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1. Universe Today – TTwo new Super-Earths Discovered Around a Red Dwarf Star Above -K2-18b and its neighbor, newly discovered K2-18c, orbit the red-dwarf star k2-18 locataed 111 light years...

President Donald Trump signed a directive that United States will begin a process to return Americans to the moon. The policy directive marks the official reversal of the Obama administration’s plan...

Hacken.io, a tokenized bug bounty marketplace driven by white hats, helped Jibrel Network neutralize phishing attacks that occurred during the first week of its public sale of the Jibrel Network...

Excitonium is a condensate and it exhibits macroscopic quantum phenomena, like a superconductor, or superfluid, or insulating electronic crystal. It’s made up of excitons, particles that are formed...

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EST Thursday, Dec. 14, to announce the latest discovery made by its planet-hunting Kepler space telescope. The discovery was made by researchers using...

China, already a global force in digital technologies and McKinsey Global forecasts big shifts in revenue and profits as China’s businesses digitize, boosting the economy’s international...

BAIDU results indicate that in many real world contexts, simply scaling your training data set and models is likely to predictably improve the model’s accuracy. This predictable behavior may help...

Elon Musk has revealed that Tesla is developing its own custom artificial intelligence chips for its driverless cars. However, his previous prediction that full self driving car capability would be...

General Electric plans to cut 12,000 jobs in its power division as the industrial conglomerate’s new CEO institutes sweeping changes and the company grapples with a decline in business for coal...

The expected cost of ITER has risen from $5 billion USD to $20 billion USD, and the timeline for operation at full power was moved from the original estimate of 2016 to 2027. However, the schedule...

The mining company Rio Tinto has been running robotic trucks for over ten years. Seventy-six of their 400 mining trucks are robotic. The robotic self driving trucks are 15% cheaper to run. Robotic...

Oisin Biotechnologies is one of five companies that were spun out of SENS life extension project so far. Oisin Biotechnologies Ichor Therapeutics’ LysoClear human.bio Covalent Arigos Oisin Bio...

KazAtomProm will reduce planned uranium production by 20% for a period of three years beginning in January 2018. Cameco (Canada) announced a 10-month temporary suspension of production from the...

The US surface fleet may not be adequately trained for high-intensity combat, four experienced former skippers and the former deputy secretary of defense warned a US Naval Institute conference here...

Boeing CEO has repeated his claim that Boeing will beat Spacex in sending a manned mission to Mars. Boeing CEO Muilenburg outlined the buildup to Boeing’s Mars mission. “We’re working on that next...

The United States faces a looming crisis over its deteriorating water infrastructure, and fixing it will be a monumental and expensive task. In Los Angeles alone, about two thirds of the city’s 7,000...

USC scientists and engineers develop an on-the-spot, temperature-sensitive gel that could seal eye injuries on the battlefield. The gel has only been tested on rabbits. Human clinical trials could...

For the last few years there have been heavy 10-30 kilowatt combat lasers tested on a Navy ship and an army truck about the size of an 18 wheeler. Those were vehicles chosen to carry the heavy weight...

The best time to take out the North Korean ICBMs are before launch during the 3-4 minutes of the boost phase when they are first launched. Taking out the ICBMs when they are about to hit their target is a far harder problem. The ICBMs can deploy decoys and they can alter course. Hitting the North Korean ICBM during boost phase is still very hard. We will need faster missiles or we have quickly flood North Korean airspace with drones and fighters during the early stage of a conflict. There are 90 to 120 seconds for an intercept after detection

Bill Gates talked about improving the world for the poor. Go from 5% who die before the age of 5 down to 2.5% or less Rotovirus vaccine and Pnuemococcus vaccines will save 500,000 lives per year Rotating crops, money for fertilizer, farmer education system, more improved seeds will boost African agricultural productivity up by 1.5 times. Gates is pro-GMO food. There is improvement from regular breeding but GMO will provide a big boost to Africa. However, it is there decision. Gates can provide assistance to their safety commissions. We need to boost food productivity by double by 2050. Mobile phone

Patrick Tucker at Defense One reports that tests started October 2014 show that F35 could spot and track ICBMs to help Navy missiles shoot them down. In October 2014, Northrop and MDA launched...

DARPA is funding $100 million to develop gene drive, which can wipe out dangerous animals and insects. It could get rid of malarial mosquitoes and invasive rodents. The DARPA program is discussed in...

NVIDIA TITAN V is the most powerful graphics card ever created for the PC, driven by the world’s most advanced architecture—NVIDIA Volta. NVIDIA’s supercomputing GPU architecture is now here for your...

Dr. Dario Gil is a leading technologist and senior executive at IBM. As Vice President of Science and Solutions of IBM Research, Dr. Gil directs a global organization of some 1,500 researchers across...

Andy Weir who wrote the Martian has now written about a future lunar city in his new book Artemis. Weir started with a basic question: Why would anybody go to the trouble of building a town on the...

Japan Center for Economic Research has forecasted the Asian economies out to 2030. The center released its third Medium-Term Asian Economic Forecast for 2017 through 2030. The report, titled...

Germany’s Social Democratic party has put out a list of demands if they are to form a coalition government with Angela Merkel. Martin Schulz called for 1. the creation of a “United States of Europe”...

