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On January 17 and 18, 2019, the niTROn Summit 2019 will be at the San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center. It is hosted by blockchain giant TRON. The conference aims to break down industry barriers,...

Professor Valentina Zharkova gave a presentation of her Climate and the Solar Magnetic Field hypothesis at the Global Warming Policy Foundation in October, 2018. Zharkova models solar sunspot and...

MIT engineers have built and flown the first-ever plane with no moving parts. Instead of propellers or turbines, the light aircraft is powered by an “ionic wind”. Ion wind propulsion systems could be...

David P. Goldman (aka Spengler) has identified that the USA and China are in a war of innovation. Goldman says problem is NOT what the Chinese are doing, but we AREN’T doing. The U.S....

For decades, General Electric was the number one company to study in business school. As recently as 2014, GE ranked as the top global company for leadership. GE market value has plunged to only $67...

An article by Philip Pan at the NY Times provided a short review about how China failed to fail over the past 40 years. The title of the article “The land that failed to fail: How China caught...

University of Massachusetts researchers have successfully made a 2 nanometer individually addressable memristors. It is capable of being mass-produced in conventional fabs. This could be great for...

After a year-long search, the wreckage of the missing Argentine submarine ARA San Juan (S-42) was found by Texas-based underwater mapping firm Ocean Infinity. The sub was found resting in a ravine...

Chinese scientists plan to build the world’s most powerful electron collider by 2030, a project that will cost 35 billion yuan ($5.05 billion). Above – A sketch of the future Circular...

We do not know any details about the radical change to the SpaceX Spaceship Super Heavy (aka BFS/BFR) design. However, if the design enables SpaceX to hit the $2 billion lower-end development cost...

Graphene Leaders Canada has its new GLC+â„¢ WATER TECHNOLOGIES PLATFORM. The platform offers a disruptive solution to water pollution and remediation and is based on years of expertise in graphene...

Scientists at HZB have found evidence that double layers of graphene have a property that may let them conduct current completely without resistance. They probed the bandstructure at BESSY II with...

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...