BROAD STRATEGIC APPRAISALS: 2012

Saturday, December 22, 2012

Ultrasound method could lead to non-invasive surgical knife

Army builds new sensor system to keep roads safe in war zones

DARPA to announce 100G program to build 100-gigabit-per-second air-to-air data links

Increasing fossil-fuel power by 40% with a green, clean tornado turbocharger

Vanadium oxide microactuators

Researchers discover a new kind of magnetism

DNA Nanotechnology Takes Two Big Steps Forward in Manufacturing

DARPA LS3 Robot Mule

Quantum Imaging Technique Heralds Unjammable Aircraft Detection

Does the USAF have a secret ISR/Strike jet in development at Groom Lake?

Russia to build new heavy ICBM by 2018

US to deploy newest weapons to Asia-Pacific

Saturday, December 15, 2012

X-Rays Are So 20th Century: New Chips Generate THz Waves

Transmitting data by light could solve bandwidth limitations

Dazzle laser reflector transmits drone data

Physics World reveals its top 10 breakthroughs for 2012

Wreless infrastructure mesh video surveillance network

DARPA contracts Nvidia to make drones smarter

Stealth vs brute force: is the trade-off worth it?

LocataNet positioning system

NTU's 'sense-ational' invention helps underwater vessels navigate with ease

Monday, December 10, 2012

Japanese Team Aims For World Record In Human-Powered Styrofoam Plane

Bleeding internally? Seal it with this DARPA foam

Robotic vehicles taking up positions under the sea

US to launch anew secretive space plane

Researchers find crippling flaws in global GPS

NASA investigates use of 'trailblazing' material for new sensors

4-D Nanowire Transistor Takes Shape of a Christmas Tree

Laser pulse makes insulator conduct like a metal

Sharp develops solar cell with world's highest conversion efficiency of 37.7%

U.S. Marine Corps Surges to the Asia-Pacific

U.S. Spies See Superhumans, Instant Cities by 2030

Robot Swims 9,000 Miles From San Francisco to Australia

High-energy physicists smash records for network data transfer

Could synthetic fuels eliminate entire US need for crude oil, create ‘new economy’?

Graphene towers promise ‘flexi-electronics’

Bebionic: Bionic Hands Are Getting Closer To The Real Thing

Scientists Create Artificial Brain With 2.3 Million Simulated Neurons

Intel unveils 22nm SoC transistors

Nanoscale compound semiconductor transistor could challenge silicon's dominance

IBM announces major breakthrough with silicon nanophotonics

Navy Preps For X-47B Cats, Traps On Carrier

SpaceX lands first U.S. military launch contracts

DARPA looking to give UAVs better 'hand-eye' coordination

Japan readies to strike down North Korean missile launch

Northrop Grumman LRS-B

Monday, December 3, 2012

Highway Patrol Vehicle 2025

Solar power could oust diesel generators used by marines

Tiny Hovering Drone Spies

Microsoft's Plan to Bring About the Era of Gesture Control

Deceptive robots mimic squirrels and birds for potential military use

Goodbye, fluorescent light bulbs! See your office in a new light

Light bends itself round corners

DARPA's Plan X program to define enabling technologies for U.S. cyber warfare strategy

Lockheed Martin demonstrates ground-based laser system against short-range threats

Self-healing, self-heating flash memory survives more than 100 million cycles

New plastic light bulbs are cheap, efficient, long lasting

NASA Technologists Test ‘Game-Changing’ Data-Processing Technology

Thought-controlled prosthesis is changing the lives of amputees

Research discovery could revolutionise semiconductor manufacture

Is this the biggest breakthrough in propulsion since the jet engine?

A Tiny Ten Year Battery For The Internet Of Things

Quiet Supersonic

Engineers use heat to create 100-million-cycle flash memory

Spaun, the most realistic artificial human brain yet

Sims help develop F-35 tactics, techniques and procedures

Stealth isn’t becoming obsolete anytime soon

ICBM Missiles: Reduce, Reuse, RSLP

X-37B Space Plane: Still in Search of a Mission

First Catapult Launch of X-47B Unmanned Aircraft Launched

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

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

DARPA robot climbs, leaps, and walks past obstacles

Game Theory

Parallella: a supercomputer for everyone

Metamaterial tech threatens the end for power cables

Nitrogen does diamond

Navy Tests Unmanned Surface Weapon

Mice Genetically Engineered To Detect Explosives 500 Times Better Than Normal Mice

