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U.S. Special Operations Command will put a human into its powered combat exoskeleton in the middle of 2019. The Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS) is a complex system with many...

The NASA Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) Roadmaps to Ocean Worlds (ROW) group has a plan for exploring the ocean worlds in our solar system. Here is a summary of their plan for the exploration...

Advertising has always been about attracting as much attention as possible to a particular brand’s cause, and companies are continually chasing the most innovative ways to do that. For most...

Harvard researchers have a paper which proposes that 2017 interstellar object Oumuamua was an alien solar sail. Speed, acceleration and other reasons to think it is an alien solar sail The reasons...

John Cena posted a picture of Captain America’s shield to his 10 million followers on Instagram. This means he has already landed the role in the Marvel movies or Cena is actively campaigning...

Telescopes could not get an image of the interstellar asteroid Oumuamua. Recent research shows that the asteroid had an acceleration. It deviated from a Keplerian orbit. It increased speed and...

1. Universe Today – An Extremely Large Hole has Been Dug for the Extremely Large Telescope European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is a next-generation ground...

The FCC will be voting to approve several companies with new non-geostationary satellite constellations. Viasat (California) will only launch 20 medium-Earth-orbit satellites instead of 24 as per...

The U.S. military is creating the Space Force as a sixth branch. It will not be about space marines but acquiring new space weapons and other systems for space domination. Space Force is about...

Nextbigfuture interviewed Sash Sunkara, Co-Founder and CEO, RackWare, about the IBM purchase of Redhat. IBM bought Red Hat for $34 billion in order to get a better position with hybrid cloud...

A neuromorphic supercomputer now has one-million processor cores. The Spiking Neural Network Architecture (SpiNNaker) machine can perform 200 trillion actions per second. Each chip has 100 million...

Elon Musk and the Boring Company has completed most of phase 1 of a 2.7-mile proof-of-process tunnel through Los Angeles. The first section of the Hawthorne tunnel, including O’Leary Station, will be...

The Falcon Heavy launched Starman has made its first pass beyond Mars. It has gone into an orbit where it will fly around the Earth and around Mars for millions of years. The SpaceX Falcon Heavy...

US Special Operations have built prototypes of the TALOS exoskeleton. It is designed to shield commandos from gunfire when they are in heavy urban combat. This special situation exoskeleton system...

3D printing of knitted textiles has been used as a structure for complex architecture. This cuts down on material, labor and waste, and simplifies the construction process for complex shapes. A...

The ALPHA collaboration is an international team of researchers who study antihydrogen. They have built a detector that will determine the mass and gravitational effects on antimatter hydrogen. They...

November 5, 2018, US oil sanctions on Iran will officially start. There has already been a 1.1 million barrel per day drop in Iranian oil shipments. Production hasn’t fallen as much as some output is...

Motorized molecules driven by light have been used to drill holes in the membranes of individual cells and show promise for either bringing therapeutic agents into the cells or directly inducing the...

Nextbigfuture has reported on Denmark providing free In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) and having 10% of all babies from IVF. 20% of the couples in many countries have trouble having babies. This is...

Blockchain venture production studio ConsenSys has bought space asteroid mining company. Planetary Resources. The acquisition was by an asset-purchase transaction. Planetary Resources’ President and...

China is building most of the new energy generation in the world. How this power is generated will shape global climate. 1.5 degree scenario requires China to build 500 GW or more of nuclear power by...

China has a war on air pollution and they are spending tens of billions each year since 2013 to fight it. These air pollution problems are taking a relatively wealthy China 20 years to solve. China...

Fixation of Nitrogen (N2) to Ammonia (NH3) is an essential process for maintaining life on earth. Currently, Ammonia (NH3) production is dominated by the Haber–Bosch process. It operates under...

Austria is allowing electric cars to drive at 130 kilometers per hour (80 mph) instead of 100 kilometers per hour (60 mph) on the IG-L highway. This affects 440 kilometers of highway. The next step...

Russia’s only aircraft carriers has a 215 square foot hole. The aircraft carrier was leaving an 80,000 ton floating dock after repairs. There was a 70 ton crane on the dock which fell and broke...

Stocks in Asia were mainly higher on Friday morning on the back of Wall Street gains and comments from U.S. President Donald Trump indicating progress in trade negotiations with China. Trump Tweet...

Bay Area FasTrak only provides you with a paper bill every 3 months. However, they will only reverse invalid disputed charges that are less than 30 days old. You can change to monthly free email...

South Korean universities have courses that make it mandatory for students to date their classmates. Students have to date each other in three randomly assigned pairings. Courses on dating, sex, love...

In 2006, Japan had predicted its total fertility could fall to 1.16 in 2020 but pro-child policies increased total fertility to 1.46 in 2015. Japan’s fertility reached a record low at...

A Tesla owner used the current autonomous driving and parking capabilities to remotely change parking spots. With Smart Summon, the Tesla car can navigate more complex environments and parking...

The Planetary Society reports that its solar sail will launch in early 2019. The sail is a secondary payload on a US Air Force and SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch. The Falcon Heavy was previously...

The Carnival of Space 584 is up at the Chandra Xray Space Telescope Blog. Universe Today – How Science Journalism Helped Me Become a Better Sci-Fi Writer Matt Williams writing for Universe...

Marvel Avengers and characters who are below solo-movie popularity will get Disney streaming TV series. Loki, Scarlet Witch, Vision, Falcon and Winters Soldier are headed to streaming TV shows....

An Australian study notes that China’s army has sent 2500 scientists to foreign universities over the last ten years. * China’s military sent 2500 scientists to study in western...

Mixing magnetic nanoparticles into battery electrode materials and applying a light magnetic field doubles the discharge rate of batteries. 24M is making prototype batteries using this magnetic...

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) has cleared the last legal hurdle to resume construction on Hawaii’s Big Island. Hawaii’s Board of Land and Natural Resources issued a fresh construction...

Mark Mobius, partner and co-founder of Mobius Capital Partners, says China markets are very weak. The yuan weakness and tradewar are killing China shares. This can only be solved by China making big...

Cray is building new Shasta Supercomputers. The first will be built for $146 million at Berkeley National Labs. It will use AMD Epyc processor and the next-generation Einstein Nvidia Tesla GPU...

China space program has several moon missions over the next few years, a three-module space station by 2022, robotic mission to Mars and more. China will help launch Pakistani astronauts in 2022....