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Sensors Developed To Detect the Smell Of Human Fear
Military

Sensors Developed To Detect the Smell Of Human Fear

By Clay Dillow

What I’ve Learned from Vintage Military Surplus Gear
Military

What I’ve Learned from Vintage Military Surplus Gear

By Vin Marshall

DoD and Taser’s New Grenade Launcher Round Delivers Incapacitating Shock From 200 Feet
Military

DoD and Taser’s New Grenade Launcher Round Delivers Incapacitating Shock From 200 Feet

By Clay Dillow

New Unmanned Chopper Sniffs Out Improvised Explosives While Looking Adorable
Aviation

New Unmanned Chopper Sniffs Out Improvised Explosives While Looking Adorable

By Jeremy Hsu

DARPA Celebrates Internet Anniversary with Bizarre Balloon Challenge
DARPA

DARPA Celebrates Internet Anniversary with Bizarre Balloon Challenge

By Jeremy Hsu

Happy 40th Birthday, Internet! Five Milestones in the Ever-Evolving History of the Web
DARPA

Happy 40th Birthday, Internet! Five Milestones in the Ever-Evolving History of the Web

By Stuart Fox

Army

Army Seeks Helmet-Mounted Radar to Give Every Soldier 360-Degree Awareness

By Clay Dillow

US Special Forces Field-Testing Plasma Knife
Army

US Special Forces Field-Testing Plasma Knife

By Stuart Fox

China Designs Indigenous UAV Stealth Fighter, and Bootlegs Some US Models
Air Force

China Designs Indigenous UAV Stealth Fighter, and Bootlegs Some US Models

By Stuart Fox

iRobot’s Cronenbergian Blob Bot is Ready to Roll, or Rather Ooze
DARPA

iRobot’s Cronenbergian Blob Bot is Ready to Roll, or Rather Ooze

By Paul Adams

Video: Wi-Fi Imaging Lets You See Through Walls
Military

Video: Wi-Fi Imaging Lets You See Through Walls

By Jeremy Hsu

Video: Raytheon’s Free Roaming Combat Simulator Lets You Feel Getting Shot
Gaming

Video: Raytheon’s Free Roaming Combat Simulator Lets You Feel Getting Shot

By Jeremy Hsu

Physicist Looks to Build a Kilometer-Long Cannon for Space Launches
Military

Physicist Looks to Build a Kilometer-Long Cannon for Space Launches

By Jeremy Hsu

Neutrinos May Someday Provide High-Speed Submarine Communication
Military

Neutrinos May Someday Provide High-Speed Submarine Communication

By Jeremy Hsu

Air Force Calls for Unmanned Cargo Aircraft To Supply Hazardous Combat Zones
Air Force

Air Force Calls for Unmanned Cargo Aircraft To Supply Hazardous Combat Zones

By Jeremy Hsu

Video: Lockheed’s Amazing Monocopter Drone Takes Flight
Aviation

Video: Lockheed’s Amazing Monocopter Drone Takes Flight

By Jeremy Hsu

Transonic Hulls, Inspired by Racing Yachts, Could Add Stealth To Navy SEALs’ Boats
Military

Transonic Hulls, Inspired by Racing Yachts, Could Add Stealth To Navy SEALs’ Boats

By Marshall Louis Reaves

Self-Regulated Morphine Delivery for Wounded Warfighters
DARPA

Self-Regulated Morphine Delivery for Wounded Warfighters

By Jeremy Hsu

Video: DARPA’s Remote-Controlled Cyborg Beetle Takes Flight
Animals

Video: DARPA’s Remote-Controlled Cyborg Beetle Takes Flight

By Stuart Fox

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Air Force

Air Force Shoots Down Runaway Drone Over Afghanistan

By Jeremy Hsu

DARPA Wants Morphing Helicopter Blades By Yesterday
DARPA

DARPA Wants Morphing Helicopter Blades By Yesterday

By Jeremy Hsu

Coming Soon: An Unblinking “Gorgon Stare” For Air Force Drones
Air Force

Coming Soon: An Unblinking “Gorgon Stare” For Air Force Drones

By Eric Hagerman

DARPA Wants ‘Precision Jamming’ To Take Enemies Out of the Conversation
DARPA

DARPA Wants ‘Precision Jamming’ To Take Enemies Out of the Conversation

By Clay Dillow

A Portable Device for Frying Electronics
Military

A Portable Device for Frying Electronics

By Emily Stone

Video: An Annotated Predator Drone Strike in Afghanistan
Air Force

Video: An Annotated Predator Drone Strike in Afghanistan

By John Mahoney

New System To Allow For Automated Predator Drone Landings
Air Force

New System To Allow For Automated Predator Drone Landings

By Stuart Fox

Clippy Enlists
AI

Clippy Enlists

By Dan Smith

DARPA Readies an Ultra-Fast Mini-Sub
Military

DARPA Readies an Ultra-Fast Mini-Sub

By Stuart Fox

F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Takes On Thunderbirds Stripes
Air Force

