Detailed analysis of China's GDP indicates economy is actually 15% larger...
There is a new 244 page analysis of China's economy. A study of China's economy by Daniel Rosen and Beibei Bao for the Center for Strategic and International Studies indicates in 2014 instead of a $10...
View Article3D-printed guide helps regrow complex nerves after injury
A national team of researchers has developed a first-of-its-kind, 3D-printed guide that helps regrow both the sensory and motor functions of complex nerves after injury. The groundbreaking research has...
View ArticleDARPA successfully demos remote control A10 thunderbolt II for Persistent...
DARPA recently demonstrated its Persistent Close Air Support (PCAS) prototype system on an A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft, marking the system’s debut on a U.S. Air Force platform. The tests, which...
View ArticleGeneral Heithold wants combat lasers on AC130 gunships by 2020 ahead of...
The head of Air Force Special Operations Command says he wants to put a laser cannon on the nation’s fleet of gunships by 2020. Air Force Special Operations Command boss Lt. Gen. Bradley Heithold is in...
View ArticleSpacex Heavy capable of sending a Dragon V2 capsule to Europa
The Falcon Heavy is the next Spacex rocket. The current plan is for the first launch in the spring of 2016.The Spacex dragon 2 It is the second version of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft which will be a...
View ArticleCarnival of Nuclear Energy 279
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 279 is up at Hiroshima SyndromeNeutron Bytes – The Chicken and Egg Conundrum of Forging a Future for Advanced Nuclear ReactorsThe bad news is that anyone who is paying...
View ArticleDARPA Warrior Web Exosuit is undergoing outdoor Army tests on a 6 mile course
Harvard’s Warrior Web exoskeleton prototype is undergoing performance testing by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. Soldiers wear the prototype underneath a...
View ArticleNovel active mixing and switching printheads enable 3D printing of complex...
Three dimensional printing is revolutionizing the production of new devices and structures, including soft robots, flexible electronics and engineered tissue replacements, but advances have been...
View ArticleNew porous hydrogel could boost the success of stem-cell-based tissue...
Stem cell therapies are often limited by low survival of transplanted stem cells and the lack of precise control over their differentiation into the terminal cell types needed to repair or replace...
View ArticleRussian Economy Facing Depression, High Interest Rates and Low Oil and Gas...
Russia has fallen into full-blown depression and faces a mounting fiscal crisis as oil and gas revenues plummet. Output from country’s state-owned gas giant Gazprom has collapsed by 19pc over the past...
View ArticleAdvanced memristors are a pathway to affordable human scale neuromorphic...
It may be possible to create neuromorphic human-level Artificial General Intelligence within 5 to 15 years for 30 to 100 thousand dollars, of marginal cost using memristors.The extreme complexity of...
View ArticleGerman Rheinmetall shows off 80 kilowatt naval combat laser with four 20 kw...
This week at the Defence and Security Equipment Industry in London, German defense contractor Rheinmetall Defence Electronics showcased a new sea-based anti-drone laser system. The system, according to...
View ArticleBill Gates Terrapower and China national nuclear corp will build a prototype...
Bill Gate’s efforts to close a deal with China National Nuclear Corp. have finally paid off. The company has inked a deal to build a first-of-a-kind unit of their sodium cooled fast reactor in China...
View ArticleBooming cubesat market and capabilities are still the beginning of...
Craig Clark, satellite builder and CEO of Clyde Space Ltd., discusses the changing nature of the space industry and the potential benefits of small satellites made available on a much wider basis. He...
View ArticleNew Ion Drive achieves 14,600 ISP which is 50% better than NASAs best
University of Sydney doctoral candidate in Physics, Paddy Neumann, has developed a new kind of ion space drive that has 153% more fuel efficiency than the previous record ion drive built by NASA.The...
View ArticleNear term Commercial Fusion Power Possible - Laser induced fusion of...
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg and the University of Iceland are researching a new type of nuclear fusion process. This produces almost no neutrons but instead fast, heavy electrons...
View ArticlePatent details for Nuclear Fusion using lasers and ultradense deuterium
Researchers at the University of Gothenburg and the University of Iceland are researching a new type of nuclear fusion process. This produces almost no neutrons but instead fast, heavy electrons...
View ArticleLong March 6 and Long March 5 can be converted into ICBMs with multiple...
China's Long March 6 (CZ-6) carrier rocket can also be used to fire 20 missile warhead at once. The Long March 6 was used to luanch 20 microsatellites. Microsatellites can be switched to warheads. They...
View ArticleA dozen Russian T-50 stealth fighters to go into service 2017
Russia’s Sukhoi T-50 fifth generation prototype fighter jets will enter into service with the Russian Armed Force in 2017, Russian Air and Space Forces Commander Col. Gen. Viktor Bondarev told...
View ArticleBlack Phosphorous has great electrical and optical properties
Since 2014, black phosphorous can be split into layers 10 to 20 atoms thick. Black phosphorous has an inherent bandgap, something that graphene lacks. The bandgap can be tuned from 0.3 to 2.0 electron...
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