Department of Transportation Announces Decision to Move Forward with...
The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced today that it will begin taking steps to enable vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication...
View ArticleMulti-chamber space launch gun kickstarter
Starfire Scientific is an ambitious new space launch company. They are currently developing an 8" gun propulsion launcher for high altitude sounding flights and to orbit small satellites.Operational...
View ArticleTransatomic Power molten salt nuclear reactor design that would generate 75...
Transatomic Power (TAP) is developing an advanced molten salt reactor that generates clean, passively safe, proliferation-resistant, and low-cost nuclear power. This reactor can consume the spent...
View ArticleRussian Nuclear reactor progress and UK looking at Fast Reactors
1. World Nuclear News - The first fuel is being loaded into Russia's newest fast breeder reactor, Beloyarsk 4, in preparation for startup of the unit within months.Beloyarsk is one of Russia's oldest...
View ArticleDwave's Geordie Rose explains why the How Quantum is the D-Wave Machine? Shin...
Here are two competing explanations for experiments performed on D-Wave processors.Explanation #1. D-Wave processors are inherently quantum mechanical, and described by open quantum systems models...
View ArticleElon Musk could start making superlarge Mars colonization rocket in about 2024
Elon Musk talks on CBS this morning about his Mars colonization rocket“We’ve got to restore American ability to transport astronauts with domestic vehicles, and that’s what we hope to do in about two...
View ArticleInflatable AirBeams for Aerospace Structures
The AirBeam is a proprietary technology originally developed for aerodynamic structures then applied to military shelters and a wide range of other structures relevant to aerospace...
View ArticleCVS will stop selling cigarettes
CVS Caremark will cease its sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in all of its CVS/pharmacy by Oct. 1, 2014.CVS will take an annual hit of $2 billion in revenue due to its decision, a sizable...
View ArticleChina and Russia added the most to their defence spending in 2013
2014 will be the first year that global defence budgets will grow overall since 2009, according to the IHS Jane’s Annual Defence Budgets Review from IHS Inc the leading global source of information and...
View ArticleSeal A Gunshot Wound In 15 Seconds with Injected Sponges
Working closely with Special Operations Forces medics, Revmedx developed a novel hemostatic dressing (XSTAT™ dressing) capable of stopping high-flow arterial bleeding from non-compressible wounds. The...
View ArticleChina is expected to take the lead in research and development spending...
Global research and development (R and D) spending is forecast to grow by 3.8 percent—or $60.0 billion—to $1.6 trillion in 2014, according to the closely watched annual forecast by Battelle and R and D...
View ArticleDwave Systems has a rapidly evolving process for creating their quantum...
Dwave CTO Geordie Rose had talked about a recent paper about whether or not Dwave was using quantum effects for its superconducting processor.Geordie has discussed in the comments the advantages of...
View ArticleNASA Institute of Advanced Concepts 2014 Conference - Update on nuclear...
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View ArticleNASA Institute Advanced concepts look at a conceptual solution to asteroid...
Watch live streaming video from niac2014 at livestream.comTwo part interceptor. It separates. 10 meter ahead makes a crater. The nuclear bomb part follows but is 20 times more effective.The...
View ArticleThe Wealthy in Bel Air live 12 years longer than people in Watts
The City of Los Angeles has published a health indicators reportLife expectancy across the City of Los Angeles varies significantly, with a nearly 12-year difference between the areas with the highest...
View ArticleA lot of Antimatter and scooping up interstellar matter for reaction mass...
Nextbigfuture has covered the theoretical possibility that there could be millions of tons of antimatter hidden inside fast rotating asteroids.Vixra - Quark Matter in the Solar System : Evidence for a...
View ArticleNanowire nanocomputer as a finite-state machine
PNAS - Nanowire nanocomputer as a finite-state machine Fundamental limits soon may end the decades-long trend in microelectronic computer circuit miniaturization that has led to much technological and...
View ArticleControversial Blacklight has a youtube video of their Jan 28, 2014 demonstration
Blacklight Power has uploaded a video of the demonstration on January 28th, 2014.Here is a 2 pager of the calorimetry data They are claiming a COP of 2 and are showing a low power level.There is some...
View ArticleSupersonic Electric Passenger Planes
Aviation talks about a patent for a VTOL supersonic plane. Richard Lugg is the man behind the HyperMach [Mach 4 cruise] SonicStar supersonic business jet concept. HyperMach's design has supersonic...
View ArticleVideos of Electric and Hybrid electric plane designs from Boeing, EADS and NASA
Technology Review - Boeing has a concept for hybrid airplanes the size of 737s, which can seat more than 150 passengers, although it’s unlikely these will come into service before 2030. EADS, the...
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