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SpaceX had another successful Starlink satellite launch but they failed to recover the booster. This is the fourth batch of 60 production satellites. There are also about 50 prototype satellites. So...

South China University of Technology biologist Xiao Botao has co-written a paper the #COVID19 might have originated from an animal research lab 280 meters away from the epicentre of the outbreak. The...

Three weeks ago, Nextbigfuture covered the cancer treatment breakthrough made by researchers at the University of Cardiff. Now SciShow has a video that explains how this discovery was made and why it...

Felix Schlang did some calculations of the weight of the ring segments with the Serial number one starship which is using 4 millimeter thick steel. These segments weigh 1622 kilograms. They are less...

Boring Company has dug the Vegas Convention Center Tunnel. LVCC Loop will connect the LVCC New Exhibit Hall with the existing campus (North/Central/South Halls). Three stations locations will offer...

Bolt on upgrades to a street-legal Tesla Model 3 almost matched the racetrack time for a Mclaren F1 car on the Tsukuba Circuit in Japan. The fastest recorded lap time at Tsukuba is a 1:00.3 by a...

Saudi Aramco has been the most valuable company in the world and it had an IPO late in 2019 and briefly traded at $2 trillion when it was worth 38.7 riyal per share. Saudi Aramco valuation is down to...

Argonne National Labs have developed a new technique, molecular layer etching, that may help develop microelectronics and show the way beyond Moore’s Law. Molecular layer etching could enable...

Professor Ira Longini, an adviser to the World Health Organization, estimates that two-thirds of the world’s population could catch coronavirus. He is co-director of the Centre for Statistics...

The Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale for asteroids is a logarithmic scale used by astronomers to rate the potential hazard of impact of a near-earth object (NEO). It combines two types of...

There is reports of 77 different Coronavirus clinical trial applications filed have been China. Other sources talking about 19 clinical trials registered in China. Two weeks ago there were an...

Tesla announced plans to raise $2 billion (2.65 million shares) in a stock offering. Elon Musk did say two weeks ago in a quarterly conference call that Tesla did not need to raise capital. However,...

SpaceX has new rideshare satellite pricing starting at $1 million. This is a breakthrough in satellite launch pricing. A few years ago the cost was $20 million or more and even two years ago you...

Global emissions were unchanged at 33 gigatonnes in 2019 even as the world GDP grew by 2.9%. Increased wind, solar power, natural gas power and higher nuclear power output in developed countries...

NE-Times reports that Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory produced 2625 Model 3s in January, 2020. This had Tesla as the fifth largest electric car maker in January in China. There was a shutdown of the...

1. Universe Today – CHEOPS Just Opened Its Eyes to Start Studying Known Exoplanets, We Should See the First Picture in a Few Weeks The CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite) spacecraft...

There are claims that since 1985 or 1990 there has been 3.4 millimeters per year of global sea-level rise. This is based up satellite altimetry. This is five inches of sea-level rise since 1985....

Cairn Energy Research Advisors, a consulting firm specializing in electric vehicle battery research, says Tesla’s cylindrical cell battery pack dropped to $158.27 per kilowatt-hour last year....

Elon Musk believes the Tesla solar roof with solar built into the tiles gives houses a superior appearance. If you’re selling your home, adding curb appeal can increase your home value 3% – 5%...

John Hopkins models infection levels are ten times higher than official numbers. Many minor cases are not tracked. They think 58000 people were infected by the end of January and it tripled over the...

A new study shows the coronavirus ncov 2019 has a median incubation period was 3.0 days but the range is 0 to 24.0 days. This would mean that quarantines need to be 6 weeks long instead of 3 weeks....

“The next two weeks are really critical to understand what’s been happening,” said Benjamin Cowling, head of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Hong Kong. We will see if coronavirus...

Reseachers have identified a biomarker for early detection of liver cancer. With current tests like biopsies, cancer in the liver is often detected in advanced stages, which can limit treatment...

SpaceX COO Gwynn Shotwell says that SpaceX will likely spinoff the Starlink satellite network with an IPO. SpaceX is launching 60 Starlink satellites with every Falcon 9 launch. They are four...

