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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

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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.

A new generation of flight:

Revolutionary Star-trek inspired 'ion propulsion' plane engine with no moving parts is unveiled by MIT researchers (and it actually flies)

Virgin Orbit's "flying launchpad" completes first captive carry flight

Virgin Orbit's Cosmic Girl took to the skies over Southern California on November 18, 2018 carrying a 70-ft-long (21-m) rocket for the first time. The specially modified 747-400 "flying launchpad" with the LauncherOne small-satellite booster under it

Nanotube film enabling ten times higher energy lithium metal batteries

Thin nanotube films effectively stop dendrites that grow naturally from unprotected lithium metal anodes in batteries.

SpaceX going all in to launch unmanned BFR to Mars by 2022

All SpaceX rocket development decisions are to accelerate the earliest completion of the SpaceX BFR.

Odysseus solar-powered, ultra-long endurance, autonomous aircraft readied for maiden flight

After a decade of development Aurora Flight Sciences has finally unveiled Odysseus, its full-scale, solar-powered, autonomous aircraft designed to stay in the air for months at a time.

Fusion breakthrough as China's "artificial sun" reaches 100 million degrees

The day of clean, limitless energy from nuclear fusion has taken another step closer thanks to China's Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST).

Boring Machine reaches other side of LA tunnel

Elon Musk announced that the Boring Company completed the LA/Hawthorne tunnel. The tunneling machine broke through to the other side.

Demonstration supersonic plane will fly at mach 2.2 by the end of 2019

XB-1 is the first independently developed supersonic jet. It is a one-third scale version of 55 passenger jet. If all goes well $6 billion will be raised to build commercial supersonic passenger jets. Boom Aerospace wants the 55 passenger versions to

FCC tells SpaceX it can deploy up to 11,943 broadband satellites

Initial launch of 4,425 satellites to be followed by 7,518 closer to the ground.

Volkswagen Announces More New Factories For Electric Car Production

Volkswagen EVs to be produced in Zwickau, Emden and Hanover Volkswagen announced that two more plants in Germany will be designated to produce electric cars, based on the new MEB platform.

DARPA Laser radar can see wind 8.6 miles away and enables permanent balloons

DARPA has solved the how to keep stratospheric balloons permanently over one location.

Russia claiming reusable nuclear rocket progress

Russia is claiming progress on a megawatt nuclear space propulsion engine. They had previously stated the system would be ready by 2017.

Google's Self-Driving Cars: The Big-Tech Takeover Continues

A self-driving car program, now known as Waymo, is about to quietly launch a fleet of paid rides in the world's very first commercial driverless car service.

Momentus plasma water propulsion will two to three times better than chemical rockets

Momentus will provide in-space transportation services to various orbits all the way out to deep space. They will receive $8.3 million in funding today.

Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Invest In 5-Minute Battery Charge Startup Enevate

Extreme fast charging is promised.

Analysis: Tesla Pickup Truck Battery Size, Range, & 0-60-MPH Time

Our model suggests that the upcoming Tesla Pickup Truck will have a 200 kWh battery, 380-mile range, and a 3.9 second 0-60-mph time.

Fifteen years after Concorde, supersonic jets are booming back into style

New laws in the US are breathing fresh life into supersonic air travel

Dubai Police Take Delivery Of First Electric Hoverbikes

The future is now and science fiction is fact, as motorcycles take to the sky.

Spaceplanes authorized for Cape Canaveral and Stratolaunch has engine success

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Office of Commercial Space Transportation (AST) issued Space Florida a Launch Site Operator License (LSOL) for operations at the Cape Canaveral Spaceport Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF).

Rocket Size Comparison 2018 V1

A rocket is a missile, spacecraft, aircraft or other vehicle that obtains thrust from a rocket engine. Rocket engine exhaust is formed entirely from propellant carried within the rocket before use.

Oumuamua mission value versus New Horizon Pluto and Europa Clipper

A space mission to chase down the Oumuamua object would be worth the $2 to 4 billion or so cost.

Volkswagen To Sell Subcompact Electric Crossover For $21,000

Also has a mid-size sedan and station wagon in the works.

Can You Tow Charge A Tesla Model 3? Watch To Find Out

Miles in, more miles out!

Billionaire Yuri Milner's Breakthrough Initiatives Eyes Private Mission to Seek Alien Life

Government agencies may not have a monopoly on life-hunting space missions for much longer.

SpaceX low latency Starlink satellite network will be massively profitable

SpaceX has US Federal Communications Committee (FCC) approval to build a constellation of 4,425 low Earth orbit communication satellites.

