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Stocks Are Winners Take Most – and Who are the Top 30 Stock Winners from 2017-2025

The U.S. stock market has been one of the greatest engines of wealth creation in human history. From 1926 to 2025, it generated nearly $91 trillion in shareholder wealth. Most stocks are not wealth creators – they are wealth destroyers. Only 48% of stocks deliver positive returns over their lifetime. Just 41% outperformed Treasury bills. ... Read more
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Four Times the Ion Drive Thrust With 20+KW Nuclear Reactor for 2028 NASA Mars Mission

The NASA planned 2028 nuclear powered ion drive spacecraft, SR-1 Freedom will have a 20 kilowatt nuclear reactor. SR-1 Freedom will use 20-plus kilowatt fission reactor fueled by High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium and Uranium Dioxide, encased in a Boron Carbide Radiation Shield. This will power a xenon ion drive. Previous nuclear spacecraft designs involved more powerful ... Read more

US Oil Exports Up A Few Million Barrels Per Day

US has total oil products production equal to Saudi Arabia and Russia combined. The US exported over 5 million barrels of oil per day last week, a record high, amid the Iran War. In aggregate, the US exported a record 12.7 million barrels of crude oil and refined products per day last week. Total extra ... Read more

All Gas No Brakes for Space Economy

FCC Chair says all gas no brakes for space economy regulatory approvals. Amazon is acquiring Globalstar for their direct to cellphone spectrum. Amazon LEO will make just satellite internet but also DTC. Direct to cellphone. Itis Globalstar satellites, radio frequency spectrum, and operational expertise will enable Amazon Leo to add Direct-to-Device (D2D) services to future ... Read more

Ground-based Telescopes and a Shared Orbiting Starshade Can Directly See Earth-like Exoplanets

Imaging earth like exoplanets around Sun-like stars from the ground is challenging. We have never done it and here is an advance that could make it possible. A Nature paper predicts the performance of a hybrid space–ground approach that combines a large ground-based telescope, such as the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), the Thirty Meter Telescope ... Read more