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Stimulant use has long been commonplace in the military, from Incans given coca leaves before battles to Allied soldiers using amphetamines during World war Two,
and British, French and US troops using modafinil in more recent conflicts. In his book Mind Wars, Jonathan Moreno describes extensive recent research by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa),
including experiments into the use of beta blockers to reduce stress hormones. Some argue the development of new, more effective cognitive drugs,
Fuelled by Cold war fears and supposedly by the Bay of Pigs fiasco, Kennedy wanted to take on
While Apollo was about the Cold war, it is harder to glean the exact motives for China's lunar programme.
however, fear that this is actually an anti-satellite weapon programmme, designed to eliminate observation or communication satellites belonging to another country.
chair of the Department of National security Studies, at the US Naval War College.""At least that's my personal opinion.
thanks to a fight between electric car maker Tesla, and a reviewer from the New york times. On a test drive, the reviewer claimed he ran out of battery power,
Even with 300 million monthly unique users or a hit app, it's still a brutal fight to survive.
But with a tradition of making things to order for foreign companies and a hierarchical corporate culture, a new generation of start-up innovators is facing an uphill battle."
"The military gives them their technological experience, managerial experience and networks,#says Warner.""For the average person, the greatest barrier to being an entrepreneur is'Where the hell do I start?
That's the experience the army gives them. It's understanding how you actually build a product,
which is the same as managing a project in the army.##Big data pioneersinside the HQ of the Mamram, the Israel Defence forces (IDF) technical support unit in nearby Ramat Gan, computer training course commander Capt.
H (her full name is classified) says new recruits on a six-month intensive programming course study from dawn till night
a commercial shared workspace just off Rothschild, says the results of the military training are obvious."
"Some of the military units work like a civilian organisation, says Marian. They encourage entrepreneurship, the feeling that if you come up with a good idea that answers a real need of that unit's mission,
Sometimes, the military technology connection is obvious. The miniaturised camera and power pack in the Given Imaging camera pill is based on equipment in the nose of a military drone,
The founders of Waze received their technical training in Israeli military intelligence. The giant Israeli tech firms Nice, Comverse and Check point were created all by Unit 8200 alumni
a website security start-up he#founded with ex-army buddies. A white-hat hacker (one that works for non-malicious motives),
before being headhunted for Matzov, the#army's cybersecurity unit.""Entrepreneurs in Israel are unique, #he says."
because the army is a huge incubator for innovation and entrepreneurship. The army gave us a few million dollars at the age of 18
and asked us to build technology and systems that address problems that only people 10 or 20 years older are dealing with in other parts of the world.
They emerge from military service and three years of studying with zero debt, eager to take a year off to pursue their dreams.
That youthful exuberance, combined with the rigorous military training in technology and project management, has found a natural home among cafes running down the centre of Rothschild.
#The latest tech weapons the US might deploy in Syria Military action against Syria may have been put on hold, at least for now.
But as the US military has been gearing up for operations in Syria in response to the Assad regime's alleged use of chemical weapons,
suggesting that if a strike were to happen the use of F-18 strike fighter jets
and Tomahawk long-range cruise missiles may be involved. But as previous military campaigns have shown, US military commanders often see new conflicts as an opportunity to use recently developed weapons.
In some cases, these offer unique capabilities, such as destroying stockpiles of chemical weapons. Employing exotic new weaponry can also offer the opportunity to demonstrate that the investment of significant sums was spent money well.
Here are some of the latest weapons or types of systems that may end up being used:
Agent Defeat Weaponsthe US military has for many years been working on weapons designed specifically to target sites believed to house weapons of mass destruction, such as chemical or biological weapons.
Using conventional weapons on such facilities runs the risk of spreading highly toxic substances, so the Pentagon has funded a number of
what are called"agent defeat weapons#.#The Air force has confirmed it has two such systems in its inventory.
The CBU-107 Passive attack weapon (PAW) is essentially a weapon casing packed with thousands of penetrator rods with no explosives.
Designed for targets where heat might be dangerous, the idea is that a 450-kg (990-pound) bomb scatters thousands of rods from mid air over an area of 60 metres,
which can penetrate containers filled with chemical weapons, and allow them to drain into the ground to minimise dispersal.
