India to spend $16 billion on nuclear subs and $150 billion on stealth...
India is tripling its fleet of nuclear submarines in the country’s priciest naval expansion in five years, a move that comes as China increases naval activity in the Indian Ocean.A cabinet committee on...
View ArticleLaser ignition demonstrated in a real engine could boost engine efficiency by...
Spark plugs can only ignite the fuel at one end of the chamber. A laser ignites the fuel in the middle of the chamber instead, burning more of the fuel and improving combustion efficiency by 27 per...
View ArticleCarnival of Space 393
The Carnival of Space 393 is up at Universe TodayMeet Three People Who Intend to Die on Mars at Universe TodayMore than 200,000 people have applied to the Mars One Project, and 663 candidates have been...
View ArticleSilicon Nanofibers could boost lithium battery energy density by ten times
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have developed a novel paper-like material for lithium-ion batteries. It has the potential to boost by several...
View ArticleRussia has special fuel for Mach 5+ hypersonic missiles
Russia has invented special fuel formula enabling Russia's hypersonic aerial vehicles to fly faster than five times the speed of sound.Unlike the US and China, who have concentrated on developing...
View ArticleNASA and ESA Prove that Super massive blackholes shape their host galaxies
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and ESA’s (European Space Agency) XMM-Newton telescope are showing that fierce winds from a supermassive black hole blow outward in all directions...
View ArticleChina and USA working on mach 10+ hypersonic weapons
China's hypersonic glide vehicle (HGV), called WU-14 by the Pentagon, was launched into space by an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) booster, after which it returned to the atmosphere to glide...
View ArticleGrowing a mature forest in ten years instead of 600 to 1000 years
With his company Afforestt, eco-entrepreneur Shubhendu Sharma is creating mini-forest ecosystems using an accelerated method. It’s based on the practices of Japanese forester Akira Miyawaki, as well as...
View ArticleFinance goes from helping to hurting the economy when debt passes 100% of GDP
A new study from the Bank for International Settlements shows exactly why rapid finance sector growth is bad for the rest of the economy.When private sector debt passes 100% of GDP, that point is...
View ArticleConfirmation of ultra-high energy molecules with 500 times the bond energy of...
Metastable Innershell Molecular State (MIMS), an innershell-bound ultra-high-energy molecule, was previously proposed to explain a ∼40% efficiency of soft-X-ray generation in ∼0.05 keV/amu nanoparticle...
View ArticleEasing Fertility Restrictions in China is having an impact and further easing...
Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) has a projection of the world economy with breakouts for each country in purchasing power parity terms and by market exchange rate in 2050.PWC uses United Nation...
View ArticleRussia getting about a dozen new submarines and another dozen navy ships over...
By the end of 2015, Russia's Black Sea Fleet will receive a Grigorovich-class frigate, two new improved Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines, and a handful of small Project 21631 missile...
View ArticleRussian Military accepting first of the new T50 stealth fighters
The Russian Armed Forces began to accept into service the first fifth-generation aircraft, the T-50 (PAK FA), announced Yury Slyusar, head of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), on January 30 during...
View ArticleIntel describing 10 nanometer chips and 7 nanometer will need new materials
The 2015 IEEE international Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) is on this weekThe first chips based on Intel's new 10nm process are expected in late 2016 to early 2017.The 7 nanometer chips will...
View ArticleAMD showing chips and chip technology pipeline
AMD is showing its chip roadmap and technical details.AMD Carrizo chip will be the first AMD APU to integrate the use of High Density Libraries (HDL)’s on the PC side. High Density Libraries enable the...
View ArticleCarnival of Space 394
The Venus Transit has a summary of Venus and Mars conjunctionVenus and Mars between the clouds -19/2/2015Read more »
View Article5G cellphone wireless speeds of 1 terabit per second done in the lab across...
5G speeds of 1Tbps have been achieved during tests at the University of Surrey Professor Rahim Tafazolli, director of the 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) at the university explained that the 5GIC has been...
View ArticleUSA has more fighter planes than Russia and China Combined
The United States currently has over 2200 fighter planes.Currently the USA has: AIR FORCE FIGHTERSF15C 222 Will stay in service until 2025F15D 22F15E Strike Eagle 219 [Being upgraded and will stay in...
View ArticleHuman head transplant project proposed for 2017 and further mice and monkey...
Italian surgeon Sergio Canavero announce a project perform a human head transplant at a keynote lecture at the American Academy of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgeons annual conference this June. He...
View ArticleLPP Fusion has the Tungsten Cathode and lays out detailed plans for 2015
LPP Fusion published their scheduled plans for 2015LPP Fusion Plans for 2015:As in previous years we emphasize that our plans require adequate financing. They also dependon critical suppliers coming...
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