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New super global warming resistant corals could be tested on the Great Barrier Reef within a year as part of a global research effort to accelerate evolution and save the “rainforests of the seas”...

This is a long (14 page) interview with Dr. Aubrey de Grey by Ariel Feinerman. You can donate to SENS at this link. Ariel is a polymath. He started his carrier as an entomologist and studied...

Norad has a Santa tracking website and Santa tracking apps. For over 60 years, NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa’s flight. On December...

Boeing revealed its MQ-25 unmanned refueling drone. Refueling drones would extend the combat range of deployed Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet, Boeing EA-18G Growler, and Lockheed Martin F-35C fighters....

China must take urgent action on birth controls to cope with the “grim” reality of its rapidly aging society. The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences said the country must consider either relaxing...

China’s new economy – internet-based business ranging from e-commerce to car-hailing services – grew twice as quickly as overall gross domestic product in the 10 years to 2016. The number of new jobs...

Nature Nanotechnology – A quantum-dot spin qubit with coherence limited by charge noise and fidelity higher than 99.9% Jun Yoneda, Kenta Takeda, Tomohiro Otsuka, Takashi Nakajima, Matthieu R....

There is an $85 android smartphone add-on device that lets you clearly image through up to 4 inches of concrete wall. Walabot is a 3D RF imaging sensor. The 3D imaging is created using radio...

Bitcoin, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies have taken a dip.

Nextbigfuture interviewed Aubrey de Grey and he provided his view on the progress to radical life extension. Aubrey shared positive fundraising news for the SENS research foundation. Last week, SENS...

China is willing to accept some weakness in GDP growth to focus on making strides in the next three years around three priorities. The priorities are * controlling financial risk * reducing poverty *...

The first of three US military videos of unidentified aerial phenomenon (UAP aka UFOs, Unidentified Flying Objects) have been released. They have been through the official declassification review...

University of California, Berkeley scientists have for the first time used CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to disable a defective gene that causes amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig’s...

Russia has a ten year arms procurement plan from 2018 to 2027 which will have almost flat spending at $34 billion. The USA is spending about $155 billion ($90 billion on weapons procurement and $65...

Russia’s new 2018-2027 state armament plan stipulates allocating 19 trillion rubles ($324 billion) for weapons deliveries and 1 trillion rubles ($17 billion) for synchronizing these efforts. The new...

The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has demonstrated a new method to transfer gallium nitride (GaN) on a flexible substrate, a development that could lead to improved communications and radar...

The IMF, Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) and Price Waterhouse Coopers are adjusting growth projections upwards as the global economy is gaining momentum. The global economy as a...

The Spacex Falcon Heavy should launch in January, 2018. Elon Musk tweeted out photos of the Spacex Falcon Heavy at Cape Canaveral. Max thrust at lift-off is 5.1 million pounds or 2300 metric tons....

Scientists at the Advanced Science Research Center (ASRC) at the Graduate Center, CUNY, worked to theorize and test how two layers of graphene — each one-atom thick — could be made to transform into...

The Florida State University-headquartered National High Magnetic Field Laboratory has shattered another world record with the testing of a 32-tesla magnet — 33 percent stronger than what had...

Attacking the core biology of aging. Full regeneration and immortalized cells exists in humans two weeks after conception. There is work to re-activate those capabilities with adult cells. The video...

Dr. Michael West created a series of five videos which are on Youtube – Back to Immortality. Dr. Michael West led the team that discovered Telomerase and the Telomerase gene and used to...

Artificial Intelligence researcher Ben Goertzel has spent the past 3 decades working in the field of Artificial Intelligence. He coined the term Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) to differentiate...

The Carnival of Space 540 is up at Universe Today. Universe Today- Too Big, Too Soon. Monster Black Hole Seen Shortly After the Big Bang Universe Today – Astronauts in Trouble Will be Able to...

2017 has undoubtedly been the year of bitcoin, breaking $1000 dollars on New Year’s Day before rocketing up $15000 in early December. That’s a return of 1500 percent! And as market fascination grows,...

China State planners said they may struggle to achieve the targets of keeping energy usage below the equivalent of 5 billions tons of coal by 2020 and becoming 15% more energy efficient per unit of...