This week Ford dropped 10% in market value. Ford is now worth $32 billion. This is about one-fourth of the peak value around 2000. Ford automotive revenues missed analysts’ estimates and fell...

The Department of Defense (DoD)’s High Performance Computing Modernization Program (HPCMP) has a supercomputer in a shipping container with 6 PetaFLOPS of performance. It will be used for both...

Melanized fungus grows well in the Chernobyl reactor and in high radiation of space stations. The fungus can prosper when radiation is 500 times background levels. The Melanin absorbs all types of...

Tony Seba has a formal system for identifying and forecasting technological disruption. The link is to a 16-page guide that he created back in 2014. He used his methodology to identify the combined...

SpaceX is staffing 4 production shifts for 24/7 Starship construction operations. SpaceX has filed with the FCC for a sub-orbital 20-kilometer launch in the March 16-September-16 timeframe. This is...

Momentus is a startup with $40 million in funding for development of microwave plasma propulsion. The microwave plasma propulsion can have three times the efficiency of chemical rockets while having...

Momentus (www.momentus.space), provider of in-space transportation services for satellites, today announced a launch service agreement with Singapore-based companies, NuSpace and Aliena. Momentus’...

On December 30, Wenliang Li posted in a social media group about a SARS-like illness that within weeks would explode into the coronavirus epidemic that has infected more than 25,000 people. He was...

The Solar Orbiter is a NASA-ESA mission to look at the Suns poles. In the dark of space, Solar Orbiter faces temperatures of minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit. At closest approach, 26 million miles from...

Generational companies are investments where you can 10x or 100x your investment in 5-10 years, but you need to get in at the right time. Many investors underestimate the importance of timing. There...

Doug Plata describes how a few tele-operated robots can make roads and landings pads on the moon. The road would be built by robots to remove boulders. These would be followed by bulldozer bots to...

There are many fictional stories where Germany or Germany and Japan win World War 2. The stories usually ignore how this happens or give a few sentence reason like the Germans develop the A-bomb...

SpaceX Super Heavy Starship is tracking to a mid-2020 orbital launch. This is a summary of developments from a Mars Society presentation. The Super Heavy Starship development schedule has slipped a...

Doug Plata has proposed a solar drape concept for the moon. The moon has no wind and has one-sixth Earth gravity. A large robotic rover would place telescoping towers on the moon and thin-film solar...

Mars has a launch window every 26-months. The round trip travel time to the moon is about 11 days. This means that you could send 72 round trips to the moon for every launch window to Mars. Doug...

Accion Systems technology is built around a thruster chip architecture. Each chip houses hundreds of microscopic emitters that produce beams of ions generated from our novel propellant source: ionic...

Elon Musk tweeted out that Tesla is considering a Gigafactory in Texas. Giga Texas? — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 5, 2020

1. U.S.-based biotech Gilead, known for its HIV and hepatitis C treatments, has partnered with Beijing’s China-Japan Friendship Hospital to test out an antiviral drug called remdesivir in...

As of Dec 2019, the number of lithium ion battery megafactories in the pipeline has reached 115 plants. The world’s leading EV and battery manufacturer added a huge 564GWh of pipeline capacity in...

The NASA Assemblers project is a recently awarded Early Career Initiative (ECI) proposal led out of NASA’s Langley Research Center, seeks to advance the technology, including hardware and software,...

NASA has awarded a $142 million contract to Maxar Technologies of Westminster, Colorado,to robotically assemble a communications antenna and manufacture a spacecraft beam in orbit. The technology...

China’s top electric vehicle battery maker CATL (300750.SZ) said on Monday it has signed a battery supply agreement with Tesla. Tesla will buy as many batteries as Tesla chooses between July 2020 and...

The third landing of the B1051 booster was a hard landing but it was just within the safety margins the crush cores provide. The fall might have been caused by the drone being at the bottom of a...

The US Air Force and Northrop Grumman have published photorealistic renderings of new concepts for the next-generation stealth bomber, the B-21. The B-21 was expected to reach IOC (initial operating...

Ark Invest has over $11 billion under management and they are huge Tesla bulls. Ark has a new analysis that projects Tesla could have a $7000 per share value by 2024 which would mean the whole...