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Methylene chloride (CH2Cl?) and acetone (C?H?O) create a powerful paint remover...

Engineer Builds His Own X-Ray After Hospital Charges Him $69K

Researchers create 2D nanomaterials with up to nine metals for extreme conditions

The Evolution of Electric Motors: From Bulky to Lightweight, Efficient Powerhouses

3D-Printing 'Glue Gun' Can Repair Bone Fractures During Surgery Filling-in the Gaps Around..

Kevlar-like EV battery material dissolves after use to recycle itself

Laser connects plane and satellite in breakthrough air-to-space link

Lucid Motors' World-Leading Electric Powertrain Breakdown with Emad Dlala and Eric Bach

Murder, UFOs & Antigravity Tech -- What's Really Happening at Huntsville, Alabama's Space Po

Tiny briefcase engine boosts EV range beyond battery power

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.

DIY Powerwall Builders Are Using Recycled Laptop Batteries to Power Their Homes

In May of 2015, Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's Powerwall. The battery allows homeowners to store electricity, either from the grid or solar panels.

Ford to Create New Brand of Electric Cars in China, GM Sells $5,000 Electric Car

China accounts for forty percent of global electric cars sales. Ford wants to crack that market with Fully Electric Vehicles Sold Under a New Brand, made in China of course.

More durable and longer lasting lithium-ion batteries with nanosheet anodes

Singapore researchers have a new generalized method of producing anode materials for lithium-ion batteries. The anodes are made from metal oxide nanosheets, which are ultrathin, two-dimensional materials with excellent electrochemical and mechanical

More telescope for drones and satellites with weight reduction of ten to 100 times

Lockheed revealed the first images from an experimental, ultra-thin optical instrument, showing it could be possible to shrink space telescopes to a sliver of the size of today's systems while maintaining equivalent resolution.

Development and launch of centimeter accurate enhanced GPS with...

Development and launch of centimeter accurate enhanced GPS with realtime correction

Improved ion thruster

Researchers from the Harbin Institute of Technology in China have created a new inlet design for Cylindrical shaped Hall thrusters (CHTs) that may significantly increase the thrust and allows spaceships to travel greater distances.

$30 billion Small Satellite market from 2017 to 2026

Prospects for the Small Satellite Market – A global supply and demand analysis of government and commercial satellites up to 500 kg.

Meet The First-Ever 3D Printer That Can Do Construction in The Vacuum of Space

This will change how we explore space.

Toyota Says It'll Launch Solid-State Battery EVs In 2022

We feel like we've heard this countless times already, but here we go again.

Trump Continues to Resist Pressure for Afghan Escalation

Pence, McMaster Lead Call for Escalation

MXene Combines Supercapacitor Tech With Large Format EV Batteries

Researchers in Drexel University's College of Engineering are developing a new battery electrode design that will enable recharging in minutes…or even seconds.

Metallic Hydrogen claim, criticisms and rebutal

The Metallic Hydrogen Wigner–Huntington transition is only a piece of the story, – the problem of high pressure hydrogen metallization is much more interesting than we thought just a few years ago, with intriguing intermediate phases with unexpec

Singularity Global Summit Space panel

Space: The Next Frontier

SpaceX Launches Its 12th Resupply Mission to the ISS

On Monday, SpaceX is poised to end a 40-day launch drought in the United States with a cargo run to the International Space Station. The commercial space outfit will fire off its 12th resupply service mission for NASA from Kennedy Space Center using

Musk Will Build His Own Hyperloop For New York To D.C. 29-Minute Transit

Although Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has said on numerous occasions that he has no plans to build a hyperloop -- even though it was his idea initially -- now it seems he's changed his mind.

Roborace Explained: Artificial Intelligence Meets Racing

Roborace is set to organize the first championship for self-driving vehicles, or 'AI drivers' as the organisation prefers to name it. The competition will take place at street tracks currently used by Formula E.

Plug-In Volvo XC60 T8 Enters U.S. Next Month With 10.4 kWh Battery

Volvo latest plug-in hybrid, the premium mid-sized SUV XC60 T8 Twin Engine, debuted in March at the Geneva Motor Show.

Plasma rocket on track to 100 hour firing at 100 kilowatts in 2018

Ad Astra is working to boost the endurance of the Vasimr plasma rocket to 100 hours of continuous firing at a power level of 100 kilowatts, by 2018.

GS Yuasa Promises Range-Doubling EV Battery By 2020

Range-doubling battery technology!

Emdrive inventor Shawyer patenting new approach and has bigger claims

Roger Shawyer is the original inventor of the Emdrive. He claims to have a new generation EmDrive and has filed for a patent in the UK. The Emdrive is super-controversial propellantless space drive. Many argue that there are problems with the physics

Tesla applying to test self-driving semi-trucks in Nevada and California

Tesla is developing a long-haul, electric semi-truck that can drive itself and move in "platoons" that automatically follow a lead vehicle, and is getting closer to testing a prototype, according to an email discussion of potential road tests bet

Intel to build a 100-strong fleet of self-driving cars

In addition to drones, virtual reality and smart sports gear, Intel is making strong moves in the world autonomous vehicles, something it recently demonstrated with a US$15 billion purchase of driverless tech company Mobileye.

New propulsion system gets CubeSats moving with teaspoons of water

Inexpensive and compact CubeSats are great for certain missions, but their simplicity can limit their applications. For one, most of them don't pack their own propulsion systems, instead hitchhiking into orbit aboard other satellite launches.

