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The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts funded a phase 1 study by Geoffrey Landis for power interstellar fly-by probes. Launching ultra-miniature probes to fly past an exoplanet a nearby star using a...

I was debating Ned Ford about solar, wind and nuclear energy at Quora. My energy answer on Quora was about how nuclear power was still being more economical than solar and wind. Ned is a volunteer...

Elon Says More Tesla Factories Will Be Made in China

Samsung has created the Advanced Communications Research Center to start research into 6G wireless. 6G will use machine learning for intelligent capacity and routing management and could yield speeds...

Carbon Nanotube Thin Film Patch Antennas Viable for 5G, Drones, Sensors and IOT

Low-speed electric vehicles (LSEV) sold 75% of the unit volume of standard electric vehicles in 2018. About 1.5 million units in China during 2018—equal to about 6% of “conventional” vehicle sales...

The vast subtropical “gyres” – large systems of rotating currents in the middle of the oceans – cover 40 percent of the Earth’s surface and have long been considered...

Space Gets 100 Times Cheaper By 2023 and We Will Get Moon Bases and More

The EU has a one billion euro ten-year project to develop Quantum technologies. The EU has a long-term plan for a Quantum Web. A Quantum Web would have Quantum computers, simulators and sensors...

Graphene has a lot of potential because it can be the strongest material and has many other exceptional characteristics. There has been a lot of research around the material since 2004, when...

Dielectric laser accelerators (DLAs) provide a compact and cost-effective solution to this problem by driving accelerator nanostructures with visible or near-infrared (NIR) pulsed lasers, resulting...

The Tesla Model 3 has more sales than the Mercedes C Class, BMW 3 Series and Audi A4 combined in the USA from about January 2018 to June 2019. It nearly is outselling the three combined sales from...

Lifespan.io has a list of antiaging treatments and their stage of clinical approval. There are two treatments in phase 3 clinical trials and four in phase 2 clinical trials. The phase 2 clinical...

Bigelow Space Operations has made significant deposits for the ability to fly up to 16 people to the International Space Station on four dedicated SpaceX Crew Dragon flights. This would be taking...

There are reports that Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory has production machines installing now and there could equipment running tests in August. Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory June 7th 2019 Production...

Only Morocco is on track to meet a 1.5C Paris Climate Agreement according to the Climate Action Tracker (CAT). The US is critically insufficient and China is insufficient. India is on track to a...

NASA has published prices for commercial visitors to the International Space station. There is separate pricing for the life support and toilet and another price for the food and other supplies. I...

A Thousand Times Better Instrument Will Investigate Emdrive and Mach Propulsion

Many people talk about the technical problem of too much radiation for missions to Mars or long term operations in space beyond the protection of Earth’s magnetic field. The problem comes from...

Quantum Computer Code Breaking Has Been Improved by 100 Times

New Photonic Chip Will Push to Limits of Computational Energy Efficiency Ten Million Times Beyond Conventional Chips

The FCC voted to authorize carriers to block robocalls by default. However, currently you still have to call your cellphone carrier to activate scam blocking. T-Mobile charges $4 per month to get...

There is enough room to plant another 1.2 trillion trees on Earth. If we plant 1.2 trillion trees this could cancel out the last 10 years of CO2 emissions and sequester 160 billion tons of CO2. Above...

Facebook Sold Your Private Data To Advertisers So Now More Evil Via GlobalCoin

Facebook is talking with U.S. Commodity and Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) about Facebook’s planned Globalcoin. It will be a crypto stablecoin initiative. The Financial Times reports the...

20 carbon markets are now active worldwide, operating in economies that make up close to 40% of global GDP. A further 18 jurisdictions are actively considering the instrument.

There is another doomer scenario that civilization will collapse because of climate change. This new doomer report is from the Australian National Centre for Climate Restoration. All of the climate...

Elon Musk Boring Company and SpaceX have weaker competition than Tesla Motors. SpaceX rocket competitors did not act for ten years while SpaceX developed reusable rockets.

A combination treatment of intensive chemotherapy and radiation therapy, as well as the blood pressure drug losartan enables many previously inoperable pancreatic cancer tumors to be removed. The...

Mayo Clinic Dr. Truty and his colleagues start treating pancreatic cancer with new chemotherapy drugs before surgery, rather than afterward and are able to increase survival rates by five times.

Tesla cars have been able to last for one million miles but starting in 2020 the battery packs will be able to last for a million miles as well. Currently, the battery packs last for 300,000 to...

IEA Data Shows Nuclear Investment Adds More Power Than Wind and Solar

The Current state of the genetic component of intelligence was summarized in a recent research article at Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. Twin studies show that individual differences in human...

Safe production of gene-edited babies could be possible in just one or two years, and the head of China’s leading genetic research program says the need is now urgent for international regulations....

For the next decade or two it will be far easier, cheaper and more effective to use gene sequencing to select the most intelligent embyro for test tube babies. Embryos are already having their genes...

All Militaries Are Developing Combat Lasers So They Will Give Short Military Advantages

1. Universe Today – SpaceX just launched 60 satellites for its Starlink Constellation. Internet service providers should be very worried. 2. Nextbigfuture- Single Stage Point to Point Up To...

NASA Says SpaceX Crew Capsule Could Get Fixed to Fly Astronauts by End of 2019

Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth’s oceans, caused by the uptake of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. Seawater is slightly basic (meaning pH is over 7),...

At the 4th Mission Innovation (MI) Ministerial meeting, Mission Innovation (MI) members announced bold new projects and collaborations that will push clean energy research and innovation forward...

Banner ads are the fuel that drives the Internet. Every website needs a way to pay for its hosting and development costs, a way to compensate the owner for his or her time and energy. Most websites...

D-Wave Speeds Up Quantum Computers Over 25 Times With Low-Noise Materials

Moltex was founded in 2014 by Dr. Ian Scott, and was privately funded until 2018. Moltex’s mission is to enable low-cost clean energy as a practical economic solution. On 2018-07-13, New...

I answered a question on Quora about why is nuclear power generating more power than solar energy ? Nuclear generates over 2500 TWh and solar is at 500 TWh and heading to 900 TWh globally in 2022....

France built up nuclear power in 15 years using inflation-adjusted $330 billion to generated over 400 TWh of electricity for many decades. Global solar power only passed 400 TWh in 2017. The first...

Ark Invest manages financial funds and ETFs and are among the most vocal Tesla bulls. Even if full autonomy is not achieved and Tesla cannot produce an autonomous car, ARK estimates that the electric...

Carnival of Space 613 is up at Cosmoquest. Universe Today – Advanced Civilizations Could be Communicating with Neutrino Beams. Transmitted by Clouds of Satellites Around Neutron Stars or Black...