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Mayer Hillman is a climate doomer. His April 26, 2018 article in the Guardian UK is titled ‘We’re doomed’: Mayer Hillman on the climate reality no one else will dare mention. Hillman is an 86-year-old social scientist. He is a British architect and town planner. An old architect has no ideas for how to address climate change. He has joined the call for spending over $100 trillion over two decades and upending the world economy. He has been promoting more cycling and walking in cities for a few decades. His paper was again to reduce global emissions by reaching a The post Climate Doomer claims only option is to get rid of all fossil fuels appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

If made today, the Raiders of the Lost Ark scene with Major Toht’s grisly demise would undoubtedly be created using a digital stunt double and complex CG fluid simulations. But in the early ‘80s, old-school practical effects were still a Hollywood staple, and using crayons, sculptor Steven Richter demonstrates just… Read more...

In the new sci-fi film Prospect , humans travel to space to get rich. Think of it as a space-set version of the California Gold Rush . And now, the filmmakers have created a guide to give earthlings a leg up on all acquiring those valuable resources. Read more...

Ever since Barry and Iris’ daughter from the future Nora showed up on The Flash , she’s had a very frosty relationship with her mother, for reasons that have mostly been left to linger in the background . That is, until “News Flash” finally brought it to the forefront. Read more...

The days are getting shorter and the air is getting colder. Trees explode into reds, golds, and oranges. Pumpkins begin to show up in damn near everything. That means it’s time to celebrate a forgotten Halloween classic, a novel that manages to mix together classic Victorian horror icons with Lovecraftian dread into a… Read more...

When the series based on Taika Waititi’s What We Do in the Shadows hits FX next year, the story’s going to be somewhat familiar, yet still distinct from the source material. There are vampires all over the world, and we’re about to meet a gaggle of them who’ve been living in New York City. Read more...

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Happy Halloween, everybody! For the last month we’ve been asking you to share with us your devilishly delightful plans for costumed creeps this All Hallow’s Eve, and you’ve been spooking up a treat. Here’s just a few of our favorites from your wonderful entries. Read more...

A new study finds that if Bitcoin is adopted at similar rates that other technologies have been incorporated, then it alone could produce enough emissions to raise global temperatures by 2°C as soon as 2033.

The Joker has gone through dozens of different looks over the last seventy-odd years, with artists making him more horrific or cartoony as they re-imagine him. With a new bust depicting the Clown Prince of Crime, special effects make-up master Rick Baker joins the roster of creators who’ve re-imagined the DC Comics… Read more...

The Trump administration has said America should return to the Moon and build permanent bases. Robert Zubrin points out (in an article at New Atlantis) that this stated goal has not received any meaningful funding. The New Atlantis article by Robert Zubrin has an updated write up of his Moon Direct program proposal. The Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway (formerly known as the Deep Space Gateway) is receiving some money. The gatewate will be a waste. The gateway is a planned space station that will orbit the Moon, supposedly serving as an outpost for human explorations to the Moon, Mars, and deep The post How to Fix the US moon program appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Earlier this year , we learned that BBC Studios was planning to bring a slice of Terry Pratchett’s wonderful Discworld novels to TV in the form of a series based around the City Watch of Ankh-Morpork. Now, we know a little more—and that its plans have been expanded ever so slightly. Read more...

Marvel Avengers and characters who are below solo-movie popularity will get Disney streaming TV series. Loki, Scarlet Witch, Vision, Falcon and Winters Soldier are headed to streaming TV shows. Marvel and Disney are preparing multiple limited series centered on characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Characters like Loki and Scarlet Witch will have their own limited series. The series are expected to be six to eight episodes. The series on the Disney streaming service will be produced by Marvel Studios and Kevin Feige, who has headed up the MCU for years. The shows are also expected to have large budgets The post Loki, Falcon and Winters Soldier heading to Disney Streaming appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

What scares you? It’s a question you know the answer to innately and immediately, as individualized as your fingerprint. Accordingly, horror games have tried everything in the book in order to scare players: disempowerment, alienation, animatronic jump-scares, eroticism, flagrant shattering of the fourth wall, and so… Read more...

