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Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods Market will close on Monday August 28, 2017. Here’s what will be new in Whole Foods Market stores on Monday and what customers can expect over time as the two...

Spacex had a successful launch and successful deployment of FORMOSAT-5 to low-Earth orbit confirmed. Successful deployment of FORMOSAT-5 to low-Earth orbit confirmed. pic.twitter.com/PiB7r3Zk4F...

The Hawthorne City Council has given approval for Elon Musk’s Boring Company to construct a 2 mile long test tunnel below the South Bay city. In a 4-1 decision Tuesday, the council voted to...

Arkansas Business reports Alliance Rubber of Hot Springs recently signed an agreement with University of Sussex professor Alan Dalton to study how the compound graphene could be used in rubber...

The Chinese Embassy in Bangkok issued a statement over the weekend, announcing that next month China and Thailand will sign two contracts to start work on the first phase of the much-hyped railway...

A survey of DNA fragments circulating in the blood suggests the microbes living within us are vastly more diverse than previously known. In fact, 99 percent of that DNA has never been seen before. Of...

Spacex will try to launch another Falcon 9 rocket today. They will launch FORMOSAT-5 which is Taiwan space agency Earth-observation satellite. SpaceX will try to land the first stage rocket. This...

The travel and tourism industry has grown dramatically in the past decades, reaching nearly 1.2 billion international arrivals in 2015, compared to 25 million in 1950. That’s a growth of 4,700%. Various projection are for international arrivals to reach 1.8 billion international arrivals by 2030. Costs for international travel is dropping with more fuel efficient planes. The cost for long overseas flights is dropping from $800-1200 a few years ago to $400-700 today and $200-400 in one to three years and likely about $100-250 in four to five years. There is the continuing rise of a middle class in China

In November 2016 and in previous writing Steven Krivit details evidence of the Andrea Rossi energy catalyzer (e-cat) fraud. Rossi take $11 million from Industrial Heat and employ his own engineers for Industrial Heat’s due diligence tests, but in 2011 he also demanded that multiple parties, including NASA, pay him large sums of money for the privilege of taking a close look at his E-Cat device. In April 2016, Nextbigfuture reported that Industrial Heat had worked for over three years to substantiate the results claimed by Mr. Rossi from the E-Cat technology – all without success. The Rossi – Industrial

Four Avatar Sequels The Avatar sequels will be shot two batches of two movies shot back to back. Avatar 2 Dec 2020 Avatar 3 Dec 2021 Avatar 4 2024 Avatar 5 2025 James Cameron discussed Virtual...

Elon Musk has revealed the first picture of a new SpaceX spacesuit. Elon promises more in days to follow. Worth noting that this actually works (not a mockup). Already tested to double vacuum...

Toyota Motor Corp is working on an electric car powered by a solid state battery that significantly increases driving range and reduces charging time. Toyota aims to begin sales of solid battery...

Imagine a form of nuclear energy with greater output and virtually no safety issues. Such is the promise of liquid flouride thorium reactors (LFTRs), and we’ve had several past interviews with...

Researchers at NRG, a Dutch nuclear materials firm, have begun the first tests of nuclear fission using thorium salts since experiments ended at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the early 1970s....

Engineers have figured out how to make antennas for wireless communication 100 times smaller than their current size, an advance that could lead to tiny brain implants, micro–medical devices, or...

Researchers from The University of Manchester are using polystyrene particles rather than expensive polymers to make the next generation of solar cells, which are used to make solar panels, more stable and even cheaper. The move could significantly reduce the cost of production and manufacturing of the solar cells, making electricity cheaper in the future for the public at a time when energy prices are increasing. Journal Nanoscale- Reducing hole transporter use and increasing perovskite solar cell stability with dual-role polystyrene microgel particles University of Manchester scientists are using insulating polystyrene microgel particles to reduce the costs and improve the

The United States has maintained at least 28,000 American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines in South Korea since the Korean War started in 1950. The US will have had a Korean war and postwar...

The ARL (Army Research Lab) and a UF (University of Florida) team collaborated to employ an improved granular response model in conjunction with a dynamic cavity expansion modeling framework to...

Scientists at the University of Manchester have proved that storing data with a class of molecules known as single-molecule magnets is more feasible than previously thought. The research, led by Dr...

U.S. Navy funded Global Near Space Services (“GNSS“) to develop a two stage lighter than air drone. The GNSS program developed a clean, cost-effective satellite-type capability utilizing a high altitude upper-stage shaped LTA coupled with an unpiloted detachable, flying, lower stage UAV containing sensor systems. GNSS subcontracted to Bye Aerospace to design the solar-electric flyable lower stage, ‘stratospheric recovery vehicle’ or SRV detachable UAV. There have been many stratospheric airship or balloon systems projects over the years. There have been many lighter than airship projects. These system are appealing as lower cost alternatives to high altitude planes or satellites. Lower

On July 23, 2017 – Aero Electric Aircraft Corp. (AEAC) announced plans for a four-place airplane, “Sun Flyer 4,” the next addition to the Sun Flyer family of aircraft. In addition, Spartan College of...

There are several low cost international airlines. Norwegian currently flies from 15 airports in the United States to Britain, Denmark, France, Ireland, Norway, Spain and Sweden, as well as to the...

WOW air is a low-fare, long-haul airline based in Iceland. The airline was founded in November 2011 and serves 37 destinations across Europe, North America, and Asia. WOW air is committed to...

23 year old Laura Deming started the Longevity Fund which just closed its second fund with $22 million. The first fund was for $4 million. Longevity fund companies target breakthrough antiaging...

