Northrop Grumman has been developing Lethality Enhanced Ordnance (LEO) – a scalable, performance-enhancing warhead technology that replaces cluster bombs which have been banned in 2010. They completed series testing of a new 50 lb-class warhead for future US air-to-surface and surface-to-surface hypersonic weapons. The new warhead leverages the company’s Lethality Enhanced Ordnance (LEO) technology. It …
A palm-sized robot has been made with a drop of liquid metal in a plastic wheel. The robot’s wheel rolls when the liquid metal changes the center of gravity, which is controlled by altering the voltage through the embedded battery. The researchers expect to further develop soft robots using liquid metal. They could be used …
In political science, the term banana republic describes a politically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the exportation of a limited-resource product, such as bananas or minerals. Honduras is the poster-country that defines the term banana republic. There is some history and economics relevant to the Caravan of people from Honduras. Venezuela and Cuba …
Southeast Asian companies are copying business models proven to work in China. A decade ago Chinese companies had success with “Copying to China” what worked elsewhere. Now others have success with “Copy From China”. Chinese companies adopted the business models of established US technology and internet companies. They are replicating Tencent Holdings’ WeChat super-app model, …
The U.S. is preparing new tariffs against all remaining Chinese imports if talks between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping fail. New tariffs against all goods from China might be announced in December. They would target the $257 billion in imports from China which are not already under tariff. China is looking at major tax …
Icarus Interstellar Spaceship designer Adam Crowl has provided more analysis of the potential of the 80 Gigapascal carbon nanotube bundle material. Nextbigfuture wrote this material which has been made in a chinese lab. The material is 20 times stronger than Kevlar. The material would enable flywheel energy storage with jet engine or rocket like energy …
Wingtech Technology is acquiring Dutch chip maker Nexperia for 25.2 billion yuan (US$3.6 billion). This deal needs US approval. Nexperia is a dedicated global leader in Discretes, Logic and MOSFETs devices. Originally part of Philips, they became a business unit of NXP before becoming an independent company in the beginning of 2017. Nexperia’s focus remains …
A new study explores a biological approach to directing nanocarriers loaded with protein “game changers” to specific cells. The groundbreaking method may prove useful in treating myriad malignancies, inflammatory diseases and rare genetic disorders. Lipid nanoparticles (LNP) were used to deliver modified messenger RNA to treat inflammatory bowel diseases and other diseases. Prof. Dan Peer, …
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) methods have been used widely in past decades as a safe, non-invasive and non-radioactive method of diagnosing CVDs. Current MRI have limited sensitivity and even the most expensive MRI scanners (with the strongest magnets) cannot detect and visualize molecular and metabolic activity in the heart with sufficient sensitivity and specificity. Emerging …
If SpaceX gets lucky the BFR development costs could come in at the $2 billion low-end estimate. Elon Musk had estimated that it would cost $2 billion to 10 billion to develop. A few more critical successes over the next year will enable SpaceX to solidify the finances and funding for the BFR. The needed …
IBM is buying Red Hat to become the number one hybrid cloud provider. Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source cloud software. It is a $34 billion deal. Research shows that 80 percent of business workloads have yet to move to the cloud, held back by the proprietary nature of today’s cloud …