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D-Wave Systems Previews 2000-Qubit Quantum System and Early tests show new features have up to 1000 times performance improvement over 1000 Qubit system

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D-Wave Systems Inc., the world’s first quantum computing company, announced details of its most advanced quantum computing system, featuring a new 2000-qubit processor. The announcement is being made at the company’s inaugural users group conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The new processor doubles the number of qubits over the previous generation D-Wave 2X™ system, …

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US Army Is Testing Body Armor Made From Genetically Engineered Spider Silk

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Kraig Biocraft Laboratories, leading developer of spider silk based fibers, has received a contract valued at up to $1.0 million for the development of high performance fibers for protective apparel applications. the Company will deliver ballistic shoot packs constructed from its proprietary Dragon Silk™ material for performance testing. These shoot packs will be tested and …

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Third Generation Laser Uranium Enrichment Technology is likely over 5 times more energy efficient and more compact than the best centrifuges

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New laser-based uranium enrichment technology may provide a hard-to-detect pathway to nuclear weapons production according to a forthcoming paper (25 pages) Ryan Snyder, a physicist with Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security. Research on the relevant laser systems for laser enrichment is also currently ongoing in the United States, Russia, India, China and …

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China placing a hospital and a small farm on the manmade South China Sea islands

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China is building military and civilian facilities on the manmade South China sea islands. They are making lighthouses, a tourist resort, a hospital and a farm. Fiery Cross Reef has a one acre vegetable farm and 500 livestock—including pigs, chicken, and geese. Fiery Cross Reef will also get a hospital, now under construction and expected …

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Australia and partners Boeing, BAE Systems and DLR (German Aerospace Center) have a successful mach 7.5 hypersonic missile test

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Chief Defence Scientist Dr Alex Zelinsky today congratulated an Australian-United States team on the success of an experimental hypersonic flight at the Woomera Test Range. The experimental rocket reached an apogee of 278 km, achieving the targeted speed of Mach 7.5 (seven and a half times the speed of sound). The team estimates that its …

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Hydrogen doped graphene can make graphene magnetic for a material to enable spintronic devices

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By inserting hydrogen atoms into the lattice of a graphene sheet, researchers from Spain and Egypt say an array of electrons in nanoscale domains encoded with magnetic spin can transform the material into a spintronic successor to silicon. Graphene, predicted to be the successor to silicon at the end of the International Technology Roadmap for …

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HIV can develop resistance to CRISPR/Cas9

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The CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing platform may need a little bit more tweaking before it can be used as an effective antiviral, reports a study published April 7 in Cell Reports. Researchers who used CRISPR/Cas9 to mutate HIV-1 within cellular DNA found that while single mutations can inhibit viral replication, some also led to unexpected resistance. The …

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DARPA VTOL X-plane will help the Army Future Vertical Lift program

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Technologies from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA’s) LightningStrike vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) X-Plane programme could assist the US Army as it crafts it Future Vertical Lift (FVL) concept, according to the official leading the effort. “The army and the FVL programme are aware of what we’re doing, and we share data …

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Disruptive advanced nuclear design is in pre-licensing design review

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Terrestrial Energy announced that it is submitting its Integral Molten Salt Reactor (IMSR) design to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) for Phase I of its pre-licensing Vendor Design Review. During the course of this review, which is an optional feedback process offered by the CNSC, Terrestrial Energy will be demonstrating that the design meets …

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Scale of the threat to US supercarriers from China’s submarines

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The Chinese Navy consists of approximately 26 destroyers (21 of which are considered modern), 52 frigates (35 modern), 20 new corvettes, 85 modern missile armed patrol craft, 56 amphibious ships, 42 mine warfare ships (30 modern), more than 50 major auxiliary ships, and more than 400 minor auxiliary ships and service/support craft. During 2013, more …

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Nuclear Fracking in 1973 and Excavation Gigaton Device Damage Radii And Space Colonization In Nuclear Caves

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A guest article by Joseph Friedlander When researching the Plowshare article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plowshare for this post https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2015/12/the-4-plowshare-conferences-and-lost.html#more I ran across this 1973 state of the art summary https://archive.org/details/plowsharetechnol1973whan  about nuclear chimney stimulation of gas and in situ oil shale mining and for many other uses.  Note some of the pictures to aid local state authorities in planning for damage …

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