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In July, 2018, Moltex was selected by New Brunswick Energy Solutions Corporation and New Brunswick Power to progress development of its SSR-W (Stable Salt Reactor – Wasteburner) technology in...

Sila Nanotechnologies is developing silicon based anodes for lithium-ion batteries. They have raised another $70 million with Sutter Hill Ventures leading the round and other investors include...

The US Navy will buy a new ship in 2023 which will be larger than a destroyer but which is not yet called a cruiser. It will be bigger and more expensive than the Arleigh Burke Flight III design and...

Pentagon leaders say the U.S. Navy has no intention of altering any operations in the region. Iran has claimed control of the Persian Gulf and the Straits of Hormuz. Iran has about 100 small patrol...

CBS is being sued for plagiarism over Star Trek Discovery. Tardigrades Dev is a game that was announced and submitted onto Steam Greenlight in November, 2014. A blog post from October 2017, describes...

China has $3.3 billion funding two large molten salt fission reactor projects. There are 400 SINAP (Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics) scientists that are working on molten salt reactors at a...

SpaceX revealed the SpaceX crew dragon which four NASA astronauts will ride into orbit in 2019. Two test flights must go well and then the SpaceX crew dragon will be certified for manned flights for...

Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University will use the exaFLOP Aurora supercomputer starting in 2021 to help solve...

The US Navy’s newest 30-year shipbuilding plan gets to 308 ships by 2020, a year faster than the previous administration’s goal of 2021. The target is 326 ships by the end 2023. The US Navy will not...

The common argument in the Blockchain world is Proof-of-Work versus Proof of stake. Proof-of-Work is proven while Proof-of-Stake is more energy efficient and more scalable. There is now another...

Floating nuclear power plants offer several economic advantages. A large percentage of the cost of a nuclear power plant is the construction and installation of the plant itself. This cost can vary...

The Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUx) was soliciting for drones that can deliver a 5-pound package over 100 kilometers in hot and tough environment. They are looking for unmanned aerial...

The U.S. and Mexico struck a trade deal on Monday that paved the way to replace NAFTA, the current agreement between the two nations and Canada. Mexican officials promised the Latin American country...

The head of the navy of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, General Alireza Tangsiri, said on Monday that Iran had full control of the Gulf and the U.S. Navy did not belong there. Tangsiri said Iran had...

Purifying stormwater, at the source, in the stormwater drain, is the most elegant solution to a growing problem for communities and property. Swedrop is a disposable filter which floats in the...

Multiple fatalities were reported in a mass shooting, Sunday afternoon at a Madden NFL video game tournament in a popular area of Jacksonville, Florida. One suspect was dead at the scene. Notice just...

Natural gas is continuing to dominate energy usage in the United States. Coal provided 60% of US electrical power 30 years ago and was still providing 50% in 2005. Coal is very competitive in certain...

There is a surge in the global installation of air conditioners. In the 1990s, China had very few air conditioners but now there is almost one air conditioner per household. India and Indonesia are...

In 2016 and 2017, marine heat waves killed half of the corals in the Great Barrier reef. It takes ten years for the coral to recover. John Veron is the world’s top coral reef expert. Between a...

A leaked Chinese military document indicates that China is shifting from deterrence and protecting its territory to looking beyond its borders. China desperately wants a comprehensive protection of...

Crop irrigation uses 70% of global fresh water extractions. Irrigated crops make up 40% of globally available food calories. Advanced technologies that could provide irrigation efficiency (IE) are...

Electrons that behave like light are Dirac electrons. Dirac electrons have been in monolayer graphene and now they are seen in twelve-sided graphene quasicrystal. They have useful and unique...

University of Waterloo Chemists are the first to achieve four-electron conversion, which doubles the electron storage of lithium-oxygen, also known as lithium-air, batteries. The high...

Most of Tesla’s existing shareholders believe Tesla is better off as a public company. Elon Musk is leaving Tesla as a private company for now. Given the feedback I’ve received, it’s apparent that...

