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How will the world be different in the 2050-2060 timeframe in terms of wealth and people? The wealth will double over the next forty years. This will be like the average moving from Romania to Czech...

There is a proposed $1.275 billion National Quantum Initiative to accelerating research and training in quantum computing. The funding would be provided over ten years. Several centers of excellence...

The UN has said the world needs to cut as much as 70% of greenhouse-gas emissions by mid-century to have any chance of avoiding 2 ËšC of warming. More than half of the carbon dioxide emissions...

SpaceX has shown a new rendering of the SpaceX BFR spaceship with three large mini-wings (fins). There is now a dark heat shield along the belly. SpaceX has signed the world’s first private passenger...

Boeing has an $805 million contract to build and support four large MQ-25A unmanned drones. The four drones will have initial operation in 2024. They will supply refueling. The Navy eventually plans...

Korean Fusion tokamak fusion reactor scientists have determined additional magnetic field can avoid a difficult plasma instability. Nature – 3D field phase-space control in tokamak plasmas...

SpaceX COO Gwynne Shotwell said most of the difficulty of designing and building BFR’s advanced Raptor engine was already behind SpaceX. The new SpaceX BFR schedule is for short hop testing late next...

Michael Griffin, defense undersecretary, gave a rough estimate for deploying space-based interceptors can be calculated on the $20,000 per kilogram is costs to send material into low earth orbit....

The goal of woolly mammoth project is to solve the permafrost climate issue. The top area of the world is covered in permafrost. The Siberian and Canadian tundra is this mass of permafrost and that...

Dutch researchers have successfully developed nanowires allowing individual electrons to be captured by a ‘quantum dot’ on which superconductivity can take place. These nanowires could make powerful...

The Reef and Rainforest Research Centre (RRRC), a non-profit enterprising Australian organization, has reported substantial signs of recovery for corals affected by mass coral bleaching on the Great...

In 2017, a facility in Turkey was established through a collaboration between Turkey’s Natural Movements Research Foundation (DOHAD) and the GeoCosmo Research Center Foundation, a...

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, richest man in the world, and his wife have launched a $2 billion fund to help the homeless. They will create a network of nonprofit preschools in low-income communities. Jeff...

France has approved 13.4 billion euros of investment into five new high-speed rail TGV lines. They will make the buildout over the next five years. This is an increase of 40% over the previous...

Engineers at the University of British Columbia have developed a new ultrasound transducer, or probe, that could dramatically lower the cost of ultrasound scanners to as little as $100. Their...

Space Systems Loral has a Payload Orbital Delivery System (PODS) which is a cost-effective system for sending small satellites to orbit. It carries small spacecraft to orbit attached to large...

There are 3.7 billion people in the global middle class ($11-110 per day in PPP). This is 48% of the world’s population. An additional 190 million (2.5%) are richer than global middle class. The...

Brookings Institute updated its analysis of global income distribution. They were able to get more complete data for more countries. They updated the purchasing power parity to 2011 statistics....

California and Germany could have mostly or completely decarbonized their electricity if they have invested in nuclear power instead of solar and wind renewables. If Germany did not begin a nuclear...

AnAge is a curated database of aging and life history in animals, including extensive longevity records. AnAge was primarily developed for comparative biology studies, in particular studies of...

Apple Watch Series 4 is capable of generating an ECG similar to a single-lead electrocardiogram. It’s a momentous achievement for a wearable device that can provide critical real-time data for...

Returning woolly mammoth to the Tundra would help solve Climate Change. They lived during the Pleistocene until extinction in the early Holocene epoch, and was one of the last in a line of mammoth...

George Church is developing better and better organs using pigs. They are working to slow or reverse the aging in the organs to be used for transplant. He says this has been done successfully with...

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, said there isn’t an opportunity for yet another 1,000-times growth in anything in the space anymore. Growth in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in the...

India is forecast to have a purchasing power parity GDP of $16.8 trillion in 2023. China is forecast to be $37 trillion in 2023 and the USA $24.5 trillion in 2023. Japan would be number four at $6.3...

Here we look at trending out forecasted purchasing power GDP and emissions. The average world CO2 emissions growth has been about 1.29% per year as an average over the last ten years. GDP PPP is in...

