Forums

Shop

Breaking News

The System Being Built While the World Burns

As Epstein's Clients Walk Free, an Innocent Man Rots in a Cage for Promoting Liberty

Federal Appeals Court Allows Pentagon To Designate Anthropic As A Supply-Chain Risk

Artemis II Astronauts Prepare For Re-Entry, Splashdown

Top Tech News

Anthropic says its latest AI model is too powerful for public release and that it broke...

The CIA used a futuristic new tool called "Ghost Murmur" to find and rescue...

This Plant Replaces All Fertilizer FOREVER. Why Did the FDA Ban It?

China Introduces Pistol-Like Coil-Gun Based On Electromagnetic-Launch Systems

NEXT STOP: MARS IN JUST 30 DAYS?!

Poland's researchers discovered a bacteria strain that destroys pancreatic cancer.

Intel Partners with Tesla and SpaceX on Terafab

Anthropic Number One AI in Ranking and Revenue - Making $30 Billion Per Year

India's indigenous fast breeder reactor achieves critical stage: PM Modi

Mexico Speeds Up Biometric ID Rollout

Transportation

The Crown has claimed regulatory control of every means of conveyance, stifling the free travel of individuals and their property. This is an intolerable act. Superior transportation technologies already exist, but are suppressed by regulations.

Momentus Space Signs SatRevolution as a Customer

Momentus Space has agreed to launch a SatRevolution cubesat.

#Embraer #Pulse concept

As #Embraer celebrates 50 years, we challenged our designers and engineers with the question: What will business aviation look like in the next 50?

Check Out This Two-Door Tesla Cybertruck Transformed Into Coupe-Like Car

With just two doors, it takes on a whole new look that's far sleeker than the original.

The Boring Company finishes tunnel beneath Las Vegas Convention Center

The Las Vegas Convention Center is undergoing a major overhaul, and one of the most innovative features of the new-look facility will be the high-speed transport system that will circle beneath the surface. The Boring Company has now completed the ex

Multiple Historic Revolutions of SpaceX Superheavy Starship

In 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone and described how it was three breakthrough products in one. It was widescreen iPod with touch controls, a revolutionary phone and full featured internet communication device.

Japanese researchers unveil an INFLATABLE e-bike that weighs 12 pounds and can be...

Japanese researchers unveil an INFLATABLE e-bike that weighs 12 pounds and can be folded so it fits inside a backpack

Sky Full of Starships

Let us assume that the SpaceX Starship is a complete fully reusable success that achieves mass production.

EHang to introduce air tourism in northwest China

Air mobility company EHang has joined forces with tourism company LN Holdings to bring air tourism to the latter's hotels. One of the first projects to emerge from the new collaboration will make the LN Garden Hotel in Nansha the first hotel to offer

Triton launches spectacular 24-seat DeepView tourist submarine

Now, the company has launched an incredible-looking tourist sub that can take 24 passengers, a pilot and a co-pilot down to 100-meter (328-ft) depths in air-conditioned comfort, providing panoramic views of the aquatic world through colossal 5.5-inch

Morphing carbon fiber composite changes shape on demand

Although we have seen "morphing" structural materials before, they typically incorporate solenoids, pumps or motors that add weight and complexity. Now, however, scientists have developed a carbon fiber composite that shifts shape with a simple shot

Electric microwave plasma thruster could rival traditional jet engines

A Chinese team has demonstrated a prototype of a microwave plasma thruster capable of working in the Earth's atmosphere and producing thrust with an efficiency comparable to the jet engines you'd find on modern airliners – under laboratory conditio

SpaceX Has a Good Starship Engine Firing So Next is the 150 Meter Hop

SpaceX has successfully had a static engine test firing for a Raptor engine and for Starship prototype.

World-first "impossible" rotating detonation engine fires up

A Florida team working with the US Air Force claims that it's built and tested an experimental model of a rotating detonation rocket engine, which uses spinning explosions inside a ring channel to create super-efficient thrust.

Asteroid sneaks past satellites in one of the closest flybys on record

No one saw it coming until it was right on top of us. More like above us, actually.

'World's clearest picture of the moon's craters' is captured by a Californian astrop

- by combining multiple lunar 'phases' into one spectacular image

Ground-going Learjet limo headed for auction

If there are two forms of transportation that millionaires like, those would be Learjets and limos – the one-off "Learmousine" is a mix of both. Should your pockets be as deep as it is long, the bizarre vehicle could soon be yours.

EHang commits to building air taxi terminal for China

Just last month, China's air mobility company EHang announced plans to fly into Europe and set up shop in Seville, Spain. Now the firm has partnered with the City of Hezhou in Guangxi Province, China, to build a tourism-focused terminal for its air t

Positron Dynamics Installed Antimatter Propulsion Related Gear

In March 2020, Positron Dynamics completed a new source installation at Berkeley. They continue to make progress on experiments and designs.

Lightweight Nuclear Electric Space Propulsion With Ten Times the Power

The Swarm-Probe Enabling ATEG Reactor, or SPEAR, is a nuclear electric propulsion spacecraft that uses a new, lightweight reactor moderator and advanced thermoelectric generators (ATEGs) to greatly reduce overall core mass.

NASA NIAC Funds Giant Lunar Crater Telescope

An ultra-long-wavelength radio telescope on the far-side of the Moon has tremendous advantages compared to Earth-based and Earth-orbiting telescopes.

