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Hyperchange has a conversation with Sean Mehta, a battery scientist at Sila Nanotechnologies, about the potential of transition metal-free Cathodes. This has the potential to disrupt the battery...

Adam Savage tell stories as he remembers Grant Imahara. Grant recently died from a brain aneurysm. Grant made Geoff Peterson, a snarky, remote-controlled skeleton which was used on the Craig Ferguson...

Due to rampant cyberattacks, companies are upping their cybersecurity investments. Worldwide security spending is expected to grow by 2.4 percent and hit $123.8 billion this year. However, despite...

The Lancet has a research paper that predicts the world population will peak in 2064 at 9.7 billion and then start a sharp decline. The researchers expect countries like China to see its population...

There is a new study of world population from 2018 to 2100 which projects global population peaking in 2064 at 9.73 billion and US population peaking at 360 million and falling back to 330 million....

The USA Navy has joined the Navies of Russia, China, Venezuela and Iran who have had major navy ships destroyed by fire or other causes. The US appears to have lost a Wasp class assault ship to a...

The SpaceX Starlink network will start beta testing this summer (probably August, 2020) in North America. There will be another launch in July and two more launches in August. This will be enough for...

Hideaki Horie’s innovation is to replace the battery’s basic components, which are metal-lined electrodes and liquid electrolytes, with a resin construction. He says this approach dramatically...

Grant Imahara has tragically passed away. He was famous for working on Mythbusters. He was 49. He recently made an animitronic baby Yoda to entertain sick kids at hospitals. He made robots for Star...

In the first quarter of 2020, there was $1.2 billion invested into space companies. $535 million was for two funding rounds for SpaceX. $111M for Kinéis – Building a constellation of 25...

Over the last three decades, the South Pole has experienced a record-high statistically significant warming of 0.61 ± 0.34 °C per decade, more than three times the global average. Here, we use an...

Millions of Americans and Canadians – and billions of people across the world — love to gamble. Especially on sports, which generates 70% of global gaming revenue: more than lotteries, poker,...

Jeff Bezos has gotten about $7 billion richer so far today as Amazon is trading up 3.5% and Elon is up 13-14% in his Tesla holdings. UPDATE- Tesla stock ended up down for the day. So Elon is back to...

Apple is trading up 4.3% and has a valuation of $1.73 trillion. Saudi Aramco is at $1.77 trillion. The price of Aramco shares are 33.3 riyals. At 36.8 riyals it was worth $1.96 trillion. At 33.3...

SpaceX prototype SN5 will undergo static fires. IF everything goes right, then there are launch windows for SpaceX test flight launch of SN5 to 150 meters. SOURCES- What About It?, Engineering Today...

The science and technology of vastly better batteries can be very confusing. Lithium Metal and hybrid lithium batteries and many other battery chemistries. Nextbigfuture simplifies it. The batteries...

Apple, Microsoft and Amazon are close to passing Saudi Aramco for the most valuable company in the world. Aramco is valued at $1.72 trillion Apple is valued at $1.66 trillion Microsoft is at $1.62...

This year, the healthcare sector has found itself under a forensic microscope as the world comes to terms with a pandemic few predicted. Questions swirl about transmission and infection rates,...

Imec’s Analog in Memory Computing (AiMC) architecture (a new AI chip) is optimized to perform deep neural network calculations on in-memory computing hardware in the analog domain. Achieving...

Today’s information technology relies on electronics that consumes a huge amount of energy, the electrons within electric currents can also transfer a form of angular momentum called spin....

Peak laser intensity demonstrations have occurred on specific Nd:glass-based lasers: * the Vulcan PW in the UK at 1 × 10^21 W/cm2 (2004); * the Ti:sapphirebased HERCULES laser at the University of...

Canadian researchers at the Advanced Laser Light Source (ALLS) facility at INRS, generated 300 terawatt laser pulses (3 joules for a 10-femtosecond pulse). They plan to repeat the experiment with an...

Tiny, 3D printed cubes of plastic, with intricate fractal voids built into them, have proven to be effective at dissipating shockwaves, potentially leading to new types of lightweight armor and...

Russia’s military is so meaningless to the US that the annual report on the capabilities of Russia’s armed forces is two pages long and a one-paragraph disclaimer. Oil and gas production...

