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The Lubin UCSB laser propulsion system efforts have been funded by Breakthrough Starshot for $100 million. They are working working to demonstrate proof of concept for light-propelled nanocrafts. A large scale network of several 70 Gigawatt lasers on Earth, Earth Orbits, the moon Mars and asteroids is not as distant as one might think because of several converging systems and technological shortcuts. A laser power of 70GW (without photon recycling) can send a 100 kg craft can be propelled to 1AU in approximately 3 days achieving a speed of 0.4% the speed of light, and a 10,000 kg craft in

Stealth planes and submarines currently have the great advantage of being very hard to detect. For stealth planes that can be detected but when it is too late to react. Mass production of new underwater and aerial drones with new sensors and assistance from persistent monitoring from thousands to tens of thousands of small satellites means submarines and stealth fighters will be detectable. Teledyne Webb have designed a torpedo shaped drone submarine with a thermal engine which can extract energy from the temperature difference at different depths and continue indefinitely going at about 2 knots. Their current drone submarine can

Spacex expects they will receive additional funding from the U.S. government for the BFR and Raptor engine. Spacex would still build the BFR even without government money. The US Air Force is...

China (1.4 billion) has nearly twice the population of Europe (742 million). The populations of China’s 33 provinces is comparable but larger than the 44 countries of Europe. China will have an...

China plans a fleet of nuclear carrier rockets and reusable hybrid-power carriers by the mid-2040s. They will be ready for regular, large scale interplanetary flights, and carrying out commercial...

This month NASA will start testing a tiny 1 kilowatt uranium fission reactor Stirling engines for use in possible future missions to Mars. The low power means very little of the uranium is burned up....

The highly controversial effort to transplant human bodies is not a scam. There must be millions of dollars of funding for these effort which have been ongoing for at least 5 years. Case why Sergio...

The world’s first human head transplant has been carried out on a corpse in China bu Dr Xiaoping Ren according to Professor Sergio Canavero. Professor Sergio Canavero, chief of the Turin Advanced Neuromodulation Group, said the operation was carried out by a team led by Dr. Xiaoping Ren, who last year successfully grafted a head onto a monkey’s body. The 18-hour operation that showed it was possible to successfully reconnect the spine, nerves and blood vessels. China has 700 road deaths per day and eight times the US number of spinal injuries The WHO estimates that traffic accident claim about

Elon Musk also unveiled the new Tesla Roadster 2020. It will be the first standard production car with 250+ top speed characteristics. Development will start in 2020. It is the new Tesla electric car.

In an interview, George Church of Harvard, indicated that one of his company (Rejuvenate Bio) is working on reversing aging in dogs. They will have dog reverse aging trials by 2019. In March 2017,...

Tesla electric semi-truck will begin production in 2019. * capable of hauling 80,000 pounds * 500-600 mile range between charging. 500 mile range with maximum cargo. * the truck gets the Enhanced...

George Church is a Harvard Professor -serial entrepreneur of many multi-million dollar and even billion dollar biotech companies. This article (interview with George Church) originally appeared in...

Bigger creatures should have more cancer risk. However, Elephants do not have high rates of cancer. They have some kind of protection. * elephants have 20 extra duplicates of p53, a tumor suppressor gene. * they also duplicate copies of the LIF gene, which encodes for leukemia inhibitory factor. Elephant cells commit suicide at the first hint of abnormality. Above – Lucy Reading-Ikkanda/Quanta Magazine Biorxiv – A zombie LIF gene in elephants is up-regulated by TP53 to induce apoptosis in response to DNA damage (27 page PDF)

UiPath Forward User Summit in New York, UiPath, a global leader in Enterprise Robotic Process Automation (RPA) software, is announcing the launch of its free online advanced RPA learning program,

Intel today announced substantial advances in its wireless product roadmap to accelerate the adoption of 5G. Highlights include the introduction of the Intel® XMMTM 8000 series, Intel’s first family...

For the first time, researchers have infused a person’s blood with gene editing tools, aiming to treat his severe inherited disease (

Spacefab is currently building ther Waypoint space telescope with a 21 centimeter mirror. It is launching as a co-payload on a SpaceX rocket in 2019. This commercial telescope will have an image...

There was a flurry of speculation that Bill Gates was going to build a smart city in Arizona but it is almost certainly an ordinary real estate investment. Bill Gates uses Cascade Investment for...

Adam Crowl is going to write a journal article out his blog post analyzing the details and choices for sending the Spacex BFR to the moon and Titan. The article is at his Crowlspace website. The...

China is building the world’s fastest wind tunnel to simulate hypersonic flight at speeds of up to 12 kilometers per second (mach 40, 43200 kph, 26843 mph). A hypersonic vehicle flying at this speed...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk will unveil an electric semi-truck tomorrow. Tesla Semi Truck unveil to be webcast live on Thursday at 8pm! This will blow your mind clear out of your skull and into an alternate...

The US and China are both having worsening pension and medical costs which will vastly restrict the money available for military programs and wars. By 2040, China could have $10 to 100 trillion in...

Venezuela has defaulted on two of its US dollar-denominated sovereign bond issues. S&P says that it expects Venezuela to default on other bond payments. This comes as absolutely no surprise. A...