Nvidia to pair CPUs, graphics processors in future Tesla high-performance chips

One step closer to rollable, foldable electronic devices

High Density Carbon Nanotubes Show Way Forward for Smaller and Faster Transistors

SpaceX aims big with massive new rocket

August failure of Boeing X-51 likely due to fin, resonance

Long Range Strike, overcoming the anti-access/area denial threat

'Sense of urgency' in S. China Sea row: ASEAN chief

Russia to spend over 100 billion RUB on nuclear weapons

Monday, October 29, 2012

TPM Chip in Windows 8 Lays Foundation for Widespread Enhancements to Hardware-Based Security

Advanced Precision Kill Weapons System

Tractor Beam

New IBM Microscope Technique Has Resolution 100 Times Smaller Than An Atom

U.S. Army Embraces 3D Printers

Robotic Exoskeleton for Space and Possible Use on Earth

Data storage: Going with the grain

Living power cables discovered

DIAMONDShield Integrated Air & Missile Defense

Light ties itself in knots

D-Wave Systems’ quantum computing technology makes humans out of machines

Analysis of 15 million cyber attacks

Precision Fires

Titan supercomputer hits 20 petaflops of processing power

Lockheed, Intel, Others Team Up To Tackle Cyber Challenges

I.B.M. Reports Nanotube Chip Breakthrough

Integrated Missile Defense System Test Sees Multiple Targets Engaged

Back to the Future: The U.S. Navy Returns to The Philippines

Asian Defence Spending 2000 - 2011

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Friday, October 26, 2012

US Navy eyes laser arsenal by 2014

Selective Laser Sintering

Boeing’s New Missile Remotely Disables Computers as It Flies By

D-Wave's Quantum Computer

Graphene Replaces Traditional Silicon Substrates in Future Devices

Silicon Oxide as Resistive Memory Goes Transparent

Nanotechnology Won't Be Delivering a Utopia Anytime Soon

U.S. Navy Seeks Undersea Aegis-like System

New Problem: How To Target Iran’s Nukes

AESA Driving New Applications For Ground Radars

Fourth Hypersonic X-51A To Fly In Mid-2013

US Navy Investigates Turning Seawater Into Jet Fuel

General Atomics Railgun Technology Helping to Revolutionize Defense Capabilities

Pentagon Seeks Air-Combat Brainstorm on Future After F-35

Raytheon's Excalibur Ib demonstrates accuracy during flight tests

Autonomous Mobility Applique System (AMAS)

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Friday, September 14, 2012

Iran-Syria vs. Israel, Round 1: Assessments & Lessons Learned

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Scientists use cobalt catalyst to produce hydrogen from water

Russia Develops Requirements for Future Long-range Bomber

High-tech camouflage could protect soldiers from ballistic heat

DARPA's massive water tank loves tough terrain

Intellectual Ventures Invents Beam-Steering Metamaterials Antenna

Robotic Little Bird Goes To Sea

Battlefield network is Army's top priority, says chief of staff

Army takes 3-D printing to Afghan war zone

What is supersymmetry?

Seeing through walls: Laser system reconstructs objects hidden from sight

Russia, China, and America’s Hypersonic Missile Race

Long-endurance unmanned submarine

Army eyes tactical cloud computing to distribute situational awareness on the battlefield

Michigan to test WiFi-powered connected car infrastructure

Major advance in generating electricity from wastewater

IBM sets world-record PV solar-cell power conversion efficiency

First ‘atomtronic’ radio broadcasts matter waves

Nvidia claims world's fastest workstation GPU

Google 's Project Glass to push wearable electronics boom

IBM claims spintronics breakthrough

A new route to dissipationless electronics

Princeton study reveals the brain's mysterious switchboard operator

Quieting Supersonic Jet Engines

Home Wi-Fi routers could operate as emergency network

TV with 16 times resolution of HDTV

Using WiFi to see through walls

Harvard cracks DNA storage, crams 700 terabytes of data into a single gram

Executives advocate a military approach to cybersecurity

Scram, Jet, You Bother Me

Graphene Is Losing Favor as the Two-Dimensional Material of the Future

Belly-up incidents drive FAA approach change

X-48C makes maiden flight

Boeing rocket-propelled bomb

X-47B B-roll

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The world’s leading combat UAVs

