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A new generation of Chinese medium-to-low-speed maglev trains can run at a maximum speed of 160 kph. China will operate five to twelve magnetic levitation rail lines with maximum speed of 160...

Quantum computer researcher Michelle Simmons was named 2018 Australian of the Year. A quantum computer is predicted to bring with it an exponential speed up in computational power. This is because...

The Director of Operational Testing, Robert Behler, says the F35 stealth fighter is still below requirements and is dependent on workarounds and would not meet Service expectations in combat...

When fired from 5-inch powder guns, the hypervelocity projectiles achieves a speed of roughly Mach 3, which is roughly half the speed it achieves when fired from EMRG, but more than twice the speed...

Lightbridge is developing nuclear fuel with more surface area which can enable existing nuclear reactors to generate 10-40% more energy by changing the shape of the fuel. Enfission, is a new joint...

Tesla Semi’ is a heavy-duty all-electric truck program at Tesla led by Jerome Guillen, Tesla’s former Model S Program Director and VP of Vehicle Engineering. Before joining Tesla, Guillen was an...

Southampton researchers have improved the memristor. how they have pushed the memristor – a simpler and smaller alternative to the transistor, with the capability of altering its resistance and...

Robinhood, stock trading app, will let you buy and sell Bitcoin and Ethereum without any added transaction fees starting in February, compared to Coinbase’s 1.5 to 4 percent fees in the US. You can...

The International Energy Association has its energy projection out to 2040. They project strong growth and transition to electric cars and renewables but they do not forecast an acceleration of...

Solid consumer spending, accelerating business investment and a housing rebound combined to drive fourth-quarter demand in the US economy. Gross domestic product expanded at a 3 percent annualized...

CSIRO has announced a partnership with San Francisco-based ocean technology start-up, Saildrone, to radically improve measurement and monitoring in Australian waters and the Southern Ocean. The...

An international team of scientists has produced the first high-powered, randomly polarised laser beam with a “Q switch” laser, which typically emits pulses of light so brief that...

Nature – Physicists create Star Wars-style 3D projections — just don’t call them holograms Smalley’s team has taken a different approach — using a technique known as volumetric display —...

China’s recent currency gains could mean that sovereign wealth funds and central banks would increase allocations into yuan, pushing it into new trading ranges of around 6.3 compared to about...

China is building its first carrier-borne early-warning plane called the KJ-600. Above is the KJ-600 The KJ-600 would be fitted with an advanced active electronically scanned array, or AESA, radar...

Chinese researchers have finally successfully cloned a primate, using the same technique Scottish researchers devised to clone the first mammal, Dolly the sheep, in the mid-1990s. Scientists in...

Elon Musk reported that all went well with hold down test of the 27 engines of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy. SpaceX will launch the Falcon Heavy in “a week or so.” Falcon Heavy hold-down firing this...

The SpaceX Falcon Heavy hold-down firing could at pad 39A could occur between 12 p.m. and 6 p.m. EST (1700-2300 GMT), assuming tomorrow’s countdown and fueling rehearsal goes according to plan...

World View Stratollites offer all the advantages of high-altitude balloons – low-cost, rapid deployability, and low-impact flight – with an innovative new development: the ability to fly a variety of...

Tesla granted billionaire founder Elon Musk a $2.6 billion stock options. This is the largest option grant of its kind. If fully vested over a decade, the stock options would net Elon as much as...

A new airplane shape for hypersonic planes has been proposed by chinese researchers. Typical hypersonic airplane designs have followed the two wing configurations used in all planes. The lower wing...

Orbital ATK has entered a new DARPA contract to study the integration of turbine and hypersonic engine technologies into a new aircraft propulsion system under DARPA’s Advanced Full Range Engine...

U.S. Air Force command that certified Elon Musk’s SpaceX for military missions says it remains confident in the company’s capabilities despite the disappearance this month of a classified satellite...

Alibaba has developed an artificial intelligence model that scored better than humans in a Stanford University reading and comprehension test. Alibaba asked the AI to provide exact answers to more...

could reach either 18,735,173 (a 72% rise), or with higher estimates 32,338,990 (a 63.8% rise) by 2045. Lowered levels of myostatin result in less fat and more muscle in humans and other mammals....

