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Interview of a Chinese researcher behind the detection of a weak signal indicating a Meissner effect in near-room-temperature superconductors described the differences in their work. UPDATE from the Original Korean Team: New Article with highlights of what was said by Sukbae Lee on Jan 9, 2024. The China researcher was interviewed by two people involved ... Read more

There will only be invited reporters at today's LK99 related superconductor presentation by Sukbae Lee. UPDATE: Article with highlights of what was said by Sukbae Lee. Prof. Lee Seokbae is going to introduce the research he has conducted and their future on Jan 9th. It will be the first time we can see his formal ... Read more

Tesla EV car sales surpassed the car sales of the entire Volkswagen Group in the USA in 2023. This was for all Volkswagens ICE and EV cars combined. The Tesla Model Y was also the best selling car in the world of any type in 2023.

The worldwide prevalence of childhood obesity has risen dramatically over the last 30 years. In the United States, approximately 20% of school-age children are considered obese, resulting in a significant public health concern. The etiology of childhood obesity is complex, and both genetic and environmental factors contribute to the development of the disease. Recently, early-life ... Read more

The Astrobotic Peregrine spacecraft has experienced an anomaly" that has stopped it from pointing its solar panels stably at the Sun. The solar panels must charge the batteries for the remainder of the mission to the moon to succeed. Astrobotic engineers are working on the issue and would provide updates when it had more information. ... Read more

Dublin, Ireland, January 8th, 2024, Cyberwire The web extension, patented in the U.S. and U.K., is now available for pre-order in a limited, pre-sale event. Lack of online data security globally In today's almost entirely digitised, cyber world, it's imperative that private data and passwords remain secure and protected at all times.According to Business Insider(2022), ... Read more

There was what appeared to be a good early phase launch of the ULA Vulcan Centaur. The solid rocket boosters separated. The Vulcan BE4 booster separated. The rocket is now in the Centaur phase. The payload fairing separated. There were two solid rocket boosters but the Vulcan is designed for up to six solid rocket ... Read more

United Launch Alliance is launching their first Vulcan Centaur rocket. It will carry the Astrobotics Peregrine lunar lander. UPDATE - Launch seems good. Nextbigfuture has another article covering the launch. Vulcan's first stage is powered by BE-4 engines from Blue Origin, which also will be used on Blue Origins New Glenn Rocket. The engines run ... Read more

There were announcements every week in 2023 on Large Language Models. It appears that there will be similar pace of announcements with humanoid robots in 2024. The leaders are Teslabot, Sanctuary AI and Figure. However, there are dozens of other companies. Nextbigfuture has written just days ago that Elon Musk will likely speed up the ... Read more

The CEO of Figure AI calls the all neural net learning of a coffee making task by their humanoid robot a ChatGPT moment. They are working with Fortune 50 companies. we just had an AI breakthrough in our lab robotics is about to have its ChatGPT moment and that moment is happening tomorrow - Brett ... Read more

NASA NIAC is funding Coflow Jet to analyze a novel global mobility Mars exploration platform, Mars Aerial and Ground Intelligent Explorer (MAGGIE). MAGGIE is a compact fixed wing aircraft with ultra-high productivity efficiency powered by solar energy to fly in the Martian atmosphere with vertical take-off/landing (VTOL) capability, which is enabled by advanced deflected slipstream ... Read more

NASA NIAC willl investigate the details of building a high-resolution, long-baseline, optical imaging interferometer on the lunar surface in conjunction with the Artemis Program. A lunar infrastructure can happen over the next few years through the NASAArtemis Program and the SpaceX Lunar Starsihp. The study of a lunar surface-based interferometer will be a huge step ... Read more

A new approach would use a magnetohydrodynamic electrolytic cell to extract and separate oxygen and hydrogen gas without moving parts in microgravity. This removes the need for a forced water recirculation loop and associated ancillary equipment such as pumps or centrifuges. Preliminary estimations indicate that the integration of functionalities leads to up to 50% mass ... Read more

AI driven Large Behaviorial Models (LBM) is to robotics like large language models (aka ChatGPT like systems) are to text, picture, video and voice AI. The systems are scaling up to 1000 narrow tasks in 2024 from just over a hundred tasks. The key is to get autonomous, reliable and adaptable systems. The systems in ... Read more

University of Stanford researchers Zipeng Fu and his open source Mobile ALOHA's hardware is very capable. Mobile ALOHA is teleoperated for now. It is low-cost open-source hardware and teleoperation system. They mount ALOHA to a mobile base designed for warehouses: Tracer AGV It can carry 100kg, move up to 1.6m/s, while costing only $7000. They ... Read more

The Figure 01 humanoid robot is controlled completely by neural nets and learned to make coffee using a coffee machine in ten hours. The Figure 01 learned dynamic walking over the course of a year. Figure is a California based company building general-purpose humanoids. In May, 2023, they closed $70 million in Series A funding. ... Read more

