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Fracture-resistant “rebar graphene” is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene. Rebar graphene, developed by the Rice lab of chemist James Tour in 2014, uses carbon nanotubes for reinforcement....

Saudi Arabia wants its Public Investment Fund (PIF) to control more than $2 trillion by 2030 so that it can be used to support transition from oil. Saudi Arabia wants to diversify its the economy...

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) have made the first radio-telescope detection of a planetary-mass object beyond our Solar System. They found...

US Natural gas fracking is enabling the boom in natural gas production and will be building up liquid natural gas imports to tens of millions of tons over the next few years. China will increase...

Total U.S. natural gas consumption averaged 74.2 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in 2017 and is forecast to increase by 7% to 79.7 Bcf/d in 2018 before slightly decreasing to 79.6 Bcf/d in 2019....

NASA announced winners of the 3D printed Mars habitat design challenge. They had both exterior and interior designs. Team Zopherus from Rogers, Arkansas, was the first-place winner of Phase 3: Level...

NASA announced four astronauts who fly aboard the SpaceX crewed dragon. The astronauts for SpaceX mission are Bob Behnken, Col. Doug Hurley, Victor Glover and Mike Hopkins. The crewed dragon will...

Exchange traded funds can be traded like stocks but they can track any index or type of financial assets. They can track commodities or a basket of stocks or bonds. There are several groups trying to...

DARPA has selected research teams from academia and industry to explore the development of flexible architectures capable of using specialized hardware to solve specific computing problems more...

DARPA’s Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) program will speed up AI development. It will streamline the contracting procedures and funding mechanisms to achieve a start date within three...

DARPA has revealed the research teams selected to drive two efforts to go beyond Moore’s law. DARPA’s $1.5 billion Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI) wants to jumpstart innovation in the...

In June, 2018, 117 of the 500 most powerful supercomputers included in the TOP500 are Lenovo installations. Nearly one out of every four systems (23.4 percent) on the prestigious list is a Lenovo...

Australian city of Townsville had 7000 families had mosquito growing kits. The kits cost $13 per person. The kits are tubs with Aedes aegypti mosquito eggs and were placed in their yards. The tubs...

Bioengineered lungs have been grown in a Texas lab and transplanted into adult pigs with no medical complication. This could begin solving the human transplant problem starting in about 5 years. They...

There was an anti-violence demonstration in Chicago which also called for Mayor Rahm Emanuel to resign. Chicago has had more total murders in 2016, 2017 and 2018 than the combined populations of Los...

The CBO has analyzed what might happen to the budget deficit if key economic variables differed from those in the agency’s current economic forecast: The growth of productivity and, consequently, the...

It’s going to cost the mobile-phone companies, chipmakers, device manufacturers and software developers about $200 billion a year in research and capital spending to get 5G fully deployed. Next...

Every other Space Agency in the world knows that SpaceX has won with reusable rockets. All of the existing non-reusable rockets cannot compete. The Japanese, Chinese, Europeans and Russians know that...

In 2019, Japan will be copying what SpaceX did in 2012 with the Grasshopper rocket tests. Japan, China, Europe and Russia and other US competitors are all in a panic over the complete domination that...

Seaborg is the largest reactor design start-up in Europe. They have a design for a molten salt reactor that is ten times smaller than the Terrestrial Energy IMSR. It would 20 to 30 times smaller than...

General John Hyten says the prospects for the potential denuclearization of North Korea are moving in a positive direction since the Singapore summit. He is the Commander, United States Strategic...

The McKay-Zubrin plan for terraforming Mars in 50 years was cited by Elon Musk. Orbital mirrors with 100 km radius are required to vaporize the CO2 in the south polar cap. If manufactured of solar...

NASA and the US Army have tested 100 megabit per second laser communication with a cubesat. This is 50 times better than 2 megabit per second radio communication to cubesats that are currently used....

The Atlanta Federal Reserve GDPNow forecasting model provides a “nowcast” of the official estimate prior to its release by estimating GDP growth using a methodology similar to the one...

