According to the Moscow Times, Russia will design two new classes of nuclear-powered submarines as part of President Vladimir Putin’s 20 trillion ruble ($356 billion) rearmament campaign through 2020. Though the designs have not yet been named, one will be classified as an “underwater interceptor” and the other an “aircraft carrier killer,” the head of …
A little more than a decade ago, researchers discovered that all cells secrete tiny communications modules jammed with an entire work crew of messages for other cells. Today, a team of researchers, led by stem cell researcher Raj Kishore, PhD, Director of the Stem Cell Therapy Program at the Center for Translational Medicine at Temple …
New Horizons scientists combined the latest black and white map of Pluto’s surface features (left) with a map of the planet’s colors (right) to produce a detailed color portrait of the planet’s northern hemisphere (center). (Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI) What color is Pluto? The answer, revealed in the first maps made from New Horizons data, turns out …
Paul Ehrlich says we are entering the sixth great mass extinction. Accelerated modern human–induced species losses: Entering the sixth mass extinction There have been papers which show that species and area relationships always overestimate extinctions. Ehrlich became well known for his controversial 1968 book The Population Bomb, which asserted that the world’s human population would …
Elon Musk and Spacex announced plans for building a test track in southern California and a competition for prototype pods. Several companies announced plans for pilot projects in California, Texas and other locations, but Musk and his companies, which include privately owned Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, and Tesla Motors Inc electric car company, were …
China had the fourth test of its Wu-14 hypersonic vehicle on June 7 China was testing extreme maneuvers of the mach 10 (7860 mph) prototype. Unlike ballistic rockets that re-enter in a predictable path, a hypersonic weapon would be able to constantly change direction. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular …
Tri Alpha team has revealed how fast ions, edge biasing, and other improvements have enabled them to produce FRCs (Field Reverse Configuration plasmas) lasting 5 milliseconds, a more than 10-fold improvement in lifetime, and reduced heat loss. “They’re employing all known techniques on a big, good-quality plasma,” Wurden says. “It shows what you can do …
In an effort to increase sales of its tanks in the face of declining global demand, China North Industries Group Corp, the country’s biggest developer and maker of land armaments, is turning to a popular smartphone social networking app. WeChat is often used by Chinese arms producers to release comparisons between their weapons and other …
A guest post by Joseph Friedlander Paul Scott Anderson of The Meridiani Journal blog has written about the bright spots on Ceres, as has Brian Wang of Next Big Future https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2015/02/nasa-dawns-spacecraft-will-be-orbiting.html at http://themeridianijournal.com/2015/05/image-gallery-closer-view-of-ceres-bright-spots/ Anderson has published a nice crop of the area of interest “taken by the Dawn spacecraft. It was taken on May 16, …
Elon Musk gave no detail when he announced plans in January to build a hyperloop test track, likely in Texas. Since then, another entrepreneur has secured agreements to break ground early next year on a five-mile stretch in California. This stretch, near the new town of Quay Valley along Interstate-5 midway between Los Angeles and …
US daily Crude oil production is at 9.586 million barrels per day. There were only 11 months in US history where crude oil production reached higher levels. US all liquids oil production is at 14.8 million barrels per day. This is the highest ever. It includes 3.1 million barrels per day of natural gas liquids. …