SpaceX Mini-BFS will make fully reusable Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy in 2019

Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX will make a mini-Big Falcon Spaceship upper stage for the Falcon 9.

Better communication between financials cities could pay for SpaceX Starlink

SpaceX Starlink will provide the lowest latency and high 100 Gigabit per second connections.

Daymak's latest all-electric ATV tackles all terrain for up to 223 miles

After first adding to its line of electric two- and three-wheelers with a four-wheeled variant a couple of years ago, Canada's Daymak has followed up with another electrified all-terrain vehicle. After making some refinements, the new 4WD Beast ATV U

Airlander 10: World's largest aircraft gets back in the air

For the first time since it crashed on its second test flight in August last year, the world's largest aircraft has taken to the air again.

Plan to find and explore Ocean Worlds and search for life

The NASA Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) Roadmaps to Ocean Worlds (ROW) group has a plan for exploring the ocean worlds in our solar system.

Space Force will be more new space weapons and not space marines

The U.S. military is creating the Space Force as a sixth branch. It will not be about space marines but acquiring new space weapons and other systems for space domination.

Watch As China's First Electric, Fully Self-Driving Taxis Hit the Road

Electric autonomous taxis are being tested in Guangzhou.

Tesla's Navigate On Autopilot Takes On Tricky Double Exit

How does Tesla's Navigate on Autopilot fare in tough, real-world scenarios?

Air Race E: 250 MPH Electric Airplane Racing Nears Reality

World's first all-electric airplane racing championship.

Many anomalies of interstellar Oumuamua are explained if it was an alien solar sail

Telescopes could not get an image of the interstellar asteroid Oumuamua. Recent research shows that the asteroid had an acceleration.

Space Force will be more new space weapons and not space marines

The U.S. military is creating the Space Force as a sixth branch. It will not be about space marines but acquiring new space weapons and other systems for space domination.

Elon Musk's tunneling company could become his most valuable

Elon Musk and the Boring Company has completed most of phase 1 of a 2.7-mile proof-of-process tunnel through Los Angeles.

SpaceX's Starlink internet constellation deemed 'a license to print money'

According to a draft paper written by networking researcher and professor Mark Handley, SpaceX's Starlink internet satellite constellation has the potential to significantly disrupt the global networking economy and infrastructure and do so with as

China unveils new 'Heavenly Palace' space station as ISS days numbered

China unveiled on Tuesday a replica of its first permanently crewed space station, which would replace the international community's orbiting laboratory and symbolises the country's major ambitions beyond Earth.

Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster which he fired into space aboard the world's most powerful rocket

Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster which he fired into space aboard the world's most powerful rocket has now flown beyond Mars, SpaceX confirms

Musk Posts New Video Of The Boring Tunnel

The first tunnel from The Boring Company is set to make a debut of sorts on December 10.

Race for Antimatter gravitational experiment this month

The ALPHA collaboration is an international team of researchers who study antihydrogen. They have built a detector that will determine the mass and gravitational effects on antimatter hydrogen.

World-first aerogel is made from plastic bottles, and has many potential uses

The process, which is said to be easily scalable for mass production, can produce an A4-paper-sized aerogel sheet from a single bottle

EasyJet Says Electric 9-Seat Jet Will Hit The Skies Next Year

Budget British airline EasyJet, which engaged in the Los Angeles-based Wright Electric start-up, reports progress on the development of an all-electric airliner – "Progress has been made".

Mysterious interstellar asteroid 'Oumuamua-

- could be a giant solar sail 'sent from another civilization to look for signs of life,' claim astronomers

Sun sets on Dawn spacecraft's asteroid belt mission

After 11 years exploring the asteroid belt, NASA's Dawn mission has come to the end. On Monday, the space agency confirmed that all contact has been lost with the deep space probe after it failed to make two scheduled communications with the Deep Spa

Polestar crumples its carbon-fiber car body in first ever crash tests

Polestar shuttled its verification prototype head-on in to a stationary barrier at 56 km/h (35 mph) to replicate the impact of a front-on collision

Opinion: How 'space babies' could help save humanity

A San Francisco biotech company plans a 24- to 36-hour mission that will result in the birth of a human baby in space

The World in one hour - 3000 SpaceX BFRs by 2045

Increasing from a 285 ship navy to a 355 ship Navy will cost the US about $900 billion over 30 years.

The Daily: Consensys Acquires Planetary Resources, New Zealand Backs Crypto R&D

Consensys, the software company established by Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin, has acquired struggling space startup Planetary Resources. The New York-based company said it will now operate its "space initiatives" out of Planetary Resources'
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