NASA will announce on Friday, Aug. 3, the astronauts assigned to crew the first flight tests and missions of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX Crew Dragon. There are still unmanned...

In December 1980, Apple had its IPO. They were not allowed to sell in Massachusetts because they were deemed to be too risky. At end of the day, the stock had increased in value by almost 32% to...

The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME), a radio telescope in British Columbia, has detected a fast radio burst (FRB) on July 25, 2018. They detected the first-ever FRB at...

Lu Yu, head of the science and technology committee at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, said designers at the largest developer of launch vehicles, have begun making tests with some of...

In 2015, Lockheed promised a nuclear fusion reactor design that could be transported via a heavy truck. Lockheed also was granted a patent for it. Additional research revealed the design would only...

Apple is trading intraday at $206-207. This makes Apple the first trillion dollar market value company. Jim Cramer has noted that if Apple had a price earnings (P/E ratio) multiple that was the...

Waymo has been testing self-driving cars without any safety drivers in Phoenix for nearly a year. Waymo will launch the first commercial program in Phoenix within months. They have applied California...

Haug has recently introduced a new maximum velocity for subatomic particles (anything with rest mass) that is just below the speed of light. This is combined with the relativistic rocket equation in...

3D printing has come a long way and this can be seen in a hyper-detailed one-tenth studio scale model of the Discovery spaceship from the 2001 movie. The prototype 3D printed model is more like movie...

Bitcoin has fallen back to the mid-$7000 support level after rallying over $8000. Bitcoin had a peak in January, 2018. Various bitcoin bulls have doubled down on their price predictions. Most of the...

Here is a rundown of the various nuclear fusion projects. Overall there many interesting projects with decent funding. Most are being more careful about making specific timeline promises. Molten Salt...

The Lockheed Compact Reactor was kicked off with huge promises a few years ago and their patent based upon those promises has publicized again. Journalists and publications who do not follow nuclear...

Japanese researchers have made the world’s best-performing pure spin current source made of bismuth–antimony (BiSb) alloys, which they report as the best candidate for the first industrial...

Battalion chief with Cal Fire Jonathan Cox said the rise in the number of wildfires over the last several years has been “the new normal” in California. There have been larger and more...

Significant improvements to the trip times of the San Diego to Los Angeles rail connection could be affordably made. Alon Levy is a public transportation expert and writer at Pedestrian Observations....

In 2008 an original bond measure approved the California High-Speed rail project. The measure was full of lies about costs. There was a strict guarantee that the California high-speed rail measure...

Researchers of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and the company Diamond Materials have developed 6 inch wide diamond disks for window units to heat the plasma in fusion reactors. Gyrotrons are...

Mass colonization of Mars will require advanced space capabilities. There will need to be hundreds or even thousands of fully reusable SpaceX BFR. A study that shows that Terraforming Mars needs to...

Panasonic will increase the battery production at the Gigafactory by 30% to support increased production of the Tesla Model 3. Panasonic will add 3 production lines by the end of 2018. This will...

Russians have built the vast majority of planes that leverage Wing in Ground Effect. Flying low above the water or land can provide extra lift to enable planes with far more cargo capacity. The...

Airport security is both slow and ineffective. The random testing of airport security finds that the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) fails to detect weapons 80-95% of the time. The 95%...

The risk of developing autism-spectrum disorders is determined by the bacteria inside the pregnant mother. Preventing forms of autism could be as simple as an expectant mom modifying her diet or...

The US Defense Department leaders will initiate the changes that they can perform without congressional approval for the New US Space Force. President Trump has ordered the creation of a new branch...

When will we know that antiaging rejuvenation using damage and age reserval really works? In such a world we will see 20 year old mice and a young Sylvester Stallone. Stallone is a wealthy famous...

DARPA will use the Silent Falcon UAS Technologies solar electric, fixed wing, long endurance, long range Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) for the Stand-off Ubiquitous Power/Energy Replenishment – Power...