Dr. James Peyer of ApolloVC discussed tactical paths to bring longevity promoting therapeutics to market as quickly as possible. The cost of developing a drug is $2.6 billion. Pharma companies need to have each successful drug approved has to pay for ten failed drugs. Each drug from discovery through clinical trials averages out to a cost of $260 million. Anti-aging companies and anti-aging investors need to focus on an initial aging disease to get approval to treat. They then target a second and third anti-aging disease. After that they can look at trying to follow metformin for general anti-aging approval. The post Successful anti-aging would be over ten times better than curing all cancer appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Whenever people are asked about the greatest Disney Halloween movie, the answer is usually Hocus Pocus . However... there is another. That’s right, the beloved Disney Channel original movie Halloweentown . Won’t you join us? Read more...

Netflix’s The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a show that wants you to know exactly how progressive and feminist it is . But the show’s messages about female empowerment are severely undercut by the way it mishandles one of its most prominent characters of color. Read more...

An Australian study notes that China’s army has sent 2500 scientists to foreign universities over the last ten years. * China’s military sent 2500 scientists to study in western universities * Australia has nearly 50% foreign born scientists * The US is dependent upon foreign born scientists and engineers including those from China * China is ahead of Europe and Australia in implementing hypersonic weapons and technology * One the key examples cited in the study was a Chinese hypersonics researcher who co-wrote five papers with an Iranian born scientist who was in Norway * Restricting chinese scientists from western The post Chinese scientist studied Hypersonics with Iranian scientist in Norway appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

When IFC’s Stan Against Evil premiered in 2016, it suffered a bit when compared to to Ash vs. Evil Dead. The two shows shared a similar premise, but only one had nearly four decades of horror history behind it. Today, though, Ash is off the air —and Stan has finally found its own groove. Read more...

Noise canceling headphones , a Dyson stick vac , and TriggerPoint foam rollers lead off Wednesday’s best deals from around the web. Read more...

Editor’s note: Happy Halloween! We’ve prepared a special treat (or is it a trick?)—our horror games reporter Stacie Ponder and editor Chris Kohler teamed up to bring you this special ABC book starring your favorite horror game pals (with sincere apologies to Edward Gorey). Stacie did the wonderful illustrations (tons … Read more...

SpaceX is targeting the launch of the first production batch of Starlink Internet satellites by the middle of 2019. Elon Musk fired at least seven members of the Starlink senior management team who had a later schedule. SpaceX’s Starlink program will compete with OneWeb and Canada’s Telesat to market with new satellite-based global Internet services. “It would be like rebuilding the Internet in space,” Musk told an audience in 2015 when he unveiled Starlink. “The goal would be to have a majority of long-distance Internet traffic go over this network.” Currently, about 300 SpaceX employees work on Starlink in Redmond. The post Elon Musk pushing SpaceX for mid-2019 first live Starlink satellites appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

As surprising as it was to learn that Superman himself was Netflix’s top pick for Geralt in its upcoming live-action adaptation of The Witcher , what’s even more bewitching is what the actor looks like as the titular Witcher. Read more...

What’s Gamora up to after the events of Avengers: Infinity War ? She’s a zombie, of course! To celebrate Halloween in true nerdy fashion, makeup artist and cosplayer Phillicia Deanell, also known as HeirOfGlee , came to our studio to show us how to turn Gamora into the undead. The results are haunting. Read more...

Godzilla vs Kong expands its human cast again. Heather Langenkamp wants Nightmare on Elm Street to get in on the horror revival. Cathy Yan discusses why she wanted to make Birds of Prey . Plus, hints for the Stranger Things season three villain, what’s to come on The Flash , and more. Happy Spoiloween, boils and ghouls! Read more...