Hypersonic X-51A WaveRider flight test a failure, confirms USAF

US Army conducts LEMV first flight

Sukhoi starts testing new AESA radar on PAK-FA

China, US to begin new arms race

Tuesday, July 31, 2012

New Raytheon warhead lethal to enemy rockets

Bridgestone’s Airless Tire

New aircraft capable of fast, accurate and repeatable flight

Dutch Scientists Create Self-Healing Nano Coating

Record efficiency for next-generation solar cells

Russia’s naval chief: Moscow seeking naval bases in Cuba, Vietnam, and the Seychelles

First map of the human brain reveals a simple, grid-like structure between neurons

Monday, July 30, 2012

Intel’s 50-core champion: In-depth on Xeon Phi

Photovoltaics from any semiconductor

First 'Mott Transistor' Offers Powerful New Type of Semiconductor

New Cell a Step Forward For See-Through Solar

The world’s first 3D-printed gun

F-22 Fighter Loses $79 Billion Advantage in Dogfights: Report

F-22 Raptors Arrive in Okinawa

Lockheed reveals Sea Ghost concept for USN UCLASS programme

With eye on China, Japan considers deploying troops to disputed islands

First Flight of X-47B Unmanned Aircraft

Bionic Suit Gives Hope to Wheelchair-Bound

Manned aircraft are going to be around for a while

STIRRING UP THE SOUTH CHINA SEA (II): REGIONAL RESPONSES

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Thursday, July 26, 2012

SDB II will provide warfighters with new, critical capability

Donley: New bunker-busting bomb ready to use

Pilot of the future: U.S. Army gets wearable tech for the battlefield

Bomb-disposal robots now patrolling hospitals

Declarations of Cyberwar

Wright's Law Edges Out Moore's Law in Predicting Technology Development

Mechanical engineers develop an ‘intelligent co-pilot’ for cars

Single-photon transmitter could enable new quantum devices

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

NASA Successfully Tests Hypersonic Inflatable Heat Shield

The Future of Weapons: The Technology of War

The missing switch: High-performance monolithic graphene transistors created

Are FPGAs the future of password cracking and supercomputing?

Supersonic biplanes: More fuel efficient, quieter sonic booms

Researchers create highly transparent solar cells for windows that generate electricity

'Rattle memory', new computer memory thanks to nanotechnology

The End of China's Rise

U.S. Air Force’s Plug-and-Play Satellites

Lithium-Air Batteries Get a Recharge

Integrated Intelligence Framework Takes Shape

Future USAF acquisition to focus on Pacific

Monday, July 16, 2012

Autonomous robot maps ship hulls for mines

Lab-engineered muscle implants restore function in animals

DARPA selects Lockheed Martin for Airborne Launch Assist Space Access program

Mllimeter wave imaging technology

The Higgs boson made simple

'Bullet-Proof Skin', Made With Spider Silk And Goat's Milk, Created By Scientists

World’s first single-atom photo

OLEDs get cheaper and brighter with a 'spin'

Report: Chinese PLA Access 80% of “World’s Communications”

The 10-million-year sapphire hard disk

The camera that can see through frosted glass and skin, and around corners

DARPA creates sound-based fire extinguisher

Turkey Denies Fighter Shot Down by Syria

Nanomaterial Duplicates Self-Regulation of Living Organisms

US Navy's Unmanned SeaFox Submarines Play a Dangerous Game of Minesweeper

How US military's CAAT walks on water

Russian drones can see obstacles

Thursday, July 12, 2012

NIF makes history with record 500 terawatt laser shot

White LEDs directly on paper

Toward achieving 1 million times increase in computing efficiency

New chip captures power from multiple sources

Artificial cerebellum enables human-like object handling by robots

MIT dumps glasses for true-3D LCD system

MBDA Missile Could Counter Swarm Boats

Surviving a Plunge From Space

Terahertz laser scanners

Making 'renewable' viable - new technology for grid-level electrical energy storage

Researchers one step closer to new kind of thermoelectric 'heat engine'

The Mind-Reading Machine

Air France Flight 447 Crash Causes in Part Point to Automation Paradox

DARPA taps three to build smallsat launchers

U.S. moving submersibles to Persian Gulf to oppose Iran

Could Dust Packed Missiles Clean Low-Earth Orbit?