China’s GDP was over 82.71 trillion yuan in 2017. The Exchange rate was 6.45 at the end of 2017. A previous Nextbigfuture article had an error and divided 83.8 trillion yuan by the exchange...

Researchers at Oregon State University have designed and fabricated the world’s smallest electro-optic modulator, which could mean major reductions in energy used by data centers and supercomputers....

Nature Materials – SiGe epitaxial memory for neuromorphic computing with reproducible high performance based on engineered dislocations Although several types of architecture combining memory...

Extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV) is set to enable 10-nm and 7-nm process nodes over the next few years, but significant work is still needed on photoresists to enable 5-nm chips. ASML has plans...

China has purchased 200 dredging ships over the last 11 years. Most of the technology was from Germany, Japan and other countries. China tripled its dredging capacity over the last 15 years. China...

The IMG expects U.S. tax policy changes to stimulate world economic activity for several years. The short-term impact in the United States mostly driven by the investment response to the corporate...

The $440 million Littoral Combat Ship USS Little Rock’s maiden journey was complicated by unusually heavy ice conditions that have kept it in Montreal since Christmas Eve. The U.S. Navy has decided...

The US Senate passed pending bill that would fund the US government through Feb. 8 and reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) for six years. This will be passed by the House and...

Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Hainan Island is the main space launch site for China. It is one of the two spacecraft launch sites of Xichang Satellite Launch Center. It is a former sub-orbital...

Sniping is weaponized math. Although a .50 caliber sniper rifle bullet can fly as far as five miles, a host of factors including gravity, wind speed and direction, altitude, barometric pressure,...

NASA has successfully applied a new technology in flight that allows aircraft to fold their wings to different angles while in the air. The recent flight series, which took place at NASA’s Armstrong...

In simulations, MIT researchers found that tin telluride’s electron characteristics have a significant impact on their mean free paths. They plotted tin telluride’s range of electron...

Researchers at the University of Twente’s MESA+ research institute have made significant efficiency improvements to the technology used to generate solar fuels. This involves the direct conversion of...

Researchers at the University of Bristol have been able to levitate objects using ultrasonic waves larger than the wavelengths of sound used by the device. This could enable touchless control of drug...

Amazon Go is a new kind of store with no checkout required. We created the world’s most advanced shopping technology so you never have to wait in line. With our Just Walk Out Shopping experience,...

SpaceX will be unable to test fire its three-core Falcon Heavy rocket at Kennedy Space Center due to the government shutdown. “Due to the shutdown removing key members of the civilian...

Rocket Lab has successfully reached orbit with the test flight of its second Electron orbital launch vehicle, Still Testing. Electron lifted-off at 14:43 NZDT from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1 on the...

1. Universe Today – James Webb Wraps up 3 Months in the Freezer. It’s Ready for Space The sunshield test unit on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is unfurled for the first time. Credit: NASA...

The Carnival of Space 544 is up at Cosmoquest. Universe Today – In mid-March, the Chinese Tiangong-1 Space Station is Going to Come Crashing Back Down to Earth… Somewhere The station’s mission...

China’s quarterly GDP numbers for 2016 and 2017 suggest that the soon to be released Q4 2017 GDP number will be about 23.5 trillion RMB. China leadership has already indicated the fourth...

According to Navigant Research, the global building stock is expected to grow from 151.8 billion m2 in 2014 to 171.6 billion m2 in 2024. Most of the new growth is expected to occur in China, where...

China’s third carrier (called the 002) is expected to be launched in 2019 or 2020. It will be almost as large as the US Nimitz carriers and include electromagnetic launchers. 002 will...

When large groups of people are suddenly cut off from electricity, shelter and medical supplies, the initial crisis may be only the tip of the iceberg. Sanitation issues, disease and physical fatigue...

Tech Pioneers and Influencers will gather at Steigenberger Grandhotel Belvédère on January 23, 2018 to exchange Ideas, discuss latest trends and network. Introducing Leaders, a strategic business...