The BLU-119/B Crashpad is a more explosive, rapid option. The Crashpad ruptures chemical weapons stores with blast or shrapnel and contains white phosphorous to incinerate chemical agents.
F-22the US's most sophisticated fighter the F-22 Raptor, has yet to see combat.
While Air force officials have argued the highly manoeuvrable aircraft with stealth technology would be useful in dealing with Syria's sophisticated air defence systems and surface-to-air missiles,
critics point out it is designed primarily as an air-to-air fighter. Another issue is that flight restrictions on the F-22 were lifted just earlier this year after concerns over pilot oxygen deprivation,
and upgrades to the fleet designed to address that issue won't be completed until next year. Despite this,
if the Air force pushes for it, the F-22 may still get its first outing during the forthcoming conflict.
Spy Satellitessatellites have long been used to track weapons of mass destruction, and the US has been investing heavily in new eyes in the sky.
Last week, the National Reconnaissance Office announced the launch of its latest spy satellite, though no details were provided (as is typical for such launches).
Experts suspect it is nothing extraordinary: just another in the existing KH-11 satellite constellation,
which uses electro-optical imaging. But officials have hinted also at new surveillance capabilities, and documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the former National security agency contractor,
High Power Microwave Weaponsimagine a weapon that can knock out all the computers in a Syrian military command centre without killing a single person.
That's the idea behind high power microwave weapons which are designed to destroy electronics without causing any physical damage.
Last year, Boeing released a video of its High Power Microwave Advanced Missile Project (Champ)- a missile that essentially fries circuits by causing a surge in power.
the Air force has conducted classified work in high power microwaves for years, and some suspect it already has such weapons available.#
#Cyber Weaponsin 2010 the Pentagon set up the US Cyber Command to coordinate and conduct both defensive and offensive military operations in cyberspace.
and first identified that same year, is believed to have been a demonstration of the US's abilities to wage war by attacking enemy computer systems.
Targets could be military, such as air defences, or critical infrastructure, such as the electricity grid or financial systems.
and not just because in the next few months more than 100 tonnes of dynamite will blow off its top to create a flat platform.
Students were exempted from military service attracting a young, artistic and politically radical alternative scene. Since the fall of the Wall in 1989,
Robert Hornik, Assistant Principal at East New york Family Academy in Brooklyn, remembers weekend trips to far-flung corners of New york city to hunt for old desktops from other city agencies like the Police
like a key in a lock, this triggers changes in cells. In the case of scent receptors, specialised neurons send messages to the brain
#Unmasking organised crime networks with data Military software engineers have developed a program that can predict the social structures of street gangs.
Philip Ball explains how it could help fight crime. One of the big challenges in fighting organised crime is precisely that it is organised.
That why police forces are keen to discover how these organisations are arranged to map the networks that link individual members.
such as guerrilla forces in areas of civil war. These kinds of organisations tend to be composed of affiliated cells, each with its own leader.
A team at the West point Military academy in the US state of New york has released just details of a software package it has developed to aid intelligence gathering by police dealing with street gangs.
There are many reasons why this sort of information would be important to the police. The ecosystem structure of a gang can reveal how it operates.
police will often monitor the rival gang more closely because of the likelihood of retaliation. But gangs know this,
Understanding such alliances helps the police stay a step ahead. Mapping highly influential members of a social network has been done many times before for example
But if police can identify him, they can then monitor him more closely. Complex netherworld In developing Orca, Paulo Shakarian, a West point graduate and sometime adviser to the Iraqi National Police,
and his co-workers, have drawn on the large literature about mapping social networks. This body of work which has grown rapidly over the past decade,
Shakarian and his colleagues tested Orca using police data on almost 1, 500 individuals belonging to 18 gangs, collected from 5, 418 arrests in an undisclosed district over three years.
and the police told the West point team that one racial group was known to form more centrally organised gang structures than the other.
they say that they are working with a ajor metropolitan police departmentto test their program
"Many people suffer with posttraumatic stress disorder after surviving a life-threatening ordeal like war, rape or a natural disaster,
and became a pressing health issue for a large percentage of war veterans returning from tours in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Although some agents tested by the military can provide some protection against radiation sickness when taken prior to radiation exposure,
if that is an army corps of engineer levee or that's an actual local levee that is felt in that parish.
but executive vice president and General Counsel John Cannon is going to serve at this point as the interim chief of the company.
