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SpinLaunch Inc. has closed a $35 million Series A funding round with a powerhouse syndicate of investors. Investors include Airbus Ventures, GV (formerly Google Ventures), and Kleiner Perkins.

Intel researchers are testing a tiny new "spin qubit" chip.

Bob Effendi, a native of Indonesia, helped ThorCon win its 2015 deals with Indonesian companies to work on thorium nuclear power.

[The Road to Freedom and the Demise of Nation States. By Peter B. Bos. Free Trade Press, 2015. Xxv + 620 pages.]

Of all the pieces of pop culture "spy gear" that have been dreamed up over the years, one of the most iconic is the 2-way wristwatch radio used by comic-strip detective Dick Tracy.

NASA's Low-Earth Orbit Flight Test of an Inflatable Decelerator, or LOFTID, is demonstrating technology for atmospheric entry.

Elon Musk's Boring Co. has won a bid to build a multibillion-dollar high-speed express train to Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.

The Russian military is building a massive cloud which will serve as backup internet in the event of a war. The cloud will be ready in two years and will allow Russia to survive in wartime, even they are totally disconnected.

Tokyo Tech researchers have designed and fabricated a tiny, fast, reliable and accurate 28-GHz transceiver meant for stable high-speed 5GAbove –

Nippon Telephone and Tokyo Institute of Technology have jointly developed an ultra high-speed IC for wireless front-end that operates on a terahertz frequency band, and in the 300 GHz band they have succeeded in developing the world's fastest 100 g

Psychedelics could be 'next generation' of safer treatments for mental health

The world's first trillionaire won't come from cryptocurrency or some clever new app – he or she will become rich from asteroid mining.

Arizona State University (ASU) scientists, in collaboration with researchers from the National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST), of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have successfully programmed nanorobots to shrink tumors by cutting off

The number of individual stalls in the Tesla Supercharging network now exceeds 10,000… several months behind the schedule, but still it's the biggest such network by far in the world.

Robots and drones for delivery were all over the annual Global Smart Logistics Summit. Several automated guided vehicles (AGVs), reminiscent of Roomba's robot vacuum cleaners, were moving metal racks stacked with piles of boxes. There were autonomo

On Saturday June 9, the founder of the bitcoin cash-centric wallet Electron Cash, Jonald Fyookball, revealed that he had created an on-chain betting protocol called Chainbet. The 255 lines of code form a proposal that allows a simple coin flip type o

The US Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has unveiled a computer capable of handling 200,000 trillion calculations per second (200 petaflops).

When the 300-foot Maersk Launcher docked in San Diego early Monday morning, it unloaded a cargo of hardened black blobs scooped from the bottom of the sea.

Land Rover builds cars with two principles in mind: off-road capability and in-car comfiness.

It's an unexpected partnership on battery development that we didn't see coming. But we welcome it for sure.

NuScale Power small modular reactor (SMR) will be able generate 20 percent more power than originally planned. Advanced testing and modeling tools helped NuScale identify optimization and increased power generation.

China announced that all United Nation member counties are welcome to cooperate with China to jointly utilize its future China Space Station (CSS).

"It's as easy to use as playing Minecraft," Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun said as we watched my colleague Rachel Crane pull on a motorcycle helmet.

SpaceX is going all-in on building in-house its own satellite constellation.

Horne Technologies is developing an inertial electrostatic nuclear fusion system. They claim to have the world's first superconducting, high-beta plasma research device in operation.

The $100 million Breakthrough Starshot program has issued a request for proposals.

Assembly has been completed on the first test engine that will power DARPA's Boeing-built, next generation spaceplane. Built by Aerojet Rocketdyne , the first updated AR-22 rocket engine for the Phantom Express project will be used in ground tests to

The US Army isn't just looking to giving soldiers a hand, but a whole extra arm. At the Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland, the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) is testing a prototype passive support system called Third Arm, which evenly distribut

Airloys™ are a new class of mechanically robust aerogels with the strength to stand up to real-world applications. In this video, classic silica aerogel is compared with a new material called Airloy X100 which has the low density and superinsulatin

Smart City technology has found a way to incorporate blanket sensors into road pavement to provide continuous 'services' and connections to your autonomous and traditional automobile. Commercial companies will deliver Internet-based content to pa

On Saturday, June 2 a new cryptocurrency wallet focused exclusively on bitcoin cash launched called Cashpay. The beta release is now available for Android and iOS devices but the wallet also offers an interesting feature -- Cashpay comes with the ab

SpaceXfirst two prototype Starlink internet satellites tests are working three months after launch. Elon tweeted - TinTin A & B are both closing the link to ground w phased array at high bandwidth, low latency (25 ms). Good enough to play fast r

The application Keyport is a platform that utilizes the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network's OP_Codes and allows users to send and accept encrypted messages built on top of the BCH chain and the Toku protocol. The new platform Keyport was created by Atlant

McGill experiments in fruit flies show 60% increased lifespan thanks to a combination of probiotics and an herbal supplement.

Russia has by far the largest nuclear energy industry in the world.

3D printed corneas could be used in the future to ensure an unlimited supply of corneas.

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have developed a new way to grow mineralized materials which could regenerate hard tissues such as dental enamel and bone.

Robert Smith believes are at the equivalent of the ENIAC computer stage. He views quantum computing like co-processors to classical computing. Quantum computing help solve certain classes of problems much faster.

With the ability to be coaxed into different kinds of mature cell types, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) hold all kinds of potential in the world of regenerative medicine.

High blood pressure or hypertension is a long-term condition in which the blood pressure within the arteries is persistently elevated.

continents under the sea...Inside an unassuming brick building in the windswept seaside town of West Jutland, Denmark, lies the beating heart of the internet. Well, one of them.

The idea of a colony of humans on Mars isn't just science fiction anymore; NASA and space agencies around the world, along with independent scientists and researchers, are working hard to determine just what it would take for humanity to take root

Block.one is an open source software publisher specializing in high performance blockchain technologies.

Pre-historic times and ancient history are defined by the materials that were harnessed during that period.

Researchers at MIT have developed a method to produce high quality graphene at a commercial scale.

Quantum mechanics could stop microchips from getting any smaller. What does that mean for the future of electronics?

Scientists are engineering a new, more efficient generation of computer chips by modeling them after the human brain.

New drive system will make first appearance in a mass-produced electric vehicle

Virgin Galactic has shown the first firing of its spaceplane's chemical rocket engine was no fluke, following last month's effort with another successful outing in California.

Magnax prepares to manufacture radically high-powered, compact axial flux electric motor