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The Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) within the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) has been allocated $230 million to start a new demonstration program for advanced reactors. Through...

Over 100 countries are counting their population in 2020. There will be results coming in over the next few months. Many African countries have not had a census for 10-20 years. Various high...

Texas has 6 of the top 15 fastest growing cities. Since the 2010 Census, the populations of large southern cities increased by an average of 11.8%. In contrast, large cities in the West grew by 9.1%,...

Internally applied ultraviolet light could help treat coronovirus patients. The Healight is a catheter embedded with small LED lights that emit UVA. The Healight technology delivers intermittent...

Power is everything is a famous quote from the movie Apollo 13. A similar statement is made by Marc Millis about interstellar travel. Marc is a thought leader in interstellar travel. Marc says that...

Tesla will build a new Terafactory in either Tulsa, Oklahoma or Austin Texas. Austin seems to be in the lead. The goal is for Model Y production to start at the selected location by the end of 2020....

Michigan just had two dams collapse. Michigan has a D+ infrastructure rating from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Michigan has a C- for its dams. Michigan’s approximately 2,600 dams support...

On March 19, 2020, the eastern side of Edenville dam collapsed, and it has forced the immediate evacuations in the town of Edenville and the city of Midland. The failure of the dam also posed a...

Moderna (Nasdaq: MRNA) a clinical stage biotechnology company pioneering messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create a new generation of transformative medicines for patients, today...

Kriya Therapeutics announced today that it has raised $80.5 million in a Series A financing to fund the development of transformative gene therapies for highly prevalent serious diseases. Kriya was...

ESA-backed researchers demonstrate the laser-propulsion of graphene sails in microgravity. In an article recently published in Acta Astronautica, they report a scalable design that minimizes the...

The Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, which is funding nine different coronavirus vaccine projects, has previously suggested a shot could be ready within 12 to 18 months, an already...

Gene therapy helped build significant muscle mass quickly and reduced the severity of osteoarthritis in the mice, even though they didn’t exercise more. The therapy also staved off obesity, even when...

In 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone and described how it was three breakthrough products in one. It was widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary phone and full featured internet...

Tesla’s battery plans were leaked. If you drive 180,000 miles in 12 years then a gas car costs about US$32,000 for fuel and maintenance. The new Tesla with a million mile battery and cheaper...

Elon Musk has noted that progress in any given technology is simply # of iterations * progress between iterations. SpaceX has successfully completed six major iterations and is on its seventh rocket...

Let us assume that the SpaceX Starship is a complete fully reusable success that achieves mass production. Elon has talked about making 2 Starships each week in 2021 and reaching a cost of $5...

MemVerge™, the inventor of Memory Machine™ software, today introduced what’s next for in-memory computing: Big Memory Computing. This new category is sparking a revolution in data center architecture...

DARPA Blackjack aims to demonstrate spy satellite sensors that are low in size, weight, and power, and that can be mass produced to fit on many different buses from many different providers, for less...

Elon Musk is tweeting that Tesla is restarting vehicle production at the Fremont factory. This is against Alameda County rules but is permitted by the state of California. Elon Musk will be at the...

A missile from an Iranian Navy frigate struck another Iranian frigate during a military exercise in the Sea of Oman. One frigate sank and at least 19 sailors died. Above is the image of the Kenarak...

The US Navy needs to deliver robotic combat ships with conservative technologies that will work but DARPA programs can try to use risky technology. DARPA wants to integrate risky technology projects...

The SpaceX Starship SN4 prototype has passed a 7.5 Bar high pressure test. SN4 passed high pressure (7.5 bar) & engine thrust load at cryo — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 10, 2020 SOURCES- What...

Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla is filing a lawsuit against Alameda County immediately. The unelected and ignorant “Interim Health Officer” of Alameda is acting contrary to the Governor, the President,...

Solar One is a proposed manned interstellar spaceship that needlessly combines multiple super-technologies. If the three main technologies existed then the other two technologies would not be needed....

The U.S. Space Force, is scheduled to launch the sixth mission of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-6) on May 16 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory...

The coronavirus crisis has US corporate interest rates are in the 1.8-4.1% range. China has a 10-year government bond yield of 2.6%. Low rates make new nuclear energy and other high capital cost...

Nextbigfuture has tracked and analyzed nuclear fusion, nuclear fission and other energy. Nextbigfuture has dozens of articles comparing all energy sources based on safety using the deaths per...

Sandy Munro indicated that every OEM (original equipment maker) in Japan and most in China and Korea are buying his teardown reports on Tesla electric cars. Sandy only sold one of his reports in the...

Elon Musk was interviewed by Joe Rogan for the second time. Unlike the first time there was no smoking of marijuana. Elon discussed getting the neuralink brain interface into humans in about one...

Tesla is preparing to restart some car production in Fremont according to The Chronicle. The planned reopening of some production lines is between now and next week.

SpaceX has successfully had a static engine test firing for a Raptor engine and for Starship prototype. SOURCES- Everyday Astronaut, SpaceX, Lab Padre Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com

Tom Cruise and Elon Musk’s Space X are working on a project with NASA for the first narrative feature film in space. It would be an action adventure movie shot in outer space. Tom Cruise does many of...

Wearing face masks in the community is now generally accepted as highly effective in reducing disease spread. Interventions that bring moderate benefits to individuals can have large population...

Transparent crystals with optical nonlinearities could enable quantum computing at room temperature by 2030. Army Researchers and Dr. Mikkel Heuck and Prof. Dirk Englund of the Massachusetts...

“The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.” ― Elbert Hubbard A new medical development is sweeping the country…...

Legendary stock market investor Warren Buffet added $10 billion in cash in the first quarter of 2020. Berkshire had a record $137 billion in cash and equivalent instruments on its balance sheet at...

The SpaceX human lander design is a single-stage solution with Starship, their fully reusable launch and landing system designed for travel to the Moon, Mars and beyond. The proposal included an...

NASA has selected three U.S. companies to develop human landers that will land astronauts on the Moon: BlueOrigin Dynetics SpaceX. One of these landers will take the first woman and next man to the...

Zapata Computing is the leader in applying quantum algorithms to the best quantum hardware in order to create improved solutions for the most important problems of the largest companies in the world....

Let us take a look at Ford Motors versus Tesla. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, went on a verbal rant and dropped an f-bomb against the coronavirus shutdown during Tesla’s earnings call. Elon has...

The US Army Research Laboratory has a new way to print durable steel parts on-demand and has feedstock more than 50 percent stronger than what’s commercially available. Printed parts could become the...

It seems plausible that a near term cocktail of drug treatments might halve the fatality and halve the hospital times for coronavirus. This is just assuming the Remdesivir results could be improved...