The United States Navy is absolutely confident in the ability of its aircraft carriers and carrier air wings to fly and fight within zones defended by so-called anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) weapons. Both Russia and China—and to a lesser extent Iran—have been developing layered anti-ship and anti-aircraft defenses that would make it more difficult for the …
An international team of astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet orbiting in the disk of small icy worlds beyond Neptune. The new object is roughly 700 kilometers in size and has one of the largest orbits for a dwarf planet. Designated 2015 RR245 by the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center, it was found …
Four Dallas police officers were killed and seven others were wounded. Two snipers shot the 11 from elevated positions during a protest. Two officers are in surgery and three are in critical condition. The shooting happened as protests were underway about two blocks from Dealey Plaza. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and …
Elon Musk says Spacex is planning for its first rocket reflight in either September or October. Fourth rocket arrives in the hangar. Aiming for first reflight in Sept/Oct. pic.twitter.com/TqW8d6Cc3U — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 7, 2016 Next launch targeting June 14 from Cape Canaveral – 45 minute launch window opens at 10:32am ET, 2:32pm UTC …
Elon Musk and Tesla Motors are advancing the Model 3 build plan substantially, and just the overall volume plan, with Tesla aiming to get to the half million unit per year run rate in 2018 instead of 2020. And this is based off of the tremendous amount of interest received for the Model 3, which …
LG Display has been working on its fully flexible screen for some time now and they revealed displays that can be rolled up at CES. The screen can be rolled up and scrunched around, and the display is full HD. The BBC was shown a 18 inch diagonal display. LG says they’re aiming for screens …
Three research groups, working independently of one another, reported in the journal Science on Thursday that they had used the Crispr-Cas9 technique to treat mice with a defective dystrophin gene. Each group loaded the DNA-cutting system onto a virus that infected the mice’s muscle cells, and excised from the gene a defective stretch of DNA …
Both simulated quantum annealing and physical quantum annealing have shown the emergence of “heavy tails” in their performance as optimizers: The total time needed to solve a set of random input instances is dominated by a small number of very hard instances. Classical simulated annealing, in contrast, does not show such heavy tails. Here we …
In a Danish television interview, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company will steadily increase the range of its electric cars over the next few years. In the interview (the relevant section begins at 6:22), Musk said that Tesla could increase the range of the Model S to 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) “within a year …
Groundbreaking work at two Department of Energy national laboratories has confirmed plutonium’s magnetism, which scientists have long theorized but have never been able to experimentally observe. The advances that enabled the discovery hold great promise for materials, energy and computing applications. Plutonium is not devoid of magnetism, but in fact its magnetism is just in …
Songsheng Jiang, Ni-H Research Group of the China Institute of Atomic Energy, Beijing, China has low energy nuclear reaction results. The experiment set-up with powder fuels (Ni + 10%(in weight)LiAlH4) is 20 grams filled in a nickel cell，located in the stainless-steel reaction chamber. The existing heater is made of nichrome wire, which is wound on …