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Another 6.6 million jobless claims were added in todays report of US unemployment. Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist at Charles Schwab, says this is an underestimate because the systems...

Oil prices have dropped to $20 per barrel and that is for the most expensive oil. There is cheaper oil at $10 per barrel. Oil demand has dropped 25% as no one is driving. Companies like Whiting...

Singapore developed a contact-tracing smartphone app called TraceTogther. It allow Singapore to quickly track people who have been exposed to confirmed coronavirus cases. The app can identify people...

The University of Washington has updated its COVID-19 projections for all states and for the United States. Total COVID-19 deaths projected to August 4, 2020 in United States of America is now 83,967...

The USA and Europe have a similar scale situation with cases of Coronavirus COVID-19 per million people. The US had about 20,000 new cases. Europe collectively has more new cases and more deaths....

I spotted my first Tesla Model Y being driven in the wild. It was in Lafayette, California in the San Francisco Bay Area. Tesla Model Y deliveries started about 2 weeks ago, but there has also been...

Dr. Anthony Fauci, medical leading the US Coronavirus task force, says based on what he’s seeing, the U.S. could experience between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths from Covid-19. Europe appears to...

NASA has selected SpaceX as the first U.S. commercial provider under the Gateway Logistics Services contract to deliver cargo, experiments and other supplies to the agency’s Gateway in lunar orbit....

In Italy, 500 COVID-19 patients used ventilators made with scuba masks and a 3D printed connector. RT: 500 patients in northern Italian hospitals are receiving ventilators, produced by hacked scuba...

The Institute for Health Metrics (IHME) at the University of Washington has modeled forecasts for each state and the USA. The forecasts and models were run two days ago. They forecasted deaths,...

Which are the US cities that will have the most serious problems with coronavirus COVID-19 after New York? Newark, New Jersey is included with the New York Metro area. Detroit has 1000 cases with...

David Braun and his team and conceptually solved how to finally enable a high technology version of spring enhanced running where we could go 70% faster than Usain Bolt. They will have a prototype...

The hardest-hit COVID-19 locations in the world are the islands of San Marino and Andorra and the countries of Italy and Spain. San Marino has a population of 33,000. This is eight times the...

A 70-year-old preacher in India died of coronavirus and he may have infected up to 40,000 villagers. The villager have been quarantined. Five other villages have been sealed off. A week after his...

Twin HTR-PM reactors will drive a single 210 MWe turbine in China’s high-temperature pebble bed reactor. This new reactor could eventually be mostly factory mass-produced. The higher...

The SpaceX SN3 Starship is stacked and will have a test hop for 150 meters next week. This is assuming that the pressure tests and other preparations have no issues. SN3's been stacked:...

NY Gov. Cuomo’s Mar 27 brief indicates that New York is slowing COVID-19 to doubling every 4 days There are almost 7000 hospitalizations in New York. New York has 20,000 hospital beds and plans...

Yesterday, Nextbigfuture was projecting US and New York Coronavirus hospitalization growth as about 2430 but instead grew 4323. New York had 3039 more hospitalizations on March 26. NY increased from...

The World has over a half million official COVID-19 Coronavirus cases. Italy’s coronavirus case count is passing China’s count in the next few hours. Italy is getting about 254 cases per...

Researchers used a highly sensitive technique to examine 16 samples from two different meteorites to find new superconducting alloys. One meteorite formed in the iron core of an asteroid and one...

The US has 1032 COVID-19 coronavirus deaths. The US, Spain and Italy will each be passing China’s 81,200 official case total in the next few days. NBC New York reports the New York, New Jersey...

Italy’s coronavirus COVID-19 deaths are taking over three days to double and the next double may stretch out to about 9-12 days. This would mean that Italy crisis is slowing down in major way....

Tesla Shanghai factory experts and key investors exchanged conference calls and the production level information from the call from Shengang Securities was obtained by Ranjing Finance, on March 1,...

Italy might have had its new case peak four days ago. This would mean that the infection peak was 11-15 days ago. This would suggest that the quarantines did bend the curve on infections. If Italy...

