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Wizz Air is considering flying with empty middle seats to enable social distancing while on flights. This would need to be combined with all passengers have masks and other sanitizing and safety...

The world has over 2 million coronavirus cases. Italy’s coronavirus epidemic has been about two weeks ahead of the US. Italy has had a slow reduction in daily cases and daily deaths from its...

BWX Technologies, Inc., Westinghouse and X-energy have contracts to each begin design work on a mobile nuclear reactor prototype under a Strategic Capabilities Office initiative called Project Pele....

University of Queensland researchers have designed a new tarantula venom mini-protein that can potentially relieve severe pain without addiction. A mini-protein in tarantula venom from the Chinese...

Three new alphacoronaviruses, three new betacoronaviruses, and one known alphacoronavirus previously identified in other southeast Asian countries were detected for the first time in bats in Myanmar....

The advance number for seasonally adjusted insured unemployment during the week ending April 4 was 11,976,000, an increase of 4,530,000 from the previous week’s revised level. This marks the...

Robert Zubrin describes what sets Elon Musk apart from the other Space Entrepreneurs. Elon Musk applied his wealth but also his passion with savvy leadership to create the success of SpaceX. There is...

Tesla Model 3 has 80% of EV sales and is the number 6 car model in the US based on unit sales in Q1 2020. It has the highest sedan car sales by revenue. This is matching up the Model 3 against...

X-FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb and four other experts have published a roadmap to re-opening the US economy from Coronavisus shutdowns. Here Nextbigfuture reviews the details of the next phase....

The Carnival of Space 659 is up at Urban Astronomer. Universe Today Are the Gaps in These Disks Caused by Planets? Above – This is the sharpest image ever taken by ALMA — sharper than is...

CanSino Biologics is starting phase II clinical trials for Ad5-nCoV, a COVID-19 vaccine candidate. Ad5-nCoV is a genetic engineered vaccine candidate with the replication-defective adenovirus type 5...

The Global Initiative on Sharing All Influenza Data (GISAID) is one of the databases compiling all of the genome sequencing of COVID-19. The disease is being repeatedly sequenced to track it...

New York Governor Cuomo and the University Washington IHME say the worst of the US Coronavirus for this wave happened three days ago. The Washington IHME, says Italy had its peak of COVID-19 resource...

The latest U.S. and European data proves the world is in its steepest freefall ever—and the old economic and political playbooks don’t apply. This global economic collapse is not the result of a...

Taiwan, South Korea and Vietnam have been countries with the best coronavirus procedures and they are safely keeping their economies open. South Korea had a significant outbreak that they were able...

From Wednesday, Denmark children aged 11 and younger will return to schools and nurseries, after a month of closures. Denmark, Norway, Czech Republic and Austria are the first European countries that...

UK Prime Minister is out of the hospital and will recover at his country residence, Chequers.

Admiral Brett Giroir, lead White House team COVID-19 testing efforts, said he is “very optimistic” that tens of millions of the tests will be available by May. This could enable the US...

Apple and Google will be launching a comprehensive solution that includes application programming interfaces (APIs) and operating system-level technology to assist in enabling contact tracing. Given...

The USA became the first nation to record more than 2,000 virus deaths in a single day and total US COVID-19 deaths are over 20,000. New York is nearing 10,000 deaths. SOURCES- Worldometers.info, BBC...

Oxford University Professor Sarah Gilbert has been making and testing vaccines designed to induce T cell responses for ten years, chiefly using antigens from malaria and influenza. Based at the...

Tesla Shanghai is already at full 150,000 car per year production this month. They will finish an expansion in months and will have even more production in 2020. Jason Yang has video of the...

Generally speaking, 40% to 50% of patients with severe respiratory distress die while on ventilators, but 80% or more of coronavirus patients placed on the machines in New York City have died, state...

Russia and Saudi Arabia are close to a deal to cut oil production. The economic shutdowns have cut demand for oil from 100 million barrels per day to 70-80 million barrels of oil per day.

The University of Washington IHME has reduced their forecast of US Coronavirus deaths are down to 60,000. The mid-range forecasts were over 90,000 last week and had started at about 82,000 two weeks...

