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AI Getting Better at Medical Diagnosis
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Let's Test a Mr Robot Attack on the New Thunderbird for Mobile
Facial Recognition - Another Expanding Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Technology
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Flourishing in our new autonomy requires that we construct secure habitats in which to dwell. Cutting edge materials and methods provide unimaginable new options, allowing us greater mobility, and access to many previously uninhabitable environments.
Solid State Battery Firm Solid Power Raises $20 Million
Solid Power promises all solid-state batteries (ASSB).
Established in 2012, Solid Power from Louisville, Colorado that develops all-solid-state batteries (ASSB) has closed $20 million in a Series A investment round.
Tesla Battery Biz Booming, Mostly From Tesla Energy
Despite increasing negativity about Tesla Energy, business is growing at an alarming rate.
The Truth About Tesla Model 3 Batteries: Part 1
Today we are going to talk about "The Truth about Tesla's Batteries." If you're thinking about a Tesla, you've undoubtedly heard about how cheap they are to fill up, how little maintenance they require, and with recent Model 3 Production ra
25+ year journey to superstrong carbon nanotube bundles
In 1991, Sumio Iijima's discovered multi-walled carbon nanotubes in the insoluble material of arc-burned graphite rods and Mintmire, Dunlap, and White's independent prediction that if single-walled carbon nanotubes could be made, then they would
Breakthrough Carbon nanotube bundles are over 20 times stronger than Kevlar
Finally ultralong (several centimeter) carbon nanotube fibers have been made into stronger bundles. The tensile strength of CNTBs (Carbon nanotube bundles) is at least 9–45 times that of other materials.
Kilopower first step to safe and power nuclear fission for space and other applications
Dr. David Poston, Los Alamos National Laboratory talks about the simple and safe NASA Kilopower Project.
Tesla Leads The Way In Cheapest Battery Pack Costs
Tesla's battery cost advantage is expected to last for (at least) several years.
Scientists have invented a way to create 'unlimited renewable energy'...
Scientists have developed a way to transform sunlight into fuel that could lead to an 'unlimited source of renewable energy'.
Superbridge over Gibraltar
Carbon nanotube bundles are becoming a feasible and economically convenient solution for the realization in our time of super bridges, such as those required across the Straits of Bab al Mandab, Messina or Gibraltar (main spans ?2.7, 3.3 or 3.5 km,
7 Ways to Harvest Rainwater for Your (Permaculture) Garden
In permaculture, it is often thought that 'planting your water' is the first step to success.
Friction Fire 4 Ways... Fire Roll, Hand Drill, Bow Drill, and Bamboo Fire Saw
I did a video way back called Friction Fire 3 ways. That's before I learned the Bamboo Fire Saw. So for a long time now, I've been wanting to make this all inclusive video...
Marines 3D-print concrete barracks in just 40 hours
Marines have used a specialized 3D concrete printer to print a 500-square-foot barracks room in just 40 hours.
Airship POLICE CARS: Autonomous drones the future of emergency services
AUTONOMOUS airships are set to revolutionise policing, a cutting-edge company has claimed.
Southern Company partnering with Bill Gates backed Terrapower on molten chloride fast reactor
Several companies are starting to develop molten salt reactors. TerraPower is backed by Bill Gates and is developing molten salt reactors.
Progress to lithium-oxygen batteries with up to four times the energy density of lithium-ion
University of Waterloo Chemists are the first to achieve four-electron conversion, which doubles the electron storage of lithium-oxygen, also known as lithium-air, batteries.
How To Make A Rope Making Machine
This is the secret rope makers DON'T want you to know about. Haha JK. But it's a totally awesome project, and you should try it.
As electricity fails, desperate Venezuelans buy spoiled meat
MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AP) -- In a city once called the Saudi Arabia of Venezuela for its vast oil wealth, residents of Maracaibo now line up to buy spoiled meat as refrigerators fail amid nine months of rolling power outages that recently got worse.
White farmers try to offload land in South Africa before it is seized from them
'as government tries to grab first two hunting reserves without paying'
Breakthrough to safer solid state batteries with double the performance
The University of Michigan has a made a breakthrough towards a ceramic, solid-state electrolyte which could enable lithium-ion batteries with twice the energy performance.
First Nanotubes, then Graphene and now new form of carbon schwarzites
UC Berkeley chemists have proved that three carbon structures recently created by scientists in South Korea and Japan are in fact the long-sought schwarzites, which researchers predict will have unique electrical and storage properties like those now
From floating retreat to vintage taxi: 2018's Shed of the Year shortlist
A floating shed packed with musical instruments, a vintage taxi used as a spare bedroom, and a luxurious yurt complete with spiral staircase – all feature in this year's Shed of the Year shortlist
Long-sought carbon structure joins graphene, fullerene family
Carbon cage molecule formed inside pores of zeolites is a negatively curved schwarzite
Give Me Liberty or Give Me Property Rights!
