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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...

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...