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Joe Tegtmeyer reports on the many front castings for Tesla Model Y that are already being produced in GigaTexas. There are over 50 Model Y front castings. The casting machine is installed and in test...

Here are the disclosures that the US military regularly encounters unidentified flying objects. (UFO) The new terms is unidentified aerial phenomena, or UAP. there is a report due to Congress next...

NASA has formalized an October, 2020 contract for SpaceX to get $53 million for an orbital refueling demo contract. There will be a large-scale flight demonstration to transfer 10 metric tons of...

SpaceX Starlink has 1578 satellites in orbit which have combined download capacity of 26 terabits per second. If this download capacity could be perfectly distributed it would enable 260,000 people...

Elon Musk confirms that Gigatexas will start producing 4680 battery cell Model Y later this year. This means Tesla will have 4680 at reasonable scale and car ready in 2021. This is not the 12-18...

There is new research into a new battery technology platform that is completely metal-free. This new battery technology platform utilizes a polypeptide organic radical construction. Almost all Li-ion...

Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) is defined by NASA as “an air transportation system that moves people and cargo between places previously not served or underserved by aviation – local, regional,...

Rapamycin has been proven to extend the lifespan of mice, warms and yeast. Lifespan.io is starting a large clinical trial named Participatory Evaluation (of) Aging (with) Rapamycin (for) Longevity...

Since the pandemic brought us unexpected crypto-mania, some companies have made the most of it. For example, the quarterly profit of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase soared by more than 20 times from...

Australian University is partnering to commercialize aluminium ion batteries which can charge up to 70 times faster, had a more efficient and longer life and were more sustainable than lithium-ion....

Australian photovoltaics researchers have made a ‘cool’ discovery: Singlet fission and tandem solar cells which increase efficiency and lower operating temperatures and keep devices running for...

In March 2020, the Imperial College of London forecasted global 2020 pandemic deaths of 40 million if no action was taken, and now the Economist magazine model shows nearly 10 million excess global...

In 2020, Nextbigfuture had forecasted that SpaceX could reach 858 to 1000 tons of payload capacity launched in 2021. This was based upon doubling the launch rate from 2019. In 2021, SpaceX should...

SpaceX launched 52 Starlink satellites, a Capella Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite, and Tyvak-0130. The Falcon 9 first stage booster that supported this mission previously launched NASA...

160 Israeli aircraft were part of a massive attack on the network of Hamas tunnels in northern Gaza. According to the IDF, the air campaign lasted nearly 40 minutes, some 450 missiles were dropped on...

China has become the third country in the world to safely land a rover on Mars. The United States and the former Soviet Union were the first two countries to land rovers and Mars mission. “The...

The Israel Defense Forces deliberately mislead the foreign press that Israeli troops had entered the Gaza Strip the previous night during a massive bombardment of a large Hamas bunker complex in...

The US Navy has still not fixed major problems with the USS Ford aircraft carrier. In 2019, four of the eleven weapons elevators were broken. There were supposed to be eleven weapons elevators. In...

SpaceX will launch four orbital tourists before Virgin Galactic or Blue Origin launch their first sub-orbital tourists. Inspiration4 is a planned SpaceX Crew Dragon mission to low Earth orbit...

SpaceX has filed its first Super Heavy Starship orbital flight plan. The Super Heavy Booster will return and land in Texas. The Starship will go to orbit and then land in Hawaii (Kauai) about 90...

Israeli Defense Forces were fighting Palestinian forces on the ground. They have not yet entered the Gaza strip. Hamas has fired hundreds of missiles at various Israeli cities (Tel Aviv, Jerusalem,...

Tesla Expansion of the Shanghai factory is progressing. Tesla construction workers told the Global Times that expansion of Tesla’s factory is progressing and is expected to be completed in the...

Elon Musk is working with Doge devs to improve system transaction efficiency. He says it is potentially promising. Dogecoin uses around 0.1 kWh per transaction compared to the over 1000 kWh per...

A great philosopher and MMA coach John Danaher discusses training for knowledge and skill acquisition. Repetition of technique has diminishing returns. Danaher discusses the goal of having the goal...

Reservoir computing is an approach to make machine learning algorithms run faster. The word reservoir refers to a dynamical system. The reservoir consists of a bunch of recurrently connected units...

