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Spacex Commercial Spaceflight Overview presented at NASA FISO
Spacex has over $3 Billion in backlog orders and $5 billion in orders to date.• Diverse customer case– over 50 Falcon 9/Heavy missions sold– ~35% US Government– ~65% CommercialRead more »
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Aquarius a nuclear thermal rocket that uses water heated to over 3000 degrees...
The Space Enterprise Institute has a proposed design for a reusable interplanetary transport.Attributes of a reusable interplanetary human spaceflight transport are proposed and applied to example...
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New Novartis Heart Failure Drug LCZ696 is 20% better than the current best...
Novartis revealed that its investigational heart failure medicine, LCZ696, was superior to ACE-inhibitor enalapril [current gold standard heart failure treatment] on key endpoints in the largest heart...
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Nanoscale metallic nanoparticle arrays can create super high resolution...
Holograms made of tiny particles of silver could double the amount of information that can be stored in digital optical devices, such as sensors, displays and medical imaging devices. Researchers from...
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Carnival of Space 369
The Carnival of Space 369 is up at Urban Astronomer.[Universe Today] - Most scientists can see, hear, smell, touch or even taste their research. But astronomers can only study light — photons traveling...
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3D printed concrete castle and plans to create and sell a concrete printer...
[In Minnesota, contractor Andrey Rudenko is currently working on a project of gargantuan proportions that seems to be stretching and exploring the limits of 3D printing technology. Using a printer that...
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China's high speed rail dominance is built upon Tunneling expertise and...
For growing cities having tunnels is no longer considered a luxury – they are a necessity as land is a precious commodity. Going underground frees up surface land for other development, and in fact,...
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Update on Ukraine Casualties and situation
Guardian UK, Valentina Melnikova, head of the Committee of Soldiers' Mothers, the main organisation representing the troops' families, said an estimated 7,000-8,000 Russian troops were believed to be...
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US Army looks at Megacity Urban warfare the 2030s
Within about two decades, roughly 60 percent of the world's population will live in cities, particularly megacities of more than 10 million, according to a recent National Intelligence Council...
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Limits to Growth backers brag about getting part of scenario right where the...
[Guardian.com] The 1972 book Limits to Growth, which predicted our civilisation would probably collapse some time this century, has been criticised as doomsday fantasy since it was published.The entire...
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Google will build their own Quantum computer hardware with fault tolerance at...
The Quantum Artificial Intelligence team at Google is launching a hardware initiative to design and build new quantum information processors based on superconducting electronics.John Martinis and his...
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Reviewing Leading Economist Lester Thurow who was wrong as a Europe Optimist...
For three decades, Lester C. Thurow has been one of the most widely read economists in the United States.Lester Carl Thurow is an American political economist, former dean of the MIT Sloan School of...
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John Kutsch provides an informative energy rant and another video debunks...
The morning after Thorium Energy Alliance #6 (TEAC6) ended, John Kutsch engaged in a hotel-room interview. John is concerned about global warming and ocean acidification, yet does not see solar or wind...
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$10 trillion would be needed to rebuild the electric grid to integrate solar...
Andrew Dodson presents "Issues Integrating Renewables: Chasing the Wind on a Cloudy Day" at TEAC6 in Chicago (2014).There economic and technical problems with using a lot of solar and wind.Solar is...
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Google and AbbVie put $500 million into antiaging Calico and are prepared to...
Google's health and antiaging startup, Calico, is teaming up with biotechnology drugmaker AbbVie in a $500 million joint venture that will try to develop new ways to treat cancer and other diseases...
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Isolated Russia Appears Likely to Agree to Sell China more Advanced Weapon...
[The Diplomat] There have been more and more signs that China will become the first foreign customer of Russia’s most advanced anti-missile system, the S-400. China’s People’s Liberation Army already...
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DARPA plans to shrink brain interface and organ control electronics to the...
Here is follow up news on various DARPA brain related projectsIn May, Nextbigfuture reported that DARPA had $70 million in funding a project for brain implants for emotional mind control.DARPA has a...
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International Energy Agency Global Renewable Energy Forecast to 2020
In 2013, global renewable electricity generation rose by a n estimated 240 terawatt hours (TWh) (+5.0% year-on-year) to reach nearly 5 070 TWh and accounted for almost 22% of total power generation....
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Tesla Motors First Gigabattery factory will be in Nevada
Tesla Motors has chosen Nevada as the site for its proposed $5 billion "gigafactory" battery plant.Tesla has already excavated on the presumed site at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center, roughly a...
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China is driving production of graphene nanoplatelets and carbon nanotubes to...
[EEtimes] China took the lead in carbon nanotube and graphene research and manufacturing, according to Lux Research, by adding to a global glut market, driving down prices, eroding margins, and likely...
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