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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...
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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.
GS Yuasa Promises Range-Doubling EV Battery By 2020
Range-doubling battery technology!
Emdrive inventor Shawyer patenting new approach and has bigger claims
Roger Shawyer is the original inventor of the Emdrive. He claims to have a new generation EmDrive and has filed for a patent in the UK. The Emdrive is super-controversial propellantless space drive. Many argue that there are problems with the physics
Tesla applying to test self-driving semi-trucks in Nevada and California
Tesla is developing a long-haul, electric semi-truck that can drive itself and move in "platoons" that automatically follow a lead vehicle, and is getting closer to testing a prototype, according to an email discussion of potential road tests bet
Intel to build a 100-strong fleet of self-driving cars
In addition to drones, virtual reality and smart sports gear, Intel is making strong moves in the world autonomous vehicles, something it recently demonstrated with a US$15 billion purchase of driverless tech company Mobileye.
New propulsion system gets CubeSats moving with teaspoons of water
Inexpensive and compact CubeSats are great for certain missions, but their simplicity can limit their applications. For one, most of them don't pack their own propulsion systems, instead hitchhiking into orbit aboard other satellite launches.
NASA funds $18.8 million to create and test fuel for nuclear thermal propulsion
As NASA pursues innovative, cost-effective alternatives to conventional propulsion technologies to forge new paths into the solar system, researchers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, say nuclear thermal propulsion tech
Supercapacitors game changing improvement on energy density compared to batteries
Supercapacitors have long been far faster charging than batteries but usually have 40 times less energy density (5 watt hours instead of 200 watt hours) compared to batteries.
Spacex and Boeing are both on track for 2018 manned flights
Boeing and SpaceX have indicated that they are on track to hit target launch dates in 2018.
A futuristic ride in Mercedes' self-driving car
We're all used to seeing "concept cars" -- those bits of automotive frippery that manufacturers trot out at motor shows every few months. Generally, they're either design tinsel that will never see the light of day, or previews of cars that will soon
Technocrat Funds Floating City Project As A "Deregulated" Hub Of Scientific Research
Technocrats hate to be told "no", so billionaire Technocrat Peter Thiel is funding a floating city in international waters, effectively removing all legal, moral and ethical restraints on scientific research. Thiel is a Transhuman and also wants
Creating nearly perfect meter sized graphene one hundred times faster
Researchers have achieved a leap forward in graphene production, from a technique that synthesizes a few square centimeters of single-crystal graphene in a couple of hours, to...
A Pod Races Through the Hyperloop for the First Time Ever
The future sounds a bit like a witch crying over a dead cat. That spooky wail is the sound hyperloop makes--at least, the version of the high-speed transportation system designed by Hyperloop One, which just took a big stride toward the day it fling
Technical progress towards interstellar laser beamed nanocraft
Breakthrough Starshot brings the Silicon Valley approach to space travel, capitalizing on exponential advances in key areas of technology since the beginning of the 21st century.
Smallest fully functional space probes now in orbit are precursors to interstellar chipsats
Breakthrough Starshot plans to launch a fleet of tiny interstellar chipsize probes to Proxima Centauri in 30 or 40 years.
Bollinger B1 Electric Truck Ready For Work, CHAdeMO Fast Charging –
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This Company Wants To Create A Lunar Outpost By 2020
US space firm, Moon Express, is competing in Google's global race to the moon.
Fisker EMotion To Get 145 kWh Battery Pack
Henrik Fisker has revealed battery specs for his Fisker EMotion electric super sedan
Luxembourg's New Law Lets Space Miners Keep Their Plunder
When Etienne Schneider became Luxembourg's minister of the economy in 2012, one of his first trips abroad was to NASA's Ames Research Center.
Elon Musk and Spacex new plan is to have much larger Mars landing craft
Elon Musk has said that he has changed his plans for Mars landing craft and Mars colonization. He will not use a dragon capsule for Mars.
'Substantial' ocean of water beneath moon's surface could help create human colony
Scientists who retested mineral samples collected during the Apollo moon missions now believe there's a massive amount of water under the lunar surface – a discovery which may make manned missions to the moon easier than previously thought.
UK has 2000 passenger seaplane design and China is building 50 passenger seaplanes
The world is experiencing growth in global air traffic and in order to cater for the growing market, the aviation industry is seeking to expand major airports, allowing for the development of bigger, faster, and more efficient aircraft.
Off-Road-Ready Tesla Model X Rendered
This macho beast of a Tesla Model X is ready to tackle the toughest terrain.
Elon Musk NY to DC hyperloop could break ground later this year
The Boring Company released a statement following Musk's tweets saying its talks with officials should lead to breaking ground on a tunnel "later this year."
Government "Flabbergasted" After Elon Musk's Most Bizarre Claim Yet
Elon Musk set the interwebs ablaze this morning when he tweeted out that he somehow got every major city on the eastern seaboard to "verbally approve" a "NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop" to be built by his Boring Company.