Researchers at the University of Nottingham have developed an ultrasonic imaging system, which can be deployed on the tip of a hair-thin optical fibre, and will be insertable into the human body to...

Elon Musk indicates that Tesla will stop using Bitcoin for transactions. Tesla wants to use cryptocurrencies that are at least 100 times energy-efficient per transaction. There is speculation that...

Magnetic helicity dynamics are important in solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Magnetic helicity is present in the solar wind. Its conservation is very important in dynamo processes. It also...

The Limitless Space Institute is reviewing the work of Interstellar grant recipients. It is feasible but very difficult to make a laser pushed sail reach 20% of the speed of light. The general...

There is a new gene-editing tool called Retron Library Recombineering (RLR) that makes this task easier that has been developed by George Church and his team. RLR generates up to millions of...

Philip Lubin and his team are continuing to make progress toward laser pushed sails. This is a way to achieve significant fractions of the speed of light for interstellar missions and a way to beam...

The Limitless Space Institute had a report from its Interstellar Initiative Grant recipients. One of the presenters is from the University of Albama who are working on a sub-kilowatt system to...

Intuitive Machines is developing the Nova-C lander which they want to send to the surface of the moon in early 2022. It will be powered by their VR900 engine, and replete with innovative avionics for...

Space settlement is becoming a mainstream topic because SpaceX is making space colonization economical and practical. The Falcon 9 has already significantly lowered the launch cost and is increasing...

Canaccord Genuity reports that Tesla Megapack will be using LFP cathode batteries. LFP batteries are cheaper but less energy dense than lithium ion batteries with nickel. Megapack is Tesla’s largest...

Technion – Israel Institute of Technology present a new approach to imaging evanescent waves that allows, among other things, tackling this challenge with the help of “nonlinear wave-mixing,” a...

Researchers demonstrate an on-chip, optoelectronic device capable of sampling arbitrary, low-energy, near-infrared waveforms under ambient conditions with sub-optical-cycle resolution. The detector...

Colonial Pipeline has had a cyberattack involving ransomeware from an Eastern European-based criminal gang called DarkSide. Colonial Pipeline has temporarily shutdown 2.5 million barrels per day of...

There could be two more SpaceX Starship test flights in May. SN16 could fly and SN15 could be flown again. Elon Musk tweeted that SN15 might refly soon. SN11 was flown about 22 days after SN10. SN15...

BYU’s holography research group has can create holographic lightsaber battles and spaceship battles of the Starship Enterprise and a Klingon Battle Cruiser that incorporate photon torpedoes launching...

Bionano Genomics, Inc. (Nasdaq: BNGO) has started a preclinical evaluation study using optical genome mapping. The Saphyr system will be used as a research tool to analyze the genomes of couples who...

Singapore’s Ministry of Health has approved genetic testing of IVF embryos as mainstream clinical service. Pre-implantation genetic testing (PGT) for monogenic or single-gene defects (PGT-M)...

IVF Clinics are slowly adopting more extensive genetic screening of embryos. During Invitro Fertilization one two two dozen embryos can be generated for one cycle. This provides an opportunity to...

An AI-based system photographs the embryos every five minutes, processes the data of their development and notifies any anomalies observed. This increases the likelihood of choosing the most viable...

There appears to be are images that researchers claim is life on Mars. Images taken by NASA’s Opportunity and Curiosity rovers as well as the agency’s HiRISE high-resolution camera attached to the...

The provisional number of births for the United States in 2020 was 3,605,201, down 4% from 2019. This was the lowest number of babies born since 1979. The Total Fertility Rate (TFR) in 2020 was again...

A nanosheet FET, next generation transistor, is a finFET on its side with a gate wrapped around it. This enables higher performance chips at lower power. Samsung plans to introduce nanosheets at 3nm...

IBM announced the first chip with 2 nanometer (nm) nanosheet technology. IBM’s new 2 nm chip technology helps advance the state-of-the-art in the semiconductor industry, addressing this growing...

The 22 ton Long March 5B rocket that placed China’s Space station in orbit is crashing someplace this weekend. It will probably be May 8-10. It will circle the world 30 times in two days. The...