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Focus Fusion uses the natural instabilities of plasma instead of fighting...
LPP Fusion reported that they have their tungsten anode and will get their cathode by late June. Crowdfunding is at 41% of the $200K goal. If you donate or have already donated then remember to comment...
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Modi moves to remove paralysis and delays in India's system
Prime Minister Modi of India has rolled out his ten point plan for getting India's economy moving in the first 100 daysModi has also asked ministers to ensure that all issues left pending by the...
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World Bank Suggestions to Improve China's Future Cities with a new model of...
The World Bank and the Development Research Center of China’s State Council have a report Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive and Sustainable Urbanization which has six priority areas for a new...
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NHTSA finds that car crashes cost $871 billion and highlights that Swedish...
The US Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) released a new study that finds the price tag for motor vehicle crashes in the US in 2010 carried a cost of...
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3D printing and microrobots making progress on building tissue with blood...
Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) has made headway in fabricating blood vessels using a three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting technique.They have a unique strategy for vascularization of hydrogel...
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Thorough and fairly complete third party data about China's Economy
Adapted from methodology used by the U.S. Federal Reserve's "Beige Book," The China Beige Book™ is an 80 page quarterly report that uses both quantitative and qualitative data to track real-time...
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Number of millionaire households in 2020 projected to be over 66 million...
Deloitte and Oxford Economics had a count and projection of wealthy households in 2011. The total wealth of millionaire households in the 25 economies included in this study is forecast to grow from...
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Top 1% and top 0.01% income statistics from tax data
The World Top Incomes Database statistics for the USA are here.Top 1% income share-including capital gains 22.46%Top 0.01% income share-including capital gains 5.47%Top 10% minimum income level (family...
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Google will launch a network of 180 internet access satellites but will still...
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google is planning to spend more than $1 billion on satellites that will offer internet access worldwide from space. The publication's sources say that Google will...
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China has problems and in a show of political insecurity blocks Google...
China has reportedly blocked all Google services days before the 25th anniversary of the military clampdown on the student protest centered around Beijing's Tiananmen Square.Cnet.com, citing a Chinese...
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Summary of Nuclear Fusion Projects
Lawrenceville Plasma Physics (LPP Fusion) has been very public about their experiments.LPP Fusion is about 46% of the way to a $200,000 fund raising goal. So another 109,000 moreThey had a review by...
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SETI will likely find intelligent life in the next 20 years if it exists...
Answers about Intelligent Alien Life should come within 20 years, astronomers told members of a Congressional science committee. A three-way race is under way to learn if life exists elsewhere in the...
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Dwave Systems and Google are trying to find Quantum Supremacy
Dwave Systems has known for about three years that is substantial quantum entanglement in their systems. They have been able to show this entanglement on much larger systems [than a recently publish 8...
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Fan Produced Live Action Akira Project
The Akira Project is a crowd-sourced, non-profit project meant to create a live action fan trailer of AKIRA, the renowned manga-turned-anime film from the late 1980′s; a stunning example of both...
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Gas Dwarf Planets 1.7 to 3.9 times the size of the Earth at Stars with 50%...
The planets of our solar system come in two basic flavors, like vanilla and chocolate ice cream. We have small, rocky terrestrials like Earth and Mars, and large gas giants like Neptune and Jupiter....
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Raptor robot runs at 28.58 mph, faster than any human but a bit slow than...
Raptor is a fast-running biped robot developed by MSC Lab, KAIST. It has two under-actuated legs and a tail inspired by velociraptors. The Raptor robot runs at a speed of 46 km/h on a treadmill with...
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US Congress funds hypersonic missile after China's WU-14 hypersonic strike...
The US Congress approved funding last week for the Pentagon’s advanced hypersonic missile program and expressed concerns over China’s recent test of an ultra high-speed strike vehicle designed to...
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China makes graphene reinforced aluminum that is up to 58% stronger than...
Graphene-reinforced aluminum matrix nanocomposites were successfully synthesized through ball milling and powder metallurgy. The tensile strength and yield strength of graphene-reinforced aluminum...
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Pioneer in Synthetic Biology discusses how to be a successful innovator
George Church helped revolutionized the study of DNA by exponentially reducing the cost of sequencing it. George Church came up with an idea he called "multiplexing" to sequence dozens to millions of...
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China GDP growth about 7.5% this year and slowing to 6% range the next few years
Nomura Securities raised its GDP target to 7.5% from 7.4%. It’s not a major jump, but it is a move in the right direction. China investors have been waiting for any sign of momentum since 2012.“We do...
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