What is the objective of a libertarian order? Is it to secure private property – that is, to apply the non-aggression principle to perfection – or is it to secure freedom?
Nanoparticles can triple the rate of evaporation for solar desalination
Tellurium nanoparticles can triple the evaporation rate of solar desalination and can raise the temperature of water from 29° to 85°C within 100 seconds.
How 3D Printing is Revolutionizing the Housing
The housing industry is like a roller coaster.
The housing crash left houses empty and people homeless. Some neighborhoods are still littered with empty and decaying homes, some having stood empty going on 10 years now.
In-Depth Look At CATL's Massive Battery Factory In Germany
More details appear on the Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. (CATL) lithium-ion battery plant in Thuringia, Germany announced by the way of a €4 billion (€4.7 billion) deal with BMW.
SpaceX Workshop on how to get humans to Mars and then create a colony of hundreds
Mars Workshop Photos
Carbon nanotube reinforced graphene is twice as tear resistant
Fracture-resistant "rebar graphene" is more than twice as tough as pristine graphene.
NASA 3D Printed Mars Habitat Design winners
NASA announced winners of the 3D printed Mars habitat design challenge.
Nuclear Fusion Updated project reviews
Here is a rundown of the various nuclear fusion projects.
Google Waymo launching paid self-driving car service in Phoenix in 2018 and California ;;;
Waymo has been testing self-driving cars without any safety drivers in Phoenix for nearly a year.
Asphalt-lithium metal batteries fully charge in five minutes
As useful and ubiquitous as they are, lithium-ion batteries are nearing their limits, and it's unlikely we'll be able to squeeze much more juice out of them.
Alex Jones faces existential courtroom battle over limits of fake news
In court papers filed last week in Travis County, Houston attorney Mark Bankston wrote that his defamation lawsuit against Alex Jones was already a victory "in one important respect."
Move over, graphene: Iron ore mineral becomes newest 2D material
When it comes to new materials, thin is most definitely in. Brazilian researchers have created a new two-dimensional material called hematene, which is made up of sheets of iron ore just three atoms thick. And as is often the case with 2D materials,
NASA Is 3D Printing Chainmail for Space Travel
Chainmail was a form of armor popular during Medieval times that consists of hundreds of small metal rings linked together to form armor. While better protection has long made it obsolete, NASA has reimagined its potential as a way to protect astrona
Seasteading and Health Care: Islands of Innovation
Innovation in health care is woefully lacking and government red tape is largely to blame, but seasteading just might be a way to circumvent bureaucracy without sacrificing quality.
Breakthrough could triple the energy collected by solar to 60% efficiency
Current solar cells are able to convert into electricity around 20% of the energy received from the Sun, but a new technique has the potential to convert around 60% of it by funneling the energy more efficiently.
These Heaters Keep You Warm By Generating Heat From Cryptocurrency Mining
When cryptocurrency is mined, it often gives a lot of heat as a result of the powerful hardware that it uses.
Why graphene hasn't taken over the world...yet
Graphene is a form of carbon that could bring us bulletproof armor and space elevators, improve medicine, and make the internet run faster -- some day.
Skeleton Technologies Presents Ultracapacitors In Fully Charged – Video
Skeleton Technologies is an interesting startup from Estonia, which develops and produces ultracapacitors that could be utilized in electric vehicles.
Watch the future of manufacturing emerge from a giant vat of gel
The future of manufacturing is truly wild.
Putin Slams "Pathetic Cabal" Undermining Russian-American Relations In 'Off-Script
After the Trump-Putin Helsinki summit sent the 'Russiagate' McCarthyite commentariat into overdrive this week, Russian President Putin directly addressed the current climate of fevered and fear-driven Western media panic in what he introduced as "off
Russian firm announces world's largest construction printer
A Russian firm has announced commencement on the world's largest 3D construction printer, capable of printing an entire six-storey building before you can say "regulatory compliance". The S–500 is the work of the AMT-SPETSAVIA group in Russia.
Lockheed 3D printing titanium space parts using garage sized printer
Lockheed is 3D printing titanum fuel tank for Lockheed Martin's largest satellites. Using this manufacturing method, tank delivery time went down from two years to three months (nine times faster) and they are no longer wasting 80% of the materials
What you Need to Know About Water: Collect, Purify, Store
Clean water is important for life and there are many scenarios that can threaten your drinking and cooking supply.
SAFE SPACE This floating 'utopia' will have its own government...
SAFE SPACE This floating 'utopia' will have its own government and cryptocurrency by 2022 – to beat rising sea levels
A voltage breakthrough with perovskite solar cells to edge closer to commercialization
A new technique has produced the highest performing inverted perovskite solar cell ever recorded.
U.S. announces North Korea will dismantle nukes within the year
The United States has a plan that would lead to the dismantling of North Korea's nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs in a year, President Donald Trump's national security adviser said Sunday.
Breakthrough for large scale printing of wood at ten times lower cost than other 3D printing
Cellulose is the most abundant and broadly distributed organic compound and industrial by-product on Earth.