Unsinkable aluminum foam
Russians have added porosity to aluminum so that it can be lower density than water. Ships with porous aluminum foam would be unsinkable even with holes in the hull so long as the water that leaks in does not go beyond the buoyancy of the aluminum fo
A new generation of giant rockets is about to blast off
It's been 44 years since the mighty Saturn V last thundered skyward from a launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The towering rocket, generating enough power to lift 269,000 pounds into orbit, had been the workhorse of the Apollo moon miss
Hyperloop's First Real Test Is a Whooshing Success
Your dream of one day zipping from one city to another in a pod in a pneumatic tube just took one more step toward reality. Hyperloop One announced Wednesday that it successfully tested a full hyperloop.
Safer solid propellant for cubesats
Los Alamos National Laboratory has a radical new solid propellent for cubesats.
Airbus looking at large drones, flying cars with tests starting 2023
Airbus has set itself a goal of having a serialized production Urban Air Mobility (UAM) system ready for testing in a major city as early as 2023.
Sailorless Ships Are Coming to the Freight Industry
Tech companies from Google to Apple may be ploughing resources into driverless cars, but on our oceans, automated ships could be making bigger waves by the end of the decade.
Lucid Air Prototype Hits 235 MPH On High Speed Oval (w/video)
When 217 miles per hour isn't fast enough you go back to the drawing board if you're Lucid Motors.
Breakthrough high temperature ceramic for hypersonic planes and much more
Materials that can withstand very high temperatures well over 2000 degrees (up to 3000 degrees celsius) can enable hypersonic vehicle, better rockets, better reentry vehicles and other space and military applications. The new material ihas a rate of
MIT Envisions The First Space Hotel
How do you make research in space less expensive? Why not build a space station where half of the structure functions as a luxury hotel–and the other half belongs to NASA's astronauts?
Carbon nanotube reinforce Composites can reduce space vehicle mass by 30%
NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is keenly interested in nanotechnology – an approach that can reduce the mass and improve the performance of aerospace systems.
Solar Team Eindhoven Launches Lightyear One Solar Electric Car – Video
Meet Lightyear, a Dutch company which is developing solar-powered electric car – the Lightyear One, reportedly capable to "drive for months without charging".
The Boring Company Adds Elevator Skeleton For Car/Pod Transport
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is certainly not wasting any time with his Boring Company concept.
Volvo Plans to Go Electric, to Abandon Conventional Car Engine by 2019
CEO reiterates target of selling one million electric cars and hybrids by 2025
Hypersonic and anti-hypersonic arms race
Lockheed Martin is using turbine rocket combined cycle (TRCC) to build a mach 6-10 hypersonic plane. The TRCC is an engine that switches between turbofan, ramjet and scramjets for subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flight. The TRCC engine will be t
Solar powered EMdrive version of Space Battleship Yamato
Space Battleship Yamato is a major anime movie series. The original Yamato movie in Japan eclipsed that of the local release of Star Wars. It was followed by over a dozen movie sequels.
If EMdrive is real and scales with Q factor then we get almost Star Trek level Technology
Adam Crowl considers spaceships if EM-Drive is verified as a real thing.
Progress to stable laser propelled sails
Stable flight of a laser sail is an essential requirement of beam-driven propulsion. Centauri Dreams talked to James Benford about work towards stable beam flight. It places considerable demand upon the shape of the sail and beam.
ESA Plans to Privatize Robotic Space Plane by 2025
Although Europe's Space Rider reusable space plane is three years or so from its debut, the European Space Agency (ESA) is already making plans to privatize the unmanned orbital vehicle.
Liftoff! SpaceX Nails Second Launch in Three Days
SpaceX nailed its second launch in three days today (June 25) with liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying 10 satellites owned by Iridium Communications.
Chinook ETS Drives Like, And Against, The Wind – Video
It's part sailboat, part wind turbine, and all student-built.
Ecotuned Ready To Convert Ford Trucks To Electric, Like A 48-kWh F-150
Sure, Ford is working on some sort of electrified F-150 pick-up truck, but whatever that vehicle is, it's a long ways away.
New Paper Ream-Like Battery Boasts Impressive Energy Density
Doubling the energy density, and thus range of the state-of-the-art electric vehicles to some 620 miles (1,000 km) is the stated goal of Mobile Energy Storage Systems out of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Dresden, Germany.
IVYS Simple Fuel Station Offers Homemade Hydrogen For $250,000 – live video
It's a lot cheaper than a full-scale H2 station, that's for sure.
The Electric, Driverless Revolution Is About to Hit the High Seas
Fully electric ship Yara Birkeland to be launched next year
Will be controlled remotely in 2019, fully automated by 2020
Lightning Motorcycles Gunning For 400-Mile Single-Charge Run
According to Lightning Motorcycles, the company intends to test an eMoto capable of traveling from Los Angeles to San Francisco without a recharge. The run is expected to be late this summer or early fall.
Small nuclear fusion space and energy systems using high efficiency RF heating
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has two NASA grants.