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500 kilogram Esails could each provide 50 tons of water from Asteroid mining...
Arxiv - EMMI – Electric Solar Wind Sail Facilitated Manned Mars InitiativeAbstractThe novel propellantless electric solar wind sail concept promises efficient low thrust transportation in the Solar...
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China moving towards approving a dozen walk away safe 105 MW high temperature...
1. A proposal to construct two 600 MWe high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (HTRs) at Ruijin city in China's Jiangxi province has passed a preliminary feasibility review, China Nuclear Engineering...
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China's Hypersonic weapon project has underpowered supercomputer
A supercomputer used by China to develop a hypersonic space weapon was too slow, having a processing speed only a tenth of that of its American counterpart, according to a researcher involved in the...
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Progress to Magnesium ion battery which theoretically could double lithium...
The race is on around the world as scientists strive to develop a new generation of batteries that can perform beyond the limits of the current lithium-ion based battery.Researchers at the University...
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Tiny bots can drag 2000 times their weight and climb with 100 times their weight
Microtugs are small robots created by Stanford. The small bots can apply orders of magnitude more force than it weighs. This is in stark contrast to previous small robots that have become progressively...
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Transparent Spinel aluminum for transparent armor, next generation lasers,...
Imagine a glass window that's tough like armor, a camera lens that doesn't get scratched in a sand storm, or a smart phone that doesn't break when dropped. Except it's not glass, it's a special ceramic...
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IBM has four superconducting qubit error detection could eventually lead to...
IBM scientists today unveiled two critical advances towards the realization of a practical quantum computer. For the first time, they showed the ability to detect and measure both kinds of quantum...
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Reinforced microfibers for soft hydrogels are a breakthrough for printed...
QUT biofabrication team has made a major breakthrough by 3D printing mechanically reinforced, tissue engineered constructs for the regeneration of body parts.In an article published in Nature...
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Modernized polyester self contained root cellar for unpowered refridgeration
A root cellar is a structure built underground or partially underground and used to store vegetables, fruits, and nuts or other foods. Root cellars are for keeping food supplies at a low temperature...
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Ericsson mobile report confirms its smartphones, mobile video and mobile apps...
The Ericsson Mobility Report Mobile World Congress edition, February 2015 predicts continued growth in mobile subscriptions and traffic over the coming years. It also looks at the surging demand for...
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A Tablet app was used to direct an Air Strike with a MV22 Osprey in a live...
On March 27, DARPA successfully tested the full Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) prototype system for the first time as part of TALON REACH, a U.S. Marine Corps infantry/aviation training exercise...
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Possible Polar Cap on Pluto
For the first time, images from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft are revealing bright and dark regions on the surface of faraway Pluto – the primary target of the New Horizons close flyby in mid-July.The...
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Emdrive Roger Shawyer believes midterm EMdrive interstellar probe could flyby...
Roger Shawyer invented the Emdrive. NASA is testing the EMdrive and the Cannae drive and getting interesting results Shawyer presented in October, 2014.EMDrive results have not been conclusively proven...
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Blue Origin New Shepard reusable rocket has first development test flight
Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle as it makes its first developmental test flight.Yesterday Blue Origin flew the first developmental test flight of our New Shepard space vehicle. Our...
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Seabed and deep dive submarines and submersible drones and sub hulls with...
There have been proposals to have a new class of seabed operating military submarines. They operate undetected on the ocean floor where hills and rocks reflect sonar and magnetic detection. The average...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 258
1. Yes Vermont Yankee Blog: Atoms Not Dams: Surprising Facts for Earth Day.Noting Jim Conca's post on the biggest power plants (by electricity produced, not by nameplate), I note that Vermont Yankee...
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Car Sharing, bikes, self driving cars are part of a long shift to fewer cars...
The Guardian UK has an article about cities can outgrow the automobile.There are technologies and policies which can reduce the use and need for automobiles. These would need to be combined with urban...
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Whole Mouse brain mapping within reach with methods for reconstruction of all...
Learning, it is widely believed, is based on changes in the connections between nerve cells. Knowing which nerve cells are connected to which other nerve cells would considerably help us to understand...
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Widespread taxibots would provide todays mobility with 10% of the cars
Self-driving shared vehicles could take 9 out of 10 cars off city streets. Fleets of “TaxiBots” and “AutoVots” can deliver today’s mobility with significantly fewer cars–new study. A fleet of...
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Are wearable electronics jumping the shark with CH4 Fart measuring device ?
There is a kickstarter for a new wearable device that measures your farts and tells you what foods to avoid. Farts are almost always a result of your food intake. As you digest food, gases such as...
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