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DARPA’s Brain-Controlled Robotic Arm Fast-Tracked, Could Be Available in Just Four Years
The Navy’s X-47B Carrier-Capable Stealth UAV Makes its First Flight
Ferns Versus Terrorists: Engineered Proteins Turn Airport Plants Into Bomb Detectors
The ‘Beast of Kandahar’ Stealth Aircraft Quietly Resurfaces in New Pics
The Navy’s Megawatt Laser Weapon Takes a Big Leap Forward with Powerful New Electron Injector
Inside the Army’s Next-Generation Shockproof Helmets
The Terminator Scenario: Are We Giving Our Military Machines Too Much Power?
Active Camouflage System Uses E-Ink to Make Tanks Invisible on the Battlefield
New Shipboard Laser Weapon Takes Aim at Would-Be Pirates
DARPA’s Smart BLADE Will Cut Enemy Communications on the Battlefield
Smart Computer-Vision Systems To Spot Prison Riots Before They Happen
California Mine Will Reopen to Meet U.S. Demand for Rare Earth Materials
The Navy’s Next-Gen Electromagnetic Catapult System Hurls its First Planes Skyward
Radical Ideas: By Adding Sensor Arrays, Postal Trucks Could Become a Nationwide Data-Collecting Network
NASA Engineers Propose Combining a Rail Gun and a Scramjet to Fire Spacecraft Into Orbit
‘Plasma Antennas’ Could Enable Next-Gen Wi-Fi, Beaming Gigs Per Second Wirelessly
Video: Navy Railgun Sets New Record, Launching A Metal Bullet To Mach 7 Speeds
You Are Here: How Digital Maps Are Changing the Landscape of the 21st Century
New Self-Healing Materials Detect When They’re Damaged and Fix Themselves
Air Force Unveils Fastest Defense Supercomputer, Made of 1,760 PlayStation 3s
Radar Shoes Could Help Locate Users Where Satellite Signals Won’t Go
Swarms of Robot Soldiers Could Make Better Decisions Than Human Leaders on Data-Strewn Battlefields
Serpent Science: DARPA Wants to Know Flying Snakes’ Secret
Archive Gallery: The World Wars’ Most Formidable Warships
Stuxnet Worm is a “Game Changer” for Global Cybersecurity, Top U.S. Official Tells Senate
The Navy’s Free Electron Laser System Will be More Than Just a Death Ray
New Gamma-Ray Nuke Detector Could Sniff Out Dirty Bombs Without Opening Cargo Containers
Carnegie Mellon Gets $1 Million To Build Autonomous Flying Capability For Darpa’s Dream Car
Mystery Missile Launches Off Southern California Coast, Military Says ‘Not Us’
Pump-Powered Antennas Could Replace Metal Communications Arrays with Fountains of Saltwater
Video: DARPA and Boeing’s DiscRotor Retractable-Blade Heliplane
New Nanospheres are the Stiffest Biological Materials Ever Created, Surpassing Kevlar
After $19 Billion Spent Over Six Years, Pentagon Realizes the Best Bomb Detector Is a Dog
The XM-25 Smart Computerized Grenade Launcher is Headed to Afghanistan
In New Attempt to Build a Practical Military Laser Weapon, Lockheed Inverts a Prism
U.S. Military Aims to Use 50 Percent Renewable Energy Within Ten Years
Darpa’s Self-Aiming “One Shot” Sniper Rifle Scheduled for Next Year
Iran’s Boat-Plane-Thing Would Strike Fear Into Other Flying Military Boats if Any Existed
Former Air Force Officers Claim UFOs Visited Bases, Tampered With Nukes
Real-Life Iron Man Exoskeleton Gets a Slimmer, More Powerful Sequel
DARPA Funds Neurophotonics Center to Develop Fiber-Optic Link Between Brain and Prosthetics
Video: Military’s New Water Guns Can Rip Through Steel, Disabling IEDs
DARPA Wants to Install Transcranial Ultrasonic Mind Control Devices in Soldiers’ Helmets
Archive Gallery: The Twentieth Century’s Best-Kept Military Secrets
PopSci Investigation: What Kind Of Top-Secret Assassination Tech Does $58 Billion Buy?
DARPA-Funded Device Adjusts the Speed of Light With the Twist of a Knob
When Drones Go Rogue In Friendly Skies, How Do We Bring Them Home?
Pentagon: 2008 Cyber Breach, Considered the Biggest Ever, Was Caused By a Simple Flash Drive
L.A. Prison Using Experimental, Controversial ‘Pain Ray’ to Keep Inmates in Line
A Sensor That Tracks Cosmic Particles Could Spot Hidden Nuclear Threats Before They Cross Our Borders
DARPA-Funded Chip Calculates With Probabilities, Not Hard Binary Logic
DARPA’s Giant Space Junk Net Could Remove Almost All Orbiting Debris
The Army’s New Robotic Tentacle Manipulator Uses Teams of Snakebots to Manipulate Objects
Air Force Wants Drones That Can Sense Other Airplanes’ Intent
The Loneliest Humanoid in America
Video: Raytheon’s Ship-Mounted Laser Weapon Incinerates a UAV in Flight
To Locate Underground Threats, Lockheed Scans Subterranean Gravity Signatures
New Stealth Nano-Paint Turns Any Aircraft Into a Radar-Evading Stealth Plane
For the First Time, a Full-Sized Helicopter Makes a Completely Autonomous Flight
South Korea Deploys Deadly Sentry Bots to Keep Watchful Eyes, Serious Weapons Trained on the Demilitarized Zone
Five Ideas To Fight Space Junk
DARPA Asks for a Flying Car, Gets a Dual-Rotor Road Warrior Turned Helo
British-Designed ‘Bulletproof Custard’ Liquid Armor Is Better than a Kevlar Vest
New Submarine Communications Scheme Will Bring Tweeting to the Ocean Depths