BROAD STRATEGIC APPRAISALS: 11/1/12

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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Engineers pave the way towards 3D printing of personal electronics

Sensor detects bombs on sea floor

Ultralight fractal structures could bear heavy loads

Japan Is Working On A 300 MPH Floating Train

Invisibility Cloak Could Shield Ships, Oil Rigs From Rough Waves

Solar Energy Funnels

Through-clouds radar with imaging capability to match infrared

DARPA finds the best sentry is a man-machine hybrid

Mach 3 Bubble Shockwaves

European Union To Spend $900M Building Super Lasers More Powerful Than Any Yet Constructed

Titan Surpasses Sequoia as World’s Fastest Supercomputer

Developing carbon-based nanoelectronics with graphene

HEARBO Robot Has Superhearing

Boeing Conducts First Flight Test of the CHAMP Cyber Missile

China Defense Chief: Military Buildup No Threat To World

Nanotech 'second skin' could protect soldiers from chemical threats

X-47B loaded onto the USS Harry S Truman

Dog noses inspire explosives detector

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Suicide Drones, Mini Blimps and 3D Printers: Inside the New Army Arsenal

Nanotech device could step in for dogs to sniff out explosives

New metamaterial lens focuses radio waves

Brain waves encode rules for behavior

Israel’s Iron Dome Won’t Work in Asia

X-47B drone demonstrates wireless ground handling for use on aircraft carriers

Chemists convert greenhouse gas to fuel

Headband Controls Your Smartphone With Your Brain

Space Exploration on the Cheap

Xi Jinping Can Send China in a New Direction

3D printed biorobot

US Navy finally starts replacing killer dolphins with mine-hunting Knifefish drones

New metamaterial invisibility cloak adapts to different sized objects

Scientists Find Cheaper Way to Ensure Internet Security

Silicon Carbide Logic Circuits Work at Blistering Temperatures

Toshiba Unveils Robot for Disaster Response

Avic Promotes J-31 As An Export Fighter

Obama set to defy China over sea rows

Friday, November 16, 2012

Fabrication Trick Offers Fivefold Leap in Hard-Disk Capacity

Lockheed, Raytheon face off in Space Fence competition

IBM and Cleveland Clinic Collaborate to Train Watson in Medicine

Researchers Find Way to Boost WiFi Performance 400-700 Percent

Removing Cisco from the equation with software defined networking

NASA 3D prints rocket parts — with steel, not plastic

First teleportation between macroscopic objects leads the way to a quantum internet

Antenna-on-a-chip rips the light fantastic

Google's blazingly fast Internet goes live in Kansas City

US to deploy key space surveillance systems in Australia

IDF’s Multi-Layer Missile Defense Systems: A 360° Look

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Lightest Metal On Earth

DARPA seeks networking camera for dismounted soldier

US Military Creates Cheap, Lightweight 3D Printer to Manufacture Equipment on the Frontline

A robot bomb tester

Novel way to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.

Clear Need to Define Cyberweapons and Cyberwar

Singapore Builds First Vertical Farm

Everspin first to ship ST-MRAM, claims 500x faster than SSDs

Duke University creates perfect, centimeter-scale invisibility cloak

FirePro S10000 - the first teraflops graphics card

3D, camera-free gesture recognition

Behind Sino-Japanese Tensions

Artificial Skin Can Feel and Heal

Darpa Works To Speed Design, Simplify Manufacture

Northrop Grumman Reveals Bigger Firebird

New Self-Repairing Material Invented at Stanford

Friday, November 9, 2012

2,000x faster broadband promised by Welsh scientists

Cray releases new supercomputer

China Most Threatening Cyberspace Force, U.S. Panel Says

Building bones from wood

Army test proves JLENS can target swarming boats

Water-Splitting Catalyst Revealed

Oak Ridge Unveils 20-Petaflop ‘Titan’ Supercomputer

Armor and Protection

MBDA GERMANY’S LASER DEMONSTRATOR PROVES ITS AIR DEFENCE CAPABILITIES

Obama set to 'extend hand' to Iran again: analysts

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Researchers create biocrude from wet algae in one minute

New Prosthetic Hand Has Sweet Skills, Terminator Looks

Crushed Silicon Could Triple Your Battery Life

How butterfly wings can inspire new high-tech surfaces

Radical planes take shape

IBM’s Watson goes to medical school

Ultrasensitive photon hunter

On the road to more energetic biofuels

Mechanical Pencil That Draws Carbon Nanotubes

Japan Display showcases 7-inch paper-like reflective LCD panel

Eye tracking is the future of high-speed, maximum accuracy input

New study reveals challenge facing designers of future computer chips

Heat-assisted magnetic recording

Plasmonic Nanolasers Shrink Down to Size of a Virus

DARPA completes autonomous high-altitude refuelling tests

Japanese Missile-tracking drones may scan skies

Friday, November 2, 2012

Giant wind-blown ball rolls around and detonates landmines

Following Sandy, DHS seeks security 'Cyber Reserve'

New discovery shows promise in future speed of synthesizing high-demand nanomaterials

Plastic fantastic seals in speeding projectiles

The Angry Pacific

Flying robot avoids obstacles

Rollable, foldable e-devices coming

Team Ghostshell Allegedly Spills 2.5 M Russian Records

Fireflies inspire low-cost LED lighting

Laptop built to protect classified docs

The Race to a Billion Billion Operations Per Second: An Exaflop by 2018?

Explosives Detector As Sensitive As A Dog’s Nose

Wi-Fi Radio Takes a Digital Turn

US Navy Tests Rafael Spike Missiles on Unmanned vessels

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