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CDC reported that life expectancy in the U.S. declined by 1.5 year in 2020 due to COVID and excess deaths but life expectancy one year snapshot assumes 2020 repeats forever. Life expectancy...

There was a database minign of what treatments were used in California to treat COVID. There is a site c19early.com that tracks studies of what seem to be effective early treatments against COVID....

Two instances of black hole-neutron star collision events have been detected using the Advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors, details of which have been published today in...

Your investment portfolio is one of your most important financial assets. Depending on your goals and where you are in your career development, it could be a nest egg you’re planning to use to buy a...

China is finishing the 2 megawatt prototype Thorium Molten Salt Reactor (TMSR-LF1), in Wuwei, a desert city in Gansu province. Construction work on the TMSR is due to finish in August and a test run...

China unveiled on Tuesday a domestic magnetic levitation train capable of reaching 600 kph. This would be the fastest train ever built by China. Japan previously demoed a 603 kph train. CRRC touts...

A new set of reports of excess mortality estimates for India from three different data sources from the pandemic’s start through June 2021. 1. extrapolation of state-level civil registration from...

Updated estimates indicate that COVID-19 reduced overall 2020 US life expectancy by 1.31 years, from 78.74 years to 77.43 years. The reductions are 3.2 times as large for the Latino population (3.03...

Jeff Bezos had a successful suborbital flight. He flew on his Blue Origin rocket. Congratulations to Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin. SOURCES- Blue Origin, NPR Written By Brian Wang, Nextbigfuture.com

The Prediction site Predictit Gives Youtuber Kevin Paffrath (aka Meet Kevin), a 9% chance to replace Gavin Newsom as governor of California. Kevin is knowledgable about business and technology and is...

PG&E equipment started the Dixie Fire in the Feather River Canyon. The fire has burned 40,500 acres and is 15% contained. In California Public Utilities Commission documents filed by PG&E,...

Pulsechain has raised $25,000,000 for antiaging medical research after 5 days of a 14 day fundraiser. You must follow the SENS.org PulseChain instructions. Sacrifices to SENS.org during the sacrifice...

Tesla Texas and Tela Berlin factories could start production of Model Y vehicles in completed buildings while completing the rest of the factories. This would enable small pilot production of a few...

Microscopic particulates that form from the use of fossil fuels for energy, transportation, industry and agriculture are the main cause of deaths from air pollution. The main sources of air pollution...

Global electricity demand will rebound strongly in 2021 and 2022. After falling by around 1% in 2020, global electricity demand is set to grow by close to 5% in 2021 and by 4% in 2022. The majority...

Researchers have identified a new treatment candidate that appears to not only halt neurodegenerative symptoms in mouse models of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, but also reverse the effects...

China’s BeiDou global navigation system was completed in June 2020 provides positioning accuracy of 1.5 to two meters to anyone in the world. GPS World provides details. From March to June 2020, two...

Richer countries tend to converge their market exchange rate with their purchasing power parity exchange rate. As China has moved up from $1000-2000 per capita income to $12000 per capita income on...

Tesla Berlin construction documents provide details on 4680 cells and battery pack timelines. There are rumors that Berlin will start vehicle production in November, 2021. However, they will have to...

A group of Senate Democrats announced late Tuesday they had reached a tentative agreement on a massive spending plan worth $3.5 trillion over the next decade. The budget resolution, which Democrats...

Heart Aerospace, a company building a 19-seater electric airplane, has raised a $35M Series A round led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures, United Airlines Ventures and Mesa Air Group Inc. In addition,...

Construction officially started July 13 on the ACP100 small modular reactor demonstration project at the Changjiang nuclear power plant on China’s island province of Hainan. China National...

Bloomberg Economics has published a forecast which shows that China’s economy will pass the US economy in about ten years. However, they push a study by economists at the Chinese University of...

Virgin Galactic’s Unity 22 mission has successfully flown billionaire Richard Branson on his first flight into space. Congratulations to Virgin Galactic and Branson. This is the culmination of...

Zoledronate is a biophosphonate, a drug used to strengthen bones and reduce the risk of osteoporosis-related bone fractures. It is well-absorbed into the bones, so it only needs to be administered...

Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and other universities has developed a special type of quantum computer known as a programmable quantum simulator capable of operating with 256 quantum bits....

At the core of any laboratory are systems that are used for measuring aspects. Our acceptance of empiricism, which shapes our scientific methodology, is the reason why. We want repeatable, measurable...

New materials may also enable entirely new paradigms for individual chip components and their overall design. One long-promised advance is the ferroelectric field-effect transistor, or FE-FET. Such...

Elon Musk tweeted that the Full self driving beta version 9 will be released this Saturday. There will be about 2000 Beta testers initially. It has previously been reported that it would be about a...

A standard-range version of the Model Y crossover starts from 276,000 yuan ($42,600) in China. It will have 525 kilometer of range. BYFD has the all-electric Han with a range of 550 km (340 mi) and...

People frequently talk about the dangers of nuclear power. The three big and famous nuclear plant accidents have caused less than 100 direct deaths in total. These deaths are bad but this is still...

There were hundreds of heatwave deaths in the Pacific Northwest of North America this year. Many of the dead were found alone, in homes without air conditioning or fans. Some were elderly — one as...

The Indian Point Energy Center (Indian Point) generated reliable electricity for the New York State. Indian Point permanently stopped generating electricity on April 30, 2021, when it retired its...

China has been pretty good at large engineering projects. Readers of Nextbigfuture over the last 15 years know that Nextbigfuture tracks all of China’s megaprojects and all of the major space,...

Richard Branson is racing Jeff Bezos to their first sub-orbital flight into space. Richard Branson is the founder of Virgin Galactic. He plans to fly into space aboard his company’s VSS Unity...

Tesla delivered 201,250 cars in Q2 and produced 206,421. This was slightly higher than analyst expectations and was in spite of automobile industry chip shortages. The production was up 14% of the...

Antiaging gene therapies to overexpress TERT and Follistatin were used in a mouse model. The mice saw a 41 and 32% increase in median life span. The study also used a novel viral vector,...

Casgains Academy presents the career of Cathie Wood. Cathie Wood was an economic analyst in the late 1970s and 1980s when there was high inflation. Many noted experts believed that high inflation was...

At the Mobile World Congress 2021, Elon Musk discusses the overall strategy around the SpaceX Starlink internet service and the goal to reach 500,000 users in the next 12 months. Starlink is filling...

China has approved constructing a Demo multi-purpose 125 MWe pressurized ACP100 water reactor (PWR) (aka Linglong One) is designed for electricity production, heating, steam production or seawater...

The Indian Delta Variant of COVID has over twice the transmission rate of the original COVID and is hitting parts of Asia and Africa that mostly avoided COVID in 2020. Brazil, India, Colombia and...

Forbes and Fortune lists the wealth of the world’s billionaires but they can mainly track the ownership in public companies or widely publicized holdings in disclosure documents. Peter Thiel,...

The U.S. military launched air strikes targeting three operational and weapons storage facilities — two in Syria and one in Iraq. The US said that drone strikes were being launched from these...

Canada’s oil and gas companies are looking to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The main vision is Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS) which is an emissions reducing...

TerraPower hopes to apply for a construction permit in August 2023 and an operating licence in March 2026 for its Natrium fast reactor, according to a regulatory engagement plan (REP) it has sent to...

The preliminary UAP/UFO report by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) in response to the provision in Senate Report 116-233. * They still don’t know what they are * They...

Here is the forty page legal notice filed on June 13, 2021 in India. Contempt of Court and aggravated offences against humanity by spreading disinformation about the drug ‘Ivermectin’, despite having...

The Indian Bar Association (IBA) sued WHO Chief Scientist Dr. Soumya Swaminathan on May 25, accusing her in a 71-point brief of causing the deaths of Indian citizens by misleading them about...

Ernst and Young predict Europe leading the charge to electric, with zero-emission models outselling all other propulsion systems by 2028. That tipping point will arrive in China in 2033 and in the...

The Whitehouse and about ten senate Democrat and Republican members have announced support for bipartisan $1.2 trillion compromise infrastructure bill. This bill still has to pass the House and...