Researchers are currently developing the environment-friendly solar cells of the future, which will capture twice as much energy as the cells of today. The trick is to combine two different types of solar cells in order to utilize a much greater portion of the sunlight. “These are going to be the world’s most efficient and …
A future when solar cells can be sprayed or printed onto the windows of skyscrapers or atop sports utility vehicles — and at prices potentially far cheaper than today’s silicon-based panels could begin in 2018. Solar researchers and company executives think there’s a good chance the economics of the $42 billion industry will soon be …
Rigetti Computing, a leading quantum computing start-up, announced it has raised $64 million in Series A and B funding. Rigetti Computing is building a cloud quantum computing platform for artificial intelligence and computational chemistry. Rigetti recently opened up private beta testing of Forest, its API for quantum computing in the cloud. Forest emphasizes a quantum-classical …
Blue Origin has its first BE-4 rocket engine fully assembled and ready for testing — and they pushed two more out the door recently. Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space start-up aims to have a new rocket engine ready for installation aboard United Launch Alliance’s new Vulcan rocket by 2019. Blue Origin has signed its first …
Elon Musk has hit back at claims that President Donald Trump’s new NASA bill will be good for his space exploration business, saying it does nothing to get SpaceX’s mission to Mars off the ground. Elon Musk says the NASA funding bill changes almost nothing about what NASA is doing. Existing programs stay in place …
NASA is leading the next steps into deep space near the moon, where astronauts will build and begin testing the systems needed for challenging missions to deep space destinations including Mars. The area of space near the moon offers a true deep space environment to gain experience for human missions that push farther into the …
The Robo-Mate exoskeleton can reduce the effort to lift a load by ten times. It is able to reduce the effort needed to lift a load and protects the spine from heavy lifting and sudden movements. You don’t have to become a cyborg to stay safe when it comes to manual handling. However, over 25 …
The partially reusable Falcon 9 and fully reusable Skylon are explored in this episode of Stan Draws Spaceships. Brilliant explanations of the fantastic Skylon spaceplane and Spacex reusable rocket engineering. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 …
“Made in China 2025” is an initiative to comprehensively upgrade Chinese industry. The initiative draws direct inspiration from Germany’s “Industry 4.0” plan, which was first discussed in 2011 and later adopted in 2013. The heart of the “Industry 4.0” idea is intelligent manufacturing, i.e., applying the tools of information technology to production. In the German …
China’s outbound Merger and Acquisition activity surged in 2015 and 2016 with a broad universe of acquirers executing transactions with an increase in pace and deal size. This surge has been driven by a range of macro factors, including the pursuit of long-term and sustainable growth, consumption by the rising middle class, and a favorable …
Novartis found that giving low doses of a drug called everolimus to people over 65 increased their response to flu vaccines. It did, by about 20 percent. Yet behind the test was a bigger question about whether any drug can slow or reverse the symptoms of old age. Novartis’s study on everolimus, which looked at …