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GE Aerospace and Pratt & Whitney are in the prototyping phase for the Next Generation Adaptive Propulsion (NGAP) engine which will power the next generation air domination fighter (NGAD 6th generation figher). They both participated in the Adaptive Engine Transition Program (AETP) meant for the F-35 and are instead bringing that engine technology over to ... Read more

Shenar's astronomy research team used an instrument on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope to look for the chemical fingerprints that magnetic fields can leave on a star's spectrum and found HD45166 has a field strength of 43,000 Gauss. One-thousand-Gauss magnetic fields are pretty rare amongst massive stars, so 43,000 Gauss is really off the chart," says Paul ... Read more

Vinod M. Menon and his research group at The City College of New York shows that trapping light inside magnetic materials may dramatically enhance their intrinsic properties. Strong optical responses of magnets are important for the development of magnetic lasers and magneto-optical memory devices, as well as for emerging quantum transduction applications. The properties of ... Read more

Doped lead apatite has been recently reported to feature superconductivity at room temperature and ambient pressure, which may have huge impact on the progress of the humanity in general. Bulgarian researchers performing quantum chemical calculations support the one dimensional superconductivity case. Georgi N. Vayssilov,* Petko St. Petkov,* Hristiyan A. Aleksandrov Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, ... Read more

Iris Alexander had the first publicly claimed LK99 levitation and now has claimed to have low resistance at about 7 degrees celsius. She is giving her ingredients and pictures of her samples. The ingredients (MOLAR %) - 23,5% PbSO4; - 70,5% PbO; - 3,5% Cu3P; - 2,5% PbSiO3. Cooled reasonably fast, crystalline structure should be ... Read more

There is an online comic in korean that explains why the LK99 superconductor is so hard to make. @8teAPi has the translation. Translated from the excellent comic here: if anyone knows author please ask them to get in touchhttps://t.co/9SSwA8EFqe - Ate-a-Pi (@8teAPi) August 17, 2023 Why SuperConductor So Hard? - take a bunch of Lead, ... Read more

Anticipating a burgeoning cislunar and lunar economy of scientific research and commercial development in the coming decade, DARPA is soliciting innovative and revolutionary technical approaches to chart a vision and path toward an optimized and integrated lunar infrastructure for peaceful U.S. and international use. Just like DARPA's foundational node of ARPANET grew into the sprawling ... Read more

The original peer reviewed LK99 superconductor paper only briefly mentions the thin film work and measurements but this is the most important part as only the chemical vapor deposited thin film has the zero resistance superconducting measurement. The original team has said they will produce a new peer reviewed by the end of August or ... Read more

Energy Northwest, a premier provider of carbon-free electricity, and X-Energy Reactor Company (X-energy"), a leading developer of advanced small modular nuclear (pebble bed fission) reactors and fuel have a joint development agreement for up to 12 Xe-100 advanced small modular reactors in central Washington capable of generating up to a total of 960 megawatts of ... Read more

Physicist and science writer Michio Kaku said that large language model tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT are nothing more than glorified tape recorders. Kaku is saying that the models take in terabytes of information and then selective return parts of it based upon questions. Large language models (LLMs) are the new wave of artificial intelligence that ... Read more

Hawaiian Electric serves 95% of the island state's 1.4 million residents, and the utility provider is facing a lawsuit over alleged inaction in the face of the destructive Lahaina wildfire that has killed over 100 people on the island of Maui. A class action lawsuit against the utility company alleges that they chose not to ... Read more

Tel Aviv, Israel, August 17th, 2023, Cyberwire Cynomi, the leading AI-powered virtual Chief Information Security Officer (vCISO) platform vendor for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs) and consulting firms, has published the results of its first annual report, The State of the Virtual CISO 2023". The report, conducted by Global Surveys on ... Read more

An article in Nature, says making conclusive statements about LK-99's properties is difficult, because the material is finicky and samples contain varying impurities but then goes on to make conclusive statements that LK-99 claims were wrong. In their preprint, the Korean authors note one particular temperature at which LK-99's showed a tenfold drop in resistivity, ... Read more

The US Navy has built and tested 5 Megawatt and 36.5 megawatt superconducting engines over ten years ago. All of the tests were good and the specifications were met. They need to lower the cost and increase reliability. Test superconducting motors have been built for large wind power systems. If the LK99 superconductors were real ... Read more

Anastasi interviewed the CEO of Cerebras Andrew Feldman. They talk about the New Cerebras Supercomputer. The wafer scale AI chip is a great match for the need for fast compute and large memory requirements of the large language model AI like ChatGPT. They have made them easy to program with PyTorch. Wafer engine 1 was ... Read more

While many people associate exercise with high-intensity cardio, weight-lifting, or sweaty sessions in the gym, it turns out there is a more straightforward, more impactful way to exercise - walking. We all walk to some extent - whether it is a few steps within the house or outside to catch a breath of fresh air. ... Read more