F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Takes On Thunderbirds Stripes

By Clay Dillow

President Convinces Congress To Scrap Additional F-22 Order
Air Force

President Convinces Congress To Scrap Additional F-22 Order

By Stuart Fox

Darpa’s Self-Feeding Sentry Robot is Not a Man-Eater, Company Protests
DARPA

Darpa’s Self-Feeding Sentry Robot is Not a Man-Eater, Company Protests

By Jeremy Hsu

Video: Taser Tests New Tri-Fire X3 On Their Own Employees
Military

Video: Taser Tests New Tri-Fire X3 On Their Own Employees

By John Mahoney

Taser Rolls Out Extended-Range Shock Shotgun (Yes, a Shotgun)
Military

Taser Rolls Out Extended-Range Shock Shotgun (Yes, a Shotgun)

By Jeremy Hsu

Aviation

Darpa’s First Robotic Ornithopter Hovers, Flies Like a Hummingbird

By Anna Maria Jakubek

Gear

Speech Recognition iPhone App Translates Arabic On the Fly

By John Brandon

Army’s Most High-Tech Infantry Unit Set to Touch Down in Afghanistan
Army

Army’s Most High-Tech Infantry Unit Set to Touch Down in Afghanistan

By Adrian Covert

F-22 + Sonic Boom = Pretty Pictures
Military

F-22 + Sonic Boom = Pretty Pictures

By John Mahoney

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Starscream
Air Force

Depiction vs. Reality: The Air Force Hardware of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

By Jeremy Hsu

A Lightweight Display Brings Instant Army Intelligence to Your Wrist
Army

A Lightweight Display Brings Instant Army Intelligence to Your Wrist

By Arnie Cooper

Military

A Word With the Inventor of the Battlefield Snakebot and the Wall-Scaling Snailbot

By John Pavlus

DARPA’s “Programmable Matter” Project Creating Shape-Shifting Materials
DARPA

DARPA’s “Programmable Matter” Project Creating Shape-Shifting Materials

By Dan Smith

Dread Zeppelin: The Army’s New Surveillance Blimp
Army

Dread Zeppelin: The Army’s New Surveillance Blimp

By Dan Smith

From the Archives: D-Day Tech
Military

From the Archives: D-Day Tech

By Stuart Fox

New Army Rifle Fires Laser-Guided Smart Bullets With Onboard Targeting Chips
Military

New Army Rifle Fires Laser-Guided Smart Bullets With Onboard Targeting Chips

By Dan Smith

Hackers Breach the Joint Strike Fighter Program
Air Force

Hackers Breach the Joint Strike Fighter Program

By Jacob Ward

Who Wants Yellowcake?
Military

Who Wants Yellowcake?

By Doug Cantor

Battling Over Aging Nuclear Warheads
Military

Battling Over Aging Nuclear Warheads

By Allison Bond, NYU Scienceline

The Future of the Military — Perhaps
Military

The Future of the Military — Perhaps

By James Vlahos

Robots at War
Military

Robots at War

By Val Wang

The Army’s New Black Hawk
Army

The Army’s New Black Hawk

By Seth Fletcher

Who Killed the Electric Car? Not the Army
Army

Who Killed the Electric Car? Not the Army

By Jeremy Hsu

Boot Camp for Gaming Addicts, Gaming Addicts for Boot Camp
Army

Boot Camp for Gaming Addicts, Gaming Addicts for Boot Camp

By Jeremy Hsu

Origami Optics
DARPA

Origami Optics

By Annemarie Conte and Esther Haynes

A .44-caliber bullet impact.
DIY

Make your own ammo

By Theodore Gray

The Military’s Mystery Machine
Military

The Military’s Mystery Machine

By Abe Streep

Wing Men
Air Force

Wing Men

By Tom Clynes

Building the Real Iron Man
DARPA

Building the Real Iron Man

By Gregory Mone

Saving Dolphins With Sonar
Animals

Saving Dolphins With Sonar

By Matt Ransford

How It Works: The Flying Laser Cannon
Military

How It Works: The Flying Laser Cannon

By Eric Adams

Darpa’s New Goal: A Plane That Flies for Five Years
DARPA

Darpa’s New Goal: A Plane That Flies for Five Years

By Seth Fletcher

What the Heck is Ricin?
Health

What the Heck is Ricin?

By Megan Miller

Warships of Tomorrow
Military

Warships of Tomorrow

By Christian DeBenedetti

Military

Navy Tests 32-Megajoule Railgun

By Seth Fletcher

Scramjet
Military

The Hypersonic Age is Near

By Michael Belfiore

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