Capturing the tumor cells was just part of the battle, though. To analyze them, Tseng team needed to be able to separate the cells from the chip without damaging them.
The country's military has long been credited with helping to fuel the thriving tech industry.
while serving in the Israel Defense forces, soldiers, especially those in intelligence units, can also build the networks they need--be it access to potential investors
a technology incubator. sking an Arab guy about high-tech entrepreneurship is like asking how to serve in the Israeli military.
it triggers an audiovisual warning alerting the pilot to take action. In case the system ensesthat the pilot is unconscious
Printing Missiles Researchers at Raytheon Missile Systems say they have created already nearly every component of a guided weapon using additive manufacturing, more commonly known as 3-D printing.
With commercially available high-end equipment and specially modified versions of low-cost 3-D printers, company researchers have created nearly every component of a guided weapon using 3-D printing,
and fabricate fins for guided artillery shells. The process may reduce costs associated with traditional manufacturing,
things we couldn achieve with any other manufacturing method. ne of the new areas in weapon 3d printing is warhead design and manufacturing.
Warhead designers attempt to create blast effects that meet specific criteria. nce you get into detonation physics you open up a whole new universe, James Zunino,
a materials engineer for the U s army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) said. The limits on what can be produced using machine tools limit warhead shapes.
By lifting limitations through the expanded capabilities that come with additive manufacturing space is used more efficiently. he real value you get is you can get more safety, lethality or operational capability from the same space,
printed energetics and other materials, layered onto substrates into the components that comprise an nitiation trainin explosive warheads. ou can vastly simplify the manufacturing of energetic materials by printing them,
So could soldiers someday print and assemble missiles on the spot, in the same way that artillery crews custom-load their rounds or weapons handlers mount guidance kits on some types of bombs?
Mccarroll said that still a ways off. efore a warfighter can print a missile in the field,
he said, ou need quality, controlled processes to fabricate all the component materials: the metallic strongbacks,
what would go into a missilesaid Danforth. 3d printing of missiles and warheads will allow engineers to utilize complex geometries
and patterns that previously could not be produced or manufactured, driving missiles and warheads to be lighter, smaller, more compact and more affordable.
It will also enable focused lethality, rendering warheads more effective, thus reducing collateral damage risk o
#Turkey launches airstrikes against Kurds, ISIS in Iraq and Syria Turkish fighter jets have struck Kurdistan Workersparty (PKK) and Islamic State (ISIS) targets in Syria and Iraq yesterday.
This action was followed by the detention of hundreds of suspected Kurdish militants, in a coordinated crackdown,
as Ankara deployed military force for the first time against the terrorist group. Official Turkish sources confirmed Turkish F-16 warplanes based in Diyarbakir,
Incirlik and Adana had attacked five bases of the in Iraq and two ISIS targets in the towns of Hatay and Kilis in Syria as part of the operation.
The main strike force that numbered 20 F-16s struck PKK positions in northern Iraq. The PKK has been fighting against Turkey for more than three decades
The leadership of Iraq Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has condemned Turkish air strikes against positions of Kurdish fighters in its autonomous region,
The Turkish air force said that PKK training facilities, shelters and antiaircraft batteries were targeted in the five camps.
In a coordinated move, Turkish police have been rounding up hundreds of suspected Kurdish fighters in cities
Turkish police fired water cannon and teargas to disperse about 1, 000 demonstrators who had gathered in the capital Ankara to protest against military strikes in Syria and northern Iraq.
While the airstrikes were launched Turkish heavy artillery located in the border province of Kilis fired at ISIS positions in Syria.
Turkey is also to allow the US-led coalition to use its Incirlik airbase and other bases in the south of the country to conduct strikes against Isis. According to media sources allied combat missions from the base could begin in August.
Additional airbases in the nearby cities of Diyarbakir and Batman will be opened to allied planes for emergencies.
Coalition air forces that have been ongoing for almost a year are operating from bases in Cyprus and the Persian gulf
because until now Turkey has refused to authorise offensive operations from its bases against its neighbours. Apparently, the devastating ISIS linked suicide attacks and PKK-linked assassinations of Turkish policemen last week have changed Ankara attitude.
