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Planetary Resources Anderson and Lewicki discuss Space Mining Plans and Progress
Planetary Resources' Co-Founder and Co-Chairmain Eric C. Anderson with President and Chief Asteroid Miner Chris Lewicki, commemorate a special occasion in the company's new facilities in Redmond,...
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Americans used to be a lot taller than Europeans but Europeans in several...
For centuries, Americans were the NBA players of the world. Americans were two inches taller than the Red Coats [british] the USA fought against in the American Revolution. In 1850, Americans had about...
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Mining has begun at the Husab Uranium mine in Namibia and it will reach 5770...
The official start of mining operations at the Husab project in Namibia has begun. Husab becomes the fourth uranium mine in operation in Namibia, the others being Rössing, Langer Heinrich and...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 208
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 208 is at ANS Nuclear CafeForbes - James Conca - Nuclear Waste Leak Traced To… Kitty Litter?The recent news of a radioactive waste incident at the Waste Isolation Pilot...
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People kept asking Where is my Flying Car ? The Flying cars are in the air...
The Black Knight Transformer’s patented technology is a first-of-its-kind in vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. The vehicle design is highly modular for a wide variety of payloads including a...
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New DARPA autopilot replaces 5 person flight crew
DARPA has created the Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS) program. ALIAS envisions a tailorable, drop‐in, removable kit that would enable the addition of high levels of automation into...
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The Smarter Get Smarter Faster via more Gains via the Flynn Effect and Boy...
Researchers at Duke University in North Carolina published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, they describe how they sifted through nearly three decades of standardised tests administered...
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Chinese 34 Petaflop Supercomputer Has Public Beta (Tianhe 2 Ahead Of Schedule...
In April 2014, the Tianhe 2 supercomputer began offering computing power to public users while the system continues debugging and fine tuning. It has a peak processing speed of 33.86 quadrillion...
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One of the Secrets to Superconductors has been Decoded
The microscopic structure of high-temperature superconductors has long puzzled scientists seeking to harness their virtually limitless technological potential. Now at last researchers have deciphered...
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Josh Hall gave a talk on the history of Cold Fusion
Josh Hall [J Storrs Hall] gave a recent talk and went into the history of cold fusion at a level of detail that most people are not familiar with. For example: he recounted how when Fleischmann and...
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Narendra Modi Will Be Next Prime Minister Of India and will have majority of...
The five-week long, nine-phase voting in India’s general election finally concluded on Monday after recording an all-time high countrywide voter turnout of 66%. The many exit polls that released their...
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Novartis is betting billions on getting true cures for cancers with major...
Developments at the University of Pennsylvania point to what would rank among the great milestones in the history of mankind: a true cure for cancer. Of 22 children and 5 adults with Emily’s disease...
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China will upgrade its world number one supercomputer to 100 petaflops next...
The newest Intel Knight’s Landing chip will provide an approximately 3x speed boost. China can swap out the 48,000 Phi cards and maek the Tianhe-2 into a 100+ petaflops supercomputer. China will also...
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China makes functional scale model of low pressure tube maglev system that if...
In 2010, Nextbigfuture reported that Southwest Jiaotong University in China was developing a low pressure underground tubes and maglev train which will travel at 1,000 kilometers per hour (600 mph)....
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'Hyperbolic metamaterials' are near which could enable better microscopes,...
Researchers have taken a step toward practical applications for "hyperbolic metamaterials," ultra-thin crystalline films that could bring optical advances including powerful microscopes, quantum...
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Per Peterson has a modular molten salt nuclear reactor design in the US and...
Per Peterson and his co-authors believe that the way forward for the US nuclear industry is to use new nuclear reactor designs with passive safety and modular construction. This will make nuclear power...
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Cities in 2030
Perhaps the most striking consumer trend to emerge from the Global Cities 2030 study is the way in which the number of high-income Chinese consumers is set to leap ahead over the next two decades....
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Cobalt Encapsulation Can Extend Copper Interconnects to the 10 nanometer...
Today's sub-22-nanometer chips are placing a strain on the ability to connect their billions of transistors with traditional copper interconnects. As the number of metallization layers escalates from...
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Help fund the best energy project, a nuclear fusion project that is ten...
Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP) are one week into their crowdfunding effort. They have raised over $38300.LPP needs about 6500 more people to donate on average $25 each. This is a nuclear fusion...
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Real Life Godfather Richer and More Powerful than Fictional Michael Corleone
This article is not about the future but that real life trumping fiction.Silvio Berlusconi – Italy’s former Prime Minister and one of the world’s most recognisable politicians – did business with the...
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