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2002 was the last time the USA led the number of space launches, but following the 2003 Columbia space shuttle disaster, Russia topped the list every year from 2003 to 2015. In 2016, Russia fell to...

Researchers from the Information and Navigation College, Air Force Engineering University and the Institute of China Electronic Equipment System Engineering Company performed computational analysis...

Income inequality varies greatly across world regions. It is lowest in Europe and highest in the Middle East. Rising wealth inequality within countries has helped to spur increases in global wealth...

The Economist reports that India does not have a middle class and growing inequality it preventing the growth of a middle class. The top 1% of Indian adults, a rich enclave of 8 million inhabitants...

The European Commission contribution in EuroHPC will be around EUR 486 million under the current Multiannual Financial Framework, matched by a similar amount from Member States and associated...

Gem Diamonds has found a 910-carat stone, about the size of two golf balls, at its Letseng mine in southern Africa. D color Type IIa diamond from the Letšeng mine in Lesotho, the highest dollar per...

Ford Motor plans to double its electrified vehicle spending is part of a rush to invest in batteries and electric cars by global automakers that now totals $90 billion and is still growing. Ford is...

Most objects react in predictable ways when force is applied to them—unless they have “negative mass.” And then they react exactly opposite from what you would expect. Now University of Rochester...

The SpaceX Falcon Heavy static fire test has slipped to Tuesday with the opening of the window at 4pm (2100 GMT). The three-core rocket was first fueled on Thursday but the ignition of the 27 Merlin...

China’s Sanyan Institute of Remote Sensing has a series of satellite launches over the next three years : * in 2019 they will launch three optical satellites. * add another three optical...

SpaceX plans a static-fire test its Falcon Heavy rocket on the Space Coast Monday. Falcon Heavy is essentially the company’s Falcon 9 times three. It features three Falcon 9 first-stage...

Dennis Wingo sees metals mining, communication stations and telescopes on the moon. The combination of industries will make moon development viable. The moon is largely made up of metal oxides that...

The best exchanges to buy Stellar Lumens XLM are as follows: Poloniex Bittrex Binance Kraken Lumens are the native asset of the Stellar network. Stellar is the 8th most valuable cryptocurrency at a...

Techcrunch debunks part of the Silicon Valley sex party accusations. At least one well documented party (a Draper Fisher Jurvetson event) has many people indicating there was no sex or drugs at the...

China is exporting a ceramic jet engine blade processing machine as part of a wider jet engine collaboration between Germany and China. The machinery produces turbine blades capable of withstanding...

Israel has found a defense against the threat of attack tunnels under the Gaza Strip. Even if the defense isn’t perfect, it’s pretty effective. The tunnel that was identified and blown up over the...

A ballistic missile alert in Hawaii was a mistake by an emergency system worker. An employee at Hawaii’s Emergency Management Agency (EMA) who “pushed the wrong button” during...

Relative Costs of Driving Electric and Gasoline Vehicles in the Individual U.S. States (2018) The following are the main findings: (1) The current average annual cost of driving a typical new...

The World Bank forecasts global economic growth to edge up to 3.1 percent in 2018 after a much stronger-than-expected 2017, as the recovery in investment, manufacturing, and trade continues. Growth...

Coinmarketcap lists over 1400 alternatives to Bitcoin. There are 42 cryptocurrencies with market capitalization over $1 billion as of Jan 13, 2018. Bitcoin’s block size is 1 Megabyte. This limits the...

Cloud-based AI solutions and APIs from Google, IBM and Microsoft are currently dominating the AI market. A decentralized AI market is emerging from the combination of blockchain, on-device AI and...

Six new German made model Type 212CDs Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) submarines (formerly the 212NG) are slated to deploy to northern Europe by the mid-2020: two more will be added to the German...

The SETI Institute and the Mars Institute announced today the discovery of small pits in a large crater near the North Pole of the Moon, which may be entrances to an underground network of lava...

HDT Global (HDT) Wheeled Offload Logistics Follower (WOLF) robotic system has been awarded a Phase II Squad Multipurpose Equipment Transport Program contract. The HDT Hunter WOLF system closely...

