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Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party-led (LDP) coalition won a combined 312 seats, keeping its two-thirds “super majority” in the 465-member lower house. Shinzo Abe will almost certainly secure a...

The old mission of Calico Labs is to “devise interventions that enable people to lead longer and healthier lives.” The new mission is “to harness advanced technologies to increase our...

Joule Journal – Air-Breathing Aqueous Sulfur Flow Battery for Ultralow-Cost Long-Duration Electrical Storage •Chemical cost analyzed for 40 rechargeable couples developed over the past 60 years...

Cities already have tolls and charges for a lot of services (parking and roads, licenses) in a city but Google is far more efficient at generating money from targeting ads and mobile ads. Volume, a...

The US Navy is considering increasing maintaining a 2 Virginia class attack submarine build rate along with a production of one Columbia SSBN sub per year. Adding 7 more Virginia class submarines will add about $18 billion in spending over the next 13 years. The proponents argue that they will get 7 for the price of 6 as they will save about the price of one submarine in production efficiency. The Navy has assigned only a “43% confidence interval” that it will keep costs at or below the $100.2 billion (2017 constant dollars) research acquisition cost for the Columbia SSBN

The moon has many hundreds of large lava tube caves. The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has now imaged over 200 pits that show the signature of being skylights into subsurface voids or caverns, ranging...

ITER is a multi-decade PHD and engineering make work project with the cover story of trying to solve nuclear fusion power generation. Ghostbuster Dr. Raymond Stantz: Personally, I liked the...

Under the current California high speed rail plan, they wants to begin the 240-mile starter system in San Jose and end in an almond orchard south of Wasco. The state estimates the system would begin...

Since Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico, causing significant damage to the connectivity infrastructure, Google Loon have been working hard to see if it was possible to bring some basic...

Tesla has all electric service Van based on the Model S and Model X vehicles and technology. In California, Tesla operates about 100 trucks and they are apparently aiming to have hundreds of service...

Virgin Galactic Vice President Mike Moses told a commercial space conference in Las Cruces, New Mexico, that much progress has been made on flight tests and that supersonic speed is expected soon....

A team including scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) may have overcome a significant hurdle to manufacturing hydrogen fuel cells by creating a way to check whether...

IBM now has a functional 56-qubit quantum computer simulated in a classical supercomputer. IBM simulated 56 qubits with only 4.5 terabytes. It was previously believed that current supercomputers...

Thirty Los Altos high school students are building a 1:10 scale model of a self-driving car that will be able to navigate autonomously around their school. Their goal is to learn about and experiment...

Using a simple layer-by-layer coating technique, researchers from the U.S. and Korea have developed a paper-based flexible supercapacitor that could be used to help power wearable devices. The device...

Using flexible conducting polymers and novel circuitry patterns printed on paper, researchers have demonstrated proof-of-concept wearable thermoelectric generators that can harvest energy from body...

Elon Musk Boring Co. gets permission to dig a tunnel in Maryland. The new tunnel will be a 10.3-mile route that undercuts a state-owned operation of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway in Maryland, and...

Billionaire Elon Musk and Spacex announced that they were devoting all of Spacex resources to the development of a large fully reusable rocket called the Spacex BFR (Big F**ing Rocket). It will have...

Bitcoin set a new intraday high price record of $6,064, according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index (BPI). The previous all-time high set on October 13, when the price rose to $5,856.10.

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the International Energy Agency (IEA) have had terrible projections of the energy market especially in regards to solar and wind. Quartz and...

Relativity Space wants is reimagining the way rockets are built and flown with massive 3D printing. * 100X fewer parts. * 10X faster iteration * entirely 3D printed Relativity is creating the first...

For decades, pollution and its harmful effects on people’s health, the environment, and the planet have been neglected both by Governments and the international development agenda. Yet, pollution is...

a href=”https://www.blueorigin.com/new-glenn” target=blank>Blue Origin had a successful hotfire of a full-scale BE-4 engine. This is Jeff Bezos rocket company. Blue Origin’s BE-4...

Boeing gave the US military long range conventional bombing superiority for decades with the B52 and commercial aviation dominance with the 747. The fully reusable Spacex BFR will have more military...

There is a lot of talk about a hypersonic weapons arms race to create missiles and then a decade later hypersonic drones and then a decade after that hypersonic spy planes and fighter planes. It will...

Bigelow Aerospace and United Launch Alliance (ULA) are working together to launch a B330 expandable module on ULA’s Vulcan launch vehicle. The launch would place a B330 outfitted module in Low Lunar...