Raytheon develops small bombs for UAVs

Triple Target Terminator

Rolls-Royce Bids For Future Fighter Engine

Laser beam keeps robo-plane buzzing for two days straight

Turning Shells into Precision Artillery

Russian Federation Air Force to participate in the US Air Force's Red Flag exercise

Ship to Shore Connector: the USN’s New Hovercraft

aytheon awarded $636 million for Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle

Russia vows to keep supplying arms to Syria

China becoming 'more aggressive': Philippines

Friday, July 6, 2012

A Plan For Airships That Might Finally Take Off

Maple Seed Drones Will Swarm The Future

Lithium-ion battery can be painted onto most surfaces

Aegis Gets Better

Can 500-mile lithium-air car battery make gas obsolete?

Advanced IED detectors save lives

Robot Body Controlled By Human Thoughts Alone

A magnetic memory with one bit per molecule

Sharing data links in networks of cars

First the Higgs, Next Supersymmetry?

Hypersonic Brahmos Missile to be Ready by 2017

Raiding Iran Triggers Discussion Of When And How

China Counters U.S. Tilt Toward Asia

HYPERSONICS—THE NEW STEALTH

'God Particle' 'Discovered': European Researchers Claim Discovery of Higgs Boson-Like Particle

Japan buys F-35 stealth jets despite price rise

Missiles on standby to protect London Olympics: ministry

S-500 - a miracle of a weapon

Monday, June 25, 2012

Neutron microscope could aid creation of high-tech materials

SpaceX Unleashes Raw Merlin Engine Power

Hydrogen Rotary Engine - Mazda

Experts show how 'Flame' malware fakes Windows

Top supercomputers revealed

Gigapixel camera pushes resolution limit

Cyber Weapons We Can’t Control

Scientists set to show how they hacked into Stephen Hawking's brain

A 50 gigapixel camera five times better than 20/20 human vision

High brain integration underlies winning performances

Unmanned Underwater Vehicle That Uses Water For Fuel

MIT creates glucose fuel cell to power implanted brain-computer interfaces

Infinite-capacity wireless vortex beams carry 2.5 terabits per second

Taming light with graphene

Bulava 'De Facto' Enters Service – Navy Chief

Botnet Metrics and Calibration

Electric Signal Might Warn of Collapsing Bridges, Failing Turbines, Earthquakes, and More

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Quantum Dots Are Behind New Displays

“Plastic Paint” Magnetic Field Sensor

IBM’s Sequoia Crowned King of Supercomputers

New Communication Tech for Deep-Space Missions

A Gigapixel Camera Composed of Dozens of Microcameras

Unmanned carrier launched surveillance and strike (UCLASS) aircraft

Third X-51 hypersonic test vehicle to fly soon

Record-Breaking X-37B Completes Second Classified Spaceflight

China's UAVs capable of disrupting U.S. aircraft carriers

Sukhoi T-50 PAK FA Stealth Fighter

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High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System (HELLADS) Programme

Combat Edge anti-g ensemble might be causing Raptor’s oxygen woes

Lockheed's new mystery drone

S.Korea, US launch major naval exercise

Why China Won't Collapse

Can Russia Reform? Economic, Political, and Military Perspectives

Saturday, June 9, 2012

How A Peacock Shrimp Packs A Punch

Tabletop X-rays light up

Fusion program moves beyond plasma, toward practical powerplant issues

America Hedges Bets on China

DARPA works with five aerospace companies to develop inexpensive launch capability for small satellites

Raytheon receives $338 million award for Tomahawk

Rats use GPS to root out land mines

Researchers dream up guided .50 cal bullet

Graphite super lube works at micron scale

The Pentagon’s Return to the Philippines

Boeing Developing JDAM Wing Kits, Tripling Range

First Stem Cell-Based Therapy Gets Approved

3D Printing Is The Future Of Manufacturing

Understanding Lift

Hydrogen Future?

MIT creates self-assembling 3D nanostructures

New nanomaterials method for boosting computer speed and improving memory densit

Russia Confirms G5 Bomber Plans

Diamond Quantum Memory Beats Record

Chinese-Built Microprocessor Includes Programmable Backdoor

Taking SATCOM Underground

US Navy Scientists Make Solar Panels Work Underwater

IPv6 Launch Called Mixed Success

SpaceX Flight Opens Door for U.S. Military Payloads

U.S. Navy Eyes Technology To Cloak Subs

Deployable air traffic control – from off the radar to off the shelf

Putin heads to China to cement key alliance

Boeing Phantom Eye Completes First Autonomous Flight

India 'lynchpin' for US strategy in Asia: Panetta

Cyber experts warn of 'intelligent weapons'

Saturday, June 2, 2012

Intel lines up 14 Ivy Bridge processors

How will the US manage a large-scale robot army?