The US military flatly denied reports in the Turkish media that the deal with the US included the establishment of a no-fly zone in northern Syria, a longstanding demand of the Turkish government
which the US had resisted. Turkey has also been planning to create a buffer zone in Syria, along its border with Syria,
since the beginning of the Syrian Civil war but the coalition partners have objected such move. The Turkish move could also be a sign of Ankara resentment of the U s. resorted backing for the PKK-affiliated People Protection Units (YPG),
the Kurdish fighters group operating against ISIS inside northern Syria. he conclusion of an agreement between Turkey and the U s.-led anti-ISIS coalition to open Turkish airbases for coalition aircraft conducting
Nonetheless, a sustained Turkish effort against ISIS networks in Turkey and northern Syria combined with the efforts of local anti-ISIS Syrian opposition forces has the potential to significantly disrupt the foreign fighter flows
suicide bombers, and legitimacy as a global caliphate l
#The International Brigade to Be activated in Poland This Year Defence Ministers of of Poland, Lithuania and Ukraine have agreed to establish an international brigade manned with units from the three armies,
following the LITPOLUKRBRIG formation agreement signed in September 2014. The brigade will be manned with 4, 500 soldiers from the three member states;
its structure will follow the combat groups in other European armies, will be established and become operational within a year.
Headquartered in Lublin, Poland the brigade will command three infantry battalions one from each country-to be based in each of the member countries,
along with support elements. The brigade is expected to conduct its first exercise this year. An agreement on its creation was signed on November 16,
and methodologies into the Ukrainian military, paving the way to closer integration of NATO standards.
and water heaters sprouting from government buildings hospitals police stations bus shelters as well as thousands of gaily colored private homes throughout the Caribbean island.
and military have expressed their interest and have confirmed the need for a modular platform, with a number of them having placed pre-orders for Crossfirepro.
Crossfire-bg mg 2472 ith Crossfirepro, wee built a modular tablet that offers our customers choices today and tomorrow between operating systems, processor ecosystems,
Jon Beasley, the programme director of Transport systems Catapult, one of the project collaborators on the project, declared to Sky News that these pods would offer pedestrians;
*In New jersey, Trinity Solar LLC installed solar panels at housing units at Joint Military Base Mcguire-Dix-Lakehurst in Burlington County,
enough to fill the CNG tanks of 163000 Bi-fuel Impalas at least once. Though CNG fueling stations are prevalent in states like California
Lieutenant Gov. Gavin Newsom has called for a similar green bank initiative and suggested that proceeds from California cap
in order to allow an unexploded World war Two bomb to be diffused. Sensing business opportunities Wesenseit also has a strong focus on creating new economic opportunities
and actuator systems for the milling turning gun-drilling and grinding operations involved in metal cutting operations.
#The gold standard for cancer treatment Humanity battle against cancer is an unceasing one, and in recent years, new technologies have improved steadily the odds of beating the disease.
This interaction will help reduce depression (loss of companions is considered a key trigger of depression among the elderly),
#Developing new weapons in the fight against cancer Cancer causes some 13%of deaths worldwide.
the Cyclon project is developing biocompatible sugar-based drug-delivery systems that could lead to a breakthrough in the fight against various cancers.
#Nanotechnology to fight hospital superbugs Each year, twice as many people die in Europe from hospital acquired infections than from road accidents.
This triggers the production of proteins which are of potential pharmaceutical interest as the basis for new vaccines.
"I was looking for funding for another project in the field of de-mining and unexploded ordnance,
which can find traces of explosives, chemical weapons and illicit drugs. Among the project's breakthroughs, the X-ray backscatter equipment produces high-intensity beams
Police can drive through cities and search for"meth labs"and marijuana operations. Chemical weapons can be detected earlier than it was the case with other systems.
And X-ray equipment will be more compact, meaning that large trucks will no longer be needed to carry them into the field.
In other words, the Fly-Bag technology can stop a small-to-medium-sized bomb hidden in a suitcase
Even bulletproof vests now use composite textiles, "said Zangani.""For this application of the technology, we needed blast protection, first of all,
One of the major potential uses is on cargo planes not to confine terrorist bombs, but to transport dangerous materials."
milling, lathing or fashioning it into parts and tools for different uses from car panels to precision medical instruments to moving parts in a paintball gun.
#BIOBROOM#Breeding flies to fight broomrape parasite weeds Can flies be bred as gardeners weeding undesirable pests from the crop?
