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DARPA progress to small ships each with UAV air forces
DARPA has chosen two performers to work on new systems that would cost-effectively provide capabilities on par with land-based systems. DARPA has awarded prime contracts for Phase 2 of Tern, a joint...
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Woolly Mammoth DNA Inserted into Elephant Cells but passenger pigeon will...
Harvard geneticist George Church and his colleagues used a gene-editing technique known as CRISPR to insert mammoth genes for small ears, subcutaneous fat, and hair length and color into the DNA of...
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Entanglement-Based Machine Learning on a Photonic Quantum Computer in...
For the first time, physicists have performed machine learning on a photonic quantum computer, demonstrating that quantum computers may be able to exponentially speed up the rate at which certain...
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DARPA developing drop in retrofit to increase automation in existing airplanes
In the latest step in a decades-long process through which automation has taken on increasing responsibilities in the cockpit—allowing pilots to focus on flight tasks demanding their unique...
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DARPA’s Anti-Submarine Warfare developing submarine hunter killer drone
DARPA’s Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel (ACTUV) program seeks to develop a new type of unmanned surface vessel that could independently track adversaries’ ultra-quiet...
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Eighteen wheeler with over 32 tons of weight achieved 12.2 mpg which is over...
Daimler Trucks North America’s (DTNA) SuperTruck program has achieved 115 percent freight efficiency improvement – surpassing the Department of Energy (DOE) program’s goal of 50 percent improvement and...
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Call for Superpills with Single-Dose Cures for Malaria, Other Diseases
One of the world’s preëminent biomedical researchers is calling for a concerted effort by scientists to develop pills that would stay in the stomach or gut for weeks or months once swallowed,...
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Myostatin insufficiency produces stronger mice who live 15% longer
Fighting aging reports that loss of myostatin mutations in mice produce extended life spans, but too much suppression of myostatin may remove that benefit due to the cardiac issues that can accompany...
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Russian Air Force to buy fewer PAK FA fighters
The military is likely to buy fewer fifth generation T-50 fighters, scaling back requirements to 12 after initially planning for 52, due to economic considerations, Deputy Defence Minister Yuri Borisov...
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Iran could enrich 32 nuclear bombs each year according to the nuclear treaty
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned on Sunday the framework Iranian nuclear agreement being sought by international negotiators, saying it was even worse than his country had...
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Likely features of the Long Range Strike bomber
Forbes has some deductions about the Long Range bomberIt is known that the Air Force plans to buy 80-100 strike aircraft at a cost of $550 million each with initial fielding in 2025.1. It will have an...
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DARPA and Navy developing advanced fab facilities for less supply line...
High-tech fabrication facilities are being developed to enhance ship maintenance and repair by enabling more cost-effective training and rapid onsite production of parts and components.DARPA and the...
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Antibiotic resistant MRSA 90% killed by 1000 year old medieval remedy
Medieval medics might have been on to something. A modern-day recreation of an ancient remedy seems to alleviate infections caused by the bacteria that are usually responsible for styes. The work might...
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New estimate of 300 to 900 billion planets in habitable zone in the milky way...
With about 300 billion stars in our galaxy, researchers analyzing Kepler data and modified theory calculate there are 600 ± 300 billion planets in circumstellar habitable zones in our galaxy.In the...
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General expectation that Tesla Motors non-car product will be home battery...
CEO Elon Musk’s mysterious tweet a teaser about a new non-car product offering from Tesla Motors that will be announced with great fanfare April 30.Major new Tesla product line -- not a car -- will be...
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DARPA wants modular, specialized, cheaper and drop in upgradable swarm cloud...
DARPA's System of Systems (SoS) Integration Technology and Experimentation (SoSITE) program aims to develop and demonstrate concepts for maintaining air superiority through novel SoS...
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Lifting all barriers to urban growth in America could add the equivalent of...
Lifting all the barriers to urban growth in America could raise the country’s GDP by between 6.5% and 13.5%, or by about $1 trillion-2 trillion. It is difficult to think of many other policies that...
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Plasmonic ceramic materials key to advances in nanophotonics in high...
Progress in developing nanophotonic devices capable of withstanding high temperatures and harsh conditions for applications including data storage, sensing, health care and energy will depend on the...
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Cheap cellulose nanocrystals from pulp can increase the strength of concrete...
Cellulose nanocrystals derived from industrial byproducts have been shown to increase the strength of concrete, representing a potential renewable additive to improve the ubiquitous construction...
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Bioviva offering experimental gene therapy treatments for myostatin...
Bioviva is offering various gene therapy treatments for telomerase extension and to treat alzheimers and hardening of arteries.BioViva is a new company offering experimental medical services in South...
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