The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has awarded a grant to HB11 Energy as part of its Innovation Network for Fusion Energy' (INFUSE) program with the objective, to accelerate basic research to develop cost-effective, innovative fusion energy technologies in the private sector." The program will provide access to world-leading expertise from the Laboratory for Laser ... Read more

China now has the lowest fertility rate alongside other southeast asian countries of - Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea and Singapore.Hong Kong's Family Planning Association said in a separate release that the number of childless women in the special Chinese administrative region more than doubled from five years ago to 43.2 percent in 2022. Moreover, ... Read more

Sandy Munro takes apart all of the leading cars in the world and analyzes costs and technological from the materials and components. He describes in this interview how Tesla achieved dominance in all drivetrain and electrical efficiency in all aspects of electric cars that matter since the Model 3 six years ago. This lead in ... Read more

Physics World reports that LK99 produced by the descriptions in the original papers are not superconducting and not room temperature superconducting. A deep investigation of the original samples is needed to confirm any hints of superconducting observations and then to find any very specific impurity that is unique to the Korean samples. The original LK99 ... Read more

Warren Redlich has broken the news that the CATL M3P battery is sodium-ion and not LMFP (manganese). This was in the CATL July 2023 Semi-annual report. The CATL M3P battery has been rumored to be used in the Tesla Model RWD in China. The CATL M3P battery is rumored to be more energy dense than ... Read more

There is clear evidence that the modified Starship upper stage that SpaceX has been working upon for months is the first version of human landing system lunar Starship. This system has different door openings and other modifications. TheSpaceEngineer has a rendering of what is believed to the first lunar starship prototype. Youtuber Felix Schlang at ... Read more

Tesla has a new entry level Model S at below $80,000 and a new entry level Model X at below $90,000. This has less range than the previous low end versions and a starting price about $10,000 less. This could help Tesla to sell 30,000 to 40,000 Model S and X per quarter instead of ... Read more

GM's Cruise robotaxi service has expanded from 70 to 300 robotaxis operating in San Francisco and will soon expand to Phoenix, Los Angeles, Austin and Dubai. GM Cruise had increasing losses of $561 million in the first quarter of 2023. This will be over $2 billion in losses in 2023. GM Cruise will having increasing ... Read more

China's military scientists claim their new high-energy laser weapons can now operate infinitely', thanks to a new cooling system that completely eliminates the build-up of waste heat. Chinese researcher Yuan Shenghfu, August 4 in Acta Optica Sinica,A has made a new laser cooling system using active structures and optimized gas flow to remove heat while ... Read more

The travel sector is undeniably one of the most dynamic markets in the world. However, due to this space being plagued by archaic booking and privacy processes, it is in need of a major makeover. In this regard, many experts believe that blockchain technology has the power to usher in this change since it is ... Read more

Lockheed Martin will scale its combat laser technology to a 500 kW-class laser. It will be the most powerful laser Lockheed Martin has produced, topping its 300 kW-class laser power level developed under a contract from the Department of Defense's Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering, OUSD (R&E). The 500 ... Read more

General Fusion announced a new Magnetized Target Fusion (MTF) machine that will fast-track the company's technical progress. The planned fusion machines is to achieve fusion conditions of over 100 million degrees Celsius by 2025, and progress toward scientific breakeven by 2026. They completed the first close of its Series F raise for a combined $25 ... Read more

Zhihu is very impressed by the recent claims of @iris_IGB (Iris Alexander) to have achieved 0 resistivity of #LK99 under 280K (7 Celsius). @sanxiyn fully agrees with this sentiment. Chinese observers are impressed. Iris Alexander is one of the first to replicate levitation effect in an LK99 Replication effort. IMPORTANT NOTE: There is no peer ... Read more

WeWork reported that there is substantial doubt" the company will be able to stay in business, citing a slight decline in memberships" and increasing competition." They indicate that avoiding bankruptcy is contingent upon successful execution of management's plan to improve liquidity and profitability over the next 12 months." In March 2016, WeWork raised $430 million ... Read more

Sam Bankman-Fried, who was arrested on fraud charges last year after the collapse of his cryptocurrency firm, must await trial behind bars, a US judge has ordered. The 31-year-old was handcuffed in court and led away. Judge Lewis Kaplan had agreed with prosecutors who had accused Mr Bankman-Fried of trying to intimidate witnesses expected to ... Read more

Russia is testing a digital ruble to try to circumvent US and European sanctions. The planned timeline is for regular Russian people and businesses to use the central bank digital currency at their own request starting 2025, said Olga Skorobogatova, first deputy governor of the Bank of Russia in a statement. The Bank of Russia ... Read more

UPDATE: Hyun Tak Kim has put out news slides that describes a semiconductor and superconductor phase for LK99. He quoted his own paper on VO2 to explain that most researchers did not understand the difference between MIT and MST (MIT, metal to insulator transition: after cooling down, the resistivity jump becomes very large; MST, ... Read more