Researchers report the observation of the 1S–2P, Lyman-α transition in antihydrogen, based on 966 detected events and an estimated background of 14 events. They will use the laser cooling innovation...

Worldwide there are over 500,000 centenarians. By 2025, there should be a million centenarians in the world and 2 million by 2040. This is before the changes that might occur with radically improved...

Kalashnikov has an electric car that uses the styling of a car symbolic of occupied East Germany. The Trabant became a symbol of the technological and social backwardness of the East German state....

Several companies are starting to develop molten salt reactors. TerraPower is backed by Bill Gates and is developing molten salt reactors. Southern Company, a leading energy company in the United...

The U.S. economy is growing at a fast clip, and the bull market is entering its ninth year. Some economists are starting worry over rising interest rates and a negative signal from the bond market...

VP Pence announced the plan to put a manned crew on a Lunar Gateway Platform by 2024. VP Pence repeated of US policy to return the moon and explore Mars. VP Pence still supports the wasteful Space...

Leapfrog light and hologram based MRI technology will scan the brain or body bit by bit or voxel by voxel. This light-based system will not only be vastly smaller and cheaper than existing magnetic...

Openwater’s breakthrough portable MRI could get around smartphone pricing. They will need improved AI so that reading of the MRI image does not require thousands of dollars in training....

Open Water is creating a portable and cheap MRI. fMRI can predict what words you are thinking of and what images your are thinking. There have been mistakes in published work showing cherry-picking...

Red light passes through flesh and bone but it scatters. A hologram can reform the scattered light into an image to see inside the body at high resolution. Sound is used to focus the system. It...

The Pentagon report indicates that China’s navy and air assets are about ten times Taiwan’s capabilities but assesses a Chinese amphibious D-Day invasion as a risky and challenging...

In 2019, China should complete floating mobile nuclear reactors to power drilling platforms in the ocean to expedite exploitation of oil, natural gas and combustible ice. A Pentagon report believes...

Miniature capsules shoot through water with the help of an unlikely power source — oxygen bubbles. Inspired by the gas-filled organelles that some bacteria use, Pavan Kumar, Avinash Patil and Stephen...

Russia’s Rostec showed off a passive exoskeleton which increases physical abilities of a soldier, protects joints and the spine and was already tested in combat. It is the third generation...

Russia’s Kalashnikov company built a 4-meter tall walking robot. It was shown at the Russian Army-2018 defence expo and there are plans for some capabilities demonstration in 2019. There have...

After the defeat of France in the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815), Britain emerged as the principal naval and imperial power of the 19th century. Unchallenged at sea, British dominance...

The Pentagon’s annual report to Congress on China’s military and security developments has finally been published but it was several months later than usual. China is transitioning from equipment...

Richard Browning spoke at SU Global Summit 2018 and demoed the Gravity Jet Suit twice this week in the SF bay area. * they have made flying the Jet Suit far easier to fly. There is adjustment of the...

The maximum distance for asteroid mining 3 million miles (0.03 AU) with current technology. The corresponding delta-V is 437 meters per second. The near earth asteroids that are in range should...

In Conformal Cyclic Cosmology the universe iterates through infinite cycles, with the future timelike infinity of each previous iteration being identified with the Big Bang singularity of the next....

There are various examples where algorithm improvements provided more performance gain than hardware improvement. * a linear programming problem that would take 82 years to solve in 1988 could be...

Nantero is developing next-generation memory using carbon nanotubes. NRAM’s has DRAM-like speed, nonvolatility and low cost. Nantero and its partner Fujitsu aims to ship a DDR4 DRAM alternative using...

Increased social media anti-refugee activity was correlated to increased anti-refugee crime. A research paper “Fanning the Flames of Hate: Social Media and Hate Crime” identifies the link...

Stratolaunch will use four different air-launched rockets. The updated launch offering from Stratolaunch includes the following vehicles: Pegasus: With its existing track record of over 35 successful...

For blood transfusions to be safe, the donor and patient blood types must match. Now researchers at the University of British Columbia have identified a new, more powerful group of enzymes that can...