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Drone-launching underwater drone hitches a ride on ship and sub hulls
Humanoid Robots Get "Brains" As Dual-Use Fears Mount
SpaceX Authorized to Increase High Speed Internet Download Speeds 5X Through 2026
Space AI is the Key to the Technological Singularity
Velocitor X-1 eVTOL could be beating the traffic in just a year
Starlink smasher? China claims world's best high-powered microwave weapon
Wood scraps turn 'useless' desert sand into concrete
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The World's First Sodium-Ion Battery EV Is A Winter Range Monster
China's CATL 5C Battery Breakthrough will Make Most Combustion Engine Vehicles OBSOLETE
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.
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.
Move over, Musk: Kalashnikov unveils 'electric supercar'
Russian arms maker Kalashnikov on Thursday presented its new electric car inspired by a rare 1970s model, saying the new technology will rival Elon Musk's Tesla.
Asteroid mining for water with a few hundred spacecraft can be profitable
The maximum distance for asteroid mining 3 million miles (0.03 AU) with current technology. The corresponding delta-V is 437 meters per second. The near earth asteroids that are in range should contain more than one million liters of water.
Gravity Jet Suit Flight experiences now and Future Racing Events
Richard Browning spoke at SU Global Summit 2018 and demoed the Gravity Jetpack twice this week in the SF bay area.
Solar electric demonstrator takes to the air for the first time
Just a few short months after its Sun Flyer 2 prototype completed its maiden flight, Bye Aerospace reports that another of its aircraft has completed its first test flights.
The world's biggest plane inches closer to takeoff:
Stratolaunch, with a wingspan longer than a football field, could take to the air for the first time within weeks
China's top battery maker will make cheaper next generation low cobalt batteries
China's largest lithium battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) plans to begin producing in 2019 next-generation nickel-rich batteries, which are cheaper to make and have longer life-spans.
Many startups that hope to become the next SpaceX
Robert Zubrin believes that by 2023, there will be at least six other private space launch companies that will join SpaceX, Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic and Stratolaunch in commercial space launch.
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
Arizona confirmed for autonomous grocery delivery
A couple of months ago, supermarket retailer Kroger and driverless vehicle maker Nuro announced that they were to begin testing grocery delivery using the latter's self-driving pods. Now the partnership has confirmed Scottsdale, Arizona, as the first
Boring Company Announces Dodger Stadium Dugout Loop
Elon Musk's Boring Company wants to build a high-speed, zero-emissions underground public transportation system to Dodger Stadium.
Gold and silver nanostructures claimed to have room temperature superconductivity
Arxiv – Evidence for Superconductivity at Ambient Temperature and Pressure in Nanostructures
Long-sought carbon structure joins graphene, fullerene family
Carbon cage molecule formed inside pores of zeolites is a negatively curved schwarzite
50 years in the making, a restored streamliner claims the land speed record
For more than a century the Bonneville Salt Flats has drawn motoring enthusiasts to its vast open plains for its annual Speed Week, and for more than half a century one father-son duo has eyed a history-making run at the event.
Boeing believes mach 5 hypersonic passenger planes might have better economics than mach 2 ...
Boeing has selected mach 5.0 as the top speed for a hypersonic passenger jet because that greatly simplifies the structural materials and the propulsion. Standard titanium alloys used in aircraft and jet engines today are strong enough to survive the
New spin on heat shields could cut cost of spacecraft
If you're building a spacecraft that's going to be landing on a planet that has an atmosphere, then you'd better equip it with a heat shield.
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.
Particle accelerators centimeters long will drastically reduce size and cost of working ....
Physical Review Accelerators and Beams – Quasimonoenergetic laser plasma positron accelerator using particle-shower plasma-wave interactions
Amphibio artificial gills for a flooded future
If global warming causes catastrophic flooding that inundates most of the world's coastal urban areas by the end of the century, how will we cope?
