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The SpaceX SN10 Starship prototype could launch today. It is going through a countdown but has some delays. UPDATE: 12:15PM aborted, might try again in a few hours. May scrub today. Not Known. Final...

The Malta energy storage system takes electricity, converts and stores that electricity as heat, and then converts it back to electricity to be redistributed on the electric grid. In charge mode, the...

Rocketlabs is in second place for making reusable rockets after SpaceX. Blue Origin is not in second place. Rocketlabs has recovered the first stage already. Neutron wll feature a reusable first...

John Hopkins reported 471,567 total US COVID deaths as of February 10, 2021 and reports 514,700 as of March 1, 2021. This was an additional 43,000 deaths over 19 days. The seven-day moving average of...

IBM has created low-loss (0.3% loss over 10 microns) silicon waveguide could enable new photonic chip designs for applications that rely on visible light, and could lead to more efficient lasers and...

Purdue University innovators have created technology aimed at replacing Morse code with colored “digital characters” to modernize optical storage. This will allow more data to be stored and for that...

We could soon store 700 Terabytes on a 12-centimeter optical disk which would be equal to storing 28,000 Blu-ray disks. A separate advance with in data encoding could triple storage to 2.1 Petabytes...

The Bank of America global analyst predicts that China will sustain an average 4.7% annual GDP growth from now to 2035 which will result in a doubling of China’s GDP. Qiao predicts that...

Many will say that a claim that Elon Musk and China are competing for the future of space and energy is excessive hype. I will review the current data as people may not be aware of where China and...

There is a report that Tesla Berlin will start initial trial production in May, 2021. This is from a supplier in Germany who will provide containers. The mass production would be in July-August 2021....

By Feb 7, 2021, Israel had administered over 5 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine which covered 60% of its population. Israel has a population 9.3 million people. The US might get to the current...

The major forecasting models for US COVID deaths for the next three weeks have a low prediction of 18,000 new COVID deaths to 39,000. This predicting from now to March 20, 2021. The path of the...

Researchers led by Prof. David DiVincenzo from Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen University, and partners from the University of Basel and QuTech Delft, have now proposed a design for a...

The expensive and problem-filled F-35 stealth fighter program appears on track to finally getting cut short. The US Air Force is starting a months-long study of tactical aviation requirements that...

AI can greatly improve the accuracy of cancer detection from MRI, X-ray and other medical imaging. Approximately 25% of cases of lung cancer diagnosis are missed when doctors check chest x-rays. New...

China will try to make what looks like a copy of the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship but with some solid rocket motor side boosters. The maiden flight is scheduled by 2030. They will then try to make the...

Aviation demand is driven by economic activity, and a growing U.S. and world economy is the basis for aviation to grow over the long run. The 2020 FAA forecast calls for U.S. carrier domestic...

Starlink will change the angle to cover 500-kilometer diameter spots from 1000 kilometer diameter spots. This will increase the download bandwidth from 100 mbps to 300 mbps. The second-generation...

Tesla is expanding facilities in Fremont and increasing production. They adding 64,000 square feet to a 120,000 square foot tent structure and making it a permanent building. Land purchases in 2013...

Starlink has opened preorders for service expected to be available in the second half of 2021. Elon Musk expects Starlink to achieve 16ms to 19ms by the summer of 2021. SpaceX will reach 10 gigabits...

D-Wave Systems Inc., the leader in quantum computing systems, software, and services, today published a milestone study in collaboration with scientists at Google, demonstrating a computational...

TheAME Academy is the first ever seminar on Additive Manufacturing of Electronics with leading industry experts. This online event will cover the future of additive manufacturing, software, hardware...

NASA press conference on the Mars Perserverence. SOURCES- NASA Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.comThe post Mars Perserverence first appeared on NextBigFuture.com.

US GDP at the end of 2020 is estimated at $21.48 trillion and China (with Hong Kong and Macua) is estimated at $16.03 trillion. China reported 2020 GDP at 101.6 trillion yuan. The USD to Chinese Yuan...

Researchers describe creating powerful, unipolar electrochemical yarn muscles that contract more when driven faster, thereby solving important problems that have limited the applications for these...

Canada’s nominal GDP is $1.80 trillion. Canada’s dollar converts to a US dollar at C$1.26 to $1 USD. The Canadian dollar was at C$1.45 to $1 USD in March 2020. The Canadian dollar was at...