Prof. Lee Seokbae, the L in LK99, is going to introduce the room temperature superconducting research he has conducted and their future on Jan 9th. It will be the first time we can see his formal statement. Seokbae Lee had his team are scheduled to show a video of Meissner levitation with flux pinning in ... Read more

A trope in science fiction is for advanced space missions to use suspended animation for long space missions. In fiction, they usually assume that suspended animation stops aging. This will be full on cryonics. In reality, we can safely induce a hibernation like state where metabolic processes are slowed. Minimal nutrients and water would be ... Read more

Tiny gram-scale interstellar probes pushed by laser light are likely to be the only technology capable of reaching another star this century and a NASA NIAC phase 1 study wants to work out the additional issues to coordinate several thousands one gram solar sails into a coordinated mission that can communicate back to Earth from ... Read more

There was a public rush to dismiss the research papers and patent from a team of Korean researchers on a copper substituted lead apatite material called LK-99. This material was named after two of the researchers from something they initially discovered in 1999. There was article from the MIT Technology Review listing the LK99 event ... Read more

A 2024 phase 1 NASA Advanced Innovations concept study will look at thin film isoptope nuclear rockets. This will enable faster probes with years of thrust capability. The years of thrust using nuclear isotopes will provide energy for course changes beyond Saturn and even in interstellar space far from the solar energy of the sun. ... Read more

Metaculus is an American reputation-based, massive online prediction solicitation and aggregation engine. One of the focuses of Metaculus is predicting the timing, nature and impact of scientific and technological advances and breakthrough. In 2022, I ranked 41st out of 4184 Metaculus forecasters for Baseline accuracy. In 2023, I am ranking 25th out of a likely ... Read more

LK99 is the material that South Korean researchers claimed in early 2023 was a room temperature superconductor. The South Korean Researcher will be reporting new work in two months (March 4, 2024) at the APS conference. The patents and the original papers described superconducting low level electrical resistance for thin film versions of LK99. There ... Read more

Hermeus has completed testing of its first fully-integrated vehicle, Quarterhorse Mk 0. This non-flying prototype acted as a dynamic iron bird' for the company by validating all major aircraft subsystems in a real-world environment. Hermeus' first flight vehicle, Quarterhorse Mk 1, is actively being built and scheduled to fly in 2024. Mk 0 is the ... Read more

With copper-substituted lead apatite below room temperature, Chinese researchers observe diamagnetic dc magnetization under magnetic field of 25 Oe with remarkable bifurcation between zero-field-cooling and field-cooling measurements, and under 200 Oe it changes to be paramagnetism. A glassy memory effect is found during cooling. Typical hysteresis loops for superconductors are detected below 250 K, along ... Read more

Lawrence Berkeley National Lab researchers use computational methods to describe an approach for optimizing the LK99 material as a superconductor. Some will say, hey why is Nextbigfuture still covering LK99. Didn't some angry scientists say that LK99 was not a superconductor? I have been covering science for over 20 years and there are a lot ... Read more

The most recent discovery, the Cu-doped lead apatite LK-99", is a proposed room-temperature superconductor operating under ambient pressure. However, this discovery has brought a slew of conflicting results from different scientific groups. While some observed the absence of electrical resistance, others could not confirm any signs of superconductivity in LK-99. The Journal of Physical Chemistry ... Read more

Brian Wang and Randy Kirk discussed the expected biggest science and technology stories of 2024. The potentially biggest development in 2024 could be antiaging science reaching a milestone of doubling the remaining lifespan of a mouse. The Longevity Escape velocity program has take four promising anti-aging treatments and applied them in various combinations to a ... Read more

The big winners of the last 200 years of the Industrial and Information revolution were ones who created previously unimagined scale to win. We went from many monks and scribes hand writing manuscripts to the printing press and eventually to the reel to reel newspaper presses. The circulation of daily weekday newspapers in the United ... Read more

On a X-Space discussion Elon Musk had with Peter Diamandis, Elon revealed that AI compute is increasing by 10X every six months and that there will be gigawatt power for clusters in 2025. The planned Kuwait cluster will use 700,000 Nvidia B-100. Each Nvidia B-100 will be about 60-100 times the power of an A-100. ... Read more

The NVIDIA H100 GPU has 30 teraflops of peak standard IEEE FP64 performance, 60 teraflops of peak FP64 tensor core performance, and 60 teraflops of peak FP32 performance. It also has a second-generation secure multi-instance GPU technology that makes it possible to partition the chip into seven smaller, fully isolated instances to handle multiple workloads ... Read more

Peter Diamandis told Elon Musk that healthy, longevity will be possible very soon. Elon Musk did agree that extreme longevity should be a very solvable engineering problem. Elon Musk again said that overpopulation is a big lie. The world is mostly empty. Fly a plane from New York to Los Angeles and try to drop ... Read more

The conflict between Israel, US and Iran has not been a direct war. Tehran has increasingly utilized non-state actors to expand its regional influence and achieve its strategic objectives in the Middle East. However, Iran is vulnerable to minorities and groups inside Iran. More than half of Iran's population are non-persian ethnic minorities-Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Arabs, ... Read more

