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Tiny, 3D printed cubes of plastic, with intricate fractal voids built into them, have proven to be effective at dissipating shockwaves, potentially leading to new types of lightweight armor and...

Russia’s military is so meaningless to the US that the annual report on the capabilities of Russia’s armed forces is two pages long and a one-paragraph disclaimer. Oil and gas production...

Higher levels of humanin, a peptide encoded in the small genome of the mitochondria, in the body is linked to longer lifespans and better health. Aging Journal – The mitochondrial derived...

Tesla is trading at a valuation of over $250 billion. If Tesla has no factory shutdowns they will build another 55,000 cars in future quarters and they are expanding capacity. This could be 160,000...

Team members of the Miniature Radio Frequency (Mini-RF) instrument on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft found new evidence that the Moon’s subsurface might be richer in metals,...

NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) Program is concluding its structural qualification test series with one upcoming final test that will push it to failure. Late in 2019, engineers at NASA’s Marshall...

Extreme metamaterial ceramic solar sails survive a close pass of our sun to reach speeds of 60-70AU per year which is over 0.1% of light speed. Theis propel low mass spacecraft using a dive to...

Worldometers estimates the world population is 7.796 billion. This is increasing by 224,400 people every day. This means we are about 900 days from 8 billion people. Worldometers is leveraging UN...

A meter-class telescope with a coronagraph to block solar light, placed in the strong interference region of the solar gravitational lens (SGL), is capable of imaging an exoplanet at a distance of up...

Early treatment with hydroxychloroquine cut the death rate significantly in sick patients hospitalized with COVID-19 – and without heart-related side-effects, according to a new study published by...

Scientists attending the International Conference on Emerging Nuclear Energy Systems in Bali, Indonesia, were excited by ThorCon CEO Lars Jorgensen’s presentation of the design of the TMSR-500 liquid...

Bloomberg New Energy Finance (NEF) forecasted in the Electric Vehicle Outlook 2020 that battery pack prices will get below $100/kWh in 2024 and reach $61/kwh in 2030. EV battery demand has a slow...

Other carmakers had second-quarter auto sales drop 24-49%. Tesla grew auto deliveries from first quarter to second quarter. The expectation is that car sales will recover to nearly normal levels for...

In February 2020, I wrote a Nextbigfuture newsletter about my bull case for Tesla. I have a variation on the high functioning EV company Ark Invest case which has a $3400 price target for 2024. The...

The fact that Nextbigfuture has been right on Tesla for years is less important than the fact that Tesla has several more years of crazy share price growth. The years of being correct is public...

Nanogaps between plasmonic electrodes produced 10,000 times more light than expected. Hot electrons were created by electrons driven to tunnel between gold electrodes, their recombination with holes...

The coronavirus is currently changing slowly. There are only about two dozen mutations. There have been many reports of multiple strains of SARS-CoV-2. Virologists use the world strain as a label to...

Michael Shellenberger of the Breakthrough Institute has written Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All.” An article covering his book was published and then censored at...

If we send telescopes out to 4 light days we can use the gravity of the sun to amplify the power of telescopes by 100 billion times. Although we can build larger telescopes with higher resolution...

The US has runway repair teams that can repair holes in two hours or less. They use truckloads of dirt and rocks and then cover with a 45 by 60-foot fiberglass mat. Chinese suppliers sell fiberglass...

A large reservoir of freshwater was discovered beneath Fiery Cross Reef, one of the artificial islands China made in the South China Sea. The reservoir is growing at a rate of about 1 meter (3.3...

There is a company called Nikola which claims they will sell semi-trucks using hydrogen. Amazingly, with virtually no revenue and no vehicles made, Nikola is worth over $22 billion. They say they...

People know that computers became a multi-trillion dollar industry because it rode the exponential growth in power of Moore’s Law. Aviation also experienced decades of exponential growth and...

Dr. Steven Howe identified an antimatter niche for the acceleration of small unmanned interstellar probes. Small amounts of antimatter can be used to initiate fission events whose daughters provided...

Extreme metamaterial solar sails as proposed here have the potential to shift the paradigm of space exploration enabling numerous low cost and high-speed missions to be launched anytime and anywhere....

