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In 2001, Aubrey de Grey and colleagues proposed ablation of senescent cells (ApoptoSENS) as the “damage-repair” strategy of choice for zombie cells. The idea was barely mentioned in the scientific...

Elon said the Boring Co. is also going to do tunneling for water transport, sewage, electrical. The Boring Co.’s first test project opens next month in Hawthorne, a Los Angeles suburb. In a few...

Having the global poor switch to soot free cooking would save millions of lives per year and reduce global warming. Soot causes 30% of warming. 2 billion people cook with open fires or polluting...

Tesla will try to reach and sustain Model 3 production capacity of 7,000 units by November 28th. Elon Musk will walk the entire Model 3 production line, from battery cell production to final...

The population of the World’s developed countries is currently a little over 1.3 billion people. This is about 17% of the world population today and will be about 50% of the world population by...

Michael Griffin, the undersecretary for research and engineering, expects future budgets to provide funds for lasers that the missile defense agency can more rapidly develop and field. Space-control...

China has nearly 350 ships in its Navy. It is larger than the 280-ship U.S. Navy. China commissions nearly three submarines each year and will have 70 submarines by 2020. China should have 430...

1. Universe Today – Not all the Earth’s Water Came From Comets A new model suggests that the inevitable formation of water would likely occur on any sufficiently large rocky exoplanets in...

A team of scientists designed a device that can induce partial hindlimb regeneration in adult aquatic African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) by “kick-starting” tissue repair at the...

All SpaceX rocket development decisions are to accelerate the earliest completion of the SpaceX BFR. SpaceX will no longer divert resources to make the Falcon 9 second stage reusable. The second...

Stephen Jurczyk, NASA’s associate administrator, told Business Insider at The Economist Space Summit that NASA will think about retiring Space Launch System (SLS) if SpaceX BFR or Blue Origin...

The Silicon Quantum Electronics Workshop will have 200 researchers sharing insights and technology advancements about building the world’s first silicon quantum computer. NSW university has set up a...

DARPA and the US Army Operational Fires (OpFires) program will develop and demonstrate a novel ground-launched hypersonic boost-glide weapons to penetrate modern enemy air defenses and rapidly and...

DARPA Photonics in the Package for Extreme Scalability (PIPES) program, seeks faster computers by developing high-bandwidth optical signaling technologies for digital microelectronics. PIPES aims 1....

National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow talked about maintaining GDP growth at 3% for the USA for ten years. The USA had 3%-4% GDP growth most of the time from 1975 to 2007. It was only from...

XB-1 is the first independently developed supersonic jet. It is a one-third scale version of 55 passenger jet. If all goes well $6 billion will be raised to build commercial supersonic passenger...

China, UK and other countries take away privacy with massive use of cameras, cellphone, internet browser and credit card monitoring. There are also cameras hidden in street lights and traffic...

I will be writing some regular articles for Universe Today. Of course, I will still be writing my regular amount of Nextbigfuture articles. I will write about once per week over at Universe Today. My...

The FCC approved SpaceX request for access to additional frequencies and to operate an additional 7,500 satellites at very low-Earth altitudes. In March, the FCC had approved SpaceX initial plan for...

SpaceX has launched the Es’hail-2 satellite on Thursday, November 15 from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The satellite will be deployed to a geostationary...

Russia is claiming progress on a megawatt nuclear space propulsion engine. They had previously stated the system would be ready by 2017. Ruscosmos is about a reusable gas-cooled fission reactor that...

One of the main promises of blockchain technology is a vastly improved social media experience. The benefits many entrepreneurs envision include, among other things, greater data sovereignty, the...

Brexit is currently scheduled to end its transition period in December 2020. Brexit is the British exit from the European Union. Theresa May’s cabinet meets later on Wednesday to approve or reject...

Momentus will provide in-space transportation services to various orbits all the way out to deep space. They will receive $8.3 million in funding today. The funds will go towards in-orbit technology...

Rocket Lab launched seven payloads to orbit yesterday. The mission, named ‘It’s Business Time,’ marks Rocket Lab’s second successful orbital launch and deployment of customer satellites. Rocket Lab’s...

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) issued Space Florida a Launch Site Operator License (LSOL) for operations at the Cape Canaveral Spaceport...

In 2017, China’s purchase of luxury goods was equal to the USA and Japan combined. By 2024, China luxury goods purchases almost to the level of the USA, Europe and Japan combined. Consumers in...

Amazon has picked New York’s Long Island City, in Queens and Arlington County’s Crystal City neighborhoods for split second headquarters. The cities will get a lot more jobs and tax...

The share of TOP500 installations in China continues to rise, with the country now claiming 227 systems (45 percent of the total). The number of supercomputers that call the US home continues to...

China, India and ASEAN all will have in the range of 5-8% per year GDP growth from now to 2030. This means they will nearly double or more than double their economies. India should surpass...

Stan Lee was one of the primary creators and writers of Marvel Comics. He has died at the age of 95. Stan Lee revolutionized comics. He worked with Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko. He co-created fictional...

The World economic transformation over the next twenty years is Asia moving past South America in the next five years on per capita income. Most of China moving to Southern European levels by 2030....

Tesla cars have air filtration systems similar to systems used in hospitals, clean rooms, and the space industry. They developed a HEPA filtration system capable of stripping the outside air of...

China showed off four J-20 stealth fighters during the last day of the 12th Zhuhai Air Show. Two of the stealth fighters opened their weapons bay to show four medium-range air-to-air missiles and two...

The first interstellar object, named ‘Oumuamua, was discovered in October 2017 by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii. A recent paper by Dr. Avi Loeb of Harvard University and Harvard...

As of 2017, the US has an estimated 4,018 nuclear weapons in either deployment or storage. The US plans to spend $1.2 trillion to modernize the nuclear arsenal over the next 30 years. Two-thirds of...

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is qualified to launch NASA’s most expensive and highest-priority science missions. NASA’s Launch Services Program (LSP) has certified the two-stage Falcon...

Asia is about 60% of the world’s population. There are about 7.7 billion people in the world and 4.6 billion are in Asia. In 2030, the world will have about 8.56 billion and Asia will have...

From January to November 9, 2018, a total of 7,579 fires had burned an area of 1,564,609 acres (6,332 square kilometers), according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and...