As well as bringing hope to the fight against HIV/AIDS the decision opened the way for trials of other plant-derived medicines to treat a range of diseases.
They are now working to bring their low-cost innovations to market quickly a boost to the global battle against this deadly disease.
through insecticide-treated bednets and indoor sprays, is one of the best ways to win the battle.
In response, the EU-funded MCD project has developed three new weapons against them a special coating that transfers insecticides effectively to mosquitoes landing on it,
The deadly global war for sandit's an audacious move, given the dominance of Apple
"We are now waiting (for) permission to borrow the printer (from the military), "Dini says."
Gox-caliber meltdown, Bitstamp--the world second most-trafficked USD bitcoin exchange--ceased operations today in the wake of a hack.
while implementing mandates that trigger if such interim reduction targets are met not. This should lead to retrofits of tens of thousands of privately owned buildings.
#Drug for parasitic worms fights diabetes in mice Rutgers rightoriginal Studyposted by Rob Forman-Rutgers on October 7 2014a modified form of a drug commonly used to eliminate intestinal parasites may hold the key to battling type
The researches have used shotgun metagenomics before to detect bacterial pathogens in contemporary and historical human material.
or by medics in the military we expect this technology could reduce the number of deaths from excessive bleeding##says Ashley Brown a research scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technologyâ
The synthetic platelet-like particles use the same trigger and so are activated only when the body s natural clotting process is initiated.
To create that trigger researchers followed a process known as molecular evolution to develop an antibody that could be attached to the hydrogel particles to change their form
Because that blood lacks the triggers needed to cause fibrin formation the particles had no effect.
About one micron in diameter the particles were developed originally to be used on the battlefield by wounded soldiers who might self-administer them using a device about the size of a smartphone.
but it s certainly a smoking gun Gilbert says. It s also quite possible that we are exposed routinely to harmful bacteriaâ living on us
If the findings published in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology hold up in future human studies the treatment might also speed skin healing in people with skin ulcers extensive burns and battlefield injuries.##
the battle is lost already. The NK-evading tealthfunction of the extra-thick coating of galectin-1 came as a surprise,
and sarin gas Scientists are developing a way to prevent brain damage among people exposed to poisonous chemicals found in pesticides and chemical weapons.
Organophosphates are found in everything from industrial pesticides to the sarin gas used in chemical warfare. They permanently bond to neurotransmitters in the brain,
whether through exposure to pesticide or an intentional chemical warfare attack, explains Jin Kim Montclare, associate professor of chemical and biological engineering at the New york University School of engineering. ee known that phosphotriesterases had the power to detoxify these nerve agents,
#Gel fights breast cancer with fewer side effects A tamoxifen gel applied to the breast may work as well as a pill form of the drug to slow the growth of cancer cells.
This triggers the brain to send a signal to the ovaries to produce more estrogen,
and tells the ovaries to make more estrogen, which triggers ovulation, Christman says. FEWER TWINS The study also found that letrozole results in fewer twins.
#Vaccine triggers alarm to fight dust mite allergy A new vaccine uses a booster normally found in cancer vaccines to combat dust-mite allergies by naturally switching the body immune response.
Preying on skin cells on the body, the mites trigger allergies and breathing difficulties among 45 percent of those who suffer from asthma, according to some studies.
In addition to possibly improving hearing aids, the device could have military and defense applications as well. In dark environments, for instance, where visual cues are not available
#How a missile detector can stop malaria in its tracks Scientists have found a new use for an antitank Javelin missile detector:
MISSILES AND PARASITES The heat-seeking detector, which is coupled to an infrared imaging microscope, allowed the team to detect the earliest stages of the malaria parasite in a single red blood cell.
Penn State Embedded journalists offer dark view of Afghan war The disease, which is caused by the malaria parasite, kills 1. 2 million people every year.
which was funded by QLT Inc, the Foundation Fighting Blindness Canada, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Fonds de recherche du Québec-Santé,
Researchers have found that taking food away from C. elegans triggers a state of arrested development:
and it triggers stem cells from a dormant state to a state of self-renewal.
During each cycle of fasting, this depletion of white blood cells induces changes that trigger stem cell-based regeneration of new immune system cells.
The ph level inside the vesicle triggers the surface glycoprotein on the virus to form a istthat lets the virus punch its way into the cell cytoplasm,
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