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Elon Musk indicated that the SpaceX Starship is designed to be relaunched within one hour of landing. SpaceX Starship could have three launches in one day.

We are now hearing reports that the case numbers are dropping precipitously in Wuhan and by extension elsewhere. This could only be possible if treatment became highly effective. All this on Vitamin C which is what i have been saying all along. W

Not only are herniated discs painful and debilitating, but treatments for them leave something to be desired. A new technique, however, may be more effective than anything that's come before.

Why would a company that made a big splash with a wheel-less, hitch-mounted camper pull a complete about-face and add wheels?

As ships travel the seas, an assortment of barnacles, mussels, algae and other greeblies accumulate on their hulls. This is definitely troublesome, which is why a new robot-based system has been developed as a possible solution.

New vs. old version electrics go head-to-head.

The futuristic Tesla Cybertruck was designed for function, with the utility of a truck and sports cars like performance, this durable vehicle was built to be capable both on-road and off-road, which makes cybertruck camping perfect.

...by concentrating sunlight into "hotspots" using lenses, they could boost the efficiency of solar-powered membrane distillation desalination systems by more than 50 percent.

The British government's strategy to deal with the coronavirus outbreak is for 60% of the UK to become infected in order to develop "herd immunity" against the disease, according to The Independent.

Another milestone for the construction equipment industry: the first electric backhoe loader arrives.

This Tesla Cyberquad project still has a long way before it's finished, though.

HomeBioGas is a bacteria digester that transforms organic waste such as food scraps and manure into methane gas for cooking. It also produces liquid fertilizer as a byproduct. The device needs a warm climate for bacteria growth. -GEG

In a major advance in mind-controlled prosthetics for amputees, University of Michigan researchers have tapped faint, latent signals from arm nerves and amplified them to enable real-time, intuitive, finger-level control of a robotic hand.

Get with the program people. Stop being Big Pharma sheeples…

Hybrid "power capacitors" that can store as much energy as lithium batteries, but with much higher charge/discharge rates, a huge range of safe operating temperatures, super-long lifespans and no risk of explosion are already in production, says a sm

The trial, which seeks to restore vision in people with a genetic mutation, marks the first time that DNA-editing viruses have been injected directly into a live person.

A brilliant 34-year-old engineer has built her own mobile phone with a rotary dial--and she did it because she despises texting and over-complicated smartphones.

The spectrum freed from the shift to digital TV is being used to bring broadband to long neglected parts of the US. But its path to market has been a messy one.

Within the next three months, Honeywell will bring to market the world's most powerful quantum computer in terms of quantum volume, a measure of quantum capability that goes beyond the number of qubits.

Tesla's advances in battery tech could pave the way for much bigger products.

Wheel hub motor - NSK Ltd. announced that it has successfully demonstrated the world's first transmission-equipped wheel hub motor, designed to improve the environmental performance, safety, and comfort of automobiles.

In an age where governments are trigger happy at censoring or shutting down networks, it is reassuring to know that Bitcoin can operate sans internet.

They'll build a massive Mobile Service Tower for rockets, too

St Louis scientists cure diabetes in mice in just two weeks using converted human cells to produce insulin, giving hope to 400 million people

Military robots win search and rescue competition as they search for survivors in underground power plant after gas leak

Well, not really, but Technical Partha's electric pickup truck is ready to roll.

When someone suffers a loss of skeletal muscle – either through accident or disease – it can be very difficult getting new muscle to grow in its place. A new handheld device is designed to help, however, by directly depositing scaffolding within

To be fair, the Ford F-150 wins one and loses one. It's the rematch we've all been waiting for.

Virgin Galactic sees demand for premium million-dollar packages for sub-orbital space tourism. They will first expand to spaceports on every continent.

Those that know Techrules at all know it as the Chinese company behind the micro-turbine-powered, fighter jet-inspired Ren supercar, but it's making a push to be known far outside of supercar fanatic circles.

Chinese rover is the first to investigate the dark side of the moon and finds three distinct layers after probing 131 feet below the lunar surface

We knew electric motors were superior to ICE, but never so literally.

The U.S. government is working on an atomic rocket to send satellites into the vast space between Earth and the moon--before Beijing gets there with its own spacecraft.

The news was announced by Professor Huang Jinhai from Tianjin University He has reportedly taken four doses of the drug without having side effects But the expert said the product was still 'far from' being sold on the market It would take at lea

Diabetes is characterized by trouble producing or managing insulin, and one emerging treatment involves converting stem cells into beta cells that secrete the hormone.

The Rotary Rocket Company developed the Roton rocket in the late 1990s as a planned fully reusable single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) crewed spacecraft. A full-scale test vehicle made three hover flights in 1999.

Glamping in zero gravity will cost a few millions bucks at least.

There was a November 2019, NASA Workshop on Interstellar Propulsion.

Boring Company has completed its first Prufrock boring machine. It is a new and custom design to dig ten times faster than other boring machines.

Bacteria are evolving resistance to antibiotics much faster than new drugs can be developed, potentially leading us to a dangerous future where infections are more likely to be deadly.

"We are sidestepping all of the scientific challenges that have held fusion energy back for more than half a century," says the director of an Australian company that claims its hydrogen-boron fusion technology is already working a billion times bett

A new proof-of-concept study has found a combination of two drugs, already approved by the FDA for other uses, may boost the release of stem cells from bone marrow and accelerate the healing of broken bones.

Calling it an "EpiPen" for trauma to the central nervous system, University of Michigan researchers have shown how an injection of nanoparticles can prevent the body's immune system from overreacting to trauma--potentially preventing some spin

African turquoise killifish can put themselves into a state of suspended animation as an embryo, a process known as diapause

HB-11 Energy has published its progress towards generating commercial nuclear fusion using a dual laser method.

Researchers at UNSW Sydney have made improved qubits using concepts from high school chemistry.

Says "science might worry that it's heading toward extinction."

In December, we published a video featuring Joe Tippens, who claims that his stage 4 small cell lung cancer that had metastasized throughout his body, but was cured using a protocol that included fenbendazole, an inexpensive drug commonly used for do

Hyperfine Research has received US Food & Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for the world's first bedside Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system, clearing the way for device shipments this summer.