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Instead of killing bacteria, DARPA seeks to understand biology of host tolerance
Conventional disease treatments such as antibiotics have almost exclusively sought to emulate natural resistance by keeping patients’ pathogen levels as low as possible. This approach has been...
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NASA funds NextSTEP deep space propulsion including 100 hour VASIMR and...
NASA has selected 12 Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) to advance concept studies and technology development projects in the areas of advanced propulsion, habitation and...
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NASA Space habitat NextStep is to get to 60 days in Cislunar Space and then...
Seven NASA NextSTEP habitat projects will have initial performance periods of up to 12 months, at a value of $400,000 to $1 million for the study and development efforts, and the potential for...
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Parameters of the nuclear framework deal with Iran are trying to get breakout...
The Whitehouse has issued a press release with details of the parameters of the nuclear framework deal.The US is trying to go for 12+ month to nuclear breakout instead of 2-3 months. Breakout meaning...
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Comcast will offer 2 Gigabit internet service to about 18 million subscribers...
Comcast announced it will offer residential multi-gigabit broadband service to more than 1.5 million customers in Atlanta starting next month. Gigabit Pro is a symmetrical, 2 Gigabit-per-second (Gbps)...
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Upgraded anti-jamming technology and improved guidance will enable multiple...
The Pentagon has upgraded and tested the largest bunker-buster bomb in the U.S. arsenal, senior U.S. officials said, readying a weapon that could destroy or disable Iran’s most heavily fortified...
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Britain joins laser arms race with up to 100 million pound high energy combat...
The Ministry of Defence will begin building an experimental laser weapon later this year as a prototype for Star Wars-type armaments that could one day be used by British forces.The project costing up...
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Craig Venter discusses the state of the art in Biotech including rewriting...
Craig Venter gives a keynote talk at a DARPA event.He describes the work to get a highly precise set of genome sequences. Genomes have been sequenced using methods with more errors. Now they are going...
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Asia has an arms race in submarines
Over half of the world’s submarines will be in Asia by 2030, as Japan, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, India, China, Taiwan, Vietnam and Singapore, modernize their militaries and look to...
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New industrial bubble wrap material and metamaterial for manipulating or...
1. Current subs use 1-inch-thick rubber foam to reduce sonar detection. Materials scientists at Université Paris-Diderot, the University of Manitoba, and PSL Research University are working on a...
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Fiber Reinforced plastic that is 20% lighter than aluminum
Efforts to produce lighter vehicles necessarily include engine parts, such as the cylinder casing, which could shed up to 20 percent of its weight if it were made of fiber-reinforced plastic rather...
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Amazon testing drones at "secret" location in British Columbia and other...
The FAA is years late in approving commercial use of drones and has violated numerous congressional deadlines. Mr. Bezos says regulatory inertia—not massive R and D—is blocking Amazon’s futuristic plan...
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You sank my battleship . . . with twice as much explosive as a ship eight...
An unclassified Navy assessment called "Cruise missile warfare" described the relationship with the amount of explosives or missile hits too the size of the ship being disabled. Ship vulnerability is...
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Scalable production method for inexpensive thermoelectrics that are nearly...
A joint South Korean and American research group has developed a scalable production method for a state of the art alloy for the use in solid state thermoelectric devices. This new alloy is nearly...
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Air Independent propulsion diesels are game changers for low cost replacement...
DCNS unveiled the SMX®-Océan conventionally powered attack submarine. The new vessel draws extensively on the design of a state-of-the-art nuclear- powered submarine, with a number of key innovations...
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Electric Space Sail plans for leveraging 1000 meter tethers for interesting...
ESAIL: Electric SAIL propulsion technology was presented in late 2014The ESAIL EU FP7 project (2011-2013) developed laboratory prototypes (TRL 4-5) of the key components of the E-sail. The project...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 255
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 255 is up at Neutron BytesJames Conca at Forbes has a positive opinion of the deal with Iran.The agreement framework with Iran was better than James Conca had hoped it...
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Eagleworks NASA updated EMDrive models show possible scaling to 2000 Newtons...
Paul March provides updates on the EMdrive and Cannae drive experiments at Eagleworks NASA.If one envisions the quantum vacuum (Q-V) as a semi-virtual electrical plasma as Dr. White does, that would...
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Electric Solar Sails for mission to Uranus and for de-orbiting satellites
1. Coulumb Drag Devices: Electric Solar Wind Sail Propulsion and Ionospeheric Deorbiting * Plasma brake thrust is 16 times larger in pure oxygen plasma than in pure proton plasma* There is an altitude...
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LPP Fusion's tungsten cathode already has microcracking and needed an...
LPP Fusion has its newest monthly report on its dense plasma fusion energy project.The new tungsten monolithic cathode, key to LPPFusion’s next set of experiments, arrived at our laboratory in...
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