World's first graphene-skinned airplane unveiled in the UK
At the recent Farnborough Air Show 2018, aerospace engineers from Britain's University of Central Lancashire presented what they state is the world's first graphene-skinned aircraft. Known as Juno, the 3.5 meter-wide (11.5-ft) unmanned plane could be
SpaceX Workshop on how to get humans to Mars and then create a colony of hundreds
Mars Workshop Photos
Airbus Spy Drone Stretches Flight-Endurance Record to 25 Days
Floating almost motionless at an altitude of 70,000 feet, Airbus SE's Zephyr spy drone has extended the record for the longest flight within the Earth's atmosphere to 25 days, two-thirds more than the previous best.
Toddler's Popsicle-by-Air Marks Milestone in U.S. Drone Delivery
From her home in a wooded hollow in Virginia hill country, Brianna Smith and her two-year-old son Jack entered the aviation record books on Tuesday.
NASA Astronauts will wear the lighter SpaceX and Boeing launch spacesuits in 2019
When NASA announced the astronaut crews for the first SpaceX and Boeing crewed launches in 2019, they showed them with the new SpaceX and Boeing spacesuits.
China is spending millions on engineering and geological work for the 84 mile rail tunnel to Taiwan
In 2017, Chinese Academy of Engineering completed a detailed design for an 84 mile long Tunnel to Taiwan. The Academy is the largest central governmental advisory body on infrastructural construction.
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.
After SpaceX Starlink upgrading to terabit space satellite internet
It's going to cost the mobile-phone companies, chipmakers, device manufacturers and software developers about $200 billion a year in research and capital spending to get 5G fully deployed.
Russia will have giant Wing in Ground Effect Seaplanes patrolling the Arctic
Russians have built the vast majority of planes that leverage Wing in Ground Effect. Flying low above the water or land can provide extra lift to enable planes with far more cargo capacity.
NASA Announces First Astronaut Crews to Fly on Boeing and SpaceX Spaceships
After years of vehicle development and building anticipation, NASA has now put the crew in commercial crew spacecraft.
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.
Ultimate Photonic Rocket
Haug has recently introduced a new maximum velocity for subatomic particles (anything with rest mass) that is just below the speed of light. This is combined with the relativistic rocket equation in order to assess how much fuel would be needed to ac
Trident underwater scooter is set to take you down
Just a couple of months ago, Geneinno successfully Kickstarted its Titan underwater drone, which users can remotely-control from above the surface.
Russia will have giant Wing in Ground Effect Seaplanes patrolling the Arctic
Russians have built the vast majority of planes that leverage Wing in Ground Effect. Flying low above the water or land can provide extra lift to enable planes with far more cargo capacity.
Arcade City: The Future of Ridesharing Is Decentralized
When Uber and Lyft first hit the market, the concept of getting a ride was completely revolutionized. And while the ridesharing industry has offered us safe and reliable alternatives to the outdated cab industry, innovation is constant.
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
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.
Electrospray Ion drive scalable to thousands of times the thrust of existing ion drives
Accion Systems uses electrospray ion drive propulsion.
US Resisting Pushes by North, South Korea to End War
State Dept insists peace can only come after full denuclearization
US Resisting Pushes by North, South Korea to End War
State Dept insists peace can only come after full denuclearization
Virgin Galactic spaceplane smashes altitude record in latest test flight
Sleek craft climbs to 32 miles over California's Mojave Desert.
Trade war fears fizzle as Trump strikes deal with EU
Announcement follows meeting with EU Commission President Juncker
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.
Plans outlined for 2,000 supersonic jets to link hundreds of cities across the planet
A 2,000-strong fleet of supersonic jets serving hundreds of destinations around the world in a matter of hours is an achievable goal, according to the mastermind behind one project attempting to revive the Concorde era.
Commercial 1000 horsepower Gravity human flying suit will add 3d printed wings and AR displays
The first Gravity human flying suit was sold for 300,000 euros. Current versions of the suit sell for $440,000.
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.