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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced July 25 the agency will conduct a “Green Run” core stage test for the Space Launch System rocket ahead of the upcoming Artemis 1 lunar mission. Perhaps in...

Bloodstream microbots are old news, but now Caltech has laser activated microbots

Facebook, OpenStreetMap, and Map with AI are creating tools that will enable vastly faster mapping of unmapped roads and other unmapped feature. Artificial intelligence to predict features on...

Facebook has created devices that read all the words of your inner voice and Elon Musk’s Neuralink is creating brain-computer interfaces (BCI) that will have thousands and later millions of...

Capella Space constellation of small but powerful satellites employ space-based radar, beaming through darkness and cloud cover to gather the information you need to make informed decisions. When...

University of New South Wales (UNSW) Professor Michelle Simmons and her team have developed the fastest two-qubit gate between atoms suspended in silicon. A two-qubit gate is the central building...

Elon Musk’s Boring Company raised $120 million and has a $920 million valuation. Boring has a $48.7 million mile-long project to build a tunnel with people moving pods around the Las Vegas...

There is a tweet from the Tesla Show of the inside of the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory. Tesla agreed to pay China 2.23 billion yuan ($323 million) in tax every year as part of a deal with local...

SpaceX 200 meter Starhopper test will be in about two weeks. There's your Starhopper 200 meter test NET (No Earlier Than) date. August 12. https://t.co/y9hoBc4w9f — Chris B – NSF...

The world we know today has largely been shaped by geography, populations and agriculture. Peter Zeihan has some useful analysis of how geography has shaped geopolitics. He correctly notes the large...

George Dvorsky, Futurist and Transhumanist, has written at Gizmodo that Humans will never colonize Mars. This is an interesting position from George who wrote in favor of Dyson Spheres in 2012....

China Fixing Polluted Land and Upgrading Farmland

Super-thin, lightweight X-ray mirrors made of silicon can make next-generation X-ray space telescopes. Above – Goddard scientist Will Zhang holds mirror segments made of silicon. These X-ray...

NASA has 19 new technology research projects for technology to enable Moon to Mars exploration. SpaceX will work with NASA for a moon landing project (landing the Starship on the moon) and for...

China passed Japan in 2010 to become the second-largest economy in the world based upon nominal (exchange rate) GDP. China may not pass the United States to become the world’s largest economy...

Chinese scientists claims to have several breakthroughs in stealth materials technology that will make fighter jets and other weapons lighter, cheaper to build and able to avoid radar detection....

Elon previously described a vision of radically transforming the factories that build his cars. In 2016, Elon had the goal of making his factories ten times more productive every ten years. Elon...

Thin Mirrors Boost Solar Efficiency to 29% and Soon 50% For Better Drones and Space Probes

1. Universe Today – LightSail 2 is Sending Home New Pictures of Earth LightSail 2, the brainchild of The Planetary Society, has gifted us two new gorgeous images of Earth. The small spacecraft...

Paul Krugman wrote an opinion piece where he rants against future radical life extension. Krugman fears that it will only be available to billionaires. Krugman scenario is that Peter Thiel would...

The US is increasing hypersonic weapon investment in 2020 to $2.6 billion. The UK has a $12 million contract with Rolls-Royce to develop high-Mach aircraft propulsion systems. Russia has the Avangard...

Elon says the Spacex Starhopper which has its first untethered flight will fly suborbital when it has three Raptor engines installed. Single engine will have his truck s was p to one mile high. Elon...

Nextbigfuture interviewed Robert Hargraves of Thorcon to clarify some information about the status of the revolutionary Thorcon molten salt nuclear reactor and the implications of the new agreement...

On the recent quarterly conference call, Elon Musk indicated that Tesla will have clear roadmap to a Terawatt hour per year of battery production. If all of the Terawatt hour per year of batteries...

Tesla is speeding up their European Gigafactory efforts and are hoping to finalize a location choice in the coming quarters. Elon said in Q and A at the 2019Q2 conference call that he was hoping to...

SpaceX had a successful 20 meter first untethered flight for the Starhopper. They will go higher and higher with test hops similar to the Falcon 9 grasshopper flight tests. Starhopper flight...

SpaceX has a 44th successful first stage recovery and a good launch. This mission will add a second docking port to the space station to handle more traffic from future crew Dragon and future Boeing...

LPP Fusion Will Scale to Higher Fusion Yield With New Beryllium Electrode

Elon Musk indicated that SpaceX will test thin ceramic tiles to protect the Super Heavy Starship from re-entry heat instead of using active transpirational cooling. This will only need to be on...

The full Neuralink paper describing how their multi-thousand channel brain interface system will be built and implanted is here. It is called “An integrated brain-machine interface platform...

The IEEE International Roadmap for Devices and Systems (IRDS) has a roadmap to one-nanometer semiconductor devices in 2033. The updated IRDS includes new information on cryogenic electronics and...

In 2017, China spent about $8.4 billion on its civilian and military space budget while Russia cut its space program back to $3 billion. The US NASA and Military Space budget is about $48 billion....

Social engineering is when someone tricks people into making security mistakes or giving away sensitive information. Social engineering attacks are increasing. According to the FireEye email threat...

In an interview with Time magazine, Elon Musk thinks SpaceX could land a cargo mission to the moon in less than two years. Time magazine editor-at-large Jeffrey Kluger’s interview with Elon...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon are vertical ahead of tonight’s resupply mission to the space station. Falcon 9 and Dragon are vertical ahead of tonight’s resupply mission to the @Space_Station....

Tesla has released its second quarter earnings. The analysts expected $6.41 billion in revenue and a forty cents on adjusted per share loss. Revenue reported was $6.35 billion in revenue and a $1.21...

A video shows some of the interior of the Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory and there is another video indicated the potential financial impact of the factory in 2020. After spoke with my source in China, I...

Elon Musk indicated that the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship will have 41 raptor engines. This means that instead of 31 engines on the first stage super heavy there will be 35. There will be six engines...

Elon Musk tweeted that a 10-kilometer hyperloop track with a full vacuum tunnel and a curve will be built. It will be built by The Boring Company with SpaceX. They currently have a 1.6 km (1 mi)...

Update: Enables Completely Untraceable Currency Transactions at Low Cost and Precedes Upcoming Particl Open Marketplace Mainnet Launch On the day of its second anniversary, Particl, the open-source...

Team @TUM_Hyperloop hit a top speed of 288 mph to win the 2019 Hyperloop Pod Competition Team @TUM_Hyperloop just hit a top speed of 288 mph – congratulations on winning the 2019 Hyperloop Pod...

SpaceX is building a new rocket related building. Whatever it is they are building at the #StarshipEast facility must be a high priority. Look how far it has come since yesterday- an arch has been...

World Health Declares Ebola Outbreak a Global Level 3 Emergency

Marvel’s Kevin Feige announced two years of movie schedule at Comic Con. This could be called a short Phase 4 slate of movies and shows. There will be a space heavy series of movies starting in...

Kevin Feige announces at Comic con that Avengers Endgame will be the number one movie in global box office on Sunday.. This is based upon Disney’s accounting for both movies. Disney owns the Marvel...

There is a full length trailer for Star Trek : Picard. Star Trek: Picard should start in early 2020. It’ll stream in the US on CBS All Access and on the Space Channel in Canada. Amazon Prime...

In five days, Tesla will release its quarterly earnings. Elon Musk said a month ago that Tesla had a decent shot at having a record-breaking quarter in every way. Tesla did delivery a record number...