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A small study showed 2.5 years of aging reversal. The people were 1.5 years younger according to epigenetic markers than when they were first measured one year prior. The trial

Astartes is a Warhammer 40,000 fan film project. The films show an orbital boarding action by the Retributors chapter of Space Marines. Games Workshop previously hired Richard Boylan based on his fan...

A 34-year-old store clerk in Japan stole and abused 1300 credit numbers by using his perfect memory. The clerk has eidetic memory. He would memorize the customers name, credit card number, expiration...

Jonathan Franzen wrote an article at the New Yorker called “What if We Stopped Pretending – We need to Admit we cannot prevent the climate apocalypse”. This article is full of...

SpaceX is planning four Starlink satellite launches by the end of 2019. This would put 240 satellites into orbit. The four launches are currently targeting: October 10 October 25 November 13 December...

The US administration has stopped talking about soybean-purchase agreements and begun talk of decoupling. Is it geopolitically prudent for a large part of the US industrial supply chain to be inside...

The Vikram lander descent was as planned and normal performance was observed till the altitude of 2,100 meters. The communication from the lander to ground station was lost. The data is being...

First 100 SpaceX Super Heavy Starship Flights From 2021-2026. The next seven years could see space habitation increase hundreds of times. We can go from about three to six people in space to hundreds...

A small clinical study in California has suggested for the first time that it might be possible to reverse the body’s epigenetic clock, which measures a person’s biological age. The antiaging trial...

AgeX Developing Antiaging by Working to Restore Full Regeneration

The Von Braun Station will be a dual-use station that is economically self-sustaining. Von Braun Stations creation will also form a space construction industry with bots, pods, drones, construction...

Nextbigfuture has partnered with fundraising, business development & international expansion experts to support promising ideas and businesses. With access to 100s of leading venture funds,...

Open Lunar Foundation is a San Francisco based non-profit that had the goal of creating settlements on the moon. Steve Jurvetson and executives from Planet Labs are among those involved. There is $5...

Chinese media indicates that Phase 1 of the Tesla Shanghai will start production by the end of September. This would mean that production should get ramped to 3000 Model 3 cars per week by the end of...

Richard Browning flew almost one mile to an island using a winged jet suit.

There are reports that a third batch of China’s WS-15 turbofans has been delivered with performance better than US F135. This would mean that China has achieved the goal of about 197 kilonewtons...

Tesla now provides insurance for owners in California. If they are able to deliver on 20% lower insurance then this would save about $400/year cheaper for a model 3. Tesla already repairs its cars...

A new Very-Small, Long-LIfe, and Modular (VSLLIM) reactor design has been developed at the University of New Mexico’s Institute for Space and Nuclear Power Studies. It offers passive operation and...

Status of New Nuclear Power Plant Construction

In the old days, it used to be a big deal for listening devices or bugs to be placed into your home. Here is a clip from the movie Charlie Wilson’s War where a CIA agent placed a bug onto a...

Billionaire Ron Baron owns more than 1.6 million shares (via Baron Capital) of Tesla valued at $358 million. Ron believes that Tesla will have $35-40 billion in revenue in 2020 and $100 billion by...

Max Shulaker and a group of researchers he leads has developed a working 16-bit microprocessor built from over 14,000 carbon nanotube transistors that is the most complex ever demonstrated. The...

Alibaba co-founder and executive chairman Jack Ma and Tesla CEO Elon Musk hold a debate in Shanghai over artificial intelligence. They both agree that world population will decrease rapidly over the...

Artificial neural nets can be trained to encode quantum mechanical laws to describe the motions of molecules, supercharging simulations potentially across a broad range of fields. New deep learning...

Brain organoids (aka mini-brains) — are 3D cellular models that represent aspects of the human brain in the laboratory. Brain organoids help researchers track human development, unravel the molecular...

Prediction markets have Elizabeth Warren as the most likely to become the 2020 Democratic Presidential nominee. She is at 33 cents, while Biden is at 27 cents and Bernie is at 15 cents. Prediction...