The Dec 8, 2017 weekly EIA oil production report was that US production was at 9.78 million barrels per day. The US may end December with 9.9 million barrels per day. Rystad Energy’s comprehensive...

North Dakota Bakken oil production jumped over 10% in October to 35 million barrels in the month which is up from 31.6 million in September. This puts its just short of previous production peaks in...

Coinbase is now focused on two, separate businesses: To better highlight the difference between these two products: · Coinbase is a place for consumers to easily buy, sell, and store digital...

Researchers have identified and characterized a new type of RNA protein called THOR that plays a role in cancer development — and could serve as a target for drug development. Researchers at the...

Loaded with some three tons of experiments and supplies, the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft arrived at the International Space Station Dec. 17, where Expedition 53 crew members Mark Vande Hei and Joe...

Wang Hongguang, former deputy commander of the Nanjing Military Region, warned that war could break out on the Korean peninsula at any time from now on until March when South Korea and the United...

Bloomberg added price quotes for three other crypto-currences—Ripple, Ethereum and Litecoin—to its terminal service, which is used by major banks and investment houses worldwide. Bitcoin price quotes...

New financial disclosures for a November ballot initiative show that a group backed by private internet providers spent just over $900,000 to try and block city-owned broadband service in Fort...

All levels of China’s government and all Chinese industries will work together on a three year Artificial Intelligence action plan. It is the top leadership’s vision for a new Chinese economy...

To make Project Loon a reality, Google had to figure out how to send data reliably between balloons flying on the stratospheric winds. One solution, first proved out by sending a copy of the film...

Calorie restriction is one anti-aging approach that is believed to be effective. However it is difficult to eat 30% fewer calories. There are also some methods like intermittent fasting. Some near...

AgeX Therapeutics, Inc. is a biotechnology company formed in 2017 as a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc (NYSE MKT: BTX). Its mission is to apply technology related to cell immortality and pluripotency to...

Elon tweets we should already have bases on the moon. Elon had said the same thing in the Spacex Mars Plan presentation. It is 2017, we should have a moon base by now. What the hell is going on ? It...

Elon Musk has been very successful with vertical integration of his design and manufacturing at Spacex. The multi-layered manufacturing and supply chain of the rocket industry was highly inefficient....

Stanford University Professor Mark Jacobson published a 2015 paper claiming that the US could switch 100% renewable energy (solar, wind and little hydro) at low cost and before 2050. A paper in 2016 by 20 authors (including scientists from Stanford, Berkeley, Livermore Labs, Colorado, Sweden) indicated that the Jacobson paper was full of errors. James Conca at Forbes has some details about the lawsuit Jacobson has filed to suppress criticism. Nextbigfuture will be tracking this case. When Jacobson is proven wrong in court or if his libel lawsuit is tossed then there will be regular reminders of his multiple failures

Two recent scientific breakthroughs have opened a new way to laser fusion reactions according to startup HB11 Energy. It involves the reaction between hydrogen H and the boron isotope 11 (HB11) as...

House and Senate Republicans have a deal on the tax cut bill. They expect to pass the bill before Christmas. Here are highlights of the current agreement. There will still be changes as adjustments...

Toyota and Panasonic are launching a “feasibility study” to investigate the technological potential of batteries that use prismatic cells. The prismatic pouch cell makes most efficient...

Far below the Nevada desert, past ancient mine shafts and rock-strewn caverns, there could be a fortune waiting to be made by one small company. A fortune in silver. A mine that inspired the silver...

Canada, Europe and China are focused on the US tax cut bills bringing US corporate tax rates down to the average OECD tax rate. A likely response will be further corporate tax cuts in a global race...

Nextbigfuture was invited to an advanced screening of Star Wars the Last Jedi at Lucasfilm. Here are some shots from around the Lucasfilm campus which is beside the Presidio and has views on to the...

Litecoin has doubled today and has nearly quadrupled from last week. Litcoin is up over 100 times this year. Litecoin is considered the leader of the altcoins. An influx of new money from both retail...

Even though Russia has population of 144 million and has the legacy of the Soviet nuclear program and military technology. However a country with GDP comparable to that of Australia cannot afford to...

RAND evaluates the capabilities of current and programmed U.S. forces to meet the demands of conflicts that could arise involving any of five potential adversaries: China, Russia, North Korea, Iran,...