MegaBots uses cutting-edge robotics technology to create the giant piloted fighting robots of science fiction, videogames and movies. These robots fight in epic-scale arena combat the likes of which the world has never seen before. MegaBots are 15-foot-tall, internally piloted humanoid robots that fire cannonball-sized paintballs at each other at speeds of over 120 miles …
LPP Fusion working to reduce impurities and scale the electrode based nuclear fusion from their dense plasma. LPP Fusion has received another $200,000 of funding from the Abell Foundation. LPPFusion’s lab team has completed the mechanical repair and reinforcement of the tungsten cathode. The first and most difficult step was to apply the fiber-epoxy composite …
The PAK DA is a Russian next-generation strategic bomber design, developed by the Tupolev Design Bureau. The PAK DA was planned to be a new stealthy strategic bomber and is expected to enter service in 2025–30, with the first aircraft delivery will now occur in 2023. The PAK DA will be a less ambitious project …
Carnival of Space 379 is up at Cosmoquest Watch Universe Today’s Fraser Cain School the Cast of ‘Interstellar’ on Black Holes The cast of Interstellar have a video of a Google+ Hangout live from Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The Meridiani Journal – Titan’s seas and lakes sparkle in the sunlight in recent Cassini …
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 232 is up at Fukushima Commentary Nuke Power Talk – The Grid and Solar Power: Getting the Incentives Right Gail Marcus looks at how some of the pricing rules for solar energy lead to suboptimal outcomes. We are all familiar with the negative prices that some nuclear plants have incurred …
Breakthroughs in diabetes research is being presented. The cellular and biological causes of diabetes. Camillo Ricordi – Cellular therapies and regenerative medicine strategies for treatment of diabetes Lipogems in chondropathy (coldplay) Cell Transplant – A new nonenzymatic method and device to obtain a fat tissue derivative highly enriched in pericyte-like elements by mild mechanical forces …
Wong-Foy has written software to choreograph the movement of over 1,000 tiny robots in a complex circulating pattern. That shows it should be possible to have them work in large teams, he says. SRI’s microworkers are simple: just small magnetic platforms with simple wire arms on top. They can move only when placed on a …
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an Explorer-class planet finder. In the first-ever spaceborne all-sky transit survey, TESS will identify planets ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, orbiting a wide range of stellar types and orbital distances. The principal goal of the TESS mission is to detect small planets with bright host stars in …
A guest post by Joseph Friedlander My [Joseph Friedlander] new Sun Explosion paper is out with Professor A.A. Bolonkin. Long term existential risk in case of a resumption of nuclear arms races with crazy dictators over the next thousand years. If you ever wondered why someone would want to go to the Oort Cloud rather …