Russia has approved the operation of the floating nuclear power plant Akademik Lomonosov. The authority said on 9 December it had approved the project in Russia’s northernmost city of Pevek...

Although cardiac stem cell therapy is a promising treatment for heart attack patients, directing the cells to the site of an injury – and getting them to stay there – remains challenging. In a new...

Neuromorphic computing researchers have been working on the development of memory resistors, or memristors, which are resistors in a circuit that ‘remember’ their state even if you lose...

Boeing unveiled a new unmanned electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) cargo air vehicle (CAV) prototype that will be used to test and evolve Boeing’s autonomy technology for future...

Boeing revealed a model of a mach 5+ hypersonic plane that will compete to become the follow up to the SR71 blackbird. Boeing is planning a two-step process beginning with flight tests of an...

NASA and Generation Orbit Launch Services Inc. (GO) in Atlanta have completed the GO1 Inert Test Article captive carry flight test program. Under a public-private partnership with the agency’s...

The Planetary Resources Arkyd-6 spacecraft was launched and deployed in space. This 6U cubesat is packed with power including 17 computing elements. The Arkyd-6 spacecraft has successfully launched...

Researchers review the pioneering work that led the gene therapy field to its current state, describe gene-editing technologies that are expected to play a major role in the field’s future, and...

Biomedical engineers have grown the first functioning human skeletal muscle from induced pluripotent stem cells. The advance builds on work published in 2015 when researchers at Duke University grew...

Prediction 1: By the end of 2021, 25% of global manufacturers will apply machine learning to data across product development, supply chain, manufacturing, and service for more rapid decision support,...

Pictures and videos of the pole dancing robots resurface online occasionally. They are in the news again because a strip club near the CES 2018 had them. Giles Walker hires them out to tech...

Researchers using NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found eight sites where thick deposits of ice beneath Mars’ surface are exposed in faces of eroding slopes. Above – A...

UVision’s HERO Family is an all-inclusive loitering munition solution designed to meet the complex requirements of the modern battlefield. HERO incorporates a wide range of advanced, cost-effective...

An object that looks like it could be a hypersonic vehicle prototype has appeared in satellite photos. It could also just be an unusual drone. Some commenters think it might only be a racing boat....

Amphibious warship Portland (LPD-27) will have a combat laser weapon installed by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) and will serve as the flagship of this year’s Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise...

The global remittance market is a big business. In 2016, remitters sent nearly $600 billion in cross-border payments to help support family members living in their home countries or to settle...

California’s Department of Water Resources was blasted in an independent report for having a culture of complacency and incompetence that contributed to last year’s near-disaster at Oroville...

The magazine Ikea ad, running in Sweden, encourages the reader to pee on it. If she does so, and is pregnant, the ad reveals previously invisible text offering a discounted price on a crib—using...

Bill Gates sees enormous opportunities to make progress on some of the toughest health challenges. Gates described what he sees in a keynote to the JP Morgan 36th Annual Healthcare Conference in San...

Detailed exawatt laser systems are being designed now. Pulsed lasers are rapidly reaching higher power by shortening the pulses and increasing the power. Multiple ten petawatt systems are either...

An exawatt-scale, short-pulse amplification architecture based upon a novel pulse compressor arrangement and amplification of long-duration chirped beam pulses is described. This architecture is...

State-of-art laser systems in 2016 are capable of delivering a laser pulse with intensity up to 2 × 10^22 W cm−2. Multi-Petawatt and ten PetaWatt lasers have been built and are expected to reach...

The International Committee for Ultrahigh Intensity Lasers provided a 56-page report on global ultrahigh power laser projects. Ultra-intense lasers are lasers with capabilities exceeding 10^19 Watts...

The L3-HAPLS advanced petawatt laser system was installed last week at the ELI Beamlines Research Center (link is external)in Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic. L3-HAPLS — the world’s most advanced...

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers have discovered novel ways to extend the capabilities of two-photon lithography (TPL), a high-resolution 3D printing technique capable of...

Mega funding rounds in Asia led by the biggest ever fund raise of $5.5 billion by China-based Didi Chuxing propelled the overall venture capital funding to reach record levels in 2017. According to a...