Two updates on LK99. The Indian scientist who got LK99 sample replication on his third try says that his new sample is not superconducting. One of the original LK99 team responded with the description of two phases of LK99 (semiconductor and superconductor). New Facebook Posting from Indian Scientist Awana VPS - LK99 CSIR-NPL (INDIA) LK-99 ... Read more

California Public Utilities Commission have voted to allow the Waymo and Cruise to expand their robotaxi service to thousands of vehicles in San Francisco. Before expansion Google-owned Waymo and General Motors-owned Cruise were limited in times and areas they could operate. Cruise cars can only be accessed 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. in the Sunset, ... Read more

Changing the world with science and technology is very hard. Persistence is needed. An Indian researcher has succeeded in replicating the levitation of an LK99 sample on his third major attempt. Others want to quit right away and dismiss what could be or could lead to the biggest scientific breakthrough of the century. Tesla constant ... Read more

VPS Awana has been trying for weeks to get a good LK99 replication. He has been in direct contact with the Korean team. He published two arxiv preprints talking about how his previous samples didn't work. NEW most promising replication yet: The National Physics Lab New Delphi, led by VPS Awana, has finally succeeded in ... Read more

Cruise is expanding its self-driving car operation to Los Angeles. CNBC reports Cruise has 400 robotaxi's and most are in San Francisco. There are over 2000 robotaxi vehicles in California. Cruise is increasing autonomous rides by 49% per month and are doing more than 10,000 rides per week. Cruise CEO said they were operating tens ... Read more

Geordi Rose and Suzanne Gildert at Sanctuary AI are one of the world leading companies working on humanoid robotics and AGI (artificial general intelligence). They have an interesting thought experiment about how much data it would take to generate a human like general intelligence. However, this would be an NPC (non-player character) style general intelligence. ... Read more

The LK99 discusses CUS2 as an impurity. This would mean the original researchers are aware of CuS2 and did not make the mistake that the Beijing National Lab say was made. Plot Twist #LK99 works when there's current flowing. This was said during the initial demo, and their patent discusses CuS2 as an impurity. In ... Read more

The Tesla GigaNevada factory is currently about 30% complete as Tesla and Panasonic have been optimizing the current production capacity and not expanding. Last month, Tesla hired Michael Hildebrand in the role of Head of Giga factory Nevada Expansion Engineering and Construction. This should mean that construction and deployment of the 500 GWh/year, $3.6 billion ... Read more

The odds would be overwhelming for Sabine's prediction that LK99 will prove not to be a room temperature superconductor. If an explanation is that it was a regular copper sulfide transition with some minor magnetic effect. However, the theory and simulation work indicates that certain variations of copper positioning and oxygenation might still be highly ... Read more

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, August 9th, 2023, Chainwire Wallet, the TON-based application in Telegram Messenger, announces the launch of TON Space, a new self-custody wallet, that gives users complete control of their digital assets. In tandem with this upcoming product comes the opening of a waitlist for developers to integrate with TON Space in beta. ... Read more

Abu Dhabi, UAE, August 9th, 2023, Chainwire Venom Foundation, a leader in blockchain technology adoption in regulated markets, is thrilled to announce the signing of a momentous Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the UAE Government to develop and implement the National Carbon Credit System. This landmark partnership represents a significant step towards leveraging blockchain technology ... Read more

Princeton University has reported their research which will post to Arxiv tomorrow. They failed to get superconducting results but could not get the copper to the right lead sites. Results where the group fail to get any partial levitation are not good attempts at replication. 1. Samples following the described synthesis are multi-phase 2. Single ... Read more

Youtuber David G is livestreaming the Rocket Labs quarterly earnings call. Rocket Labs is doing very well and is on track to 15 launches in 2023. Their average launch selling price is increasing. They sold ten launches in the quarter and are on track to 20 launches in 2024. They are developing a larger medium ... Read more

A Peking University group did get some levitation in an Lk99 replication attempt. Their sample is not a superconductor. They describe the semi-levitation is the result of magnetic torque. Guo et. al synthesized #LK99 with the published methodology and matched the material composition to the original using X-Ray Diffraction. They observed levitation in the sample ... Read more

Researchers at Korea University of Energy and Technology confirmed that the crystal structure of a sample of LK-99', proposed room temperature superconductor, is the same as the crystal structure presented in the original papers by Sukbae Lee, Jihoon Kim et al. The College of Energy Engineering is the only external institution conducting research after receiving ... Read more

Lanzhou University researchers analysis on improving the superconducting of LK99 with more oxygen. They conclude that the hybridization between the Cu d-states of the Cu doped with the p state of the fully occupied 1/4 occupied O1 atoms may be the key for the realization of the room temperature superconductivity. In order to improve the ... Read more

Vienna, Austria, August 8th, 2023, Chainwire TaskChain, a groundbreaking Web3 project, has just announced the launch of its presale today. This new development comes prior to the introduction of TaskChain's innovative platform which is set to transform the way users earn income online. For early investors, the news about TaskChain's presale launch is another exciting ... Read more