A planet just 3.4 parsecs away either having liquid water or just shy of having some makes an extremely appealing characterization target. Stellar activity is probably the highest concern regarding the emergence of life, and even the survival of an atmosphere, on planets orbiting M dwarfs. Restricting the target list to quiet stars would disqualify Proxima Cen b and leave Ross 128 b as the best temperate planet known to date. This will certainly make this new temperate exoEarth a top target for characterization with the 39 meter extremely large telescope ELTs. The ELT is under construction and should be

Pay close attention to this cobalt chart. Demand could be about to surge from 2k tonnes today… to over 300k tonnes in 2030. That’s a 14,900% increase in demand. This cobalt chart is the only one you really need to understand. Simply: Cobalt is never going to be cheap again, thanks to the electric vehicle revolution and a massive supply chain bottleneck coming out of Africa. Not only will investors never find cheap cobalt again, but all indications suggest that cobalt prices could go even higher. Smart investors are now looking for the small cobalt miners whose share prices will

Amazon has posted just a handful of profitable quarters in its two-decade history and now has a $550 billion valuation. “Bezos’ ability to paint an extraordinary vision (i.e., ‘Earth’s Biggest...

Hong Kong is looking into building a trade-financing system using blockchain technology, a senior official said. Blockchain, the decentralized encryption technology behind cryptocurrencies, could...

Tupolev Tu-160M2 strategic bomber prototype will take to the skies for the first time from the airfield of the Kazan Aviation Enterprise in February 2018. Serial production of Tu-160M2 bombers should...

Space Telescopes placed at the gravitational lens points of 550 AU can image exoplanet surfaces down to 1 kilometer resolution. This would be like 13000 X 13000 pixel images of the earth. 169...

Founded in 2010, B-TEMIA is a privately-owned dermoskeletic technology company. Based in Quebec City, Canada, B-TEMIA develops, manufactures and commercializes cutting-edge products in the growing...

NAVYA unveiled as a World Premiere the first 100% autonomous robot-taxi on the market this Tuesday November 7, 2017 at La Cité du Cinéma (Paris) : AUTONOM CAB, two years after the launch in 2015 of...

Fisker makes luxury electric cars. They have filed a patents on breakthrough solid state batteries. Fisker’s solid-state batteries will feature three-dimensional electrodes with 2.5 times the energy...

GE has spent the last three decades developing a special kind of heat-resistant ceramic that is as tough as steel. The material, called a ceramic matrix composite (CMC), can withstand temperatures...

GE revealed the beta version of the world’s largest 3D printer for metals, which uses a laser and a powder bed to make parts. It is capable of printing parts as large as 1 meter in diameter directly...

Woodward in 2016 indicates that there were multiple experimentalists replicating the initial experiments. Most of the videos are from the Sept 2016, Breakthrough Propulsion Workshop. Woodward is...

Firefox is releasing its new quantum browser which uses 30% less memory than other browsers. Firefox Quantum is over twice as fast as Firefox from 6 months ago, built on a completely overhauled core...

Research in interstellar travel technologies has seen a paradigm change over the last few years. Early concept studies, like Project Orion and the Daedalus project, envisioned gigantic fusion based...

Credit Suisse has its latest Global Wealth Report. From mid-2016 to mid-2017, total global wealth rose at a rate of 6.4%, the fastest pace since 2012 and reached USD 280 trillion, a gain of USD 16.7...

SpotMini is a small four-legged robot that comfortably fits in an office or home. It weighs 25 kg (30 kg if you include the arm). SpotMini is all-electric and canA go for about 90 minutes on a...

Andy Weir wrote the Martian. His new book is about a lunar colony of 2000 people late in the 21st century. He looked at the science and economics of a lunar colony. Eighty-five percent of the rocks on the surface of the lunar highlands are anorthite, which contains aluminum as well as a massive supply of oxygen. Smelting aluminum in the quantities necessary to construct and maintain Artemis would produce so much excess oxygen—eight atoms for every two of aluminum—that they would be constantly venting it. For every kilogram of payload, you need an additional 3.73 kilos of fuel. So

There are some videos of business advice and motivation from Elon Musk and a transcript of a commencement speech Elon gave. 1. If you want to start a company, you need to work super hard. So what is...

James Clement has collected blood, skin or saliva from supercentenarians in 14 states and seven countries over a six-year period. Lifestyle and luck, it seems, still factor heavily into why people...

Planetary Resources is planning to mine the asteroids in the 2020s. Planetary Resources delivered the Arkyd-6 spacecraft, their second technology demonstrator. The spacecraft has officially begun its...

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General Electric cut its dividend in half and is restructuring to focus primarily on three units. Industrial analyst Brian Langenberg said on CNBC’s Squawk Box – To really turn this...

Startup Boom Supersonic is developing a 55-seat plane which it claims will be able to more than halve the flight time from San Francisco to Washington DC to just two-and-a-half hours. The company is...

Texas A and M researchers investigated how helium behaves in nanocomposite solids, materials made of stacks of thick metal layers. Their findings were a surprise. Rather than making bubbles, the...

Bill Gates has personally invested $50 million in the Dementia Discovery Fund—a private fund working to diversify the clinical pipeline and identify new targets for treatment. Most of the major...

China has overtaking the US in the total number of ranked supercomputer systems in the top 500 by a margin of 202 to 143. It is the largest number of supercomputers China has ever claimed on the...

Current and former NSA (National Security Agency) officials say the Shadow Brokers disclosures, which began in August 2016, have been catastrophic for the N.S.A., calling into question its ability to...