In 2017, the number of children immunized – 116.2 million – was the highest ever reported. The Region of the Americas achieved maternal and neonatal tetanus elimination, leaving only 15 countries yet to achieve elimination. Since 2010, 113 countries have introduced new vaccines, and more than 20 million additional children have been vaccinated. Nevertheless, this …
USC researchers have developed freeze-dried polio vaccine. It was freeze-dried into a powder, kept at room temperature for four weeks and then rehydrated, offered full protection against the polio virus when tested in mice. Polio is nearing complete eradication and had just 22 reported cases worldwide in 2017. The highly infectious disease, which causes lifelong …
The three planned Zumwalt-class ships each have eighty Mk 54 Vertical Launch System cells capable of firing a variety of long-range anti-ship missiles. They will fire * the Tomahawk Land Attack Missile, which is being modified to hit ships at sea; * the anti-air Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM); * the Standard Missile family — …
South Korean newspaper Hankyoreh estimates that North and South Korea have already fully implemented nine out of 25 agreement reached in a pair of summits between Korea’s leaders in April and September. 36% of the two statements implemented, 52% being deliberated There were also two agreements (8%) that failed (holding an inter-Korean event on June …
Peter Zeihan is a geopolitical strategist who specializes in global energy, demographics and security. He has been quoted in national and international media on a variety of geopolitical topics. He makes a prediction in the video below about the breakup China and collapse of Germany. He bases this prediction on the assertion that the world …
There have been some who have complained about the seeming lack of acceleration or slower than some have expected development of societal technology. Richard Jones talks about lack of specific progress to diamondoid molecular nanotechnology or the appearance that we might not be on track to a technological singularity. Addressing this criticism of rate of …
Elon Musk has Tweeted some of the details of the breakthrough changes to the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship. The overall shape of the SpaceX Super Heavy Starship are about the same. However, there are fundamental materials change to airframe, tanks and heatshield. @elonmusk Elon, how long until we can have more tech details about the …
Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse Movie will open December 14th. The early reviews are that is the Best Spiderman Movie Ever. It is also said to be a breakthrough in computer animation and animation for adults. The adult version of Peter Parker is great and it also has possibly the best Stan Lee Cameo. This combined …
You have owned or briefly thought the novelty talking bass was amusing. You may have interacted with the various versions of the old talking bass by pushing the activation buttons several times to hear what recordings were in that particular talking bass. Now there will be unlimited sounds, recordings and interactions because the talking bass …
There are huge multi-trillion dollar opportunities developing with Space and the further evolution of the internet. Space launch and space satellites were already a $300 billion per year industry. Cloud Computing is a $200 billion market in 2018. Global Internet services is a $600 billion market. The Global IT market is nearing $5 trillion in …
Getting satellite data back to Earth is still more difficult than it should be. Large-scale satellite operators often build and run their own ground stations at a cost of up to one million dollars or more each; smaller operators enter into inflexible long-term contracts to make use of existing ground stations. Amazon will make space …