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If you could travel back in time 41,000 years to the last ice age, your compass would point south instead of north. That's because for a period of a few hundred years, the Earth's magnetic field was reversed.

I have been a leading proponent that self-driving vehicles, especially trucks, will be here sooner than most think. My estimate for long-haul trucks taking over is 2021-2022 or so. Widespread adoption of self-driving cars will be slower.

The cheapest advertised price to launch people to LEO is a bit over $26 million/seat on a Falcon 9/Dragon which includes a stay at a Bigelow space station [Bigelow 2015], also in development.

Another large-scale, stealthy cyberattack is underway on a scale that could dwarf last week's assault on computers worldwide, a global cybersecurity firm told AFP on Wednesday.

HPE announced that it has created the largest single-memory computing system the world has ever seen, capable of holding 160 terabytes of data.

The tough-yet-fragile physical properties of the tadpole-shaped pieces of glass known as Prince Rupert's drops have puzzled physicists for as long as, well, there have been physicists.

Couple have spent 25 YEARS living on a floating compound called Freedom Cove where they use solar energy, grow their own food and only make trips ashore every two weeks

Toyota is backing a flying car project that developers hope could be used to kick off the 2020 Tokyo Olympics with a certain high-tech flair.

This time a year ago, flying cars sat firmly in the "fun to think about, ain't gonna happen" category. But in recent months, company after company has emerged with totally-not-kidding plans to deliver vehicles worthy of George Jetson. And so, t

Breast milk... the 'accidental' cure for cancer: Scientists find it contains a substance that kills tumour cells

The ultimate guide to beating sugar cravings: Hour-by-hour plan explains how to stave off your sweet tooth

Moon Express is one of only two teams in the Google Lunar XPRIZE competition with a verified launch contract for its 2017 lunar mission. In October 2015, Moon Express announced that it had signed the worlds' first multi-mission launch contract with

Al Globus and Joe Strout have an analysis that space settlements in low (~500 km) Earth equatorial orbits may not require any radiation shielding at all.

A future where drones drop off your online orders is another step closer this week after a new record was set for the world's longest drone delivery.

Elon Musk has begun digging under Los Angeles. The entrepreneur posted Friday several pictures of equipment meant for digging tunnels beneath Los Angeles.

If you make the cells themselves, why not make the energy storage system to go around them?

Researchers at the University of Minnesota say they've developed a way to make "bionic skin," technology that could allow robots to feel their environments and humans to wear sensory-enhancing devices directly on their fingertips.

It's one small step for man, one giant opportunity for miners. With some of Earth's valuable resources dwindling, space mining is looming as the new frontier for world governments.

Chinese students will live in a laboratory simulating a lunar-like environment for up to 200 days as Beijing prepares for its long-term goal of putting humans on the moon.

They think that cargotecture could save these people from the dangerous slums.

When you Home Educate,... the Universe is your Classroom

MIT physicists have found that a flake of graphene, when brought in close proximity with two superconducting materials, can inherit some of those materials' superconducting qualities. As graphene is sandwiched between superconductors, its electroni

invasive "Minority Report" marketing goes mainstream... (Natural News) Struggling to maintain its customer base amid lagging sales, soft drink giant Coca-Cola has developed a new program in partnership with grocery supermarkets that invades peop

After a mere 3 weeks of therapy, Kris started showing signs of improvement, and within 2 months he could answer the phone, write his name and operate a wheelchair. He had regained significant improvement in his motor functions; which are the transmis

Tesla has filed an updated patent related to metal-air batteries.

Franco Gonzales of IDTechEx interviews Bert Holtappels of TankTwo about their battery packs for electric cars at the IDTechEx Show! In Berlin. TankTwo's system is comprised of multiple individual intelligent cells made from same material as traditi

Hopes are riding on electric motors to power the cars of the future. Their Achilles heel is the batteries. They're too heavy, too short-lived and take too long to re-charge.Now

Researchers at Argonne National Laboratory are developing car and smartphone batteries that can hold 50 percent more energy.

The Cassini space probe is going to dive through Saturn's rings again on Wednesday, the third of a planned 22 orbits threading that planetary needle as the probe continues a ballistic death-drop inward.

Breakthrough found by accident could lead to cream to treat both

Vuckovic's Stanford team is developing materials that can trap a single, isolated electron.

Today is the day when two variants of Tesla's solar roof will launch.

A look into the future of tattoos

(Natural News) Recently, Swedish scientists successfully developed cartilage tissue by printing stem cells through a 3D bioprinter. As part of the study, a team of researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy and the Chalmers University of Technology in Sw

Casas de Plástico elaboradas con el sistema constructivo Bloqueplás. La re-utilización del plástico para proyectos arquitectónicos, permite construir casas de manera rápida, con alta durabilidad y bajo costo. Sistema que aporta al cuidado amb

The Monolithic houses dotting the country that protect against tornadoes, hurricanes and wildfires

This eco-friendly abode is combustion resistant, meets local earthquake-resistance requirements, and is very insulated due to the unique bricks.

Nuclear fusion is always "50 years away." But now it could finally, almost be here.

SpaceX's second re-launch of a previously used Falcon 9 rocket booster is targeted for next month, for a mission launching a Bulgarian communications satellite from Kennedy Space Center.

China builds five qubit quantum computer sampling and will scale to 20 qubits by end of this year and could any beat regular computer next year

The bionic eye just got a lot more eye-friendly.

According to the Center for Disease Control, 1.25 million people suffer from type 1 diabetes in the US alone.

SpaceX has its sights set on Mars, but that doesn't mean it has forgotten about Earth.

Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity suborbital spacecraft took to the skies over the Mojave desert in an unpowered flight test of the ship's feather re-entry system.

The final collapse of the Venezuela government is a matter of when and not if. Also, the when will probably be in some number of months

Technocrats are racing to apply AI to every facet of society, in an effort to completely re-engineer society and its economic system. Technocracy was a highly-defined alternative economic system designed to replace free enterprise and capitalism. ?

Americans love pickup trucks. The mighty Ford F-150 has been the best-selling vehicle in the US for 35 years, and last year the Dodge Ram and Chevrolet Silverado placed second and third. The basic design of this quintessential American vehicle

First plasma has been achieved.

Like us, you're tremendously excited by the possibilities of 3D printing. Unfortunately, the landscape is cluttered with trinkets, doodads and ornaments. We're in danger of drowning in 3D printed objects that nobody wants or needs.

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