A new six-junction solar cell, developed by NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), converts 47.1% of incident light into electricity when combined with optical concentration. Indications thus...

RUSI provides an analysis of China and India military balance and the border war situation. Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) is the world’s oldest and the UK’s leading defense and security think...

Researchers have found that age-reversing effects can be achieved by simply diluting the blood plasma of old mice — no young blood needed. Above – Older mice grew significantly more new muscle...

Exotic states called Kohn anomalies been found for the first time in an unexpected type of material and this could lead to new quantum devices. The researchers induced a Kohn anomaly, which was...

Amazon announced The Climate Pledge Fund to support the development of sustainable technologies and services that will enable Amazon and other companies to meet The Climate Pledge—a commitment to be...

Flash Forest can plant trees at 10 times the normal rate and at 20% of the cost of traditional tree planting techniques. They want to plant one billion trees by 2028. Planting trees is currently the...

The SpaceX Starship will be fully reusable and could be used for point to point transportation of cargo and people on Earth, flights to space and as habitats in space. There are 25,000 passenger...

Saudi Aramco is currently the most valuable company in the world. They have a stock price of 32.9 riyal. The value of the Riyal is pegged to the US dollar at 0.27 dollars to one Riyal. Saudi Aramco...

There are iconic looks for different decades. There was changing fashion, cars and devices that we carried. The look of the 1950s was immortalized in the movie American Graffiti and the TV show Happy...

OpenAI is scaling up language models and this greatly improves task-agnostic, few-shot performance, sometimes even reaching competitiveness with prior state-of-the-art finetuning approaches. They...

Life expectancy by year from 1900 to 2000 in the US had the following changes. From 1900 to 1920 life expectancy went from 47 to 54. From 1918 to 1921 life expectancy went from 39 to 60 WW1 and...

The UB population projection of 11.2 billion for 2100 is only the middle of the medium scenario for the UN. The UN has been revising its population projections upward from 9.5 billion to 11.2 billion...

Researchers have presented a novel electrode material for advanced energy storage device that is directly charged with oxygen from the air. Professor Jeung Ku Kang’s team synthesized and preserved...

Tesla Battery is September 15. Tesla will show off its own battery cell production line. Tesla will likely announce: * longer life-cycle the million-mile batteries * lower-cost batteries and probably...

Can the technological, scientific, medical and economic progress of the 21st century surpass the 20th century? The richest countries in the world increased per capita income by 10 times from 1900 to...

The Travis County Commissioners Court is meeting June 23 agenda about deliberations to decide if they would provide Tesla with an economic development performance agreement for a new 5 million square...

Isaac Asimov’s Foundation chronicles a band of exiles on their monumental journey to save humanity and rebuild civilization amid the fall of the Galactic Empire. Foundation stars SAG...

NVIDIA made the supercomputing cluster called Selene in less than a month. The cluster was built in the month since the announcement of Nvidia’s new Ampere architecture and A100 artificial...

China and India had a border skirmish which resulted in 20 deaths on the India side and maybe 43 on the China side. The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has various maps and analysis of...

Antibody levels found in recovered COVID-19 patients fell sharply in 2-3 months after infection for both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients, according to a Chinese study published in Nature...

Honeywell has released access to its trapped ion quantum computer with a quantum volume of 64. The previous best quantum computers were IBM and Google at a quantum volume of 32. Honeywell claims to...

Google is taking immersive media technology to the next level, showing a practical system for light field video. Wide field of view scenes can be recorded and played back with the ability to move...

The Tesla Cybertruck might implement a midgate. This is rolling down the rear window and rear wall and dropping the seats to allow carrying things 8 feet long or have extended sleeping, camping...

Apple and Microsoft are both worth about $1.5 trillion. Amazon is worth $1.3 trillion. Google will also double in value before 2025. Microsoft and Amazon are both rapidly growing their cloud...

Reports from Bloomberg and analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is Apple will announce the first ARM processor at WWDC, and that the first Mac models to feature ARM CPUs will be a next-generation 13.3-inch MacBook...