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The US and its allies may never actually face China in a shooting war, but sophisticated Chinese drones, missiles and weapons systems are proliferating. The perception that you will enter a low-risk...

SpotMini is a small four-legged robot that comfortably fits in an office or home. It weighs 25 kg (30 kg if you include the arm). SpotMini is all-electric and can go for about 90 minutes on a charge,...

In the 2009 H1N1 pandemic alone, estimates suggest that around 5 to 7 million more people got the flu from someone who came to work sick, and that an additional 1,500 people died. It is also more...

Nature – Scientists have used the mathematics of topological physics to produce a high-quality beam of laser light — a step that could lead to the first practical application of this burgeoning...

Scientists at the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed non-blood-absorbing hemostatic gauze after repeated experiments. Compared with traditional medical gauze, this new achievement can...

In a tweet, Elon Musk indicated that a fully expendable Falcon Heavy, which far exceeds the performance of a Delta IV Heavy, costs $150 million, compared to over $400M for Delta IV Heavy. The...

n a major advancement in nanomedicine, Arizona State University scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST) of the Chinese Academy of...

How did China’s economy really get to there it is now? * China like Britain, US, Germany and Japan have successfully used selective protectionism to develop their companies and economy....

There is a $4.4 trillion 2019 budget proposal. It includes an infrastructure plan. The infrastructure plan calls for $200 billion in planned federal spending on infrastructure which is to incentive...

The three-year Kilopower safe 4 kilowatt nuclear reactor project started in 2015 with a challenging goal of building and testing a full-scale flight-prototypic nuclear reactor by the end of 2017...

Atomically precise manufacturing will lead to a host of innovations. By building structures atom by atom, you’re able to create new, extraordinary materials. We can remove impurities and make...

SpaceX will launch the two test satellites for their Skylink global 4400+ satellite internet constellation this week. Microsat 2a and 2b, are secondary payloads on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg...

SpaceX has the factory production capability to provide over 100 Falcon 9 and 100 Falcon heavy launches in 2019 and 2020. SpaceX is producing about 5 engines per week and has the factory capacity of...

According to the 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer study, the tech industry has become the single most trusted institution in America, holding steady at 75% for five years now. Overall US companies are at...

1. Universe Today – 12,800 Years Ago, Earth Was Struck by a Disintegrating Comet, Setting Off Global Firestorms 2. A new study from the University of Kansas indicates a comet struck our planet...

China richest city is Beijing with a per capita GDP in 2017 of 20,356. China’s currency has strengthened by about 2% since the end of 2018. This puts Beijing at about the level of Portugal or...

By definition a hypersonic vehicle is one that travels faster than mach 5. This is 3836 mph. This is over one-mile per second. Russia has an improved anti-ballistic missile with speeds of 4...

The world is transitioning to a robotaxi and robobus future within 5 to ten years. This is where almost all commuting and transportation is based upon operationally cheaper self-driving ride sharing...

ULA had a vision for $2.7 trillion space industry by 2045 which would be an expansion by eight times from the $330 billion industry today. The accelerated pace of SpaceX launch vehicles will...

Angela Duckworth has helped to gathered and performed detailed research on the importance of Grit for individual achievement. Her insights also apply to our societal views on civilization. Growth...

Tesla will be the first Semi customer. They plan to use the Tesla Semi for our own logistics by transporting Model 3 components from Gigafactory 1 to Fremont. Additionally, our initial fleet...

2018 will be a transformative year for Tesla Motors. Elon Musk is all-in on creating a making his multi-layer assembly line and capital efficient robotic assembly. Tesla is increasing the use of...

Waymo had originally sought a $1 billion settlement last year before the trial got underway, but Uber rejected that deal. Waymo has settled for 0.34 percent of Uber’s equity at the company’s $72...

China sees autonomous driving as an amalgamation of the latest technologies, including 5G, manufacturing and new energy. Research is underway on self-driving ships and autonomous rail transit, as...

Indonesia needs to double its electricity generation capacity over the next ten years, and continue that expansion beyond 2050, to improve access to electricity and meet the demand of its growing...

