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Will China Retaliate Against Donald Trump's Oil Blockade and Force an American Surrender?

There can be no peace in the Middle East as long as the Zionist agenda of greater Israel rules

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Autonomous wing-in-ground effect aircraft has US military in its sights

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The Most Dangerous Race on Earth Isn't Nuclear - It's Quantum.

This Plasma Stove Cooks Hotter Than The Sun

Energy storage breakthrough traps sunlight in a molecule

Steel rebar may have met its match – in the form of wavy plastic

Video: Semicircular wings give Cyclone VTOL a different kind of lift

After 20 Years, Wave Energy Finally Works

FCC Set To "Supercharge" Starlink Space Internet With "Seven-Fold More Capacity"

'World's First' Humanoid Robot For Real Household Chores Launched With 16-Hour Battery

XAI Training 10 Trillion Parameter Model – Likely Out in Mid 2026

The $7 Powder That Beats Your $5,000 AC Unit!

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.

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 –

– Watch Livestream Debut

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

MIT Envisions The First Space Hotel

How do you make research in space less expensive? Why not build a space station where half of the structure functions as a luxury hotel–and the other half belongs to NASA's astronauts?

Carbon nanotube reinforce Composites can reduce space vehicle mass by 30%

NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD) is keenly interested in nanotechnology – an approach that can reduce the mass and improve the performance of aerospace systems.

Solar Team Eindhoven Launches Lightyear One Solar Electric Car – Video

Meet Lightyear, a Dutch company which is developing solar-powered electric car – the Lightyear One, reportedly capable to "drive for months without charging".

The Boring Company Adds Elevator Skeleton For Car/Pod Transport

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is certainly not wasting any time with his Boring Company concept.

Volvo Plans to Go Electric, to Abandon Conventional Car Engine by 2019

CEO reiterates target of selling one million electric cars and hybrids by 2025

Hypersonic and anti-hypersonic arms race

Lockheed Martin is using turbine rocket combined cycle (TRCC) to build a mach 6-10 hypersonic plane. The TRCC is an engine that switches between turbofan, ramjet and scramjets for subsonic, supersonic, and hypersonic flight. The TRCC engine will be t

Solar powered EMdrive version of Space Battleship Yamato

Space Battleship Yamato is a major anime movie series. The original Yamato movie in Japan eclipsed that of the local release of Star Wars. It was followed by over a dozen movie sequels.

If EMdrive is real and scales with Q factor then we get almost Star Trek level Technology

Adam Crowl considers spaceships if EM-Drive is verified as a real thing.

Progress to stable laser propelled sails

Stable flight of a laser sail is an essential requirement of beam-driven propulsion. Centauri Dreams talked to James Benford about work towards stable beam flight. It places considerable demand upon the shape of the sail and beam.

ESA Plans to Privatize Robotic Space Plane by 2025

Although Europe's Space Rider reusable space plane is three years or so from its debut, the European Space Agency (ESA) is already making plans to privatize the unmanned orbital vehicle.

Liftoff! SpaceX Nails Second Launch in Three Days

SpaceX nailed its second launch in three days today (June 25) with liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California carrying 10 satellites owned by Iridium Communications.

Chinook ETS Drives Like, And Against, The Wind – Video

It's part sailboat, part wind turbine, and all student-built.

Ecotuned Ready To Convert Ford Trucks To Electric, Like A 48-kWh F-150

Sure, Ford is working on some sort of electrified F-150 pick-up truck, but whatever that vehicle is, it's a long ways away.

New Paper Ream-Like Battery Boasts Impressive Energy Density

Doubling the energy density, and thus range of the state-of-the-art electric vehicles to some 620 miles (1,000 km) is the stated goal of Mobile Energy Storage Systems out of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft in Dresden, Germany.

IVYS Simple Fuel Station Offers Homemade Hydrogen For $250,000 – live video

It's a lot cheaper than a full-scale H2 station, that's for sure.

The Electric, Driverless Revolution Is About to Hit the High Seas

Fully electric ship Yara Birkeland to be launched next year Will be controlled remotely in 2019, fully automated by 2020

Lightning Motorcycles Gunning For 400-Mile Single-Charge Run

According to Lightning Motorcycles, the company intends to test an eMoto capable of traveling from Los Angeles to San Francisco without a recharge. The run is expected to be late this summer or early fall.

Small nuclear fusion space and energy systems using high efficiency RF heating

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory has two NASA grants.

Elon Musk tweets that Falcon Heavy Should launch in Four Months

The Spacex Falcon Heavy will be the most powerful rocket in the world that will be currently flying. There have been more powerful rockets but they are no longer flying. The Falcon heavy will be capable of launching 64 metric tons into Low Earth Orbi

Autonomous cars (no human backup) may hit the road next year

Autonomous vehicles with no human backup will be put to the test on publicly traveled roads as early as next year in what may be the first attempt at unassisted autonomous piloting.

China developing arsenal ship that would have a high speed hydroplaning mode and...

China developing arsenal ship that would have a high speed hydroplaning mode and submersible capability

Tomahawk 370 Mile Electric Supercar Enters Production In 2018, 60 MPH In 2 Seconds

Dubuc Motors has announced that its $125,000 or so electric sports car, the Tomahawk, is now scheduled for production in 2018, complete with 0-60 mph time in 2 seconds*.

Watch SpaceX Relaunch a Commercial Cargo Capsule for the First Time

UPDATE: SPACEX'S ISS resupply mission was scrubbed due to weather on June 1. The next launch window is Saturday, June 3, at 5:07 pm EST.

Microsoft co-founder built the world's largest plane to launch rockets into space

The first flights are expected in a few years

Prototype vehicle that flies over water unveiled by aero startup Kitty Hawk

A long-awaited "flying car" that's been under development by aerospace startup Kitty Hawk was unveiled Monday.

Trail Kitchens utility boxes drive lightly for campsite cooking and cleaning

Some people prefer to buy prebuilt expedition trucks or camper vans, but others like to build their own or just camp out of a simple, everyday vehicle.

Google's Sergey Brin Reportedly Building Secret Airship In An Old NASA Hanger

Amassing great wealth affords a person the opportunity to splurge on all kinds of luxuries. Some end up buying a yacht or their own personal jet, Google's Sergey Brin has something else in mind--a freaking airship.

Revealed: details of Sergey Brin's secret plans to build the world's biggest aircraft

Google co-founder is building airship designed to be able to deliver supplies and food on humanitarian missions to remote locations, sources said

Asteroid worth $10,000 quadrillion 'could transform global economy'

NASA scientists are outdoing themselves yet again: by reworking the planned route for a robotic mission to a giant asteroid worth $10,000 quadrillion, they've managed to cut costs, launch sooner and arrive four years earlier than planned. Not bad.

Is this how US soldiers will be flying into battle?

French inventor whizzes over a lake on hoverboard capable of reaching 93mph amid reports fighters could be kitted out with the device

This New Goldilocks Rocket Is Juuust Right for Small Satellites

AT 4 PM local time on May 25, Rocket Lab's Electron stood on the company's private launch pad on the Mahia Peninsula in New Zealand. Perched on the edge of an eroding cliff, pointing toward the sky from the southern tip of the world, the little r
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