The US has refurbished the oldest nuclear bomb,B61-12, so it is compatibility with the U.S. Air Force’s F-15E Strike Eagle jet fighter. The successful full-weapon system demonstration of the bomb’s compatibility. The compatibility testing is an essential part of the B61-12 Life Extension Program to refurbish, reuse or replace all components and extend the bomb’s …
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University has developed a way to speed up the CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing process by using light-sensitive nucleotides. They altered some of the guide RNA sequencing by adding light-sensitive nucleotides. Doing so prevented the guide from doing its job until light was applied. And once that light was applied, the binding took place …
Kumar, Jin and John L. Reno of Sandia are reporting another terahertz technology breakthrough: they have developed a new phase-locking technique for plasmonic lasers and, through its use, achieved a record-high power output for terahertz lasers. Their laser produced the highest radiative efficiency for any single-wavelength semiconductor quantum cascade laser. This is the first report …
SpaceX could use the electric skateboard of the Cybertruck to build all the of vehicles that they need for a lunar mining operation. About twenty-five to thirty cybertrucks could be delivered to the moon with every SpaceX Starship. A lunar base and mining operation would lower the cost for lunar operations by 70 times and …
SpaceX had published a picture of a moonbase with multiple Starships and a solar farm. On earth, a photovoltaic solar plant producing about one 1 GWh per year, will require around 2.8 acres of land. The moon has no atmosphere, so a 300-watt panel on Earth would produce 400 watts on the moon. A GWh …
A team led by Fan Xuejun at the Institute of Mechanics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a type of scramjet that ran continuously for 600 seconds in a ground test, Weihutang, a program on military affairs affiliated with state broadcaster China Central Television (CCTV), reported on over the weekend. This broke the …
This article will show that AI projects are getting access to petaflops and exaflops of computing power, which would match the raw compute power of the human brain. However, we still do not have insect-level AI system despite having the raw power for insect AI twenty years ago. AGI is lagging and will likely to …
Researchers have been able to trigger a hibernation like state in rats. If this is done for humans then it would be useful as a tool for more efficient space travel and as a tool for doctors. Hibernating mammals actively lower their body temperature to reduce energy expenditure when facing food scarcity. This ability to …
SpaceX is still targeting 2022 for an unmanned Mars cargo mission and 2024 for a Mars manned mission. Is 2022 still the target for the first cargo mission to Mars with 2024 being the first crewed mission? — Wīłł (@Martian_Will) June 5, 2020 Yes — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 5, 2020 One dozen fleets of …
Elon has tweeted out that early Starships will stay on the moon as part of moon base alpha. The SpaceX plan is what Nextbigfuture described in last months article “A Sky Full of Starships”. The SpaceX Starship will have six Raptor engines but will still be larger and cheaper than the external fuel tanks of …
18 months ago, Nextbigfuture looked at the World and the rest of the life of a middle aged person. There was a consideration super-technology, debt, growth, jobs and living the next 45 years. World Jobs Now 18 months ago the world was at 5.6% unemployment. Now, the UN’s International Labor Organization predicts 1.6 billion informal …