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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...

Now that the SpaceX Heavy has succeeded. There will now be a public test of US government spending corruption. We will now see if a clearly technically and economically superior alternative can kill...

Reduced sunspot activity has been observed and indicates the sun is heading into a 50 year reduced solar activity similar to what happened in the mid-17th century. Comparison to similar stars...

•Crumpled graphene particles can readily assemble to yield a scaffold •The scaffold can stabilize scalable Li loading within tolerable volume fluctuation •High Coulombic efficiency and...

The SpaceX Big Falcon Rocket is undergoing detailed engineering design now. It is being designed with the same computer model designs and software that were used for the successful Falcon Heavy. The...

Elon Musk tweeted that the Third burn successful (for the upper stage of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy). Exceeded Mars orbit and kept going to the Asteroid Belt. Third burn successful. Exceeded Mars orbit...

The SpaceX Falcon Heavy can reach all of the Department of Defense’s nine reference orbits and its costs one quarter the Delta IV Heavy. A former Pentagon official now advising SpaceX said that the...

At the press conference, Elon Musk says that the center core ran out of propellant, which kept the core from being able to slow down as much as it needed for landing. Because of that, the core...

An off-the-wall new study by Brown University researchers shows that terahertz frequency data links can bounce around a room without dropping too much data. The results are good news for the...

Here is the live video of the press conference from SpaceX and Elon Musk after the successful test launch of the Falcon Heavy. Elon starts talking after 50 minutes. Falcon Heavy has the same level of...

Wikipedia has a comparison of orbital launch systems. Falcon Heavy has successfully launched. Competing vehicles certified for heavy lift launches, like the Delta IV Heavy, Russia’s Proton, or...

Lucasfilm announced Tuesday that Weiss and Benioff will write and produce an entire series of new Star Wars films.

Here is the video of the landing of the two SpaceX Falcon Heavy side boosters landing.

Flight profile #FalconHeavy #SpaceX pic.twitter.com/LlfWXqUaLP — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 6, 2018

Upper stage restart nominal, apogee raised to 7000 km. Will spend 5 hours getting zapped in Van Allen belts & then attempt final burn for Mars. Live view of Starman https://t.co/gvSlztlE6l...

The SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch was good. The side cores have successfully landed. SpaceX and Elon Musk are tweeting their triumph. Falcon Heavy side cores have landed at SpaceX’s Landing Zones 1 and...

I have the video queued up at 29:00 minutes just seconds before liftoff. The video is beautiful and exciting.

The Space hotel business has been waiting for heavy lift to launch its space stations and man-rated rockets to fly passengers into space. 2018, could finally see American rockets get man-rating....

SpaceX will be webcasting the possible test launch of the Falcon Heavy in a 1:30ET to 4:00 PM ET launch window. There is a video animation of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch. They added the deployment...

The Marbled crayfish lays eggs without mating. The progeny were all female, and each one grew up ready to reproduce. This is similar the classic Star Trek Episode the Trouble with Tribbles. Tribbles...

Sondors sells folding electric bikes for about $800-1100 each. The $1099 version is a 48 volt 14 amp hour e-bike that has 50-85 mile range and a 20 mph speed. Sondors has revealed a three-wheel...

Elon Musk has suggested the possibility of a Falcon Super Heavy — a Falcon Heavy with extra boosters. “We could really dial it up to as much performance as anyone could ever want. If we wanted to we...

SENS Research Foundation (SRF), a leading Silicon Valley nonprofit focused on diseases of aging, announced the receipt of a $2.4 million Ethereum donation from Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of...

LPPF is preparing actively for both the experiments with beryllium electrodes expected in the spring and for the shift to hydrogen-boron fuel expected before year-end. The research team is planning...

If the first test launch is successful it will send the top stage of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy into a Trans-Mars injection heliocentric orbit. It will be orbiting the sun in a way that will repeatedly...

Almost twenty years ago the light was slowed 10 million times less than its vacuum speed in a cloud of ultracold atoms of sodium. Upon a sudden turn-off of the coupling laser, a slow light pulse can...

Joby Aviation is a pioneer in the development of novel aircraft enabled by electric propulsion. For a number of years, Joby did important aerodynamics work with NASA and others on projects such as...

Avengers Infinity War, Jurassic World 2 and Mission Impossible Fallout have released new movie trailers.

The Han Solo Star Wars Prequel will be in theaters on May 28, 2018. The movie will star Emilia Clarke, Alden Ehrenreich and Woody Harrelson.

Space based solar power expert John Mankins, the author of the book The Case for Space Solar Power, estimates that if the launch price came down to about $400 per kilogram then space-based solar...

Just over 60 year ago the Soviet’s launched the basic Sputnik satellite. Sputnik was not a weapon but it showed that the Soviet Union was competitive with US military technology. On Oct. 4,...

China seems to have made a lot of progress making more practical electromagnetic catapults for aircraft carriers and such electromagnetic catapults could be scaled to launch large drones from smaller...

Photos tweeted from Dafeng Cao and many other appears to show that China has mounted a railgun onto a landing ship. Above – Type 072III landing ship tank (LST) Haiyang Shan, #936, would be the...