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SpaceX is building two competing versions of the new Starship rocket in Texas and Florida. The two SpaceX construction teams will cooperate but also compete on the construction of reusable Starships.

The Medical Loss Ratio (MLR) price control mandate in Obamacare got rid of the incentive for insurance companies to keep control of drug costs.

Michigan State University senior vice president Stephen Hsu, a theoretical physicist and the founder of Genomic Prediction discusses how AI and super-cheap human gene sequencing is revealing the...

High Altitude Balloon Carries Precursor to Interstellar Laser Propelled Starchip

New Deep Ocean Records and Discoveries

Rolls-Royce LibertyWorks has achieved significant technology milestones for integrated power and thermal management system for high-power defensive 100-kilowatt combat lasers.

LeoLabs’ will soon activate a new radar station in New Zealand. It will be the first to track debris as small as 2 centimeters in low Earth orbit. Current, systems track at 10 centimeters or larger....

A new Opinium/Observer poll shows both major British parties have lost vote share: Labour has lost ground to the Lib Dems and Greens, while the Conservatives are losing ground to the Brexit Party who...

The UAE Space Agency and EXOLAUNCH announced that MeznSat will be launched into orbit by the end of this year in a joint agreement. MeznSat will operate using a shortwave infrared spectrometer to...

Elon Musk has shown a stack of sixty Starlink Satellites in a SpaceX Falcon 9 that will soon be launched. SpaceX will be able to start operating the Starlink network with 800 Starlink satellites. It...

As of April 2019, 20 022 near earth asteroids have been found. We are finding them at a rate of 150 new discoveries every month and this number is set to rapidly increase. Above- ESA’s Flyeye...

On Wednesday, William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for human exploration and operations, said of SpaceX's Crew Drago. during a House subcommittee hearing. The parachutes did not work...

Jeff Bezos discussed his vision to go to space to benefit Earth. He announced the Blue Moon lunar lander and provided updates on the New Shepard sub-orbital rocket and the New Glenn rocket.

The body of the orbital prototype of the SpaceX Starship is coming together. There are still seven Raptor engines to be built and added and a lot of Starhopper testing before the orbital Starship...

lue Moon is a flexible lander delivering a wide variety of small, medium and large payloads to the lunar surface. Its capability to provide precise and soft landings will enable a sustained human...

Intel will start shipping its volume 10-nanometer client processor in June and shared first details on the company’s 7-nanometer process technology.

DARPA is automating air-to-air combat, enabling reaction times at machine speeds and freeing pilots to concentrate on the larger air battle and directing an air wing of drones.

he Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Self-Protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator (SHiELD) used a ground-based version of a combat laser weapon system shoot down of multiple air-launched missiles...

The US Air Force Research Lab has a new material that reacts to a shock wave like a one-way switch. The foam-like structure that contains a series of specifically-engineered tiny holes that determine...

SpaceX COO Gwynn Shotwell said that SpaceX will launch dozens of Starlink Satellites on May 15, 2019

China has consistently remained in the headlines recently as the back and forth between Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping continues. Discussions about imports, tariffs and the ongoing...

Brian Wang of Nextbigfuture will give the keynote speech at the May 19 Monte Jade Asian American event at the Marriott San Jose Cupertino, 19429 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino.

Intellia Fixed 95-98% T-Cells Inside the Body Using CRISPR Gene Therapy

There has been a lot of progress with gene editing to precisely engineer the genome. We are close to starting to fix major gene-related diseases like sickle cell anemia. Preclinical studies using...

Nanoblades Are Another Delivery Option for Gene Editing into Live Organisms

I normally do not promote non-profits. However, Jezuba is a worthy charity that I am associated with. They help people in developed countries get solar lighting. Donors will help a charity to get...

Rejuvenate Bio is offering a cardio-protective gene therapy that can stop the progression of MVD (Mitral Valve Disease). They are preparing to run a pilot study in dogs with MVD.

1. Universe Today -Here’s the Video of Hayabusa2 Bombing Asteroid Ryugu 2. Universe Today – InSight Just Detected its First “Marsquake” 3. Universe Today – As Expected, the Newly Upgraded...

LeoLabs announced they have signed more than US$2Billion in commercial agreements ahead of launching the world’s fastest, most secure and widest coverage data network delivered over a constellation...

Avengers Endgame's global box office has passed the non-adjusted box office of Titanic. Avengers Endgame only trails Avatar at about $2.8 billion.

Despite considerable efforts to stabilize lithium metal anode structures and prevent dendrite formation, achieving long cycling life in high-energy batteries under realistic conditions remains...

Lockheed has figured out how to increase the missiles carried by the F-35 stealth fighter from four to six. This was difficult because the missiles must be carried inside in order to maintain...

Energy Was and Will Be Key to Economic, Military and Tech Dominance

The SpaceX cargo mission to the ISS is delayed until tomorrow because of a power problem on the drone recover ship.

Hypersonic missiles and weapons development are technology to future-proof weapons against surprise developments in defense capability.

Tesla's Future is Ten Times Better If They Pull Off Self-driving

China continues to move ahead on military modernization. China is on track to have per capita income at about 25% of US levels in 2030 which would be at about the level of Eastern Europe. The richest...

Berkeley Labs has 3D-printed an all-liquid device that, with the click of a button, can be repeatedly reconfigured on demand to serve a wide range of applications – from making battery materials to...

The cause for the Taurus XL launch failures of NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) and Glory missions in 2009 and 2011 were bad materials and parts provided by aluminum manufacturer, Sapa...

Tesla is raiding $2 billion, with $1.35 billion coming from convertible notes and $650 million from new equity. Elon Musk is adding another $10 million in stock to his $12 billion in Tesla ownership....

The US Energy Information Agency Annual Energy Outlook high projection for oil and natural gas liquids would be 24 million barrels per day by 2025. Russia and Saudi Arabia should have combined...

Sandia has improved hypersonic turbulence modeling. This will lead to better hypersonic vehicle design.

Sandia Labs and other researchers have made recent breakthroughs in neuromorphic computing and the broader fields of organic electronics and solid-state electrochemistry.

Gabe Brown has super healthy soil on his farm and his farm is more productive.

The top antiaging research at Sinclair's lab is partial cellular reprogramming. He feels this is more powerful than senescent cell removal or calorie restriction. His lab in 2018 was able to regrow...

Current Noisy Quantum Computers have success rates of 3% to 90% depending upon the type of program or algorithm. A new quantum compiler will improve the success rates by an average of 3 times and up...

Drone-based tree planting can speed up tree planting by 100 times and at vastly lower cost.

China will start operating two new large Hualong nuclear reactors this year and another two next year Each Hualong nuclear reactor will generate one gigawatt of nuclear power. They were made by...