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The European Union will spend one billion euros ($1.2 billion) to try to catch up to China, the U.S. and Japan in supercomputing. The goal of the project is for Europe to acquire two...

Nextbigfuture covered Russia’s development of 100 megaton tsunami generating nuclear drone weapons back in March 2017. NPR and other sources were surprised to find reports of this new Russia...

The Atlanta Federal Reserve GDPNow model forecast for real GDP growth (seasonally adjusted annual rate) in the first quarter of 2018 is 5.4 percent on February 1, up from 4.2 percent on January 29....

Boeing revealed a hypersonic airplane design to compete with Lockheed’s Mach 6 SR-72 spyplane design. Boeing calls the project internally “Valkyrie II,” according to Guy Norris at...

A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered for the first time a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Using microlensing–an astronomical phenomenon and the only...

The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has created an environmentally stable, high-efficiency perovskite solar cell, bringing the emerging technology a step...

Paul Sharpe, a bioengineer at King’s College London, and his colleagues discovered a new way regenerate teeth in mice. They have made even more progress that edges this experimental procedure closer...

GDP and Wealth are complementary indicators that provide a fuller picture of economic well-being. A country’s comprehensive wealth includes all produced capital such as factories and roads; natural...

Here is a Nextbigfuture infographic with a projection of military spending in 2030. This is mainly based upon IMF forecasted GDP projections to 2022 and then extrapolated to 2030. The 2016 military...

Jeff Bezos was worth $116 billion yesterday and today Amazon stock is up 4.7%. Jeff Bezos is worth about $122 billion. Bezos is worth more than Bill Gates ($94.8 billion) and Elon Musk ($21.5...

China’s GDP growth rate in 2015 was probably overstated by “a couple of percentage points,” according to new data analysis by Bloomberg Economics. Some of the alternative growth metrics indicate...

Modifying surface codes can improve quantum error correction 400 percent. The instability of qubits – the building blocks of quantum computers – means they are susceptible to error....

In Shanghai, China, physicist Ruxin Li and colleagues are breaking records a pulse laser at the Shanghai Superintense Ultrafast Laser Facility (SULF). At the center is a single cylinder of...

Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) already sells the most batteries to the biggest electric-vehicle makers in the biggest EV market: China. They plan to use money from a pending initial public...

Space Solar Power Initiative (SSPI) is a multi-year research in the field of Space Solar Power Initiative conducted by Caltech team in collaboration with Northrop Grumman (NG) Aerospace and Mission...

Nuscale Power has more than $700 million in government and private investment and they have a customer. A consortium of municipal utilities in six Western states hopes to out 12 of the fifty-megawatt...

A team of researchers at the Institute of Synthetic Polymer Materials of the Russian Academy of Sciences, MIPT, and elsewhere has found out how the regularity of polypropylene molecules and thermal...

SpaceX performed a very high retrothrust landing into water. No droneship was used. Amazingly the rocket survived the water landing. SpaceX will try to tow it back to shore. This rocket was meant to...

Each of the Boring Company flamethrowers costs $600. The 20,000 that have been sold raised $12 million. Flamethrowers sold out — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 1, 2018 All flamethrowers will...

Injecting minute amounts of two immune-stimulating agents directly into solid tumors in mice can eliminate all traces of cancer in the animals, including distant, untreated metastases, according to a...

John C. Mankins ( Mankins Space Technology) has thoroughly updated his space-based solar power design. The SPS-ALPHA Mark-II design using new technologies improves technical feasibility and economic...

BP predicts natural gas (and biogas) to overtake oil as the world’s primary energy source in around 2040 as demand for the least polluting fossil fuel grows. VP Dominic Emery highlighted estimates...

Reversible lithium metal electrode has potential to almost double the energy density of lithium-ion batteries and lower the cost to $100 per kilowatt hour. Researchers identified critical parameters...

SolidEnergy today manufactures the world’s lightest rechargeable cells at pilot scale for prototype demonstration and specialized aerospace markets. They supply these to large Li-ion cell...