Higher levels of humanin, a peptide encoded in the small genome of the mitochondria, in the body is linked to longer lifespans and better health. Aging Journal – The mitochondrial derived...

Tesla is trading at a valuation of over $250 billion. If Tesla has no factory shutdowns they will build another 55,000 cars in future quarters and they are expanding capacity. This could be 160,000...

Team members of the Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) instrument on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft found new evidence that the Moon’s subsurface might be richer in metals,...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Program is concluding its structural qualification test series with one upcoming final test that will push it to failure. Late in 2019, engineers at NASA’s Marshall...

Extreme metamaterial ceramic solar sails survive a close pass of our sun to reach speeds of 60-70AU per year which is over 0.1% of light speed. Theis propel low mass spacecraft using a dive to...

Worldometers estimates the world population is 7.796 billion. This is increasing by 224,400 people every day. This means we are about 900 days from 8 billion people. Worldometers is leveraging UN...

A meter-class telescope with a coronagraph to block solar light, placed in the strong interference region of the solar gravitational lens (SGL), is capable of imaging an exoplanet at a distance of up...

Early treatment with hydroxychloroquine cut the death rate significantly in sick patients hospitalized with COVID-19 – and without heart-related side-effects, according to a new study published by...

Scientists attending the International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems in Bali, Indonesia, were excited by ThorCon CEO Lars Jorgensen’s presentation of the design of the TMSR-500 liquid...

Bloomberg New Energy Finance (NEF) forecasted in the Electric Vehicle Outlook 2020 that battery pack prices will get below $100/kWh in 2024 and reach $61/kwh in 2030. EV battery demand has a slow...

Other carmakers had second-quarter auto sales drop 24-49%. Tesla grew auto deliveries from first quarter to second quarter. The expectation is that car sales will recover to nearly normal levels for...

In February 2020, I wrote a Nextbigfuture newsletter about my bull case for Tesla. I have a variation on the high functioning EV company Ark Invest case which has a $3400 price target for 2024. The...

The fact that Nextbigfuture has been right on Tesla for years is less important than the fact that Tesla has several more years of crazy share price growth. The years of being correct is public...

Nanogaps between plasmonic electrodes produced 10,000 times more light than expected. Hot electrons were created by electrons driven to tunnel between gold electrodes, their recombination with holes...

The coronavirus is currently changing slowly. There are only about two dozen mutations. There have been many reports of multiple strains of SARS-CoV-2. Virologists use the world strain as a label to...

Michael Shellenberger of the Breakthrough Institute has written Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All.” An article covering his book was published and then censored at...

If we send telescopes out to 4 light days we can use the gravity of the sun to amplify the power of telescopes by 100 billion times. Although we can build larger telescopes with higher resolution...

The US has runway repair teams that can repair holes in two hours or less. They use truckloads of dirt and rocks and then cover with a 45 by 60-foot fiberglass mat. Chinese suppliers sell fiberglass...

A large reservoir of freshwater was discovered beneath Fiery Cross Reef, one of the artificial islands China made in the South China Sea. The reservoir is growing at a rate of about 1 meter (3.3...

There is a company called Nikola which claims they will sell semi-trucks using hydrogen. Amazingly, with virtually no revenue and no vehicles made, Nikola is worth over $22 billion. They say they...

People know that computers became a multi-trillion dollar industry because it rode the exponential growth in power of Moore’s Law. Aviation also experienced decades of exponential growth and...

Dr. Steven Howe identified an antimatter niche for the acceleration of small unmanned interstellar probes. Small amounts of antimatter can be used to initiate fission events whose daughters provided...

Extreme metamaterial solar sails as proposed here have the potential to shift the paradigm of space exploration enabling numerous low cost and high-speed missions to be launched anytime and anywhere....

A new six-junction solar cell, developed by NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), converts 47.1% of incident light into electricity when combined with optical concentration. Indications thus...

RUSI provides an analysis of China and India military balance and the border war situation. Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) is the world’s oldest and the UK’s leading defense and security think...

Researchers have found that age-reversing effects can be achieved by simply diluting the blood plasma of old mice — no young blood needed. Above – Older mice grew significantly more new muscle...