Period of great ferment for mathematical models. After the one on the number of alien civilizations in the galaxy, now comes the one on how many people are needed to establish a colony on Mars.
How (in short) Starlink works, the constellation of satellites wanted by Elon Musk, and what will change in telecommunications.
How will future humans evolve when they colonize space? We don't have photos of Homo Cosmicus, but we can certainly make an identikit of him.
The tycoon of Tesla, SpaceX and many others predicts that the Chinese economy will outperform the American one, and this will make the winds of war blow stronger.
In Chernobyl (and other contaminated areas) there is a multitude of fungi capable of growing in spite of radiation. Science tries to explain it, to find medical applications.
Amazon's future runs on a path that will encounter few obstacles. Here's how Jeff Bezos' company will become even more unstoppable in 2020.
The glass of the futuristic pickup went to pieces, but Tesla Cybertruck will still make sparks, even in spite of the sensational ugliness. I tell you why.
Boring Company, Elon Musk's startup that builds and operates underground electrical tunnel networks to bypass traffic, shows the latest developments
10 months after the collaboration agreement, Virgin Galactic and Under Armor present the first spacewear collection for private astronauts: it's very cool
Thanks to its technology, SABER can take the aircraft to Mach 5.4 (6.300 km per hour) for commercial flights. That's five times the speed of sound.
A research team thinks it has found a method of producing enough food to feed up to a million inhabitants in future colonies on Mars.
A group of researchers plans to send cancer cells into space after research in a microgravity environment showed notable effects.
Even the stones now know that Virgin Galactic plans to send the first space passengers by next June. There's more, however: according to a report from the Trade and Security Commission, Richard Branson's space company is planning to take a step significantly ahead of schedule. Branson has launched a huge fundraising campaign to raise 800 million dollars. And he did so by ensuring that they will be used to develop a route capable of sending an aircraft to… Read more
A rigid structure houses an inflatable habitat that can expand in later stages of the journey. The module consists of natural-sized rooms.
The human-computer connection will be able to read and write a huge amount of information. In the Neuralink presentation the first, important vision.
Hyperloop's ultra-modern station, capsule and interior design offers a never-before-seen perspective on this revolutionary form of transportation
2 years of waiting, clues, funds and mysteries: we will finally know what Neuralink does, the startup of Elon Musk who wants to connect our brain to a computer
There are currently 18.000 objects tracked in Earth orbit, of which 2000 are satellites. In the next few years the number of objects will double, and the number of satellites will increase tenfold. Telescopes (and our eyes) will no longer understand anything.
Is anyone able to remember the businesses in which Elon Musk had a hand? It is an enormous amount of initiatives that embrace vast fields of knowledge: Elon Musk is co-founder of Paypal, creator and CEO of SpaceX, at the helm of Tesla Motors, president of SolarCity and "putative father" of Hyperloop, the revolutionary transport system " tires” that could lead us to travel in capsules at speeds of over 1000 kilometers per hour, currently being tested on a small stretch in Nevada. … Read more
The movie The Martian seemed like pure science fiction just a few years ago, with Matt Damon surviving on Martian soil for months on end growing potatoes and producing water. Yet today there are those, like Elon Musk, who dream of bringing as many people as possible to the Red Planet. Other scientists do not reject the idea of a mass migration to #Mars, once the Earth has been definitively exploited. Within ten years, according to Elon Musk (who founded the SpaceX space agency), there will already be… Read more
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is working on a "big" project: he wants to build (and fly) the largest plane in the world. In the competition for the race to conquer space, Paul Allen has decided to rely on SpaceX and Virgin Galactic for the creation of a particular and enormous plane from which to launch satellites into orbit. According to Reuters, which launched the news, Stratolaunch Systems, a division of the Vulcan Aerospace company owned by Paul Allen, … Read more
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