A Japanese space probe data confirmed that an enormous cavern stretching for about 50 kilometers exists beneath the moon’s surface, offering a possible protected site for future lunar bases, the...

Michael J. Green and Matthew Kroenig put forward a plan that uses US economic and superior world position to put constant pressure on North Korea. 1. simultaneously refuse to recognize North Korea’s...

Israel Aerospace Industries is course correction artillery fuzes. The fuze, called TopGun, is an add-on fuze mounted on 155mm shells. It allows guiding the shell to its a pre-defined coordinate after...

CapitalG — Alphabet’s growth investment fund — is leading a $1 billion financing round in Lyft. This brings Lyft’s post-money valuation to $11 billion. 2017 has been an important year for the Lyft...

Researchers have created engineered proteins that lowered body weight, bloodstream insulin, and cholesterol levels in obese mice, rats, and primates. The delivery of the GDF15 gene reduced body...

The City of Stockton went bankrupt in 2012 and it now has a budget of $626 million. A random sample of the 300,000 residents of Stockton, a port city in California’s Central Valley, will get $500 per month ($6,000 a year) with no strings attached. It’s the latest test of the basic income policy. It is funded from philanthropy. The first $1 million in funding comes from the Economic Security Project, a pro-basic income advocacy and research group co-chaired by Facebook co-founder and former New Republic publisher Chris Hughes and activists Natalie Foster and Dorian Warren; Hughes provided the group’s

AlphaGo became the first program to defeat a world champion in the game of Go. The tree search in AlphaGo evaluated positions and selected moves using deep neural networks. These neural networks were...

A RAND study requested by the US NAvy looked at different american aircraft carrier options and concludes that the US Navy is correct with its current $13 billion a piece Gerald Ford Supercarriers....

Sidewalk Labs, owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, is to build a digital city in Toronto. It will have fast wi-fi, many sensors, sustainable energy and autonomous cars. We couldn't...

700 million people in China watched NBA programming on TV last season. The NBA now has 200 employees in China. Point to Point rockets from Spacex will make it travel between Asia and America in under...

At 23 minutes of this video. SSI SA Dr. Heidi Fearn explains how just scaling power and size causes problems. (heat, arcing and other problems). For Mach effect propellentless propulsion it will be...

The Mach-Effect thruster is a propellantless propulsion concept that has been in development by J.F. Woodward for more than two decades. It consists of a piezo stack that produces mass fluctuations,...

Spacex’s Elon Musk talked about flying to different points on the Earth in his BFR rocket presentation. Spacex would be able to transport people at 18,000 mph and make 5000 miles trips in 20 minutes (regularly 10 hours) and 8000-9000 miles trips in 30 minutes (regularly 12-14 hours) and 10,000-11,000 mile trips in 40 minutes (18 hours or more with connections). In 2018, there will be about 4 billion airline passengers. About 2% fly first class on international routes. This is about 80 million first class seat flights per year. Flights are growing at 2-4% per year. If Spacex were

USA Eagle Prime is taking on Japan’s Suidobashi megabot. MegaBots, Inc (USA) and Suidobashi Heavy Industry (Japan) have spent the past two years preparing real-life Giant Fighting Robots for a...

Boron nitride nanotubes could be used to make hypersonic planes. NASA has one of the few facilities in the world able to produce quality Boron Nitride Nanotubes BNNTs. Carbon nanotubes can stay...

Price ranges for different TV sizes are as follows 55 inch $400-1000 65 inch about $1780 but range from $1200 to $3000 75 inch about $3150 but range from $2500 to 5000 80-100 inch about $8000 to...

The observation is being made that the war on ISIS united many factions in the middle east. This is similar to how the Cold war between the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states)...

Just a few years ago, the consensus on a timeline to large-scale, reliable quantum computers was 20 years to never. This was in spite of the success that DWave systems had with adiabatic quantum...

In Elon Musk’s video announcement of the Spacex BFR he indicated that it would be lower cost to launch than the Spacex Falcon 1. Above was the graphic which showed the Spacex BFR at lower cost...

Pieces weighing up to 200 pounds of China’s space station could make it to the surface when out-of-control 8.5-tonne laboratory breaks apart in the atmosphere. An 8.5-tonne Chinese space...

IBM today announced a new blockchain banking solution that will help financial institutions address the processes of universal cross-border payments, designed to reduce the settlement time and lower...

The Black Panther movie is in theaters February 16, 2018.