Mixing magnetic nanoparticles into battery electrode materials and applying a light magnetic field doubles the discharge rate of batteries. 24M is making prototype batteries using this magnetic approach. Zunum will use the batteries for electric planes. The batteries must be able to deliver a massive amount of power at takeoff. They must have energy density to cruise for at least hundreds of miles. They need to be as long-lasting and light as possible. They must be rapid charging or easily swapped for a fully charged battery between flights. In 2022, Zunum will have a hybrid plane with a gas turbine The post Rapid discharging batteries enable electric passenger planes appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) has cleared the last legal hurdle to resume construction on Hawaii’s Big Island. Hawaii’s Board of Land and Natural Resources issued a fresh construction permit in September 2017, which opponents appealed. The latest ruling upholds that permit. This is one of three new giant telescopes for a new era of ground-based observing. The Giant Magellan Telescope and the European Extremely Large Telescope are both under construction in Chile. The Thirty Meter Telescope is a multinational project involving two universities in California, plus the governments of Canada, China, India and Japan. The post Thirty Meter telescope will resume construction after legal win appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Mark Mobius, partner and co-founder of Mobius Capital Partners, says China markets are very weak. The yuan weakness and tradewar are killing China shares. This can only be solved by China making big concessions to Trump on trade. If and when the yuan breaks through 7 to the US dollar, then 7.5 is nothing and a freefall is possible. There are over $640 billion in shares pledged for loans. The falling stocks will be compounded by banks calling the pledged shares for loans. If the Democrats win the House in the midterms, then the US markets will fall. Democrat control The post Mobius says Yuan could freefall and China has to make trade deal appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Cray is building new Shasta Supercomputers. The first will be built for $146 million at Berkeley National Labs. It will use AMD Epyc processor and the next-generation Einstein Nvidia Tesla GPU accelerator. The “Perlmutter” NERSC-9 supercomputer will be installed in late 2020. Cray has built a new interconnect, called “Slingshot”. The current Cori NERSC-8 machine at LBNL is a Cray XC40 system using the company’s “Aries” interconnect. There are 14 cabinets. The Cori system has 32.3 peak petaflops using Xeon and Xeon Phi nodes. It cost $75 million, or $2,321 per teraflops They are aiming for the Shasta supercomputer to The post Cray Shasta supercomputer in 2020 with about 100 petaflops appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

China space program has several moon missions over the next few years, a three-module space station by 2022, robotic mission to Mars and more. China will help launch Pakistani astronauts in 2022. China will try to land a robot rover mission to the dark side of the moon. Chang’e 4 mission will set up an experimental lunar base to trial growing potatoes for food. Chang’e 4 is to be launched in December 2018. It will have an orbiter, a robotic lander and rover. It was originally planned for a 2015 launch. A Long March 3B rocket will launch it. Orbiter: The post China space program will get busy with moon missions and a space station appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Marvel may be dropping Netflix shows left and right , but the studio still has big plans when it comes to streaming series. Variety reports that yet another small-screen show about Marvel characters we’ve met on the big screen is in the works, this time focusing on the Winter Soldier and the Falcon. Read more...

A pilot flew a helicopter with supervised autonomy in an aircraft with DARPA’s Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System (ALIAS). Aircrew Labor In-Cockpit Automation System provides flexible automation architecture for existing aircraft to increase mission effectiveness and enable safe, reduced crew operations. Robotic aircraft systems can take on the role of a traditional co-pilot. Now in Phase 3, the Sikorsky engineers developing ALIAS have begun to integrate the system into a UH-60 Black Hawk for testing and flight demonstration in 2019. As the biggest fleet of aircraft in the Army and widely relied on by the Department of Defense, Drozeski said The post DARPA robotic co-pilot will fly Blackhawk Helicopters in 2019 appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

‘Tis the season to go completely overboard with costumes and decorations, so when Mike Warren decided on Ghost Rider for his Halloween getup , he knew he’d have to go the extra mile with a wearable glowing skull helmet surrounded in a cloud of smoke. But instead of reaching for the dry ice, he adapted a more modern… Read more...

Boeing will collaborate with Israeli industries for at least 35 percent of the value of any transaction it signs with the Israeli government. Israel will be buying about $10 billion worth of jet fighters, helicopters and other military gear. The reciprocal procurement means $3.5 billion of the new business will be in Israel. Under a defense aid deal signed in 2016 by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then U.S. President Barack Obama, the United States agreed to provide Israel with $38 billion in military assistance over 10 years. However, one component of the deal was to phase out a The post Boeing will spend 35% of military purchase in Israel appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

The actor: Lucy Davis’ career has always moved between comedy and drama, from Jane Austen to zombie-killing to a career-launching role as Dawn in Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s The Office . She’s long been a regular on British television, and will be most familiar to U.S. audiences as the bubbly Etta Candy from… Read more...

