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Dr He Jiankui created the world’s first gene-edited babies and has received at least 298 million yuan (US$43 million) in funding for two biotech start-ups from Chinese and international investors....

Robin Lovell-Badge, Ph.D., a geneticist at The Francis Crick Institute, said Chinese scientist He Jiankui contacted him to deny there was a death penalty risk for his editing of human embryos....

In mid-2018, a US destroyer fired 20 hypervelocity projectiles (HVP) from a standard Mk 45 5-inch deck gun. The Hypervelocity projectiles will make the guns effective and low-cost weapons against...

Australia’s New South Wales scientists have adapted single atom technology to build 3D silicon quantum chips – with precise interlayer alignment and highly accurate measurement of spin states....

China now has 46 power reactors in operation with a combined installed capacity of more than 45 GWe. China will add another 11 nuclear reactors that would add 11 GWe of electricity over the next two...

Elon Musk indicates that the rocket engines currently on Starship hopper are a blend of Raptor development and operational parts. The first hopper engine to be fired is almost finished assembly in...

Pegasus is the first fundamental change in D-Wave’s architecture since the D-Wave One. The D-Wave Two, 2X, and 2000Q all used the Chimera architecture, which had unit cells of K4,4 graphs....

The SpaceX StarHopper is in one piece. SpaceX is targeting a first flight in four weeks if everything goes right. SpaceX has put this together with astonishing speed. The StarHopper will test...

IBM Q System One enables universal approximate superconducting quantum computers to operate outside the research lab for the first time. It’s a major step forward in the commercialization of...

There has been various speculation about China having five aircraft carrier by 2025 and up to ten aircraft carriers by 2049. Only two of China’s five aircraft carriers would be anywhere close...

Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory will produce Model 3 and Model Y cars for greater China region. Elon Musk Shanghai Giga will produce affordable versions of 3/Y for greater China. All Model S/X and higher...

SpaceX just missed catching the faring on the last launch. The faring is waterproof and can still be reused. Catching the faring will make reusing the farings cheaper. There will be less work needed...

The Carnival of Space 594 is up at Universe Today Universe Today has coverage of the New Horizon visit to Ultima Thule. New Horizons mission made the first rendezvous in history with a Kuiper Belt...

David Attenborough made a lot of nature documentaries and is interviewed by the BBC as some kind of climate expert. In an interview with the BBC, Attenborough and the UK’s Chief Scientist...

There is an every-growing need to construct large space telescopes and structures for observation of exo-planets, main-belt asteroids and NEOs. Space observation capabilities can significant enhanced...

Scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he announced he had altered embryos for seven couples during fertility treatment to protect them against contracting HIV, leading to the birth of two twin...

Traveling Salesman Problems are in a class of very difficult mathematical problems called NP-Complete problems. The possible solutions scales at insanely high levels that go far beyond current...

The Doomer David Attenborough hates humans and data. He desperately wants fewer humans and ignores data which shows how wrong his ideas are. This is a dangerous level of ignorance. This ignorance and...

China’s Ministry of Ecology and Environment is targeting having 90+ percent diesel trucks capable of meeting emission standards by 2020. China has more than half of the world’s big trucks...

NASA requires Boeing and SpaceX to demonstrate that there’s no more than a one in 270 chance for a fatal accident during a flight. The Space Shuttle program lost two shuttles in 135 launches....

Adam Crowl has calculated how to a mission to chase down the interstellar Oumuamua could also brake with Plasma Thrusters. SpaceX Falcon Super-Heavies and gravity slingshots around Jupiter and the...

Yusaku Maezawa is the Japanese billionaire who is paying SpaceX about $500 million for future trip around the moon on a SpaceX Super Heavy Starship. Yusaku Maezawa is giving away almost a million...

Crops engineered with a photorespiratory shortcut are 40 percent more productive in real-world agronomic conditions. Photosynthesis uses the enzyme Rubisco—the planet’s most abundant protein—and...

China has a monster miss on its future national and economic plan. Instead of having 20 million babies born in 2018, the babies born will only be 14 or 15 million. The failure of China’s two...

IBM Chairman, President and CEO Ginni Rometty will give the CES 2019 Keynote on Tuesday by discussing how technologies such as AI and quantum, when built on a foundation of trust and transparency,...

SpaceX is working through weekends to complete the Starship prototype. They are targeting a first flight as early as the end of January. Scott Manley has a video about the SpaceX stainless steel...

The Chang’e-4 probe is exploring the Von Kármán crater which located within the much larger South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin. It was likely formed by a giant impact early in the Moon’s...

Tropical forests store about a third of Earth’s carbon and about two-thirds of its above-ground biomass. Most climate change models predict that as the world warms, all of that biomass will decompose...

Terrapower and Bill Gates are pulling back from a pilot project in China because of the trade war and bad US-China relations. TerraPower has a traveling-wave reactor (TWR) which would run on depleted...

Nanosatellites the size of milk cartons arranged in a spherical (annular) configuration were able to capture images that match the resolution of the full-frame, lens-based or concave mirror systems...

GlaxoSmithKline has invested $300 million into 23andMe. GSK and 23andMe will partner to develop new medicines. They will split costs and profits equally. 23andMe raised $250 million at a $1.75...

NASA OSIRIS-REx Will Sample Return from an Asteroid On the afternoon of December 31, NASA OSIRIS-REx entered orbit around asteroid Bennu. About 70 million miles away from Earth, Bennu broke the...

China’s rover Yutu 2 has begun exploring the far side of the moon after making a soft landing with the lander. The rover will used ground-penetrating radar to map the moon’s inner structures,...

Destination Moon was a 1950 film, which won the Academy Award for Visual Effects. The rocket ship in the movie looks very similar to the planned SpaceX Super Heavy Starship. The film’s premise...

Austin Bernard has more photos of the construction progress of the SpaceX Starhopper. Here is a shot with the nosecone, middle section and the base. Two of the pieces will be Lifted and then...

The US Navy will block buy two Ford-class aircraft carriers at a time. The US Navy will buy and build the third and fourth new Ford aircraft carriers at the same time in order to get up to a 10%...

How fast can Tesla and China complete Gigafactory 3? The money, permits and a local government-owned construction company are all in place. China can build large factories in weeks. Tesla built an...

On January 1 New Horizons encountered the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule. Some 6.5 billion kilometers from the Sun, Ultima Thule is the most distant world ever explored by a spacecraft...

A Chinese spacecraft on Thursday made the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon. The lunar explorer Chang’e 4 touched down at 10:26 a.m. China Central Television said in a brief announcement...

Tesla produced and delivered at electric cars at the rate of nearly 1,000 vehicles per day. Production in Q4 grew to 86,555 vehicles, 8% more than their prior all-time high in Q3. This included:...

Many space plans propose different space vehicles for different roles and activities. There is a launcher that goes from Earth to low earth orbit or the launcher goes directly to higher orbits with...

The University of Southern California has course ASTE 527. It takes an architectural approach to complex engineering concepts generation. It is a graduate elective course offered by the Department of...

Instanbul Airport in Turkey and Daxing Airport in Beijing will both open in 2019 to add huge competition for international airport megahubs. The airports are state-supported and will provide airport...

Clothing embedded with tiny solar cells the size of a flea will allow wearers to generate electricity on the move and charge items like mobile phones and smartwatches. Nottingham Trent University has...