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Lockheed has figured out how to increase the missiles carried by the F-35 stealth fighter from four to six. This was difficult because the missiles must be carried inside in order to maintain...

Energy Was and Will Be Key to Economic, Military and Tech Dominance

The SpaceX cargo mission to the ISS is delayed until tomorrow because of a power problem on the drone recover ship.

Hypersonic missiles and weapons development are technology to future-proof weapons against surprise developments in defense capability.

Tesla's Future is Ten Times Better If They Pull Off Self-driving

China continues to move ahead on military modernization. China is on track to have per capita income at about 25% of US levels in 2030 which would be at about the level of Eastern Europe. The richest...

Berkeley Labs has 3D-printed an all-liquid device that, with the click of a button, can be repeatedly reconfigured on demand to serve a wide range of applications – from making battery materials to...

The cause for the Taurus XL launch failures of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) and Glory missions in 2009 and 2011 were bad materials and parts provided by aluminum manufacturer, Sapa...

Tesla is raiding $2 billion, with $1.35 billion coming from convertible notes and $650 million from new equity. Elon Musk is adding another $10 million in stock to his $12 billion in Tesla ownership....

The US Energy Information Agency Annual Energy Outlook high projection for oil and natural gas liquids would be 24 million barrels per day by 2025. Russia and Saudi Arabia should have combined...

Sandia has improved hypersonic turbulence modeling. This will lead to better hypersonic vehicle design.

Sandia Labs and other researchers have made recent breakthroughs in neuromorphic computing and the broader fields of organic electronics and solid-state electrochemistry.

Gabe Brown has super healthy soil on his farm and his farm is more productive.

The top antiaging research at Sinclair's lab is partial cellular reprogramming. He feels this is more powerful than senescent cell removal or calorie restriction. His lab in 2018 was able to regrow...

Current Noisy Quantum Computers have success rates of 3% to 90% depending upon the type of program or algorithm. A new quantum compiler will improve the success rates by an average of 3 times and up...

Drone-based tree planting can speed up tree planting by 100 times and at vastly lower cost.

China will start operating two new large Hualong nuclear reactors this year and another two next year Each Hualong nuclear reactor will generate one gigawatt of nuclear power. They were made by...

ARPA-E-funded alternative z-pinch fusion which is being developed by Zap Energy. Zap Energy is the most compact solution to Fusion Energy and does not use complex and costly magnetic coils. They...

Venezuela might be in the regime change endgame and a new phase in the ongoing crisis. The US has threatened Cuba with full and complete sanctions and has offered members of Venezuela’s...

Elon Musk has tweeted out new SpaceX computer-generated pictures of the metallic Starship on the Moon and Mars. The SpaceX Spaceship is the upper stage of what was called the BFR. It is being made...

NASA has delayed the SpaceX commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station from May 1st to May 3rd or late

Nuscale and South Korea's Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction are going to work together to deploy 60 MWe NuScale Power Moduleâ„¢ (NPM) worldwide.

The Carnival of Space 609 is up at Universe Today. Universe Today – Methane-Filled Lakes on Titan are “Surprisingly Deep”. During Cassini’s final flyby of Titan, it aimed its radar at some of...

You would want to avoid initializing values that would start in numerical deadzones because then the quantum system would get stuck and would not reach a correct solution.

Ride-sharing companies Uber and Lyft are a convenient alternative to calling a cab. Once users download the company’s app and register an account, they can start booking rides. Although ride-sharing...

MEMS Version of NanoMechanical Computer Design Was Mades, It should be able to make logic gates of 100-micron size with a megahertz chip that has no electromagnetic signature and is immune to...

Nextbigfuture was excessively optimistic on quantum computer achieving a smooth takeoff based upon announcements in 2018 with the 72 qubit Google bristlecone, IonQ's trapped ion breakthrough and a...

Synthetic Speech Made from Brain Recordings is a step to brain prosthetic

World War 3 Wargame Shows High Losses and Logistic Gap

The US has begun supplying some missiles to Ukraine. The US could supply a dozen PT boats with missiles and drive the cost to Russia of military escalation in Ukraine beyond any reasonable benefit.

Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe has successfully created a man-made crater on an asteroid. Hayabusa2 shot a copper "impact head" at Ryugu.

MEMS Version of Intel 4004 Chip Could be Made to Prove Nanomechanical Computer Designs

Cornell researchers can use two inexpensive cameras on either side of the windshield to detect objects with nearly LiDAR’s accuracy and at a fraction of the cost. Currently, the LIDAR implementation...

Elon described costs and details of the master plan for a robotaxi fleet and service at Autonomy Day. Many are criticizing the full self-driving plan and do not believe it will be achieved or will be...

Innolith AG, Swiss maker of rechargeable Inorganic Battery Technology, says they have the world's first 1000 Wh/kg rechargeable battery. This would triple the range of electric cars. The Innolith...

Chinese space station core module Tianhe is getting pre-launch tests and the Long March 5B launch vehicle undergoing integration.

Tesla announced their terrible financial results in the first quarter in their earnings call. They had $700 million in losses. Other information from the Tesla call: The Model Y could be built under...

Microsoft stock surging over $1 trillion in market value in after hours trading with a strong earnings report.

DARPA Competition to Launch to LEO From Most Anywhere Twice With a Few Weeks Notice

Skyrmion Crystal Could Make Future Computer Memory

Micro-Encapsulated CO2 Sorbents (MECS) are a possible technology to capture carbon from the atmosphere. They are tiny, reusable capsules full of a sodium carbonate solution that can absorb carbon...

Model S and Model X now come with an all-new drivetrain design that increases each vehicle’s range substantially, achieving a landmark 370 miles and 325 miles on the EPA cycle for Model S and Model X...

Elon Musk has tweeted that Tesla will make a quiet electric leaf blower.

Rivian, electric truck and SUV maker, has a $500 million strategic partnership deal with Ford

The Cape Canaveral landing zone needs to be preserved for the post-explosion investigation work. There are pieces of the Crew Dragon around the landing site.

Six brothers and sisters of one family reached over 100 years of age and show that genetic engineering would make it possible to live decades longer than most people live now.

Adding or removing genes in new animals and plants means that we will have a better understanding of the biosphere and potentially create animal models that more are more accurate than mice at...

Tesla Autonomy Investor Day described their software. Tesla has a shadow mode where they can compare alternative software algorithms against the current software. Tesla will only proceed from shadow...

Elon Musk Predicts that in the future people will demand that there be no human drivers. This will make it inevitable that steering wheels will be removed from safe full self-driving cars. The...

The second part of Tesla's Autonomy day is the self-driving software development and the interaction with fleet data.