UCLASS Superdrone a bridge to fully autonomous fighters
The Navy’s planned carrier-based unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) will help the service in a transition from manned strike aircraft to a future autonomous strike platform, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus...
View ArticleDriverless Cars will 'eliminate bad driving' and halve insurance costs
Car insurance costs will halve by 2020 as driverless vehicles become the norm on British roads, according to figures obtained by Telegraph Money.Self-piloted cars could cut annual premiums by £265 on...
View Article2.25 million dollar NASA and America Makes Challenge for 3D printed habitats
NASA and the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute, known as America Makes, are holding a new $2.25 million competition to design and build a 3-D printed habitat for deep space...
View ArticleNvidia's Pascal is ten times faster than Maxwell processors
NVIDIA’s Pascal GPU architecture, set to debut in 2016, will accelerate deep learning applications 10X beyond the speed of its current-generation Maxwell processors. Beyond the Pascal is the Volta...
View ArticleMulti-use non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse drone is an operational system in...
Boeing's "CHAMP," is short for Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project. It is a non-nuclear electromagnetic pulse weapon. CHAMP carries a small generator that emits...
View ArticleUS Air Force looking to integrate combat lasers in fighters starting 2022 and...
The Air Force Research Lab (AFRL) is targeting demonstrating a 100+kw combat laser on a fighter by 2022. The airforce wants to integrate combat laser systems into future fighters in the 2030+.Initially...
View ArticleCigar Lake Uranium mine commercial production and positive multiyear nuclear...
The Cigar Lake uranium project in northern Saskatchewan is now officially in commercial operation, Cameco has announced.Mining at Cigar Lake began in March 2014, and the first processed product...
View ArticlePropeller based hoverboard flies three football field lengths while other...
Canadian inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru's propeller-based hoverboard managed to travel a total distance of 275.9 m (905 ft 2 in) to achieve a new Guinness World Records title for Farthest flight by a...
View ArticleCambridge Professor of Neuroscience Communication says Brain Uploading is...
Dr Hannah Critchlow strips down the brain. Using Radio, TV and Festival platforms she designs, produces and presents brainy interactive experiences for the public. She has featured on BBC, Sky and ITV...
View ArticleNew class of magnets that swell in volume in magnetic field could be game...
A new class of magnets that swell in volume when placed in a magnetic field and generate negligible amounts of wasteful heat during energy harvesting, has been discovered by researchers at the...
View ArticleChina's military paper discusses goal of offense and defense and Taiwan...
China's state council has released a white paper on China's military. In general the paper indicates that China is shifting a military just for defense to one focused on offense and defense.Taiwan...
View ArticleIntel, Samsung, and Taiwan Semiconductor moving to 10 nanometer process in 2016
Samsung announced its next-generation process technology, a 10nm FinFET node, at a company event. The process node will be in full production by the end of 2016, about the same time as its rival TSMC....
View ArticleRadial shape 250 nanometer or better hyperlens function across a wider range...
Instead of concentric rings, UB researchers formed tiny slivers of gold and PMMA (a transparent thermoplastic) into a radial shape for hyperlens function across a wider range of wavelengths with lower...
View ArticleChina's air pollution is still very bad but could get close to levels in the...
China's government has cracked down on burning coal for home heating and the closure of small, dirty coal-fired plants close to major cities. They has also been widespread deployment of scrubbers and...
View Article3D Printed and Synthetic Biology to make Rhino Horn and elephant Ivory
Pembient is leveraging advances in biotechnology to fabricate wildlife products, such as rhino horn and elephant ivory, at prices below the levels that induce poaching. Our goal is to replace the...
View ArticleTrillions in military research and procurement means the Military is leading...
Most of the world is not changing very fast.Your home gets bigger and thinner flat screen televisions, You personally get better tablets, smartphones and wearable gadgets.At work you get minor changes...
View ArticleChina Jilin Province offers to build 330 mile high speed line to Russian...
Jilin Province in China has offered to build a railway to Vladivostok for Russia’s Far East Region of Primorsky Krai. It would be the first cross-border high-speed rail link between the two countries...
View ArticleGraphene sponge can absorb light and emit energetic electrons for...
The direct light propulsion of matter was observed on a macroscopic scale for the first time using a bulk graphene [graphene sponge] based material. The unique structure and properties of graphene and...
View ArticleSpaceX Gets Certified For National Security Launches
SpaceX has won certification from Space and Missile Systems Center. This carries enormous import for the international launch industry, for the Pentagon, the Air Force and the Intelligence...
View ArticlePentagon looking at integrating anti-missiles, lasers and railguns against...
The Pentagon has been authorized to create “the true and complete integration of air and missile defense” and on “left-of-launch and non-kinetic means of defense.”They will be coordinating — a much...
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