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Graphene Dream Becomes a Reality as Miracle Material Enters Production for Better Chips, Batteries
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Prominent Personalities Sign Letter Seeking Ban On 'Development Of Superintelligence'
Why 'Mirror Life' Is Causing Some Genetic Scientists To Freak Out
Retina e-paper promises screens 'visually indistinguishable from reality'
Scientists baffled as interstellar visitor appears to reverse thrust before vanishing behind the sun
Future of Satellite of Direct to Cellphone
Amazon goes nuclear with new modular reactor plant
China Is Making 800-Mile EV Batteries. Here's Why America Can't Have Them
China Innovates: Transforming Sand into Paper
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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.
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.
Wendelstein 7-X sets new record in its quest for practical fusion power
Perched loftily on Germany's Baltic coast, the small-to-middling town of Greifswald continues to be at the forefront of research into nuclear fusion. This is in no small part down to the presence of the Wendelstein 7-X - a fusion reactor so complic
DOJ Won't Release Top Secret Loretta Lynch Intercepts Suggesting Secret Deal To...
DOJ Won't Release Top Secret Loretta Lynch Intercepts Suggesting Secret Deal To Rig Clinton Probe
Parents swap the suburban life for living on the open road in ---
--an Airstream trailer and homeschooling their three children as they travel
Solar power for the whole world could be generated from a relatively small patch...
of land, says report...(Natural News) If the U.S. wants to completely rely on solar power, it will need to set aside a lot of land. But solar energy can fulfill the world's power needs, and an article on Inverse states that the average nation can
Japan Backs Solid-State Battery Efforts With $90 Million In Funds
Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) is trying to leverage research on solid-state batteries for electric cars.
Inspector General Report Shows Secrecy Threatens Democracy
The 500-page inspector general's report released Thursday reveals how unjustified secrecy and poor decisions helped ravage the credibility of both Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and the FBI.
Sustainable Prepping: 5 Alternative Energy Types for When the SHTF
There are actually a lot of different types of energy sources to tap into after a disaster strikes.
"Proprietary Communities" and Totally Privatized Government
[The Road to Freedom and the Demise of Nation States. By Peter B. Bos. Free Trade Press, 2015. Xxv + 620 pages.]
Are IQs Really Dropping? - #NewWorldNextWeek
Welcome back to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week:
Social Security and Medicare Going Broke Even Faster than Projected
Are you depending on Social Security and Medicare for your retirement?
You might want to rethink that plan. These government retirement programs are going broke even faster than expected.
GM Teams With Honda To Develop Next-Gen Advanced Battery
It's an unexpected partnership on battery development that we didn't see coming.
But we welcome it for sure.
Nuscale small modular reactor will have 20 Percent More Power and better cost performance
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.
We took an exclusive ride in a flying car
"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.
Horne Technologies has superconducting IEC fusion device and hope for net power by 2020
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.
Cryptocurrency Baskets Are Growing in Popularity
For investors who lack the time, knowledge, or patience to sift through hundreds of cryptocurrencies, there's an easier way. Crypto baskets allow traders to snap up a horde of digital assets in one go, without the need to independently manage them.
Strong, Machinable Aerogels Now Commercially Available
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
The Age of Graphene: Samsung's Revolutionary Battery Technology
Pre-historic times and ancient history are defined by the materials that were harnessed during that period.
Mass production of graphene, MIT develops process to make unlimited high quality graphene
Researchers at MIT have developed a method to produce high quality graphene at a commercial scale.
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"3D battery" design twists together for split-second charging
Most batteries are made up of a cathode on one side and an anode on the other, with a nonconducting separator between them.
Crypto Floating Island Project Closer to Realization
Blue Frontiers has signed a much-publicized memorandum of understanding with French Polynesia. The Floating Island Project is exactly as it reads, only it's to be an independent government complete with its own cryptocurrency. An idea long thought
A floating Pacific island is in the works with its own government...
If you're struggling to do business or just live under your country's administration, a movement of philanthropists, academics and investors is working on a very sci-fi alternative.
Solar-equipped Off Grid adventure van puts focus on sustainability
Van life, solar power, open-road adventure and sustainable wood ... what more could a fun-seeking millennial want? Maybe a table piled high with avocado toast and an integrated selfie cam with live streaming, but they'll have to figure that out on th