British Petroleum publishes an annual energy and economics report for all countries. The 2018 BP Statistical Review of World Energy, indicated the world reached a new peak in CO2 emissions. Asia...

Everything is for sale. If capitalism needed a motto that should be it. However, up until now “everything” didn’t include data. The gigantic profusion of digital information in the modern world is...

Eric Markowitz and Dan Crowley of Worm Capital had a visit to the Tesla Gigafactory. They believe that Tesla will be able to sustain—weekly production rates of 6,000 Model 3 battery units per week,...

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is an independent Australian federal government agency responsible for scientific research. CSIRO works with leading...

SpaceX COO and President Gwynne Shotwell says Falcon 9 first stages are returning in much better shape than anticipated. SpaceX has refurbishment time down to four weeks. The SpaceX goal is still a...

SpaceX COO and President Gwynne Shotwell confirmed that SpaceX is still targeting integrated BFR tests in 2019, in the form of hops with the next-gen rocket’s upper stage (known as BFS). Shotwell...

By early 2019, the US Army will start providing power to a drone via a laser beam. They hope to be powering airborne drones by 2020 as long as the necessary regulatory process is approved. DARPA will...

HMS Queen Elizabeth, the first of two new aircraft carriers for the British Navy, arrived at a US port on the way to F-35B stealth fighter tests. This was the first transatlantic trip for the 65,000...

Researchers simulated the effects of around 79 terawatts of solar panels and 3 terawatts of wind turbines. Computer modeling looked at the effect of covering 20 percent of the largest desert on the...

Sina Finance reports that Tesla Shanghai has registered a capital increase to 4.67 billion yuan (US$680 million.) In May 2018, Tesla (Shanghai) got a business license and TESLA MOTORS HK LIMITED was...

SpaceX had its sixteenth successful launch this year and twenty-ninth successful rocket recovery. It was also the 60th successful SpaceX Falcon 9 launch. Successful deployment of Telstar 18 VANTAGE...

DARPA is funding development of high resolution brain interfaces. At the same time there are two companies who have breakthrough technology for higher resolution brain interfaces. The two companies...

A team of scientists has concluded that deploying solar and wind farms across the region that the Sahara encompasses will produce significantly more rain, and therefore, natural vegetation, in the...

StartEngine Crowdfunding Inc. (https://www.startengine.com/) will host the StartEngine Summit on October 19th, 2018 in Los Angeles, CA. This is StartEngine’s third crypto conference that focuses on...

China has been claiming it will adapt its aircraft carrier electromagnetic launch systems as rocket range extenders for systems placed on high plateaus in Tibet. China has claimed to have made...

A drone ambulance design has won a $20,000 prize the 2nd FAI International Drones Conference and Expo held in Lausanne on 1 September 2018. Vincenzo Navanteri and his team winning design is for a...

In 1991, Sumio Iijima’s discovered multi-walled carbon nanotubes in the insoluble material of arc-burned graphite rods and Mintmire, Dunlap, and White’s independent prediction that if...

Finally ultralong (several centimeter) carbon nanotube fibers have been made into stronger bundles. The tensile strength of CNTBs (Carbon nanotube bundles) is at least 9–45 times that of other...

Nick Oberg created a cutaway illustration of the SpaceX BFR. To continue on the @spaceX #BFR media exploration, here a great cutaway of how the interior could look like from Nick Oberg...

Rob Hoyt of Tethers Unlimited presented “In-Space Recycling and Manufacturing” at the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) Working Group Presentations. The FISO (Future In-Space Operations)...

Rudranarayan Mukherjee, NASA JPL gave an update on progress to Robotic Assembly of Space Assets: Architectures and Technologies. This is the path to making 100 meter and even multi-kilometer diameter...

Mr. Paul “Rusty” Thomas, Program Manager, DARPA Tactical Technology Office presented at the Future In-Space Operations (FISO) Working Group Telecon. He described the “DARPA Blackjack Demo...

The most distant galaxies can be seen by our telescopes but smaller and closer objects in the Oort clouds cannot be seen. The Oort cloud objects are too faint to see with the James Webb Space...