On 21 June, the Chinese Academy of Sciences hailed a breakthrough – a major upgrade to a kind of quantum device that measures magnetic fields. Magnetometers have been used to detect submarines since the second world war. They are able to do this because they can measure an anomaly in Earth’s magnetic field – like one caused by a massive hunk of metal. The new magnetometer, built by Xiaoming Xie and colleagues at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information Technology, uses not one SQUID but an array of them. The idea is that by comparing their readings, researchers can

There will be roughly 390 gigawatts of solar PV plants spread across the globe, according to estimates from GTM Research. there are 391.5 gigawatts of nuclear plants operating around the world....

US aircraft carriers and the naval ships of other nations have long been vulnerable to enemy submarines and missiles. French Exocet missiles destroyed British ships in the Falklands War. * Air...

China main tank and armored vehicle maker Norinco has shown several new armored vehicles for the export market. China has a new GL-5 hard-kill active protection system (APS), which destroyed a guided...

In some high-quality materials, like graphene, electrons can travel micron distances without scattering, improving the conductivity by orders of magnitude. This so-called ballistic regime, imposes the maximum possible conductance for any normal metal, which is defined by the Landauer-Buttiker formalism. Three different experiments, including one performed by The University of Manchester, demonstrated that at certain temperatures, electrons collide with each other so frequently they start to flow collectively like a viscous fluid. N w research demonstrates that this viscous fluid is even more conductive than ballistic electrons. The result is rather counter-intuitive, since typically scattering events act to lower the

Singapore researchers have a new generalized method of producing anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. The anodes are made from metal oxide nanosheets, which are ultrathin, two-dimensional...

New resistive random access memory (RRAM), could form the basis of a better kind of nonvolatile computer memory, where data is retained even when the power is off. Nonvolatile memory is already...

The World over 60 population will be over 3 billion in 2090. This will be over the entire world population in 1960. The Over 65 population in 2100 will exceed the entire world population in 1950.

There is spreading awareness in China of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), a procedure that helps couples undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) to avoid passing on genetic mutations that...

Gene-based analyses found 536 genes significantly associated with general cognitive function; many were highly expressed in the brain, and associated with neurogenesis and dendrite gene sets. Genetic...

Prospects for the Small Satellite Market – A global supply and demand analysis of government and commercial satellites up to 500 kg. More than 6,200 smallsats are to be launched in the next 10...

Researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China have created a new inlet design for Cylindrical shaped Hall thrusters (CHTs) that may significantly increase the thrust and allows...

Duke Robotics announces, TIKAD, a dramatic step forward in protecting our troops by developing the resources needed to fight terrorism effectively today. Tikad is a quadcopter drone with a sniper...

Fundstrat Founder Tom Lee forecast that the cryptocurrency Bitcoin could rise to $6,000 a coin by the middle of next year. Bitcoin like Gold The big driver of this 29% rally through mid-2018 would be...

The world’s first AP1000 reactor will begin fuel loading in the next two weeks. The power plant will start loading more than 100 fuel assemblies into the honeycomb core of its AP1000 reactor...

China General Nuclear Power Group (CGNPC) announced in January 2016 that it would build a floating ACPR50S reactor to enter service in 2020, with a thermal output of 200 megawatts and electrical output of 60 megawatts. CNNC signed a 2015 agreement with Lloyd’s Register for regulatory support in developing a sea-based, 100-megawatt version of its ACP100 reactor, which is likely the joint venture’s intended launch project. Analysis shows that the economics of ACPR50S floating Nuclear power plant for offshore sea oilfield production is much better than diesel power generation system and gas turbine power generation system. ACP100 got construction approval

The Japanese government is eyeing 2020 to begin promoting exports of a GPS technology accurate to a several centimeters. This should help services that need pinpoint accuracy clamoring for the...

Clinical trials of CRISPR gene editing, when they start this year (2017), will edit existing cells in adults using an injection of a viral vector. It seems likely that CRISPR, or some improved...

Popular Science has some advice for speeding up your Wifi. 1. Download firmware from your router manufacturer’s website. Software updates fix bugs and may also include performance upgrades, as...

A total eclipse is one of the most spectacular sights you can ever see! It looks like the end of the world may be at hand. There is a black hole in the sky where the sun should be. Pink flames of solar prominences and long silver streamers of the sun’s corona stretch across the sky. It gets cold, and animals do strange things. People scream and shout and cheer, and remember the experience their whole life. But total eclipses are important scientifically as well. They let us see parts of the sun’s atmosphere that are otherwise invisible. A total

Lockheed revealed the first images from an experimental, ultra-thin optical instrument, showing it could be possible to shrink space telescopes to a sliver of the size of today’s systems while...

Lockheed Martin will unveil its next generation air and missile defense radar demonstrator at the annual Space & Missile Defense Symposium this week in Huntsville, Alabama. The active...

Lockheed Martin has received a $12.9 million U.S. Defense Department contract for the Squad X Experimentation program for dismounted infantry combat systems. The contract will go toward design and testing for prototypes of equipment for combined-arms squads. Work will be conducted in Grand Prairie, Texas and other locations throughout the U.S. and should finish by Aug. 14, 2019. The DARPA squad-x would provide mechanized and airborne units access to real-time surveillance feeds and other technology. Currently this technology is too bulky, heavy and complex for a small unit on foot to leverage. In 2016, DARPA had awarded Lockheed Martin a

DARPA announced a new research program called Assured Autonomy that aims to advance the ways computing systems can learn and evolve to better manage variations in the environment and enhance the...

China’s high-speed railway grid of four east-west lines and four north-south lines has basically been completed. At the end of 2016, China’s high-speed rail network stood at 22,000km. According to a...

Scientists at the University of Oxford have developed a new method to 3D-print laboratory-grown cells to form living structures. The approach could revolutionize regenerative medicine, enabling the...