New OLED lighting panel hopes to outshine fluorescent bulbs

The U.S. Military May Blanket Afghanistan in Tiny Spy Sensors That Last for Two Decades

Canada seeks Singapore hub to support U.S. military Asia 'pivot' toward China

U.S. Air Force Approves Concept for Future ICBM, Eyes Navy Collaboration

Flame: Cyberwarfare’s Latest, Greatest Weapon

Silicon Proves Its Mettle as Resistive Memory

Rational Design of Nanomaterials Takes a Step Forward

FAA awards suborbital flight permit to SpaceShipTwo

Robots in Cars Could Beckon Brave New Technology World

3D Printer Can Use Up to 14 Materials, Make 3D Printing More Flexible

Swiss Scientists Rewire Injured Spinal Cords, Paralyzed Rats Walk Again

Mobile Air-Defense Missile Options Proliferate

Avionics Giants Pursue Synthetic Vision For Credit

Boeing Super Hornet faces emerging anti-access challenges

United States will shift a majority of its warships to the Asia-Pacific region by 2020

Lockheed’s GPS III prototype reaches new milestone

Sophisticated cyber-battles raise fears of cyber-blowback

China urges US to respect its interests in Asia

Chinese 'backdoor' in U.S.-used chips?

Missile defense system for Europe and potential threat to Russia

QinetiQ’s Q-Net: Fabric Beats Rocket

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

100-Year Starship Project Forges Ahead With First Round of Funding

DARPA seeks to develop small reconnaissance satellites that are cheaper to build than UAVs

Russia tests 'fifth generation' missile designed to penetrate NATO missile defense system

Return of the Vacuum Tube

New 'metamaterial' practical for optical advances

Electricity without losses

IHS iSuppli predicts 60TB disk drives to be a reality in 2016

Silicon nanotube lithium-ion battery stores 10 times more power, lasts 6,000 charges

Japanese researchers transmit 3Gbps using terahertz frequencies

Can probabilistic computing save Moore’s law?

Engage the tractor beam

Laser-Equipped MAV Demonstrates Aggressive Autonomous Flight

The Quest for a Universal Memory

Nano Devices Based on Block Copolymers Could Lead to Next Generation of Computing

Cheap 3D Printer Pops Out Parts With Blazingly Fast Speed

Technologies Evolving To Cloak Battlefield Vehicles From Sensors

Japan Buttresses Missile Defense To Counter North Korea

F-35B lifts off for first flight at Eglin

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft catching up to space station

Researchers Improve Fast-Moving Mobile Networks

Annual report to Congress on Chinese military developments

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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

NASA is Training Up an Astronaut Crew for a Potential Manned Asteroid Mission

NASA is Training Up an Astronaut Crew for a Potential Manned Asteroid Mission

Team makes progress on high-temperature superconductors

Silicon 'prism' bends gamma rays

Canon eyes robot-only production for cameras

Real smart: protective clothing with built-in A/C

High-power robot legs can jump, balance

SSD vs HDD: What's the Difference?

US Navy to deploy aquatic mine-sniffing robots

Intel begins researching 5nm

Forensic electrochemistry to detect firearms use

AMD's Trinity processors take on Intel's Ivy Bridge

DDR4 memory poised to boost tablet and server performance

Berkeley scientists turn harmless virus into piezoelectric generator

Researchers map path to quantum electronic devices

Spider Silk Weaves New Path for Electronics

Spider Silk Weaves New Path for Electronics

Navy Wants Ultraviolet Cloaking Device for Jet Fighters

Taiwan - More ships fitted with Hsiungfeng III missile

Trillion-Dollar Jet Has Thirteen Expensive New Flaws

Lights Out For The Airborne Laser

US to conduct 'largest ever' missile defense test - Pentagon

F-35 to replace most US combat aircraft by 2020

Saturday, May 5, 2012

NASA's New Deep-Space J-2X Rocket Motor is Ready For More Tests

Airplane-Mounted Laser Weapon Project May Be Resurrected to Defend Against North Korea

Raytheon's JLENS and Patriot systems prove integration in successful intercept test

Fast, low-power, all-optical switch

MIT's glare-free glass doesn't fog up, cleans itself

The yoctogram weighs in