Ford has an ad where they diss keynote addresses and claim only the building of things matters. Building and executing is highly critical but if that was all that mattered then the future will be China’s. China is building more cars than the USA. China is building 24 million cars per year versus 18 million for the USA. The first part of the Ford ad says the future is not created in a keynote address. However, Steve Jobs did announce the result of his vision of the iPhone with the realized execution of years of work and design and engineering The post Ford says the future is built and disses vision appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

China is making 225 square nautical miles of ocean into test site for robotic warships. The Wanshan Marine Test Site will be largest robot ship test area. They are setting up satellite navigation, electro optical sites, sonar, and datalinks. The test site will partner with the Zhuhai municipal government, China Classification Society (CCS), and the Wuhan University of Technology. Wuhan University also develops cutting-edge Chinese naval research like electromagnetic technologies and aircraft carriers. The size of global robot market reached 160 billion yuan in 2017, and is expected to top 240 billion yuan by 2020. Wuhan Development Zone has thus The post China establishing 225 square mile robotic ship test area appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

The CW’s Charmed reboot is a surprisingly good, culturally-relevant reimagining of the original series that’s exploring timely stories about the evils of the patriarchy while its trio of titular witches are also taking on all kinds of demonic foes. Interestingly, the witches’ first major baddie...is basically a… Read more...

SpaceX completed a static fire test last night of the Falcon 9 booster that will launch SpaceX’s first demonstration mission for @NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. They are one step closer to flying astronauts to the space station. The team at our rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas completed a static fire test last night of the Falcon 9 booster that will launch SpaceX’s first demonstration mission for @NASA’s Commercial Crew Program – one step closer to flying astronauts to the @Space_Station! pic.twitter.com/iDYNoamCvU — SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 27, 2018 The post SpaceX has static fire for first Crew Demo mission appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Dracula, the Count, Lestat, even Angel and Blade—we know the origin stories of these iconic vampires from across the pop culture landscape. But one beloved vampyr has been long overdue in getting a backstory, and this exclusive look at a quirky new horror comic anthology is finally doing it. Read more...

Tesla had registered a total of 61,843 Model 3 VINs in October. Elon Musk noted that a ramp to 7,000 Model 3 per week should be doable just by optimizing its existing lines. To date, 69,712 dual motor VINs have been registered w/ NHTSA (excl. test batches). This represents ~56% of all VINs registered (123,551) since AWD registrations began on 6/28. 6/28 – 9/30: 74.9% AWD (47,880 of 63,905) 10/1 – 10/26: 36.6% AWD (21,832 of 59,646) pic.twitter.com/ZUl0VrcneN — Model 3 VINs (@Model3VINs) October 26, 2018 #Tesla registered 2,297 new #Model3 VINs. ~30% estimated to be dual motor. Highest VIN The post Tesla registers 61,800 Model 3s in October appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Should you find yourself in the southern hemisphere beneath dark skies, look up: You’ll see two faint, glowing smudges beside the vast, glowing trail of our Milky Way galaxy. These two Magellanic Clouds are galaxies, too, though smaller ones orbiting our own. And some time in the past, perhaps back in the dinosaur… Read more...

Hollywood has been trying to make a new Flash Gordon movie for years —and now, an up-and-coming director has just approached the plate. Read more...

The golden age of heroes in Westeros has found at least one of its heroes in Naomi Watts. Read more...

Netflix’s Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is a new series , but is already having a bit of an identity crisis. And it’s about how the show handles sex. For being a series about a group of pansexual witches and warlocks—according to one of the actors, they might all be pansexual—there are some pretty disappointing takes… Read more...

Marvel’s Spider-Man already gave us one of the most fascinating takes on the world of the webslinger in any medium—and it’s back at it again with the first of three new downloadable story chapters revolving around the legendary thief Felicia Hardy, the Black Cat. But so far, Felicia herself is proving to be almost… Read more...

With just 8% of the world’s population, Latin America accounts for roughly a third of global murders. It is also the only region where lethal violence has grown steadily since 2000, according to United Nations figures. Above – Mexican soldiers and police guard a severed head which was left as a message between rival drug cartels. Nearly one in every four murders around the world takes place in just four countries: Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico and Colombia. Last year, a record 63,808 people were murdered in Brazil. Mexico also set a record at 31,174, with murders so far this year up The post 25% of world murders are in Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico and Columbia appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

I believe your enjoyment of The Blair Witch Project is directly related to when you saw it. When the film opened in wide-release across the U.S. in July of 1999, it was beyond a massive success and yet, large chunks of that audience hated it. They wondered, “Why was this movie so hyped? Why did I just pay to see that?… Read more...

Radio dramas have made a comeback over the past few years, with podcasts like Welcome to Night Vale , The Bright Sessions , and Limetown (whose second season launched this week) reviving the bygone era of fictional stories told through spoken word. But back in the 1930s, radio plays were one of the most popular forms of… Read more...