The Washington IHME models are being adjusted downwards for COVID-19. The US death estimates were over 90,000 and are back to 81,000. There are hopes that the lower range of 40,000 to 65,000 deaths...

The WHO (World Health Organization), Singapore and USA reversed their position on using face masks against coronavirus. The new position is that all people in a community should wear masks when they...

France, Spain, Italy, USA, UK, Belgium and Netherlands are the global hotspots for coronavirus. Belgium and the Netherlands have much smaller populations but have about half of the deaths per capita...

Professor Kim Woo-joo from Korea University Guro Hospital predicts that the BEST possible case at this point is for the global coronavirus pandemic to be stopped in July or August. This is based on...

Taiwan and South Korea have had abundant testing of Coronavirus. Taiwan started investigating in December of 2019. Taiwan used social media to monitor the initial reports of an unusual disease. They...

A cruise ship, Resolute, was rammed by a Venezuelan military patrol ship and the military ship sank. Columbia Cruise Services operates the cruise ship. The cruise ship was in international waters...

The SpaceX Starship SN3 prototype fails its cryogenic pressure test. Elon Musk speculates there could have been a test configuration mistake. This might mean different sections or tanks would need...

Tesla produced almost 103,000 vehicles and delivered approximately 88,400 vehicles. This is Tesla’s best ever first-quarter performance. Model Y production started in January and deliveries...

The World has officially passed the 1 million coronavirus case level. There are many undercounts from undiagnosed cases and undiagnosed deaths. There is also systemic underreporting. There is also...

1. Universe Today – This Powerful Ion Engine Will Be Flying on NASA’s DART Mission to Try and Redirect an Asteroid 2. Universe Today – Even More Repeating Fast Radio Bursts Discovered 3....

Another 6.6 million jobless claims were added in todays report of US unemployment. Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab, says this is an underestimate because the systems...

Oil prices have dropped to $20 per barrel and that is for the most expensive oil. There is cheaper oil at $10 per barrel. Oil demand has dropped 25% as no one is driving. Companies like Whiting...

Singapore developed a contact-tracing smartphone app called TraceTogther. It allow Singapore to quickly track people who have been exposed to confirmed coronavirus cases. The app can identify people...

The University of Washington has updated its COVID-19 projections for all states and for the United States. Total COVID-19 deaths projected to August 4, 2020 in United States of America is now 83,967...

The USA and Europe have a similar scale situation with cases of Coronavirus COVID-19 per million people. The US had about 20,000 new cases. Europe collectively has more new cases and more deaths....

I spotted my first Tesla Model Y being driven in the wild. It was in Lafayette, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tesla Model Y deliveries started about 2 weeks ago, but there has also been...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, medical leading the US Coronavirus task force, says based on what he’s seeing, the U.S. could experience between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths from Covid-19. Europe appears to...

NASA has selected SpaceX as the first U.S. commercial provider under the Gateway Logistics Services contract to deliver cargo, experiments and other supplies to the agency’s Gateway in lunar orbit....

In Italy, 500 COVID-19 patients used ventilators made with scuba masks and a 3D printed connector. RT: 500 patients in northern Italian hospitals are receiving ventilators, produced by hacked scuba...

The Institute for Health Metrics (IHME) at the University of Washington has modeled forecasts for each state and the USA. The forecasts and models were run two days ago. They forecasted deaths,...

Which are the US cities that will have the most serious problems with coronavirus COVID-19 after New York? Newark, New Jersey is included with the New York Metro area. Detroit has 1000 cases with...

David Braun and his team and conceptually solved how to finally enable a high technology version of spring enhanced running where we could go 70% faster than Usain Bolt. They will have a prototype...

The hardest-hit COVID-19 locations in the world are the islands of San Marino and Andorra and the countries of Italy and Spain. San Marino has a population of 33,000. This is eight times the...

A 70-year-old preacher in India died of coronavirus and he may have infected up to 40,000 villagers. The villager have been quarantined. Five other villages have been sealed off. A week after his...

Twin HTR-PM reactors will drive a single 210 MWe turbine in China’s high-temperature pebble bed reactor. This new reactor could eventually be mostly factory mass-produced. The higher...