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New Air independent propulsion subs at less than half the cost eliminate the...
Nuclear submarines had certain advantages over diesel submarines. Nuclear submarines had greater submerged endurance of 90-100 days versus 3 days for conventional submarines. This was limited by the...
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Brontosaurus determined to exist as distinct member of one of 15-18...
A team of paleontologists led by Emanuel Tschopp at the New University of Lisbon in Portugal has just completed a massive computer analysis of fossils in a group of dinosaurs called Diplodocids. They...
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150 billion cubic meters of water ice on Mars in glaciers covered by thick...
Mars has distinct polar ice caps, but Mars also has belts of glaciers at its central latitudes in both the southern and northern hemispheres. A thick layer of dust covers the glaciers, so they appear...
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Magnetron powered EM-drive construction expected to take two months
Paul March indicates that Eagleworks NASA has started the build of their 1.2kW magnetron powered EM-Drive prototype in a tetter-totter balance system. It is being built to replicate the thrust...
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Russian third generation Armata Tank Specfications
The US Army's Foreign Military Studies Office has a graphic from the Kremlin Tass translated with specifications of the third generation Russian Armata tank.Large-scale deliveries of the new tanks and...
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Human volunteer for Head transplant surgery
Valery Spiridinov has volunteered to be the first head (aka full body transplant) transplant patient. Valery has a rare genetic Werdnig-Hoffman disease, which gradually wastes away muscles — says that...
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US will make 180 petaflop supercomputer in 2018 and is blocking China from a...
Under the joint Collaboration of Oak Ridge, Argonne, and Lawrence Livermore (CORAL) initiative, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $200 million investment to deliver a next-generation...
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Stanford brings commercial fast recharging aluminum batteries closer
Stanford University scientists have invented the first high-performance aluminum battery that's fast-charging, long-lasting and inexpensive. Researchers say the new technology offers a safe alternative...
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Stanford develops 3D nanometer scale imaging with cathodoluminescence tomography
Engineers at Stanford and the FOM Institute AMOLF, a research laboratory in the Netherlands, have developed a technique that makes it possible to visualize the optical properties of objects that are...
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At least ten planets, moons and dwarf planets have liquid oceans in our solar...
NASA has found many moons and dwarf planets with life-sustaining liquid water.At least ten planets, moons and dwarf planets have liquid oceans in our solar system and there is frozen water ice on the...
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NASA projects to boost oxygen recovery from 50% to over 75% efficient for...
NASA has selected four partners to develop game changing technologies with the potential to increase the oxygen recovery rate aboard human spacecraft to at least 75 percent while achieving high...
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Breakthrough magnetocaloric material could be key enabler for more energy...
Louisiana State University researchers could enable the next generation of magnetic cooling technologies, which are simpler in design, quieter and more environmentally friendly than conventional...
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For easy and modular upgradability the next US bomber needs to be like the...
The Air Force’s new stealth bomber, a highly classified military project, is being designed to accommodate incremental improvements over the years, making it easier and cheaper to modify the plane to...
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Sensors and longer range weapons means speed and dogfighting don't matter and...
A 76 page report by the Center for Budgetary and Strategic Assessments Trends in Air-to-air combat : Implications for future air superiority by John Stillion indicates that dogfighting jet capability...
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Computers models show that Mars has briny liquid water in the top 2 inches of...
Liquid water collects in the Martian soil each night, before evaporating during the day, according to NASA's Curiosity rover. If future missions can confirm this water cycle, it means astronauts could...
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Spacex Falcon 9 ready for resupply mission today and another reusable rocket...
The cargo-laden Spacex Dragon spacecraft is being readied to head off the Earth so International Space Station astronauts can conduct science for the Earth as well as the Journey to Mars. Launch time...
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Churchill Pykrete carrier would have been three and half times longer than...
Winston Churchill had a project to produce a 2.2 million ton pykrete (ice and wood pulp) aircraft carrier that would have been 1200 meters long and 180 meters wide. This would have made it 3.5 times...
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Qubit control that fits practical requirements for large scale quanutm computers
A UNSW-led research team has encoded quantum information in silicon using simple electrical pulses for the first time, bringing affordable large-scale quantum computers one step closer to reality.The...
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United Launch Alliance developing reusable rocket called Vulcan
United Launch Alliance Monday unveiled the name of its next rocket and it will be called Vulcan.The new rocket could launch as soon as 2019. It is ULA's response to competition from SpaceX and...
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Spacex Launch live video - rocket successfully and first stage landed on...
SpaceX plans to try again Tuesday to launch its Falcon 9 rocket to resupply the International Space Station.The launch is set for 4:10 p.m. from Launch Pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force StationSpacex...
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