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Reaction Engines, making hypersonic planes and space launch, has established a US subsidiary to lead engagement with US government

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Reaction Engines has also established a new US-based subsidiary, Reaction Engines Inc. to support the expansion of the company’s development efforts and lead engagement with potential US government and industry partners. The company has appointed Dr. Adam Dissel, an aerospace leader with over 15 years’ experience in the development of advanced vehicle systems, to lead …

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Laser LIDAR technology has found several lost cities near Angkor Wat in Cambodia and the lost cities rival the size of Phnom Penh

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Archaeologists in Cambodia have found multiple, previously undocumented medieval cities not far from the ancient temple city of Angkor Wat, the Guardian can reveal, in groundbreaking discoveries that promise to upend key assumptions about south-east Asia’s history. The Australian archaeologist Dr Damian Evans, whose findings will be published in the Journal of Archaeological Science on …

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Sensors invisible to thermal and electrical fields

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A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has invented a novel camouflage technique that effectively hides thermal and electronic sensors without compromising performance. Made of pure copper, the ultra-thin ‘shell’ conceals sensors from remote inspection while still allowing them to probe the exterior environment Current technologies which make sensors ‘invisible’ usually …

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Google Fi smartphone service now uses T-Mobile, Sprint and US Cellular based on whichever is best block by block

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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 …

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First Ford Super aircraft carrier on track for September delivery and second for 2022

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CVN-78, CVN-79, CVN-80, and CVN-81 are the first four ships in the Navy’s new Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) class of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers (CVNs). CVN-78 was procured in FY2008. The Navy’s proposed FY2017 budget estimates the ship’s procurement cost at $12,887.0 million (i.e., about $12.9 billion) in then-year dollars. The ship is scheduled for delivery …

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China’s 1400 megawatt nuclear reactor design passes international safety review

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China’s CAP1400 reactor design has successfully passed the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA’s) Generic Reactor Safety Review (GRSR). The CAP1400 is an enlarged version of the AP1000 pressurized water reactor developed from the Westinghouse original by SNPTC with consulting input from the Toshiba-owned company. As one of China’s 16 strategic projects under its National Science …

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New cancer drugs could treat lethal resistant prostate cancers

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Men with aggressive prostate cancer that has stopped responding to conventional treatment could potentially benefit from a new class of cancer drug designed to overcome drug resistance, a new study suggests. Researchers found that the drugs, called Hsp90 inhibitors, specifically target and inactivate a mechanism commonly used by prostate cancer cells to evade the effects …

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CDC confirms Zika virus causes birth defects and the more that has been learned is scarier than initially thought

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Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that there is now enough evidence to definitively say that the Zika virus can cause unusually small heads, brain damage and other neurological problems in infants born to infected mothers. “Most of what we’ve learned is not reassuring,” said Dr. Anne Schuchat, the …

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12 DGX-1 Nvidia P100 powered servers could deliver 2 petaflops of performance for $1.6 million and each boost deep learning by 75 times over an Intel Xeon

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The Nvidia Tesla P100 is the first full-size Nvidia GPU based on the TSMC 16nm FinFET manufacturing process—like AMD, Nvidia has been stuck using an older 28nm process since 2012—and the first to feature the second generation of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2). The Nvidia Tesla P100, with 15 billion transistors for deep-learning computing. It’s the …

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