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Next generation US Navy manned and unmanned fighters will have new stealth, smart sensor skins, hypersonic and laser weapons

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Fighter jets in 20-years may likely contain the next-generation of stealth technoology, electronic warfare, sophisticated computer processing and algorithms, increased autonomy, hypersonic weapons and so-called “smart-skins” where sensors are built into the side of the aircraft itself. Some of these characteristics may have been on display earlier this year when Northrop Grumman’s SuperBowl AD revealed …

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Portable chemical cooler can maintain cold chain for vaccines which will save millions of lives

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A new portable cooling device to improve vaccine transportation in developing countries has been announced as the UK winner of the 2016 James Dyson Award. ISOBAR can keep vaccines cold for up to six days and can be recharged on the go in just over an hour, providing a safe and effective means of transportation. …

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Avengers 3 and 4 are standalone movies and there will be at least 3 Star Wars Han Solo movies

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Marvel Avengers 3 and Avengers 4 will not be a two-parter. The studio will release the first part “Avengers: Infinity War” as a standalone movie on May 4, 2018. The second film, now called “Avengers Untitled,” will hit as planned on May 3, 2019. “The movies are two very different movies,” answered Joe Russo. Directors …

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NASA to Map the Surface of an Asteroid

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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will launch September 2016 and travel to a near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu to harvest a sample of surface material and return it to Earth for study. The science team will be looking for something special. Ideally, the sample will come from a region in which the building blocks of life may …

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Singapore Malaysia high speed rail and the pan asia rail network

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China, Japan and South Korea will be bidding next year to build the 350 km Malaysia-Singapore high speed rail line. In January 2016, China reached a total of 19,000km of high speed rail track. China plans to build at least 11,000 more kilometers of high speed rail by 2020. The Singapore Straits Times said in …

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Algorithms for Personalized Medicine for rapid metagenome comparison

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Scientists from ITMO University, the Federal Research and Clinical Centre of Physical-Chemical Medicine and MIPT have developed a software program enabling them to quickly compare sets of DNA of microorganisms living in different environments. The researchers have already suggested exactly how the new program could be applied in practice. Using the algorithm to compare the …

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Military Analysts concerned about the lost of the US conventional military technology advantages

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The US Navy now believes it has a railgun design that soon will be able to fire 10 times a minute through a barrel capable of lasting 1,000 rounds. Besides speed, the railgun also has a capacity advantage. A typical U.S. Navy destroyer can carry as many as 96 missiles—either offensive cruise missiles or defensive …

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100 years ago the world absolute poverty rate was as bad as the poorest country today

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Here is data tracking the world absolute poverty rate from 1820 to 2015. The data shows vast improvement in the reduction of absolute poverty( living on less than US$1 per day in 1996). People are considered to live in extreme poverty at a consumption (or income) level below 1.90 international-$ per day. International $ are …

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Wafer scale carbon nanotube films

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A simple filtration process helped Rice University researchers create flexible, wafer-scale films of highly aligned and closely packed carbon nanotubes. Scientists at Rice, with support from Los Alamos National Laboratory, have made inch-wide films of densely packed, chirality-enriched single-walled carbon nanotubes In the right solution of nanotubes and under the right conditions, the tubes assemble …

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People waiting for the Tesla Model 3 in 2017 are buying more of the currently available Model S and X

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Tesla Motors is actually benefiting from a sort of reverse cannibalization as sales of the $70,000-90,000 Tesla Model S have increased after the announcement of the 2017 release of the $35000 Model 3. Tesla is seeing is that all the excitement and interest around Model 3 is actually boosting demand for the Model S and …

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Calcium atom heat engine created and output measured

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Physicists led by Johannes Roßnagel at the University of Mainz in Germany, the single atom engine is about as efficient as your car at transforming the changing temperature into mechanical energy. While the engine itself is tiny, the machinery required to create the electromagnetic cone and suspend the two heating and cooling lasers takes up …

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