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We’re facing an imminent crisis in global lithium markets. Demand is growing exponentially, and lithium consumers are facing a 100,000-ton shortfall by 2025. Traditional lithium brine projects take...

The abundant untapped momentum of solar photons is becoming increasingly attractive as a means to propel spacecraft with an attached solar sail. Decades of theoretical mission studies have examined...

An optimal shielding configuration has been realized during a phase I NASA NIACstudy, and it is referred to as a Magnetospheric Dipolar Torus (MDT).A This configuration has the singular ability to...

There are interesting parallels between blockchain supply chain and containerization and the impacts on the world and their inventors. Blockchain supply chain should have multi-trillion dollar...

The Nash equilibrium featured in the Beautiful Mind movie. It is one of the foundational concepts in game theory. The reality of the Nash equilibrium of a game can be tested using experimental...

Elon Musk told employees in a company-wide email on Monday that Tesla had just passed a rate of 2,000 per week. That was still a big increase from earlier production numbers and Tesla shares...

The world currently wastes or loses trillions of dollars from inefficient management of supply chains. There is hundreds of billions lost of fraud and counterfeiting. There is bureaucracy and...

Coal demand is likely to remain relatively stable in the years ahead, according to BCG’s (Boston Consulting Groups) Global Energy Scenario Model. The main reason: the unquenchable thirst for energy...

NASA NIAC new phase 2 Kilometer Space Telescope (KST) project is a follow up to the 2006-2007 Space bubble phase 1 project. The goal of a kilometer space telescope would be to provide over three...

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince, Mohammed Bin Salman, has signed a memorandum of understanding with Softbank to build 200 GW of solar power by 2030 at a cost of $200 billion. China had built 125 GW of...

Tiangong-1 was predicted to reenter the Earth’s atmosphere on April 2nd, 2018 00:30 UTC ± 1.7 hours. The reentry has been confirmed as 2018/04/02 00:16 UTC. Reentry occurred in the Pacific Ocean....

An editorial in the South China Morning Post by a think tank researcher and CEO of a marketing firm has supported the idea of taxing robots and businesses to offset AI driven job losses. Scott Cheng...

A study by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found that 23 percent of the total 9.93 million jobs in China’s banking, insurance and securities sectors will be affected by AI by 2027, with...

Quantum batteries should have faster charging time due to the quantum entanglement among the units. The units are all coupled to a common quantized electromagnetic mode, and photons from the energy...

NASA Innovative Advanced concepts has a phase 2 study of a mission to the regions outside our solar system, with the objective of conducting direct high-resolution imaging and spectroscopy of a...

Chinese space station Tiangong-1 should be crashing from orbit within the next 12 hours. It is predicted to crash at 8:10 EDT plus or minus 2.5 hours. It is 11:13 AM EDT. So the crash is about 6.5 to...

A Kilometer Space Telescope (KST) will provide over three times the diameter and ten times the collecting area of the Arecibo groundbased radio telescope with diffraction-limited performance at...

Current state of the art in-space propulsion systems based on chemical or ion propellants fail to meet requirements of 21st century space missions. Antimatter is a candidate mechanism for a...

The breakthrough architecture uses a kilometer-scale, multi-hundred-megawatt phased-array laser to beam power to a vehicle that converts it to electrical power for a multi-megawatt electric...

The pulsed fission fusion propulsion (PuFF) system envisions using a pulsed z-pinch to compress a fission-fusion target. The resulting deflagration expands against a magnetic nozzle to produce thrust...

James Woodward and the Space Studies Institute has a Phase 2 NASA Innovative Advanced funded study. They are looking at the implementation of an innovative thrust producing technology for use in NASA...

Researchers claim they are on the cusp of a CO2-recycling revolution, which would capture CO2 from power plants—and maybe even directly from the atmosphere—and convert it into these fuels at scale,...

One of the stated aims of the Trump trade sanctions is to get China to respect US intellectual property protection. Many U.S. firms have been willing to transfer technology in return for access to...

As blockchain technology becomes mainstream, industry participants and blockchain developers will increasingly have to collaborate to develop standards and interoperability protocols. The World...