Globally, there has been a lot of money printed to fight COVID and stimulate economies. The total US currency in circulation soared to $2.07 trillion by the end of 2020, according to Federal Reserve...

Worldwide debt increased to $281 trillion and worldwide debt-to-GDP ratio is now over 355%. The Institute of International Finance’s global debt monitor estimated government support programs were...

A European consortium was launched with the goal of scaling silicon quantum technologies. This will be a four-year 15 million euro projecte named QLSI (Quantum Large-Scale Integration with Silicon)....

A visionary EU 6G research project, called RISE-6G, will create next-generation wireless connectivity. RISE-6G will design, prototype and test smart and energy-sustainable technological advances...

CEA-Leti scientists have opened a pathway to large-scale integration of Si-spin qubits using existing flip-chip processes with die-to-wafer 3D-interconnect technologies developed in-house. They...

Researchers were able to communicate with people who were in REM sleep and asked them math problems and yes/no questions to prove the person was responding to questions and was communicating....

China has a sodium-cooled, pool-type fast reactor. It was refueled and had maintenance at the end of July 2020. It completed a power test phase last year. The reactor has a thermal capacity of 65 MW...

You have chosen not to invest in Tesla and missed more than a 100 times runup in stock price. Now you are still “scared” to invest in Tesla. You think maybe the other car makers will...

The 2019 revision of the World Population Prospects (WPP), the United Nations projected that the world’s population would grow from 7.7 billion in 2019 to reach 8.5 billion in 2030, 9.7 billion in...

The Tesla Factory in Berlin is looking very close to finishing the first main buildings and they have made great progress installing equipment. The Tesla factory in Texas is also making great...

How quickly will all cars and trucks become electric? How quickly will we have thousands of reusable rockets? We can see the future being developed but the speed of transformation and the speed of...

Nextbigfuture has covered many of the ideas of Alexander Bolonkin. Bolonkin He was a Russian-American scientist and academic who worked in the Soviet aviation, space and rocket industries. He died on...

The World population of people is not expected to double by 2100. There are currently 7.9 billion people and this should reach 10 billion in 2050 and maybe 11.2 billion in 2100. This assumes that...

EV-Volumes reports 3.2 million electric cars were sold in 2020. This was BEV (battery electric vehicles and PHEV (plus in hybrid vehicles) sales of 3.24 million. The 2021 estimate for BEV and PHEV...

Volkswagen is starting pre-production of the ID5 electric SUV. Volkswagen already has the ID.3 5-door hatchback and the ID.4 compact SUV. The ID.4 will start deliveries this month or next month. The...

The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover arrives at the Red Planet on Feb. 18, 2021. It is about 1 million miles (1.6 million kilometers) from Mars. NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance mission is days away from...

The US passed a half million total COVID deaths according to Worldometers. The daily new cases has dropped a lot in the US and is dropping globally. The seven-day moving average of global daily COVID...

China’s CATL will spend up to 29 billion yuan ($4.49 billion) to build or upgrade domestic factories to meet growing demand. This is in addition to Contemporary Amperex Technology 2020 plans to...

Life extension has been happening for over 100 years. It doubled in the UK from 40 years to 80 years from 1850 to 2015. It has almost tripled in India from 24 to 69 from 1920 to 2015. An article...

There is an article at Value Walk that reports on chinese researchers using CRISPR gene editing to extend the lives of mice by 25%. Matthew Bacher, the writer of the Value Walk article then discussed...

Worldometers reports a count of over 497,000 total COVID deaths in the USA with about 9 hours left on Sunday Feb 14, 2021. Worldometers had a count of 496,063 total COVID deaths in the USA for Feb...

Deep Space Courier has an animation of the inside of a SpaceX Starship. SpaceX should be attempting another test launch within a week or so. SpaceX is heading to test flights every two weeks and is...

Elon Musk spoke with Joe Rogan about getting Mars colonization to the point where it would be self-sustaining without additional supplies or support from Earth. The entire point for Elon is to...

Elon Musk thinks he could have the Starship making regular flights with people by 2023. He said this in an interview with Joe Rogan. Elon Musk had SpaceX make the Starship more pointy because it...