In early 2023, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory used autonomous methods can discover new materials. The artificial intelligence (AI)-driven technique led to the discovery of three new nanostructures, including a first-of-its-kind nanoscale ladder. Scanning-electron microscopy images depict novel nanostructures discovered by artificial intelligence. Researchers describe the patterns as skew ... Read more

Nano-engineered oxides are very important for the development of next-generation catalysts and microelectronics. Recently, metal exsolution from oxides has emerged as a promising nano-structuring tool to fabricate nanoparticle-decorated oxides. However, controlling the size, density, composition, and location of exsolved nanoparticles remains a challenge, limiting the ultimate performance achievable by these nanostructures. The following nanoparticle production ... Read more

DARPA has selected Aurora Flight Sciences to build a full-scale X-plane to demonstrate the viability of using active flow control (AFC) actuators for primary flight control. The award is Phase 3 of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with Novel Effectors (CRANE) program. The X-65 flight is controlled by using jets of air from a pressurized ... Read more

Starlink Direct to Cellphone supports about 7 Megabytes per beam and the beams are very big. Starlink v2-Mini satellites have three downlink antennas and one uplink antenna, each capable of eight beams and two polarizations. This means that each satellite has a total of 48 beams down and 16 up. It is unclear how many ... Read more

Here is a review of Tesla FSD 12.1. FSD 12.1 has single-stack end-to-end neural nets trained with millions of video clips for the driving controls. The car drives more like a human. You're driving in the fast lane (left) of a two-lane highway because slower cars stay in the right lane. Then a faster car ... Read more

Tesla beat q4 deliveries with 484k. 1% over analysts who were at 480k. The other cars category is S, X, Semi and cybertruck. This has almost 5k more sold than produced. This means they sold inventory on the high end. This will mean about $100 million more for net income in Q4. This helps margin ... Read more

The main problem holding back reusable hypersonic planes is that traditional ramjet engines become very inefficient over mach 2 while hypersonic engines do not work well below mach 4. There is the need to solve the hypersonic speed gap between mach 2 and mach 4. Rotating Detonating Engines can be more efficient up to mach ... Read more

The Tesla 4680 production ramp has taken about two years longer than Tesla first planned. Most of the analysis has been based upon monthly or quarterly percentage increases in production. This has been while the technical problems were being solved. The 4680 technical problems should be completely solved by mid-2024. The second Texas line was ... Read more

On March 4, 2024, most of the original team of South Korean LK99 Room Temperature and atmospheric pressure superconductors researchers will have a short 12 minute presentation at the American Physical Society conference. Abstract: A16.00002 : Partial levitation, type-II-superconductor characteristic, at room temperature and atmospheric pressure in PCPOSOS 8:12 AM-8:24 AM Presenter: Hyun-Tak Kim (College ... Read more

HTD (Hydrogen terminated diamond) is a candidate topological Mott material. The ARPES measurements on HTD were done with low energy resolution of 100meV and could not resolve a possible Dirac cone for which higher resolution ARPES measurements at low temperatures are needed in the future. Diamond is an insulator in the bulk and has both ... Read more

Anduril Industries is a new American defense company that specializes in autonomous drone systems. They excel at artificial intelligence, software, drones and robotics. Anduril's major products include unmanned aerial systems (UAS), counter-UAS (CUAS), semi-portable autonomous surveillance systems, and networked command and control software. Anduril co-founder Palmer Luckey created the Oculus Rift which was sold to ... Read more

Humanity needs to simplify the technology and products for our civilization but make them fully scalable and self-replicating. The technologies that we pick to scale need to be ones that we can increase to a thousand times our current levels with manageable pollution and side-effects at those scales. We will soon have billions or trillions ... Read more

Earth orbiting satellites have the speed to counter the Earth's gravity. The mean orbital velocity needed to maintain a stable low Earth orbit is about 7.8 km/s (4.8 mi/s), which translates to 28,000 km/h (17,000 mph). However, this depends on the exact altitude of the orbit. A statite, or static satellite, would use a solar ... Read more

1. AGI could be achieved or we will get even closer. There will OpenAI releasing GPT5 and updates of Google LLM like improved Gemini. Definition's for AI AGI = artificial general intelligence = a machine that performs at the level of an average (median) human. ASI = artificial superintelligence = a machine that performs at ... Read more

Scientists at the forefront of hypersonic weapons research in China say they have a more powerful revolutionary air-breathing engine. The revolutionary" air-breathing engine could lift an aircraft from a runway to more than 30km (18.6 miles) into the stratosphere and continuously accelerate it to 16 times the speed of sound. The longest intercontinental flights would ... Read more

Perseus Materials is reinventing composites manufacturing as it is currently known. Perseus Materials wants to build bigger, faster, anywhere. They are developing and applying a proprietary composite fabrication processes to the manufacturing of oversize load-bearing structures for buildings, bridges, wind turbines, and other applications in infrastructure and energy. They will bring to market a new ... Read more