Tesla currently imports all of the cars it sells in China but plans to make the Model 3, its best-selling vehicle, at the new plant starting late this year. The company on Friday raised prices in...

The image tweeted by Trump was at about 10-centimeter resolution. It was likely a picture taken by the US224 satellite. This was one of the upgraded keyhole satellites that have the same mirror as...

Warren Redlich has a video with renderings

Xi Jinping is going completely to the Chairman Mao playbook. However, China is misunderstanding the Hong Kong issues. The police in Hong Kong and soon the Chinese Army are over-reacting. This article...

US All Liquids oil production is at 19.6 million barrels per day. US oil production is forecasted to increase by 1-2 million barrels per day by the end of 2020. US crude oil production is at 12.5...

Last week, US crude oil production reached a record 12.5 million barrels per day. Other liquids like natural gas liquids, ethanol and condensate reached 7.1 million barrels per day. The combined...

If you look at list of motor vehicle makers then Tesla is not in the top 50 makers in the world. The global top makers by vehicle production are Toyota and Volkswagen each with over 10 million...

Elon Musk tweeted that the orbital versions of the Starship (one in Texas and one in Florida) are aiming for 20km flight in Oct and an orbit attempt shortly thereafter. Elon Musk will give the...

The Chinese military conducted the latest rotation of its troops in Hong Kong on Thursday and was prepared to help maintain the city’s prosperity and stability, state media reported, amid massive...

The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship will be able to launch 100 tons into orbit in a fully reusable basis, but Elon Plans the follow up to be 4 to 8 times bigger. Elon tweeted that Starship Version 2.0...

In 1999, it took Google one month to crawl and build an index of about 50 million pages. In 2012, the same task was accomplished in less than one minute. The 2012 capability is about 50,000 times...

Most of the fires in Brazil were likely set by farmers preparing the land for next year’s planting. This is common farming method said the scientists from the University of Maryland. The fires are...

The eSports audience will grow to 453.8 million globally in 2019. There are 201 million Esports Enthusiasts. 201.2 million with per year growth of 15.7% to nearly 300 million in 2022. The global...

Market researcher Newzoo expects more than 2.5 billion people to play games in 2019. This is about one-third of the global population. The global gaming market is a $152 billion business in 2019 and...

Juvenescence is creating antiaging therapies using artificial intelligence and biotechnology with a near term goal of extending human lifespan to 150 years. They just raised $100 million in a Series...

This is the Carnival of Space 626. Here is an archive of all of the past weekly Carnivals of Space. This where space-related blog joined together for weekly summaries of articles from all of the...

The Carnival of Space 625 is up at Cosmoquest. Richard Lawn of SETI Home is revisiting the Drake Equation. Nearly everyone interested in SETI has heard of the Drake Equation, but views of its utility...

Boring Company is Elon Musk’s third-highest value company after Tesla ($39 billion valuation as of Aug 28, 2019) and SpaceX ($33 billion). They just raised $120 million with a valuation of $920...

A guest post by Joseph Friedlander In a reader comment I shall always treasure, I got this: What’s next, the economics of importing methane by wormhole from Titan? ...

Tesla and China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd (CATL) and other companies that have shown an initial interest in the Indian government’s plan to build large battery factories at an...

Graphene sheets can block the signals mosquitos use to identify a blood meal, potentially enabling a new chemical-free approach to mosquito bite prevention. Researchers showed that multilayer...

SpaceX just had a successful 150-200 Meter hop of the Starhopper. SOURCES- SpaceX Written By Alvin Wang, Nextbigfuture.com

Kyle Nel of Singularity University Uncommon Partners was interviewed by Nextbigfuture. After a long-time partnership, Singularity University acquired Uncommon Partners (UP) to expand the capabilities...

John Blincow is the President of the Gateway Foundation. John Blincow has worked as a pilot for 24 years, flying all over the world in such aircraft as the Boeing 757, DC-10, and Boeing 747-400. John...