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Based upon elapsed time since the last recession the USA is due for another recession. However, the US recovery has been exceptionally weak. Previous growth cycles in the USA have had 40% to 90%...

Arxiv – Evidence for Superconductivity at Ambient Temperature and Pressure in Nanostructures Despite being a low temperature phenomenon till date, superconductivity has found numerous...

Scientists have found a rapid way of producing magnesite, a mineral which stores carbon dioxide. If this can be developed to an industrial scale then it can help offset global warming. A tonne of...

The US Air Force is giving Lockheed Martin a second hypersonic weapon contract. This will be for up to $480 million. Lockheed is to conduct air-launched rapid response weapon critical design review...

Laser-driven sails are limited to about 6.67 Newtons per gigawatt. The Three Gorges Dam has a capacity of about 22.5 GW. If this was transmitted with 100% efficiency to a light sail it would provide...

Old people and babies are vulnerable to death from heat waves. The electrical pricing is setting old people up to not use the air conditioning that they may truly need at some point to save their...

Juvenescence will purchase, in a single transaction, 14.4 million shares of AgeX Therapeutics from BioTime for $43.2 million. 50% of the purchase price will be paid to BioTime in cash and the...

Researchers studying six very bright gamma-ray bursts discovered that the pulses composing these GRBs exhibited complex, time-reversible wavelike structures. In other words, each GRB pulse shows an...

An unmanned Airbus drone aircraft, a 75 kilogram Zephyr, flew for almost 26 days. It will offer local satellite-like services and runs on solar power. It flies in the stratosphere at an average...

Iran is taking back another batch of the 20% enriched uranium stockpiles that were sent to Russia as part of the 2015 nuclear deal. 11 tons of low enriched uranium was originally sent from Iran to...

Singapore has had the fastest fixed broadband internet speed for the last 12 years. Singapore has an average download speed of 181 Mbps. The USA has moved up to the sixth fastest in fixed broadband...

Aubrey De Grey discusses how all of the aspects of fighting the damage of aging have reached an investable stage. Ten years ago only stem cells were investable. Now companies have been formed to...

Japan’s Space agency is considering SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy as the main launch for its HTV-X. Thie HTV-X would be used to supply a new Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway. The European Space Agency is...

From November 2017 to March 2018 there was the announcement of IBM 50 qubit prototype, Intel’s 49 qubit test chip and Google 72 qubit processor. These processors had 10% to as low as 1% error...

Japases researchers have demonstrated holonomic quantum gates under zero-magnetic field at room temperature, which will enable the realization of fast and fault-tolerant universal quantum computers....

The US government forecasts new sanctions on Iran will cut Iran’s oil exports by 700,000 to 1 million barrels a day. Iran exported an average of about 2.1 million barrels of oil per day over...

China and Asia have had the economic growth for the last few decades and the growth in oil demand. US fracking has supplied 6 million barrels per day of the total 10.5 million barrels per day of...

He Yanfu told the China Times that there was a 90% chance that a fully liberalized birth policy will be implemented in 2019. The Chinese government has hinted at more children per family with a stamp...

The SpaceX Falcon 9 block 5 has been recovered from its first relaunch. The rocket stage looks in good condition and will be launched for the third time later in 2018. Reusing a booster two times...

Tellurium nanoparticles can triple the evaporation rate of solar desalination and can raise the temperature of water from 29° to 85°C within 100 seconds. If the production of Tellurium nanoparticles...

Tosblock or T.OS is a cryptocurrency which has several innovations which make it realistic and practical for use in commercial transactions. The key innovations are * TOSC coin is used for trading on...

Chicken grown from cells is already on the menu in some restaurants and cell produced burgers are coming by 2021. Improved tasting plant protein burgers are also available. Impossible burger is a...

Russia, China and the USA will have ultra-high resolution photonic radar on future planes to spot and target stealth fighters. Russia has started to invest in military applications of photonic radar...

Boeing has selected mach 5.0 as the top speed for a hypersonic passenger jet because that greatly simplifies the structural materials and the propulsion. Standard titanium alloys used in aircraft and...

NASA has provided $44 million to boost promising space technologies from the lab demonstration stages to being usable for space missions. The technologies must be at least technology readiness level...

Samumed has raised $438 million with a $12 billion valuation. Samumed is a leader in medical research and development for tissue-level regeneration. They have a biotechnology platform based on small...

Bitmain, the dominant cryptocurrency mining leader, is filing for an initial public offering (IPO) potentially for as much as $18 billion this September at a market capitalization of $40 to $50...

OpenAI has determined that the computing used in Artificial Intelligence projects has doubled every 3 months since 2012. This has been an increase of 300,000 times since 2012 versus 12 times if it...

Overstock’s blockchain investments now provide 60% of the firm’s total value and the blockchain investments will drive the price to $112, an almost 150% increase from their current level according to...

China initially announced 25% tariffs on $16 billion worth of US imports, including oil products, LPG and coal in a new list of affected goods but left off import duties on US crude oil. The crude...

The DRAM market will grow about 39% this year and surpass $100 billion. It will become the first category of semiconductor to hit that milestone. Samsung is the leading DRAM supplier and Hynix is...

Georgia Power announced yesterday that Southern Nuclear has made significant progress on construction of units 3 and 4 of the Vogtle nuclear power plant since assuming project management on behalf of...

A new study pushes organic solar cell efficiency beyond 17% with the authors saying that up to 25% is possible. This is important because according to estimates, with a 15% efficiency and a 20 year...

President Trump will request that Congress set aside $8 billion over the next five years to fund the creation of the Department of the Space Force, which will oversee Space Force and the commercial...

The Russian Ruble is at its weakest level in nearly two years with ruble touching 66.7099. The US will be applying new sanctions for Russia’s use of a chemical agent, Novichok, to poison former...

Greater Change is an Oxford University effort to use technology to help the homeless raise more money. As the developing world moves to a cashless society asking for change is becoming more useless....

The US Missile Defense Agency and Defense Department have started designing space-based missile interceptors and space sensor that will be used for missile defenses and hypersonic defense. Rich...

China has new Navy 055 destroyer than might be better than the US Arleigh Burke Destroyer but is not better than the Zumwalt. China is currently only planning to build eight 055 destroyers. China...

Robert Wilkow has used machine learning techniques to control scanning tunneling microscopes (STM). they have shown a full alphabet of 8-bit memory and 192 bits of music. They have substantially...

Israel has launched air strikes that hit over 140 military targets on Gaza after Hamas militants fired over 150 rockets into Israel. The Israeli air force hit more than 140 military targets across 20...

The number of people resident in Australia increased 388,100 in 2017 to June, a rise of 1.6% on 2015/16. That was far above the global increase of 1.1%, and well ahead of the United States’ gain of...

Philip Metzger is at the inaugural @SpaceX Mars Workshop. It is about planning how to put humans on Mars, then how to have 100s living there. At the inaugural @SpaceX Mars Workshop, planning how to...

Some people call this a sellout but actively avoiding what 90% of the potential audience of the award show would want was just stupid. There will be one major award for movies you actually watched...

AI is revolutionizing medicine including radiology, pathology, and other medical specialties. Deep learning (DL) technologies are beginning to find applications in drug discovery including areas of...

An international team of astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler and the European Space Agency (ESA)’s Gaia space telescopes, as well as ground-based telescopes have confirmed 44...

The SEC has delayed a decision about listing the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust ETF until September 30 or before. The Form S1 filing to the SEC by VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Trust is linked to here. This...