China’s power consumption in October rose 5 percent from a year ago to 513 billion kilowatt hours (kWh), according to data from the National Energy Administration (NEA) on Wednesday....

Could we cure climate change? Geoengineering researcher Tim Kruger wants to try. He shares one promising possibility: using natural gas to generate electricity in a way that takes carbon dioxide out...

The price of Bitcoin has surpassed $17000 in last few minutes. Bitcoin is up 20% in the last 24 hours. It has more than doubled in the last two weeks. It is up 21 times over the last 12 months.

Exotec Solutions, a French AI robotics startup, today announced the launch of the Skypod Robots and associated system. Cdiscount, the top French e-commerce vendor, is now using Skypods to prepare...

According to a reports, Disney and Fox are closing the deal that would bring the X-Men, Fantastic Four and related characters into the MCU. The terms are mainly agreed and it will be officially...

In 2011, President Obama set a U.S. energy target: produce 80 percent of electricity from clean energy sources by 2035. Reaching that goal would involve removing two thirds of coal usage in the USA....

The AlphaZero program developed by Google and DeepMind took four hours of playing against itself to create chess knowledge beyond any human or other computer program. It could beat any person and beat the best World Computer Champion Stockfish 28 wins to 0 in a 100-game match. Starting from random play, and given no domain knowledge except the game rules, AlphaZero achieved within 24 hours a superhuman level of play in the games of chess and shogi (Japanese chess) as well as Go, and convincingly defeated a world-champion program in each case. Self-play games are generated by using the latest

“China stopped being a low-cost manufacturing country many years ago,” Apple CEO Cook told the Fortune Global Forum in Guangzhou, capital of the southern Guangdong province, on Wednesday. He said the...

Elon Musk tunneling company has released a map of planned tunnels in Los Angeles. Red shows the proposed Phase 1 proof-of-concept tunnel for which The Boring Company has filed an excavation permit...

Bitcoin is up to $14,300 which is nearly 18 times more that it was one year ago. The total value of all bitcoin is $240 billion.

298 people with Type 2 diabetes were put on an All-liquid diet and they were each able to lose an average of 30 pounds of weight and half of them no longer had to take diabetes medication. They spent...

Chinese online retailer JD.com has entered the autonomous driving fray and will invest 10 billion yuan (US$1.5 billion) in a project in Changsha, an equipment-manufacturing hub in Hunan province. The...

A Tencent Research Institute report indicates that are currently only a supply 300,000 Artificial intelligence professionals when there is a demand for millions. Competition for the top tier of talent is the most intense, as there are fewer than 1,000 people who are considered capable of steering the direction of AI research and development. The US leads other countries in both the quantity and quality of AI personnel, and China won’t be able to immediately solve the talent shortage despite elevating AI to a national priority, Tencent said in the report co-authored with Beijing-based recruitment portal zhipin.com. About one-third of

A drug called erenumab can cut the number of days with migraine symptoms for 50 per cent of patients. Across the UK, an estimated 8.5 million people live with migraine and research suggests the...

From 2008-2011, Sandia National Labs and Northrop Grumman designed nuclear drones that would be able to fly for many months. China has put $3.3 billion into making new highly compact nuclear reactors...

On November 28, 2017, China National Nuclear Corporation officially launched a project to create a 400 Megawwatt Yanlong deep pool-type low-temperature heating reactor. A 400 megawatt Yanlong...

ThorCon is a liquid-fuel fission power plant, under development in the US, to be built in a far-east shipyard, then floated to Indonesia, with testing starting in 2021. It generates emission-free electric power, cheaper even than from a coal-fired plant. Its full-time electric power will improve developing nations’ economies and lifestyles, while also dissuading them from burning fossil fuels which emit CO2. New energy is being mainly built in Asia (China, India, South and South East Asia) and the developing world. There is very little net new power being built in the USA, Europe, and Japan. Thorcon logically will focus

Carnival of Space 537 is up at Cosmoquest. Universe Today – Station Astronauts Unload Cygnus Science; Antares Launch Gallery Above- The Orbital ATK Cygnus OA-8 spacecraft is pictured after it...

Shenzhen had the largest economy in southern China’s Guangdong province last year after a new method of calculating gross domestic product saw it overtake local rival and provincial capital...

Recently , Terrestrial Energy Inc.’s (TEI) announced the completion of the first phase of the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission’s (CNSC) pre-licensing vendor design review. They...

Everyone’s heard the story about the government’s promise to spend $1 trillion on fixing America’s aging critical infrastructure. But there’s another big money story that few investors know of…...

There has been proposal in China to switch from fossil fuel burners to “swimming pool” nuclear reactors. Wang Naiyan, honorary chairman of the China Nuclear Society and a lead scientist at the China...

China will spend 22 billion yuan (US$3.3 billion) on two prototype molten salt nuclear reactors. Two molten salt nuclear reactors will be built in the Gobi Desert in northern China. * Molten salt reactors can produce one thousandth of the radioactive waste of existing nuclear reactors because of deep burn. More complete conversion of the nuclear fuel. * Molten salt reactors can have designs that are proof against nuclear meltdowns * The chinese reactors could use thorium. China has some of the world’s largest reserves of the thorium metal. The Chinese project has been funded by the central government and