While the internet was obsessing over that rectangular iceberg , some more disconcerting icy behavior went down on the other side of the Antarctic. Read more...

Ever since The Walking Dead made its return , we’ve been preparing for life in the zombie apocalypse without Rick Grimes. We’ve known that star Andrew Lincoln will be  departing the show after nine seasons of horror, and the moment is finally arriving...as heralded by a pale horse. No, seriously. Read more...

The World Wildlife Living Planet Report 2018 report presents a comprehensive overview of the state of our natural world. They track 16,704 populations of 4,005 vertebrate species, the LPI finds that global populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians have declined, on average, by 60 percent between 1970 and 2014, the most recent year with available data. Human activity has impacted the habitats and natural resources wildlife and humanity depend on, such as oceans, forests, coral reefs, wetlands and mangroves. The Earth is estimated to have lost about half of its shallow water corals in the past 30 years The post Animal populations have dropped by 60% according to Wildlife report appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Hocus Pocus has its moments, as do Coraline , Monsters Inc. , and all the Harry Potter films. But there’s one movie above all others that is seemingly engineered, from start to finish, to scare the hell out of the children who make up its intended audience: 1990's Anjelica Huston showcase The Witches. Read more...

Have you ever wanted to own a piece of the moon? Now might be your chance, if you have a million bucks lying around. Next month Sotheby’s in New York will auction off some of the only moon rocks that can be legally owned by private individuals. Read more...

If Bitcoin is implemented at similar rates at which other technologies have been incorporated, then Bitcoin alone could produce enough emissions to raise global temperatures by 2°C as soon as 2033. Peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change – Bitcoin emissions alone could push global warming above 2°Celsius. A team of UH Mānoa researchers analyzed information such as the power efficiency of computers used by Bitcoin mining, the geographic location of the miners who likely computed the Bitcoin and the CO2 emissions of producing electricity in those countries. Based on the data, the researchers estimated that the use of bitcoins in the The post Bitcoin by itself can generate 2 degree warming by 2033 appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

The latest episode of Legends of Tomorrow took us back to the Salem Witch Trials, giving us a chance to further explore Zari’s trauma . But it also featured a fantastic nod to the Fairly OddParents , and my head canon wheels are a’ turning. Read more...

Last August, SJ Harris, the stuntwoman doubling for Zazie Beetz, died in a tragic motorcycle accident while filming on the set of Deadpool 2, much to the shock of her fellow castmates. Now, the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists is trying to take steps to better protect performers. Read more...

Anna Kendrick joins an intense new sci-fi movie. Tony Todd teases a supervillainous teamup for The Flash ’s 100th episode. Get your best look yet at the live-action incarnation of DC’s Doom Patrol. Plus, what’s to come on Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow , and a sliver of Aquaman footage. Spoilers get! Read more...

Chinese researchers have developed solar cells which are high efficiency and lower cost. Nano Energy Journal – Modulation-doped ZnO as high performance electron-selective layer for efficient silicon heterojunction solar cells Highlights • The Li-doped ZnO (Li-ZnO) layer was fabricated by a simple, mild and efficient solution process, and the work function was tuned precisely in a relative large range (from 4.15 to 3.85 eV). • The contact resistivity (ρc) was dramatically decreased from 100 mΩ cm2 to 18 mΩ·cm2 for n-Si/Li-ZnO/Al structure with optimized Li concentration. • Remarkable efficiency of 15.1% and open-circuit voltage of 643 mV, for the solution-proceeded PEDOT: PSS/Si heterojunction solar The post High-performance solar cells with lower cost appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Northrop Grumman has been developing Lethality Enhanced Ordnance (LEO) – a scalable, performance-enhancing warhead technology that replaces cluster bombs which have been banned in 2010. They completed series testing of a new 50 lb-class warhead for future US air-to-surface and surface-to-surface hypersonic weapons. The new warhead leverages the company’s Lethality Enhanced Ordnance (LEO) technology. It is a scalable fragmentation/penetration warhead solution developed by Northrop Grumman. The requirement was for no submunitions and to have less than 1% unexploded ordnance (UXO) after arming. LEO technology uses a thinned out shell casing supplemented with an inner fragmentation layer that can be scaled The post Grumman develops more lethal explosives for hypersonic and other missiles appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

