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Eli Lilly a Phase 3 trial studying LY-CoV555 for the prevention of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 in residents and staff at long-term care facilities in the U.S. (skilled nursing facilities,...

The Beirut explosion was the result of over six years of criminal incompetence and bureaucracy in Lebanon. 2750 tons of ammonium nitrate in the form of small pellets was intended as agricultural...

Virgin Galactic has released first-stage designs of mach 3 passenger jet that would hold 19 passengers and fly at an altitude above 60,000 feet. British engine maker Rolls-Royce has signed on as a...

I eyeballed the big Beirut explosion and thought it was 1000 tons of explosive, however, it was 2750 tons of Ammonium Nitrate. Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab said an estimated 2750 tons of...

The SpaceX SN5 Starship prototype has had a successful 150 meter hop test. SOURCES – Everyday Astronaut, Space Frontier, Overlook Horizon Written By Brian Wang, nextbigfuture.com

A large blast has hit the Lebanese capital, Beirut, causing widespread damage and injuring many people. It is not yet clear what caused the explosion in the port area of the city. Video posted online...

Most of the world has 10-100 times less per capita COVID-19 testing than the USA. The USA has probably only detected about 10-20% of its total COVID-19 cases. South Africa has the fifth most cases in...

OpenAI’s GPT-3 is the most powerful AI language model ever. GPT-2 was released in 2019. GPT-3 is a big leap forward. The model has 175 billion parameters (the values that a neural network tries...

Minister of Economy, Labor and Energy of the State of Brandenburg Jörg Steinbach said Tesla’s goal is to complete the construction Gig Berlin factory at a faster pace than the 11-month Giga...

Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Facebook had combined 2019 revenue of $899 billion and should have over $1 trillion in revenue in 2020. Most of the revenue gains will be from Amazon. Amazon...

The Boeing Starliner crew capsule will fly a second time without astronauts after software problems and other issues caused the first test flight on 20 December 2019 to fail to reach the...

On Saturday, May 30, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched Crew Dragon’s second demonstration (Demo-2) mission from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and today NASA...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk spoke with Automotive News Publisher Jason Stein in the first of a three-part interview. Elon said that today car factories have a speed of 0.2 meters per second. Walking is five...

Tesla Berlin Gigafactory has modular walls and many pillars built. This is three months faster than the first walls being put up at the Shanghai Gigafactory. If Tesla builds Gigafactory Berlin at the...

Sandy Munro has done ultra-detailed teardowns and reverse-engineering of Telsa cars. He describes how the thermal management used in the Tesla Model Y is vastly superior to other carmakers. This...

Other solar system could have as many as seven Earth-like planets, when those solar systems do not have a gas giant planet like Jupiter. The team created a model system in which they simulated...

Apple is trading at a market valuation of $1.78 1.84 trillion. Saudi Aramco has been the most valuable public company since their IPO. They are valued at $1.77 trillion. Apple is now $70 billion more...

George Church (biotech genius with over two dozen companies several with multi-billion valuation) says he has not stepped outside of his house in five months. He believes the vaccine designed by...

US real gross domestic product (GDP) decreased at an annual rate of 32.9 percent in the second quarter of 2020, according to the “advance” estimate released by the Bureau of Economic...

Morgan Stanley’s Adam Jonas now has raised its main price for Tesla to $1050 per share. This is below the current $1450-1600 trading range for Tesla. Adam Jonas has a bull case of $2500. The...

Google has over 1 billion installed voice assistants while Apple Siri, Microsoft Cortana and Baidu DeurOS have about 400-500 million installed assistants. Apple Siri is mainly used with iPhone. This...

The fate of the $2-trillion auto industry is now sealed: In this double disruption that’s defying the global pandemic, Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has gained over 433%, sailing past a $1,500 share price and...

Deloitte have recently published a study outlining the important role that bicycles will undertake in the future of urban transport. Predominantly, the role they will play will be in reducing traffic...

Intel was the dominant computer chip company for decades. Intel built this dominance on engineering execution and being the undisputed leader in lithography. Intel was supposed to be at 10-nanometer...