Nextbigfuture had combined several sources to determine how much Russia, China and the United States spend on military hardware (tanks, planes, ships and research.) Nextbigfuture is working with...

VW Diesel exhaust tests on monkeys were never supposed to come to light. The final report on VW exhaust fume tests with monkeys was not published. BILD is in possession of the 58-page secret lab...

Amazon.com, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase are forming an independent company, “free from profit-making incentives and constraints” to “provide U.S. employees and their families with...

Ready Player One is set in a near-future dystopian Earth, the population spends most of its time in an interconnected virtual space called the OASIS. When the founder of OASIS dies and bequeaths...

The Marvel Ant-Man and the Wasp movie will be in theaters July 6th. Here it the trailer.

There were two biotech buyouts this week. Celgene bought CAR-T player Juno Therapeutics for $9 billion and Sanofi buying blood disorder biotech Bioverativ for $11 billion. Kite Pharmaceuticals, CAR-T...

China will be launching one of three pre-exaFlop supercomputers later this year. The new supercomputer will be 200 times faster and have 100 times more storage capacity than the Tianhe-1...

Researchers have demonstrated how to create a super-strong aluminum alloy that rivals the strength of stainless steel, an advance with potential industrial applications. “Most lightweight aluminum...

Australian student Nathan Ruser noticed that trails from Strava users in certain countries made it possible to identify military bases and other facilities operated by countries, including the U.S.,...

China has gathered 120 researchers from around the military to work for its top research institute as part of a push to develop military applications for artificial intelligence and quantum...

Babak Saif and Lee Feinberg at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, have shown for the first time that they can dynamically detect subatomic- or picometer-sized distortions —...

Senator Tammy Duckworth said Americans simply are not in touch with just how close we are to war on the Korean peninsula. Duckworth said Kim Jong-un poses a serious and deadly threat to millions of...

Brian M. Rosenthal of the New York Times lists the causes of the $2.6 billion per mile New York subway construction. Excessive staffing, little competition, generous contracts and archaic rules...

A leaked memo that revealed the U.S. administration was considering building its own 5G network to bring super-fast Internet to consumers and businesses — a government effort designed to thwart what...

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have now unveiled the long-mysterious inner workings of these semiconductor elements, which can act like the short-term memory...

Ursula Le Guin, a Grand Master SciFi writer, died last week. Her “greatest greats” bibliography: The Earthsea Cycle Disposessed Left Hand of Darkness Word for World is Forest Lathe of Heaven Orsinian...

Nick Ayers, chief of staff for Vice President Mike Pence has tweeted that there are major positive ramifications for the US space industry is this launch goes according to plan. The SpaceX Falcon...

The Micron 5200 series of SATA SSDs (solid state drives) use industry-leading 64-layer 3D NAND. The Micron 5200 SSD delivers best-in-class performance and capacity on the same proven architecture as...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a superconducting switch that “learns” like a biological system and could connect processors and store memories in...

On January 4, 2018, Russia’s finance ministry said it had fully spent its reserve fund, as planned, in late 2017 to cover budget shortfalls. The finance ministry said it converted foreign currency it...

The Economist had a special report which asserts that the odds of a great power conflict – US and allies versus Russia or US versus China have increased. One of the main points is that Russia...

the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a straightforward introduction to blockchain, which underpins Bitcoin and other digital currencies. (59 pages) A blockchain is...

None of the five finalist Google Lunar XPRIZE teams will make a launch attempt to reach the Moon by the March 31st, 2018 deadline. The grand prize of the $30M Google Lunar XPRIZE will go unclaimed....

Elon Musk tweeted that the first flight for the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch is targeting February 6, 2018. A successful launch would mean that the payload capacity would triple versus the Falcon 9...

Elon Musk Boring company has a $600 flamethrower. It was leaked a few days ago but they changed the password pic.twitter.com/wcMXZ0ARFk — Griddy McGridfinFace (@FalconGridFin) January 25, 2018

When treating stroke victims, time is of the essence. Doctors may have more time than previously thought. In many cases, surgeons can save brain tissue that’s on the brink of death by removing clots...