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78% (830,000 tonnes) of the 2018 U.S. plastic waste exports were sent to countries with waste “mismanagement rates” greater than 5%. Mismanagement means the plastic was probably dumped in a river....

Should We Build Multi-Generational Spaceships?

The best commercial computer chips have seven-nanometre transistors and a team in China led Professor Yin Huaxiang has developed 3nm transistors in the lab. Samsung, Intel, Samsung and Taiwan...

China Finishes Second European EPR Reactor and Building a Reactor for Argentina

Fully 3D Printed Rocket Engine in Just 3 Parts and Full Printed Rocket in 60 Days

MYRRHA is an accelerator-driven fission system (ADS) that is a part of a new European research infrastructure with allocated 558 M€ over period of 2019–2038. MYRRHA is intended to be fully...

Seaborg Molten Salt Reactor Will Fit on A Truck and Cost Less Than Coal Power

Google's $10 Million Cold-fusion Team Made the Best Calorimeters and Open Science Investigation

Dilbert Creator Scott Adams describes how Artificial Intelligence can easily conquer humor and creativity. Most people think AI will not be creative and that artistic and creative jobs will be safer...

Tim Dodd, Everyday Astronaut, has a detailed analysis of the SpaceX Raptor engine compared to the F-1 Saturn Five, Space Shuttle RS-25, the Russian RD-180 – used on US Atlas rockets and the...

Ming Zhao is the founder and analyst at 86Research. Ming claims to have good information on Tesla’s China sales. Tesla China vehicle sales are volatile month to month. Sales and deliveries were...

Mark Handley (UCL, University College London) has simulation showing the orbits of various SpaceX Starlink satellite constellations. There are simulations of 72, 264 and 11927 satellites. SpaceX is...

Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) used giant lasers to flash-freeze water into its exotic superionic phase and record X-ray diffraction patterns to identify its atomic...

Argonne researchers use genetic algorithms to find better superconductors. Certain patterns of defects composed of metallic inclusions were found to maximize the critical current. researchers...

Superconductivity was achieved at a record high temperature of minus-23 degrees Celsius (minus-9 degrees Fahrenheit)—a jump of about 50 degrees compared to the previous confirmed record. This was...

Kevin Kelly compare how much self-driving car data that Tesla has compared to Ford. Tesla has over 10 billion miles of self-driving car data but Ford has Zero miles of self-driving car data.

Researchers used high-frequency atmospheric observations from Gosan, South Korea, and Hateruma, Japan, and global monitoring data and atmospheric chemical transport model simulations to determine...

Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory 3 will produce electric cars for India and other Asian countries along with China. Tesla maybe able to saturate China and enter other markets such as India with...

The leader of Italy’s right-wing League Party, Matteo Salvini, said populist and nationalist parties will control at least 150 seats in the new 751-seat European Parliament. ECFR (European Council on...

The US Army has approved plans for high-powered microwave weapons, laser weapons and the development of hypersonic missiles. The Army will test a 50-kilowatt laser on an 8×8 Stryker armored vehicle...

The $80 million Special Ops TALOS exoskeleton failed to develop real-life Iron Man exoskeleton armor. The energy systems and other technology are not ready. However, a dozen components will be...

Elon Musk has tweeted that SpaceX will start construction of the booster stage of the Super Heavy Starship in three months. The first prototype will have 20 Raptor engines instead of 31 to lower the...

SpaceX has raised over $1 billion and this will be enough money to make and deploy the 720 Starlink satellites that are needed for an operational constellation. Musk said SpaceX will have most of the...

Chloride and Salt Contaminated Fresh Water Can Be Cleaned by New Molecule

SpaceX has made radical and innovative choices to make the Starlink satellites lower cost and more reliable.

SpaceX has successfully deployed sixty production versions of the Starlink Satellite. They are targeting six Starlink launches through the next six months. Those six launches will place 360 Starlink...

U.S. bank JPMorgan has raised its probability of a no-deal Brexit to 25%. They think the most likely scenario is Boris Johnson will become prime minister and then there will be a parliamentary...

Boring Company has a video showing Tesla’s with autopilot driving at 127 mph in Boring tunnels. They are not using sleds or guide wheels. This would mean if Boring Company can build the tunnels...

hina Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) built the prototype will be capable of speeds of up to 600 km/h and will start test runs in the second half of 2019.

SpaceX is scheduled to launch launched the sixty Starlink satellites in 2.5 hours at 10:30 EDT – 7:30 PDT time. The launch is successful and they landed the first stage. The second burn will...

A few months ago SpaceX and Elon Musk were going to only make one version of the new Raptor engine for initial tests and flights but now Elon tweets that a vacuum optimized Raptor engine could be...

Elon has tweeted that Boring Company starts digging Vegas tunnel in 2 months. They aiming to finish by end of 2019. The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority approved a $48.6 million contract...

The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) is looking at 46 ways to identify a person for mobile devices that do not involve passwords. They are looking at how you walk, swipe and hold your device...

Russia is making their usual big claims that there newest S-500 Anti-missile system can shoot down hypersonic weapons. They also claim it will be 5-7 years before China and the USA will have...

Neuralink Raising $51 Million for Brain Interface Telepathy and Mind Waves to Speech Systems

DARPA funds Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology (N3) program to make wearable brain interfaces. Battelle Memorial Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Johns Hopkins University Applied...

the US has a bipartisan senate bill – Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act (AI-IA), which would organize a coordinated national strategy for developing AI and provide a $2.2 billion federal...

Saudi Arabia controls a 10% of global oil production. They are the world’s biggest oil exporter with sales of $356 billion last year. China is the world’s biggest importer of oil. The annual...

Indonesian President Might Start Revolutionary ThorCon Reactor Project This Year

uSimple self-driving trucks is starting a short pilot program with the US Postal Service. They will complete five round trips between Phoenix and Dallas using autonomous semis operated by TuSimple....

Auto-docking system on commercial vessels and on recreational marine and fishing vessels in Japan is expected to start after 2020. Robotic commercial ships are being developed by Japan, Norway,...

China’s Navy now outnumbers the US Navy by 300 ships to 287 ship. The US ships are still much larger and more powerful and about 100 of China’s ships are coastal frigates and corvettes....

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says that there will be an insatiable demand for accelerated computing from Artificial Intelligence applications.

TAE Life Sciences, division of TAE Technologies, will use low energy neutrons to destroy cancer tumors without damaging healthy tissue. They are using nuclear science know-how that they have built up...

Air Pollutions Damages All of Our Organs and Unborn Babies

Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory have created the largest simulation to date of an entire gene of DNA, a feat that required one billion atoms to model and will help researchers to better...

Swarm Technologies makes the smallest satellite at one-quarter the size of a 1U cubesat. They raised $25 million in a series A. The round was led by Craft Ventures and Sky Dayton, founder of...

Lucent Botanicals formulate specific terpenes into tasty CBD mints for targeted effects. CBD and Terpenes are extracted from marijuana aka cannibas. Cannabidiol (CBD) is a naturally occurring...

NASA has selected 11 companies to conduct studies and produce prototypes of human landers for its Artemis lunar exploration program. This effort will help put American astronauts — the first woman...

The Texas version of the orbital Starship is further along in assembly. Here as a picture from over a week ago. SpaceX is planning Single Stage To Orbit test flights. However, those flights will not...