Herbert Diess, Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen Group, wrote on LinkedIn that the most valuable company in the world in 5-10 years will be in mobility : Elon Musk delivers results...

Valleytronics, based on the valley degree of freedom rather than charge, is a promising candidate for next-generation information devices beyond complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS)...

Using cutting-edge computational techniques, researchers from the Flatiron Institute in New York City and Cornell University have solved the first robust theoretical model of strange metals. The work...

Asahi Kasei Corporation succeeded in designing a laser diode that emits deep-ultraviolet light. The laser diode emits the world’s shortest lasing wavelength, at 271.8 nanometers (nm), under...

More public mask-wearing is very important to curbing the spread of COVID-19, but is 80% of the population complying with mask-wearing good enough? Above the picture shows Mask compliance but no...

There’s a multi-trillion dollar trend completely upending Wall Street… With some of the biggest names in the business such as Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock...

When disaster strikes, small businesses turn to their business insurance policies for help – and those policies cover a wide range of situations, from storms and flooding to fires and worker...

We will be able to take megapixel images of exoplanets by putting telescopes in zones that are 600 to 2000 times the distance of the Earth to the Sun. Getting to 600 times as far away from the Sun we...

We have already directly imaged 322 exoplanets as of February 2020. Young planets that emit infrared light and are far from the glare of the star are the easiest to spot. NASA maintains a list of...

Daniel Deudney is a professor of political science and international relations who wrote a book called Dark Skies where he makes the case that colonizing space will increase the risk of human...

Neuralink will provide an update on their brain interface work in August and the expectation is that there will be progress on initial human trials. Elon Musk recently tweeted that the system could...

Gigafactory Berlin is being built on a 300 hectare (740 acre) plot of land. Gigafactory Shanghai is only being built 86 hectares (213 acres). Gigafactory Shanghai is being ramped to over 500,000...

On the Tesla earnings calls, Elon Musk announced they will make a Texas Gigafactory. They have started construction this past weekend. It will be built on a 2000 acre property on the Colorado river...

Tesla had $104 million in GAAP profit for the second quarter. They generated positive free cash flow of $418M. They have met all qualifying criteria for SP500 inclusion. There needs to be a meeting...

Elon Musk has tweeted that SpaceX will Attempt the 150 Meter Starship prototype hop later this week. Will attempt to fly later this week — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 21, 2020 There was also a...

China plans to build at least six aircraft battle groups by 2035. China will have two aircraft carrier groups for each area (Yellow Sea, East and South China seas). China has developed the...

QC Ware, a leader in enterprise software and services for quantum computing, announced a breakthrough in quantum machine learning (QML) that increases QML accuracy and speeds up the industry timeline...

Apart from co-founding Wryst, Brian is the creator of the science blog Nextbigfuture with 4 million readers per year. In this post, it’s all about the relevance of hygiene solutions by...

NASA is targeting a July 30 launch for its Perserverance Mars mission. The Mars rover Perseverance was stacked atop its United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on July 7. The Mars Perseverance rover...

China Tianwen-1 spacecraft is ready to launch on a Long March 5. It could launch on July 23, 2020. China’s national strategy set Mars as the next target for planetary exploration after...

SpaceX successfully launched the ANASIS-II mission on Monday, July 20 using a Falcon 9’s. The primary launch window opens at 5:00 p.m. EDT, or 21:00 UTC. The ANASIS-II is a South Korean military...

Physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) have made an optical mirror using only a few hundred identical atoms. They used a new metamaterial made of a single structured layer....

Researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have a cobalt-free high-energy lithium-ion battery that reduces the costs of producing batteries while...

Ark Invest provided detailed metrics for their bull case analysis for Tesla through 2024. Besides the self-driving aspect, there are two key factors for Tesla: the efficiency of factory construction...

The Solar Orbiter flew within 48 million miles of the Sun and took the closest pictures of the Sun to date. Other spacecraft have been closer, but none have carried Sun-facing imagers. Solar Orbiter...

Israel Aerospace Industries is working with Group 42 of Abu-Dhabi to research and develop a medical system that can scan the blood of people from above the skin and notify in seconds whether the...