Mobile payments are just one of seven key markets for China’s booming fintech industry. Fintech is short for “financial technology” and refers to the application of technology within the financial...

University of Waterloo chemists have found a way to simultaneously control the orientation and select the size of single-walled carbon nanotubes deposited on a surface. That means the developers of...

Providing contracts for new military and NASA contracts to SpaceX would save money over using United Launch. Those contracts would also ensure the success of SpaceX with more Falcon Heavy launches...

Since the start of the 2018 Spring Security Campaign, Zhengzhou Railway Police has taken the lead in using the portraits of police glasses on national railways. The police sunglasses can effectively...

TAE Technologies, Inc. (formerly Tri Alpha Energy), the world’s largest and most advanced private fusion company, has announced that its proprietary beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC)...

Continuous low doses of far ultraviolet C (far-UVC) light can kill airborne flu viruses without harming human tissues, according to a new study at the Center for Radiological Research at Columbia...

Israel’s army said it had launched a “large-scale attack” inside Syria on Saturday after one of its jets was downed under Syrian antiaircraft fire, in a series of cross-border incidents that...

Russia is building 12 pre-production Sukhoi Su-57 stealth fighters. They are Russia’s first indigenously designed and built fifth-generation stealth fighter aircraft. “We are buying Su-57 jets...

China’s J-20 stealth fighter has officially entered combat service. The fighter jet officially entered military service in September, and was put through its combat paces over nine days of drills...

Jonathan Hickman who wrote a great run of Fantastic Four, Avengers and Secret Wars comics is likely returning to some Marvel or DC comics writing. It seems the possibilities are X-men, Eternals,...

Contrary to popular belief, SCIENCE still hasn’t a working theory as to why the Sun is somewhat aperiodically oscillatory. There are lots of theories, but they contradict. None of the theories...

Amazon and Whole Foods Market announced the introduction of free two-hour delivery of natural and organic products from Whole Foods Market through Prime Now, with plans to expand across the U.S. in...

The Carnival of Space 547 is up at Everyday Spacer. Universe Today -The Most Detailed Map Ever Made of the Milky Way in Radio Waves Above – milky way map Universe Today – The Brightest...

Companies should forget about trying to close the massive decade plus lead that SpaceX now has with large reusable rockets. The SpaceX Falcon Heavy is like a DC-10 aircraft and SpaceX will make it...

SpaceX is producing about 5 engines per week and has the factory capacity for 400 engines per year or about 8 engines per week. The Falcon 9 has 10 engines. One nine-engine first stage and a single...

SpaceX is rapidly changing what is possible in space. Instead of taking 40 launches over a decade to build the 400-ton space station, we could have 1000 launches in a year from ten fully reusable...

Space Missions to Mars up to now have been small satellites where the entire mission was launched from Earth. The delta-V has been about 3.2 to 3.5 kilometers per second. By refueling the SpaceX BFR...

In an interview, Tarantino indicates that many classic Trek episodes would be great expanded to 90-120 minutes for movies and with effects and expanded stories. However, Quentin Tarantino indicates...

An extraordinary new species of arachnid, resembling a spider with a tail, has been discovered in amber from Myanmar (formerly Burma), of mid-Cretaceous age, around 100 million years ago. “There’s...

Today IBM is applying massively distributed deep learning algorithms to Graphics processing units (GPU) for high-speed data movement, to ultimately understand images and sound. The DDL algorithms...

Lockheed Martin is being awarded a $150 million cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for Surface Navy Laser Weapon System Increment 1, High Energy Laser and Integrated Optical-dazzler with a surveillance...

More than 100 million U.S. adults are now living with diabetes or prediabetes, according to a new report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report finds that...

December, 2017, director Quentin Tarantino pitched his idea for a Star Trek movie, and now a script based on that pitch is being worked on with the intention of Tarantino helming this project....

IBM Research announced a 50 qubit quantum computer system in November, 2017. In a presentation in Sept, 2017, IBM indicated that they are doubling qubits every 8 months. If IBM maintains th 8 month...

At 6:44 of this video we see a distant shot of the two SpaceX Falcon Heavy side boosters landing. The SpaceX cameras showed the booster separating and the SpaceX cameras showed the final touchdown of...