Russia will not make large purchases of the fifth-generation Su-57 PAK-FA stealth fighter until after 2027. Russia will wait until improved engines are available. The Center for Naval Analyses senior research scientist Dmitry Gorenburg wrote in a new PONARS Policy Memo the following analysis. The Russian State Armament Program (SAP) for 2018-2027 will spend about …
North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile from South Pyongan Province early Wednesday, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said according to Yonhap News. The Pentagon said it believed it was an intercontinental ballistic missile that flew for about 1,000km (620 miles) and fell into the Sea of Japan. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist …
SpaceX has raised another $100 million as part of its latest funding round and in August raised $349.9 million worth of shares. The latest SEC filing and information from Equidate show Spacex has a valuation of $21.5 billion. SpaceX has plans to put 4,425 high speed internet satellites into space. They will start deployment in …
Nextbigfuture interviewed Bo Ewald, who is D-Wave System’s President of International Business. Bo previously worked at Cray, Silicon Graphics and Los Alamos National Laboratory. How does Quantum Annealing work ? Bo provided the following analogy of the Quantum Annealing process. Imagine the solution to complex math and science problems is like a mountain landscape. The …
Bitcoin has gotten as high as $9929 today. It is hovering just shy of the $10,000 milestone. 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 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, …
This is a update on rail plans in China, ASEAN and across Russia to Europe. China is pushing ahead to more than double the current high speed rail network by 2030. There are some minor modifications to not fund some projects because of debt concerns. ASEAN (Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Cambodia. Laos) high speed rail …
The August 17, Gravitational wave measurements of a Neutron star collision have opened a window onto nuclear astrophysics, neutron star demographics and physics and precise astronomical distances said Scott Hughes, an astrophysicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. Neutron star collision emit light, x-rays, gamma rays and gravity …
Researchers have found a way to get around the initial limitations of laser cooling, to cool atoms into Bose Einstein condensates using laser light from start to finish — a much faster, atom-conserving approach that has been a dream among physicists in the field. “What we invented was a new twist on the method to …
Researchers have created origami-inspired artificial muscles that add strength to soft robots, allowing them to lift objects that are up to 1,000 times their own weight using only air or water pressure. The team constructed dozens of muscles using materials ranging from metal springs to packing foam to sheets of plastic, and experimented with different …
Samsung has created a graphene ball coating for use inside a regular li-ion battery cells, which will increase the overall capacity by up to 45 percent and speeding up charging by five times. Nature Communications – Graphene balls for lithium rechargeable batteries with fast charging and high volumetric energy densities Improving one property without sacrificing …
Dark features that were believed to be evidence for significant liquid water flowing on Mars have now been identified as granular flows, where sand and dust move rather than liquid water. The terminal end of the RSL slopes, said Dundas, are identical to the slopes of sand dunes where movement is caused by dry granular …