Transient reprogramming, mediated by transient expression of mRNAs, promotes a rapid reversal of both cellular aging and of epigenetic clock in human fibroblasts and endothelial cells, reduces the...

Dr. Scott Gottlieb, member of the boards of Pfizer and biotech company Illumina and former FDA commissioner, gave an estimate of 4-6 weeks for the peak of coronavirus cases in the USA and New York....

Millions of blood tests for COVID-19 antibodies will tell us how widespread COVID-19 really is. It will tell us what the worse case could actually be. Oxford had modeling which suggests that there...

US Domestic passenger flights could shutdown because of lack air traffic control staff and lack of passengers could shutdown air travel. US airlines are struggling to keep aircraft flying with...

Everyone needs to monitor your temperature, be sensitive to coronavirus symptoms. Spain’s Coronavirus deaths has passed China’s. Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland and other European...

India has locked down the entire country of 1.38 billion people. The slums and shantytowns of India are high-density populations that would be very vulnerable to the disease. There is no way to...

Today, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo warned that the coronavirus curve hasn’t been “flattened,” and “is actually increasing.” He then cautioned that the apex of the virus could be as many as 14 to 21...

The World Health Organization had a Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Routes of transmission COVID-19 is transmitted via droplets and fomites during close...

There is a pre-peer review study of about 2100 Coronavirus patients in China and almost 3000 healthy people. (Relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility). They found...

The coronavirus pandemic has forced many localities across the globe to declare quarantines and lockdowns. Due to these restrictions to physical activity, users are now turning to digital services...

There is a wonderful 157 part series of short 3 minute or so videos of a few hours of interviews of Freeman Dyson. Dyson talks about his interactions with the giants in physics and science. You get a...

During WW2, Four Kaiser Shipyards built 747 fourteen thousand ton Liberty ships. One ship was completed one in five days. In February, China built a new hospital in ten days. The 645,000-square-foot...

The John Hopkins dashboard reports that the US has 42,817 official coronavirus cases and the world count is nearing 400,000. The Worldometers has an official coronavirus case count for the USA at...

Giorgio Gori, mayor of Bergamo, told NBC News on Monday that the total deaths in Bergamo are three to four times higher than during an average year, signaling that the virus is killing many more...

There is some advice from Bergamo Italy which is the worst-hit town in Italy. Nextbigfuture received it via email. Bergamo had a population of 120,000. Stay home with your immediate family members...

Worldometers has the latest official undercounts of confirmed coronavirus cases. Worldometers corrected the US count to 32,000 and John Hopkins also has 32644. There are 14,611 official COVID-19...

Doctors have made four-way and now nine-way valve system to enable one ventilator to service 9 people. Elon Musk and others are working to help them get each with individual valve controls per...

Financing programs to help the U.S. economy pull out of the coronavirus crisis could be worth $4 trillion, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Sunday. The Federal Reserve would likely put up...

The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship (SHS) will switch from 301 steel alloy to 304L steel alloy for some parts and then a new custom steel alloy. The 304L steel is a lower carbon version and it will...

The US has had over 182,000 coronavirus tests and 25,000 confirmed cases. New York has had over 45,000 tests and has over 11,000 confirmed cases. As of the afternoon of March 19, there have been...

Databrew data analysis indicates having over 150 cases in any region is when coronavirus COVID-19 reaches critical mass. There are still officially about 30 US states that do not have over the 150...

Tomas Pueyo makes the case that far stronger coronavirus measures are needed today and they should only last a few weeks. There shouldn’t be a big peak of infections afterwards, and it can all be...

The window to where the US will be with coronavirus in 12 days is where Italy is now. The US has five to six times the population of Italy. The US has far more cases than the 18,500 that are the...

Aslak Stubsgaard, CTO of Copenhagen Atomics provided an update to Nextbigfuture on their development of a Molten Salt nuclear fission reactor. They are a molten salt reactor company developing a...

Throughout your life, you’re going to face a number of different crises, including both small-scale and large-scale events. You may have to deal with the aftermath of a critical car accident or a...

California Governor Newsom has placed a shelter in place (stay at home) order for the entire state. If there was no mitigation like the shelter in place then California was heading to 25 million...