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Spacex successfully launches two satellites in one rocket launch
US rocket company SpaceX has performed its first dual-satellite mission.The firm's Falcon 9 vehicle put up two telecommunications spacecraft on Monday (GMT) - one for Eutelsat and one for the Asia...
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John Oliver indicates infrastructure is not sexy but it is important
Nextbigfuture has covered the infrastructure problems in the United States.In 2009, 26%, or one in four, of the nation’s bridges were either structurally deficient or functionally obsolete. While some...
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Kepler Space Telescope data can be analysed to determine the composition of...
Researchers in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS) at MIT describe a technique that analyzes data from NASA’s Kepler space observatory to determine the types of clouds...
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High and mid range estimates of Russian Casualties in Ukraine compared to US...
The estimated number of people killed in eastern Ukraine since April 2014 has now passed the 6,000* mark, in spite of successive ceasefires, the UN Human Rights Office announced Monday, saying the...
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Five dollar Spock and Five dollar Bill Murray
The Bank of Canada has said that it is not illegal to deface or mutilate banknotes.The announcement was made after actor Leonard Nimoy's death last week set off a craze of marking-up banknotes.The...
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China dominates Aluminum and Magnesium production with cheap power but US...
World Aluminum production is about 55 million tons per year. There has been a dip with the recent economic slowdown.There is growing global demand for aluminium, which is estimated to reach 70 million...
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Instead of Helmet displays and joystick, quadrapelegic uses neural implants...
Jan Scheuermann has been paralyzed since 2003 because of a neurodegenerative condition. In 2012, she agreed to be fitted with two probes on the surface of her brain in the motor cortex area responsible...
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US could ramp up military lasers by ten times to 300 kilowatts by 2018
In three years the US military could have a prototype 300 kilowatt laser weapon. This would be ten times the power of the 30 kilowatt laser being tested on the USS Ponce. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. of...
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US Daily crude oil production highest since Dec 1972
US Crude oil production hit another post-1973 record with 9.32 million barrels per day.US daily crude oil production history from 1920 to today. The peak was in 1970 and was just short of 10 million...
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Russia talks about Moscow Beijing high speed rail details and willingness to...
Further details of the proposed high-speed railway to link Moscow and Beijing through Siberia in just 33 hours have been unveiled. The project will see a new 400km per hr line running between the...
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First new super aircraft carrier will not launch aircraft at the desired...
The Congressional report makes it clear that the cost overruns are still a problem. There are critical technological problems that will likely not get sorted out til 2020. The first two may be...
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Stem Cells from Wisdom Teeth Can Be Transformed into Corneal Cells
The cornea transparent ‘window’ on the front of the eye that allows the light to enter.Stem cells from the dental pulp of wisdom teeth can be coaxed to turn into cells of the eye’s cornea and could one...
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DARPA neural interfaced Prosthetic Limbs will allow sense of touch and...
Rehabilitation experts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine hope to one day give people with an arm amputation a prosthetic limb that not only moves like a natural one, but “feels” like...
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Damned Lies and the Military Budgets of China and the USA
China announced an official 2015 military budget of $145 billion, which is a 10.1% increase from 2014. The Pentagon and global arms bodies estimate China’s actual military spending may be anywhere from...
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Military Budgets for 3rd to tenth place now and in 2020
The Military Balance is The International Institute for Strategic Studies’ (IISS) annual assessment of the military capabilities and defence economics of 171 countries worldwide.France and Germany have...
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Looking ahead to being ten times richer and looking back at being ten times...
Nextbigfuture described a future where China helps build out the infrastructure that the rest of the developing world needs over the next few decades. The shortfall of infrastructure is lowering the...
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CNES Partners with Google to deploy Global 100,000 Internet Loon Ballon Networks
The French space agency, CNES, on Dec. 11 said it is partnering with Google on the Google X Project Loon to deploy more than 100,000 balloons in the stratosphere to provide high-speed Internet to...
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Lockheed 30kw combat blasts a truck from over a mile
A 30-kilowatt fiber laser weapon system from Lockheed Martin successfully disabled a vehicle engine from a distance of more than one mile. In the test -- said to represent the highest power ever...
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US Navy 30 year ship building plan update
2015 Congressional Research report - Navy Force Structure and Shipbuilding Plans: Background and Issues for Congress The Navy’s proposed FY2016 budget requests funding for the procurement of nine new...
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CRISPR gene editing progressing to germ line genetic editing and the...
Harvard's Luhan Yang described a human germline genetic editing experiment. Researchers hoped to obtain, from a hospital in New York, the ovaries of a woman undergoing surgery for ovarian cancer,...
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