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Gravity Wave detections are rapidly increasing. The first gravity wave was detected in 2015. The science needed to accomplish this is described in the Veratasium videos below. They needed to create...

The gravity wave detections were in 2015 when Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) researchers detected the impact of two black holes. On October 1st, LIGO’s Hanford (LHO) and...

China is building new faster prototype maglev train line. China existing high-speed trains are almost all faster versions of conventional steel wheels on steel rail trains. China only has one 19-mile...

The weird orbits of Trans-Neptunian Objects (TNOs) and an excess amount of microlensing events in the 5-year OGLE dataset can be simultaneously explained by a new population of astrophysical bodies...

Advanced Reactor Concepts is developing an exportable, factory-produced, 100 MWe nuclear reactor with fixed fuel costs for 20+ years. The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) has completed the...

Tesla Bought Deepscale AI for about $100 million

Tesla Reaches Production Record But Falls Short of 100,000

AMD has released the first single-socket, 64 physical core (128 threads) processors. The 2nd Gen AMD EPYC Processors deliver world-record, best-in class performance up to a 2×3 generational...

A bioengineered soft cap emitting electromagnetic waves has reversed memory impairment of Alzheimer’s patients (AD). This is a patient wearing MemorEM. CREDIT NeuroEM Therapeutics, Inc....

A triple drug combination has been used to extend the lifespan of fruit flies by 48% in a new study led by UCL and the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging. The three drugs are all already in...

Lightbridge Corporation and Enfission, LLC have demonstrated the manufacturing process and fabrication of Lightbridge Fuel surrogate rods in a length that could be usable in NuScale Power’s...

The Carnival of Space 631 is up at Urban Astronomer. Universe Today – Hayabusa 2 has one Last Lander it’s Going to Throw at Ryugu. JAXA (Japan Space Agency) posted time-lapse photos of target...

China Electric Car Maker Nio is Near Bankruptcy

Elon Musk had an interview with the Everyday Astronaut. Elon reiterated that he changed to steel construction for the rocket when carbon fiber was taking too long. Carbon fiber was a standard in the...

Guest Post by Neil Farbstein Neil Farbstein contact info; vnbcibnc@gmail.com Methane in the atmosphere is a very potent greenhouse gas. Over a 20-year period, methane traps 84 times more heat per...

Age of Steel Spaceliners

Elon Musk told CNN that he believes SpaceX Super Heavy Starship could have manned flights in 12-15 months. Elon said he was quite confident about manned Starship flights by the end of 2020 and...

Jim Bridenstine congratulated SpaceX on Starship and then poked them about the Commercial Crew program being year late. My statement on @SpaceX's announcement tomorrow: pic.twitter.com/C67MhSeNsa...

The main constraint on the Super-Heavy booster is ramping up the production of the Raptor engines. They will need 100 Raptor engines to get to the orbital test. They build one Raptor engine currently...

SpaceX Shows Vision of Starship at a Mars City and at Saturn

Mission Accomplished- Elon Musk inspired people about space and the future.

SpaceX and Elon Musk Presenting Orbital Starship at 5pm PST

Nextbigfuture interviewed Tony Seba of RethinkX on their latest analysis of emerging global technology disruption. The new emerging technology is combining synthetic biology was fermentation to...

SpaceX Starship Will Be Fully Operational Tomorrow

Joseph Agnew, undergrad and research assistant from the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Propulsion Research Center (PRC), presented the results of his study “An Examination of Warp Theory and...

Nearly Complete SpaceX Starship Orbital Prototype

Fast Production Ramps at Fifth Tesla Fremont Line and Shanghai Possible in 2020

Windshield Supplier Says Start of Tesla's Shanghai Production Will Be October 14, 2019

Boston Dynamics Will Sell First Generation Universal Robot

The Hottest Investment Sector Of The year Is Flying Under Wall Street’s Radar

SpaceX Will Use Tesla Car Batteries to Power Movable Wings for Starship Re-Entry

Currently superconductors are used for Terahertz telescope detects but new graphene terahertz detectors will use less than 0.1% of the power. Instead of microwatts, the graphene detectors could use...

Economic Case for Nuclear Fusion Also Applies to Advanced Fission Reactors

Zap Energy, the University of Washington, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are advancing the shear-flow stabilized Z-pinch concept and assessing its potential for scaling to fusion...

P3Tek presented the results of a 10-month study of the ThorCon thorium/uranium-fueled molten salt reactor (MSR) power plant. The study reviewed regulation, safety, economics, and the grid load and...

Google will likely announce quantum speedup and quantum supremacy has been proven using the random circuit selection problem. It is pretty clear that physics allows quantum speedup. Will there be...

Quantum Computing Community Has Been Buzzing About Quantum Supremacy

Victory Gardens Were Not the Solution to Feeding the World

Energy for an LED Light from Light of the Cold Night Sky

1. Universe Today – Nothing Says Springtime on Mars Like Explosions of Sand. CaSSIS is a high-resolution camera and in May 2019 it captured an image of the melting CO2 at Mars northern polar...

Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor

Indian Government Report 5% GDP Growth But Slowdown is Probably Worse

The Wall Street Journal reports that Saudi Oil Refineries could take months to repair according to foreign contractors working with the Saudi state giant. Saudi Arabia state oil company Aramco had...

Is the World Energy Discussion Biased Because of Racism or Stupidity?

Tesla's Dalhousie Million Mile Battery Lifetimes for Robotaxies and Long-Haul Trucks

Elon Musk views any human user intervention is an error situation for the Tesla Autopilot. Elon means that whenever a human has to take control from the Tesla Autopilot system this is indicating an...

The SpaceX Starship Mk1 in Boca Chica will be fully stacked when Elon Musk presents on Saturday. The STarship Mk1 has two rear moving fins. This is a new design. Elon Musk has also tweeted a picture...

An explosive new industry is taking over the world… It has shot past film, television and even music to become the world’s most widely consumed source of entertainment. Yet most investors are...

Tesla appears to have 100,000 sales in the third quarter of 2019 and the fourth quarter should see up to 20,000 cars from the Shanghai Gigafactory. The Shanghai Gigafactory could add 150,000 to...

In August, 2019, SLS (Space Launch System) managers for Boeing and Northrop Grumman gave that timeline at an aerospace industry forum. Boeing is in charge of assembling the rocket’s core stage, and...