A palm-sized robot has been made with a drop of liquid metal in a plastic wheel. The robot’s wheel rolls when the liquid metal changes the center of gravity, which is controlled by altering the voltage through the embedded battery. The researchers expect to further develop soft robots using liquid metal. They could be used in special missions such as searching for and rescuing earthquake victims, since they can change shape to slide under doors or make it through spaces humans can’t get into. The controlled actuation of gallium liquid‐metal (LM) alloys has presented new and exciting opportunities for constructing The post A Wheeled Robot Driven by a Liquid‐Metal Droplet appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

In political science, the term banana republic describes a politically unstable country with an economy dependent upon the exportation of a limited-resource product, such as bananas or minerals. Honduras is the poster-country that defines the term banana republic. There is some history and economics relevant to the Caravan of people from Honduras. Venezuela and Cuba have been deeply involved in Honduran politics. Honduras is the second poorest country in Central America. It has extremely unequal distribution of income and high underemployment. It has been dependent on the export of bananas and coffee, Honduras has diversified its export base to include The post 2009 Honduran constitutional crisis and today appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Southeast Asian companies are copying business models proven to work in China. A decade ago Chinese companies had success with “Copying to China” what worked elsewhere. Now others have success with “Copy From China”. Chinese companies adopted the business models of established US technology and internet companies. They are replicating Tencent Holdings’ WeChat super-app model, Alibaba’s Taobao e-commerce model and Alipay’s innovation of escrow payments for e-commerce transactions among others. Mobile-first business model were first pioneered in China. Mobile-first is becoming popular in Southeast Asia. Southeast Asia is at a similar stage of internet connectivity as China was a decade The post Southeast Asian Companies success model is copying from China appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

The U.S. is preparing new tariffs against all remaining Chinese imports if talks between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping fail. New tariffs against all goods from China might be announced in December. They would target the $257 billion in imports from China which are not already under tariff. China is looking at major tax cuts to boost its economy. China is looking to reduce its car taxes from 10% to 5%. In 2019, China is also looking at tax cuts equal to about 1% of GDP. A tax cut equal to 1 percent of GDP next year would be The post More tariffs and more tax cuts for China appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Because Batman and Robin don’t have any actual superpowers aside from access to the Wayne estate’s inordinate amount of wealth, they’ve always relied on cutting-edge technology to go toe to toe with all manner of supervillains. While still this is very much the case in DC Universe’s Titans , one of the Boy Wonder’s… Read more...

Icarus Interstellar Spaceship designer Adam Crowl has provided more analysis of the potential of the 80 Gigapascal carbon nanotube bundle material. Nextbigfuture wrote this material which has been made in a chinese lab. The material is 20 times stronger than Kevlar. The material would enable flywheel energy storage with jet engine or rocket like energy density. Adam Crowl indicates super flywheels would be better than rocket fuel when oxygen is factored For carbon nanotube material, with a density of about 1,800 kg/m3, and an operating maximum stress of 54 GPa, that means a specific energy density of 7.5 MJ/kg. For The post Discussion of 80 Gigapascal super material potential for energy and space appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Janelle Monáe’s most recent album (and accompanying movie) Dirty Computer is a work of art that, at first glance, might seem as if it’s somewhat of a pivot from the ongoing Afrofututuristic tale about the time-traveling android messiah she’s been telling on her previous releases. But according to Monáe, that’s not at… Read more...

News that Fox would be releasing a PG-13 version of the hard-R rated Deadpool 2 this holiday season left many of us scratching our heads. Why? What’s in it? How will it be different? Well, the film’s writers just revealed a few new pieces of information about the film. Read more...

Another day, and another popular manga is getting the big-budget Hollywood treatment. Read more...

What would the internet be like if you could actually walk around in it? Disney’s latest film, Ralph Breaks the Internet, is going to try and show us. Read more...

Castlevania ’s sophomore season is a decidedly different beast than its short and sharp predecessor . It’s slower-paced, methodical, and tinged with a lingering sadness that lashings of monster blood can’t cover up. But in one particular scene of frenetic, fanservice-y fury, it marries its action and character work to… Read more...

The witching hour is upon us. Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has arrived. One of the most-anticipated series debuts of the year has flown into our hearts on an eastward wind, but it’s not without its imperfections. On the heels of our review , here are some of the big things we loved about the first season of Chilling … Read more...

