After an extensive review process and passing a major development milestone, NASA is ready to proceed with final design and construction of its next Mars rover, currently targeted to launch in summer of 2020 and arrive on the Red Planet in February 2021. The Mars 2020 rover will investigate a region of Mars where the …
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the hugely successful Pokemon Go app, which has millions of people chasing down monsters on real-world streets using their phones, is a phenomenon that spells good things for his company’s augmented-reality headset, the HoloLens. “I think it’s fantastic to see these augmented-reality applications getting built, because the best thing that …
A drone taxi that can carry a passenger has been cleared for take-off over Nevada. The EHang 184 pilotless passenger drone carries a single person and has been approved for testing this year in the US. The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) and the Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) have given the green …
Google Project Fi cellulat phone service lets you switch been multiple phone networks. Google Fi launched with T-Mobile and Sprint. Now Google announced that it is adding a third network US Cellular. US Cellular is the fifth-largest carrier in the US. US Cellular has LTE service in “23 states, both urban and rural”. By analyzing …
China’s J-20 stealth fighter-bomber Aircraft and Y-20 tactical transport plane will be put into service “in the near future. The official Chinamil.com.cn website made this assertion while denying reports that the J-20 stealth fighter had entered PLA Southern Theater Command service and that comprehensive training between J-20 and J-10 fighter are already on. The J-20’s …
Solar and wind energy are still a tiny share of the overall energy production mix ARPA-E has the FOCUS (Full-Spectrum Optimized Conversion and Utilization of Sunlight) project to make solar energy a larger part of the US energy mix. SOURCE – ARPA-E Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger …
In the latest data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, a new close-up image of Pluto reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old, and is possibly still being shaped by geologic processes. This frozen region is north of Pluto’s icy mountains, in the center-left of the heart …
NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts has a phase 2 funding for 3D Photocatalytic Air Processor for Dramatic Reduction of Life Support Mass and Complexity Bin Chen of the University of California will lead the study. The abundant high-energy light in space (with wavelengths as low as 190 nm, compared to 300 nm on Earth) makes the …
1. Current subs use 1-inch-thick rubber foam to reduce sonar detection. Materials scientists at Université Paris-Diderot, the University of Manitoba, and PSL Research University are working on a technique to create a much thinner sheet of rubber populated by thousands of bubbles that work to deflect sonar while saving on weight over the bulky foam. …
Worldwide extreme poverty reduction has mostly been the economic rise of China. Further reduction in extreme poverty will mostly be about success in India and then Africa. Americans have not only not been aware of the success against extreme poverty but mainly believe the opposite that poverty has increased and do not believe that poverty …
In 2013, global renewable electricity generation rose by a n estimated 240 terawatt hours (TWh) (+5.0% year-on-year) to reach nearly 5 070 TWh and accounted for almost 22% of total power generation. The expansion was somewhat slower than that predicted in the Medium-Term Renewable Energy Market Report 2013 (MTRMR 2013), largely due to lower-than-expected annual …