

Mitsubishi has unveiled its all-electric e-EVOLUTION Concept from the 2017 Tokyo Motor Show.

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

AMERICA'S FUTURE WAR TRUCKS DON'T NEED NO STINKING WINDOWS

THE AMERICAN MILITARY is working to add a lot of tools to its arsenal. Drones. Lasers. Laser-shooting drones. Drone-killing lasers. But the researchers devising the future of warfare are doing some subtraction too. One thing you won't see on the ba

First Moon colonists could be molemen living giant 50km cave

A Japanese space probe data confirmed that an enormous cavern stretching for about 50 kilometers exists beneath the moon's surface, offering a possible protected site for future lunar bases, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Oct. 18.

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

Spacex BFR and developing the high ground is the geopolitical game changer

There is a lot of talk about a hypersonic weapons arms race to create missiles and then a decade later hypersonic drones and then a decade after that hypersonic spy planes and fighter planes.

Boeing gave the US the B52 and 747, the Spacex BFR will be bigger than either

Boeing gave the US military long range conventional bombing superiority for decades with the B52 and commercial aviation dominance with the 747.

Mach Effect Propulsion Replication and modeling that matches experimentation

The Mach-Effect thruster is a propellantless propulsion concept that has been in development by J.F. Woodward for more than two decades.

Mach Effect Propulsion better to go smaller with an array of devices

At 23 minutes of this video. SSI SA Dr. Heidi Fearn explains how just scaling power and size causes problems. (heat, arcing and other problems).

Boron Nitride Nanotubes potential material for future hypersonic planes

Boron nitride nanotubes could be used to make hypersonic planes.

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

Pilot Wave theory suggests Trumpet shaped Emdrive would have more thrust

A radio frequency (RF) resonant cavity thruster, EmDrive, is a controversial proposed type of propellentless electromagnetic thruster with a microwave cavity, designed to produce thrust from an electromagnetic field inside the cavity.

Everything We Know About The Tesla Semi – Infographics

All we've seen of the Tesla Semi so far is a couple of tweets from Elon Musk and a portentous picture of a couple of scowling headlights, and quick peak/spyshot at something on a flat bed in the wild that inspired some pretty decent renders.

X3 ion thruster achieves record 102 kilowatts of power and 5.4 newtons of thrust

The X3 thruster was designed by researchers at the University of Michigan in cooperation with NASA and the U.S. Air Force.

Beaming laser power to ion drive is 300-400 times more thrust than just laser photonic sail

A 100 meter to 150 meter solar array that is attuned to the lithium ion will be about 70% efficient.

Magnetoshell getting ready for cubesat tests

David Kirtley, MSNW, LLC, Magnetoshell Aerocapture for Manned Missions and Planetary Deep Space Orbiters

California Allows Fully Autonomous (No Driver Present) Vehicle Tests

Truly driverless vehicles are about to hit the streets of California.

Bitcoin Surges Above $4900 Amid Catalan 'Independence' Declaration

Bitcoin began accelerating ahead of Catalan leader Puigdemont's initial speech time, but after his delayed start, the crypto currency accelerated higher...

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.

SpaceX Launches 10 New Iridium Satellites, Sticks Rocket Landing

The private spaceflight company SpaceX successfully launched 10 communications satellites into low-Earth orbit today (Oct. 9) and landed the spent Falcon 9 first-stage rocket booster on a drone ship in the Pacific Ocean.

Richard Branson says he's 6 months from going to space --

-- but Mars belongs to Elon Musk

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.

Carbon fiber Slingshot jets onto the powered board scene

The promise of a powered wakeboard has captured the imagination of thrill seekers and water lovers alike, but there's no consensus on the best way to bring that vision to life. Some companies will tell you electric power is the solution, but Mako doe

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.?

Rigid solar EnergySail set for sea trials next year

Eco Marine Power is preparing to put its rigid solar energy sails through their paces next year.

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.

Why James Dyson Could Steal Elon Musk's Electric Car Throne

The British inventor described his vision for "something quite unique and better" than the status quo in a company-wide email this week.

This Crazy New Tech Contest Is Set on Finally Making Jetpacks a Practical Reality

"The universal dream of pure human flight."

The Neyk submarine: Does this "subaquatic luxury jet" hold water?

If you have enough spare change for your own bespoke submarine, you can probably afford one kitted out like a luxury private jet. That seems to be the logic behind Ocean Submarine's Neyk line of submersibles.

To make space exploration easier, China will launch rockets from freighters and planes

The country wants to become a space superpower.

Elon Musk plans to put all of SpaceX's resources into its Mars rocket

Today, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he hopes to finance his plans to colonize Mars by making SpaceX's entire fleet of vehicles -- the Falcon 9, the Falcon Heavy, and the Dragon spacecraft -- obsolete.

Elon Musk proposes city-to-city travel by rocket, right here on Earth

'Anywhere on Earth in under an hour,' Musk says

Tensegrity approaches to growable space habitats

Growing the size of a space habitat over time.
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