Two new solar cells break records, including highest efficiency ever

Solar cells are constantly improving on the road to maximum efficiency. Now, three records have been broken by two different devices, including one that pushes the highest overall solar conversion efficiency towards the 50-percent mark.

Newly-Developed Solar Cell Earns Two World Records for Its 'Extraordinary' Efficiency

Each of the cell's six junctions (the photoactive layers) is specially designed to capture light from a specific part of the solar spectrum.

Virgin Orbit puts its 747 "flying launchpad" through a full rehearsal

Virgin Orbit continues to edge closer to its objective of firing satellites into space form an airborne 747, this time completing an end-to-end launch rehearsal designed to put all of its systems through their paces.

NASA funds concept for gigantic radio telescope on far side of Moon

NASA is exploring the potential of building an enormous radio telescope on the far side of the Moon in a vast, hollowed-out crater. The telescope's reflector would be comprised of a 1-km (0.6-mile) diameter wire mesh that would be pulled into place

REE showing progress in its mission to upend the automotive industry

REE's quiet plans for world automotive industry domination are coming along quite nicely, thank you. This Israeli company's revolutionary approach to vehicle development upends all traditional approaches and offers some huge advantages moving into th

Alphabet's Wing drones are delivering toilet paper and cookies...

Demand for Alphabet's drone delivery Wing is soaring in a Virginia town amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Simple new method makes graphene "paint" possible

Graphene may be versatile, but there's one thing it's not all that good at – dispersing in water. Now, researchers at Umeå University have found a relatively simple way to do it. Graphene oxide is a different form of the material that can make

Li-ion co-inventor patents glass battery that could upturn auto industry

And the new glass battery promises to accelerate the shift away from internal combustion engines because it will deliver a significant increase in storage capacity.

SpaceX's Elon Musk reveals next Starship's Raptor engines, explains latest failure

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to better explain what happened when the latest full-scale Starship prototype failed during one of its first tests, while later revealing the rocket engines set to power a future prototype's first flight.

Cadillac Celestiq Luxury EV Sedan Previewed In Exclusive Rendering

Some say the sedan body style is on its way out, but Cadillac's upcoming flagship would beg to differ.

Stratolaunch hypersonic vehicle to launch from world's largest plane

Stratolaunch, the company behind the world's largest plane, has unveiled plans for a hypersonic vehicle it hopes will offer customers a way of rapidly testing advanced flight technologies.

NASA unfolds James Webb Telescope's huge mirrors in deployment test

The James Webb Space Telescope has crossed another milestone on the path to its long-awaited launch. NASA engineers have now completed a deployment test, unfurling the telescope's gigantic mirror into the configuration it will take in space.

Evoy launches the world's most powerful electric outboard motor

It might be a 90-pound weakling next to the biggest and baddest of the combustion world, but Evoy's new zero-emissions electric outboard motor and powertrain solution will put it at the pointy end of the all-electric market.

BYD Reveals Ultra-Safe Blade Battery: Pierces It With A Nail

BYD Blade Battery leverages safety and improves volumetric energy density. Blade Battery will debut in the BYD Han (June 2020).

UK Shop Makes World's First Electric Classic Mercedes-Benz SL

It's an EV conversion carried out on the iconic SL R107 from the 1970s.

SpaceX Starship SN3 Prepares To Hop | SpaceX in the News

SpaceX Starship SN3 Prepares To Hop | SpaceX in the News Episode 85. Today we get our hype on for Starship SN3 progress; talk crew dragon updates; look into the upcoming launch manifest, including for Falcon Heavy; and finish with the honorable menti

SpaceX SN3 Starship Stacked and Will Test Hop 150 Meters Next Week

The SpaceX SN3 Starship is stacked and will have a test hop for 150 meters next week. This is assuming that the pressure tests and other preparations have no issues.

Tesla Super Battery: Million Miles, Ultra Fast-Charging, Cheap, Light

Battery technology is advancing quickly and Tesla seems to be ahead of all others.

SpaceX SHS Rocket Switching to 304L Steel and Then Custom Alloy

The SpaceX Super Heavy Starship (SHS) will switch from 301 steel alloy to 304L steel alloy for some parts and then a new custom steel alloy.

Visit the 'most exclusive destination on earth'... for £710k: Tourists offered the chance...

The Mariana Trench is the deepest spot in the world's oceans and only a handful of people have been there.

Building An Electric Motorcycle - Plans Available

Fast enough for highway use, better acceleration than most cars, and more than enough range for the avg person's daily commutes.

EHang flies into Spain to build air taxi test infrastructure

Back in January, China's EHang aced the first flight in the US of its two-seat autonomous air taxi. Now the company has agreed to develop the first Urban Air Mobility pilot program in Seville, Spain.

SpaceX Starship Designed for Relaunch Within 1 Hour

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.

Tiny, telescoping Hitch Hotel camper gets its own trailer wheels

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

How Does The New KTM Freeride E-XC Bike Stack Up?

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

The Ultimate Tesla Cybertruck Camper

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.

High-density hybrid powercapacitors: A new frontier in the energy race

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

Could Tesla Disrupt Shipping Industry With Battery-Powered Boats?

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

World's first transmission-equipped wheel hub motor

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.

SpaceX aims to launch 70 missions a year from Florida's Space Coast by 2023

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