NASA funds $18.8 million to create and test fuel for nuclear thermal propulsion

As NASA pursues innovative, cost-effective alternatives to conventional propulsion technologies to forge new paths into the solar system, researchers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, say nuclear thermal propulsion tech

Supercapacitors game changing improvement on energy density compared to batteries

Supercapacitors have long been far faster charging than batteries but usually have 40 times less energy density (5 watt hours instead of 200 watt hours) compared to batteries.

Spacex and Boeing are both on track for 2018 manned flights

Boeing and SpaceX have indicated that they are on track to hit target launch dates in 2018.

A futuristic ride in Mercedes' self-driving car

We're all used to seeing "concept cars" -- those bits of automotive frippery that manufacturers trot out at motor shows every few months. Generally, they're either design tinsel that will never see the light of day, or previews of cars that will soon

Technocrat Funds Floating City Project As A "Deregulated" Hub Of Scientific Research

Technocrats hate to be told "no", so billionaire Technocrat Peter Thiel is funding a floating city in international waters, effectively removing all legal, moral and ethical restraints on scientific research. Thiel is a Transhuman and also wants

Creating nearly perfect meter sized graphene one hundred times faster

Researchers have achieved a leap forward in graphene production, from a technique that synthesizes a few square centimeters of single-crystal graphene in a couple of hours, to...

A Pod Races Through the Hyperloop for the First Time Ever

The future sounds a bit like a witch crying over a dead cat. That spooky wail is the sound hyperloop makes--at least, the version of the high-speed transportation system designed by Hyperloop One, which just took a big stride toward the day it fling

Technical progress towards interstellar laser beamed nanocraft

Breakthrough Starshot brings the Silicon Valley approach to space travel, capitalizing on exponential advances in key areas of technology since the beginning of the 21st century.

Smallest fully functional space probes now in orbit are precursors to interstellar chipsats

Breakthrough Starshot plans to launch a fleet of tiny interstellar chipsize probes to Proxima Centauri in 30 or 40 years.

Bollinger B1 Electric Truck Ready For Work, CHAdeMO Fast Charging –

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This Company Wants To Create A Lunar Outpost By 2020

US space firm, Moon Express, is competing in Google's global race to the moon.

Fisker EMotion To Get 145 kWh Battery Pack

Henrik Fisker has revealed battery specs for his Fisker EMotion electric super sedan

Luxembourg's New Law Lets Space Miners Keep Their Plunder

When Etienne Schneider became Luxembourg's minister of the economy in 2012, one of his first trips abroad was to NASA's Ames Research Center.

Elon Musk and Spacex new plan is to have much larger Mars landing craft

Elon Musk has said that he has changed his plans for Mars landing craft and Mars colonization. He will not use a dragon capsule for Mars.

'Substantial' ocean of water beneath moon's surface could help create human colony

Scientists who retested mineral samples collected during the Apollo moon missions now believe there's a massive amount of water under the lunar surface – a discovery which may make manned missions to the moon easier than previously thought.

UK has 2000 passenger seaplane design and China is building 50 passenger seaplanes

The world is experiencing growth in global air traffic and in order to cater for the growing market, the aviation industry is seeking to expand major airports, allowing for the development of bigger, faster, and more efficient aircraft.

Off-Road-Ready Tesla Model X Rendered

This macho beast of a Tesla Model X is ready to tackle the toughest terrain.

Elon Musk NY to DC hyperloop could break ground later this year

The Boring Company released a statement following Musk's tweets saying its talks with officials should lead to breaking ground on a tunnel "later this year."

Government "Flabbergasted" After Elon Musk's Most Bizarre Claim Yet

Elon Musk set the interwebs ablaze this morning when he tweeted out that he somehow got every major city on the eastern seaboard to "verbally approve" a "NY-Phil-Balt-DC Hyperloop" to be built by his Boring Company.

Unsinkable aluminum foam

Russians have added porosity to aluminum so that it can be lower density than water. Ships with porous aluminum foam would be unsinkable even with holes in the hull so long as the water that leaks in does not go beyond the buoyancy of the aluminum fo

A new generation of giant rockets is about to blast off

It's been 44 years since the mighty Saturn V last thundered skyward from a launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The towering rocket, generating enough power to lift 269,000 pounds into orbit, had been the workhorse of the Apollo moon miss

Hyperloop's First Real Test Is a Whooshing Success

Your dream of one day zipping from one city to another in a pod in a pneumatic tube just took one more step toward reality. Hyperloop One announced Wednesday that it successfully tested a full hyperloop.

Safer solid propellant for cubesats

Los Alamos National Laboratory has a radical new solid propellent for cubesats.

Airbus looking at large drones, flying cars with tests starting 2023

Airbus has set itself a goal of having a serialized production Urban Air Mobility (UAM) system ready for testing in a major city as early as 2023.

Sailorless Ships Are Coming to the Freight Industry

Tech companies from Google to Apple may be ploughing resources into driverless cars, but on our oceans, automated ships could be making bigger waves by the end of the decade.

Lucid Air Prototype Hits 235 MPH On High Speed Oval (w/video)

When 217 miles per hour isn't fast enough you go back to the drawing board if you're Lucid Motors.

Breakthrough high temperature ceramic for hypersonic planes and much more

Materials that can withstand very high temperatures well over 2000 degrees (up to 3000 degrees celsius) can enable hypersonic vehicle, better rockets, better reentry vehicles and other space and military applications. The new material ihas a rate of
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