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Blacker Than Black Nanotubes are the New Black

The military shows interest in a new material that's 30 times as dark as the current standard—but it's good for solar panels too!

We told you about a new ultra-black material back in January and guess who was the first group to come knocking on the researchers' door?

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The Invisible Warship

The Navy´s next destroyer is two football fields long, but on radar it looks like a fishing boat

For a closer look, click 'View Photos' at left to launch the photo gallery

It will be almost silent, nearly invisible to enemy radar—and capable of dropping six powerful missiles simultaneously on a single target up to 95 miles away. But the most important feature of the DDG1000 Zumwalt, the Navy's first new destroyer in 30¿years, could be its versatility. The 600-foot-long ship will be just as comfortable in the deep ocean as in the mine-infested shallows of the Persian Gulf.

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The Top-Secret Warplanes of Area 51

Stealth jets? Hypersonic bombers? What's really being developed at the military's most famous classified base?

For a closer look at the exotic aircraft the Air Force might be cooking up at Area 51, launch the photo gallery.

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Film Review: Stealth

Putting Cinematic Science to the Test

Directed by Rob Cohen
Written by W.D. Richter
Cast
Josh Lucas—Lt. Ben Gannon
Jessica Biel—Kara Wade
Jamie Foxx—Henry Purcell
Sam Shepard—Capt. George Cummings
Richard Roxburgh—Keith Orbit
Joe Morton—Capt.







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