Miami Herald and Marco Rubio are Anti-Maduro (leader of Venezuela). Conditions are terrible for the people in Venezuela. Gangs are fighting with machetes over “quality garbage”. There are...

An all-out trade war between the US and China would seem like a problem for the USA. A batch of Boeing orders would be replaced by Airbus. US auto and iPhone sales in China would suffer a setback,...

Coinlib.io tracks over 2700 cryptocurrencies and over 650 tokens. This is 1100 more cryptocurrencies than what is covered by Coinmarketcap.

Since the breakthrough discovery of the Majorana particle in 2012 in Delft, researchers faced great challenges. The group of professor Leo Kouwenhoven at QuTech and Microsoft collaborated with...

The market for quantum computing is projected to be around $5 billion to $10 billion a year by Morgan Stanley in the next 10 years. A report by Homeland Security Research estimates that the global...

Scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and the University of Southern California (USC) have demonstrated the successful implementation of a prosthetic system that uses a person’s own memory...

A survey of 104 health facilities in Venezuela, commissioned by the opposition-controlled National Assembly, describes the huge problems with health care in Venezuela. * 79% of them had no running...

Baidu, China’s search engine company, has completed China’s first autonomous driving road test based on a 5G network environment. The test was recently completed in Xiongan, a new development zone....

SpaceX had a successful launch of a Falcon 9 using a previously used booster. They successfully deployed 10 Iridium NEXT satellites. Successful deployment of all 10 @IridiumComm NEXT satellites to...

Physicists at Imperial College London can now produce a continuous maser beam in room-temperature conditions. The set-up involves shining a laser light through a diamond, sapphire and copper...

France has released a 152 page report “For a Meaningful Artificial Intelligence” written by Cédric Villani. Villani is a famous French mathematician and member of parliament. He led a...

NASA’s Wearable Robotics Laboratory, in collaboration with Rice University, has used the technologies developed for the exoskeleton and the Space Suit Roboglove to help with rehabilitation and...

Ars Technica reports that Bill Gerstenmaier, chief of human spaceflight for NASA is still supporting the wasteful development of the multi-billion per year Space Launch System. The justification is...

Optoelectronic engineers in China and Hong Kong have manufactured a special type of liquid crystal display (LCD) that is paper-thin, flexible, light and tough. With this, a daily newspaper could be...

Researcher Matthew Fisher is leading the $1.2 million QuBrain project to see if the human brain utilizes any quantum computing. Fisher asserts that nuclear spins (at the core of the atom, rather than...

Standard methods to slice and fix tissues for close-up exams end up draining the interconnected chambers. The collagen-based supports around those spaces then collapse and stick together, creating...

There is a theory that some of the projects that Ethereum based could have been dumping Ethereum.

KYC.Legal is a service that allows to verify users and to prevent fraud. It is based on blockchain technology as a tool for protecting and validating personal data of Internet users. For KYC.legal...

Bloomberg estimates the number of Telsa 3 being built by the number of Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) that are registered. Telsa had a 2,500 a week target by March 31, 2018. Tesla had pushed a...

Fedex has placed a reservation for 20 Tesla Semi trucks. The fully-electric trucks, which are scheduled to begin production in 2019, will be operated by FedEx Freight, its less-than-truckload unit....

Google’s Waymo should have 20,000 self-driving cars giving rides by 2023. Those self-driving cars could be driving a billion miles every year. Currently Waymo passed 5 million self-driving...

Following three years of extensive research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) physicist Dr. Uriel Levy and his team have created technology that will enable our computers—and all optic...

The Foresight Institute and the Internet Archive will have an event on April 8 in San Francisco on the topic of Artificial General Intelligences and Corporations. Peter Scheyer will be presenting on...

NVIDIA launched NVIDIA DGX-2, the first single server capable of delivering two petaflops of computational power.A DGX-2 has the deep learning processing power of 300 servers occupying 15 racks of...

A leading GP (general practioner – primary care doctor) estimated that up to 80% of his patients had conditions linked to lifestyle and diet but medical students say they currently learn almost...