There are still a few days left to immerse yourself in everything Halloween before thoughts shift to turkeys and shopping lists. So pull down the blinds, turn up that smoke machine, and put Paweł Zadrożniak’s latest masterpiece on loop as the Floppotron grinds out a wonderful rendition of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’. Read more...

Ewoks are one of the biggest lightning rods for debate in Star Wars fandom. Do you love them? Do you hate them? Did George Lucas put them in Return of the Jedi to just sell toys , story be dammed? We could go on forever. Now, a new wrinkle has been added to that debate thanks to Sunday’s episode of Star Wars Resistance— … Read more...

Wingtech Technology is acquiring Dutch chip maker Nexperia for 25.2 billion yuan (US$3.6 billion). This deal needs US approval. Nexperia is a dedicated global leader in Discretes, Logic and MOSFETs devices. Originally part of Philips, they became a business unit of NXP before becoming an independent company in the beginning of 2017. Nexperia’s focus remains on efficiency, producing consistently reliable semiconductor components at high volume: 85 billion annually. They have an extensive portfolio. They have industry-leading small packages, produced in-house, combine power and thermal efficiency with best-in-class quality levels. Serving and supplying our global customers they have 11,000 employees across The post Chinese tech firm bids to purchase dutch chip-maker Nexperia appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

Indya Moore may be best known for striking epic postures on FX’s Pose , but she’s also a huge sci-fi nerd. That’s partially what made her decide to join Magic Hour , a new sci-fi anthology project helmed by Brooklyn-based writer Che Grayson. Another reason is the content: It’s science fiction through an LGBTQ lens. Read more...

A new study explores a biological approach to directing nanocarriers loaded with protein “game changers” to specific cells. The groundbreaking method may prove useful in treating myriad malignancies, inflammatory diseases and rare genetic disorders. Lipid nanoparticles (LNP) were used to deliver modified messenger RNA to treat inflammatory bowel diseases and other diseases. Prof. Dan Peer, Molecular Cell Biology at TAU’s Faculty of Life Sciences, led the research for the new study. Nature Communications – Cell-specific delivery of modified mRNA expressing therapeutic proteins to leukocytes Over the past few years, lipid carriers encapsulating messenger RNAs (mRNAs) have been shown to be The post Nanotech platform Carries mRNA Directly to Target Cells appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

The world is a mess. That’s one fact we can all agree on. And when reality is hard to talk about or to understand, sometimes fiction is the best way to express what’s really going on. Read more...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) methods have been used widely in past decades as a safe, non-invasive and non-radioactive method of diagnosing CVDs. Current MRI have limited sensitivity and even the most expensive MRI scanners (with the strongest magnets) cannot detect and visualize molecular and metabolic activity in the heart with sufficient sensitivity and specificity. Emerging hyperpolarized MRI techniques increased the sensitivity of MRI by up to five orders of magnitude. Above – The technique used in MetaboliQs is based on the hyperpolarization of marker molecules like pyruvate Foto: Dr. Christoph Nebel, Fraunhofer IAF Unfortunately, the hyperpolarization process takes a very The post Hyperpolarized quantum MRI increases sensitivity 100,000 times appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

If SpaceX gets lucky the BFR development costs could come in at the $2 billion low-end estimate. Elon Musk had estimated that it would cost $2 billion to 10 billion to develop. A few more critical successes over the next year will enable SpaceX to solidify the finances and funding for the BFR. The needed critical successes are the NASA crewed launch certification in mid-2019 and successful Falcon Heavy launches in 2019. SpaceX has pre-sold a moon orbit tourist flight to a Japanese billionaire. This was likely for $500 to $800 million. The SpaceX Falcon Heavy already has up to The post SpaceX Falcon Heavy and NASA crewed launches will fund BFR development appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

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IBM is buying Red Hat to become the number one hybrid cloud provider. Red Hat is the world’s leading provider of open source cloud software. It is a $34 billion deal. Research shows that 80 percent of business workloads have yet to move to the cloud, held back by the proprietary nature of today’s cloud market. This prevents portability of data and applications across multiple clouds, data security in a multi-cloud environment and consistent cloud management. IBM and Red Hat will be strongly positioned to address this issue and accelerate hybrid multi-cloud adoption. Together, they will help clients create cloud-native The post IBM buys Red Hat for hybrid cloud dominance appeared first on NextBigFuture.com .

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