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from Incans given coca leaves before battles to Allied soldiers using amphetamines during World war Two,

In his book Mind Wars, Jonathan Moreno describes extensive recent research by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa),

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."

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,

for example. Israel raced a decade ahead in the management and use of large data sets#or big data#that drive many consumer apps because of expertise#developed by Unit 8200, the intelligence-gathering arm that is now the largest unit in the IDF.

#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 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,

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).

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.

and some suspect it already has such weapons available.##Cyber Weaponsin 2010 the Pentagon set up the US Cyber Command to coordinate

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.

like a key in a lock, this triggers changes in cells. In the case of scent receptors, specialised neurons send messages to the brain

Philip Ball explains how it could help fight crime. One of the big challenges in fighting organised crime is precisely that it is organised.

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.

"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."

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.

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,

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,

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 leadership of Iraq Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has condemned Turkish air strikes against positions of Kurdish fighters in its autonomous region,

In a coordinated move, Turkish police have been rounding up hundreds of suspected Kurdish fighters in cities

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.

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,

its structure will follow the combat groups in other European armies, will be established and become operational within a year.

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;

enough to fill the CNG tanks of 163000 Bi-fuel Impalas at least once. Though CNG fueling stations are prevalent in states like California

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

Chemical weapons can be detected earlier than it was the case with other systems. And X-ray equipment will be more compact,

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

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.

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.

#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,

and pretending to pull a trigger. The trigger-pulling motion for example lets you switch to another browser tab change the map s view from satellite to standard

or shoot down enemy planes in a game. Spreading out your fingers magnifies a section of a map or scrolls the page of a book forwards.

and Environmental microbiology Reguera has added an additional layer of armor to her enhanced microbes. The microbes also use the pili to stick to each other

and slime gives the bacteria a shield and increases their ability to neutralize even more uranium.

and boosts the Geobacter s pili armor so the biofilm now can pull double duty by helping mineralize uranium.

The shield keeps the uranium from penetrating deep into the Geobacter biofilm. By keeping this process on the surface of the film the bacteria are exposed not to uranium

Reguera s future research will focus on deciphering how the biofilm matrix that encases the cells shields them so effectively

#Laser detects distant bombs with 99%accuracy Texas A&m University rightoriginal Studyposted by Ryan Garcia-Texas A&m on August 13 2014new laser technology makes it possible to identify explosives biological

Although not yet comparable to a professionally edited video it can help people quickly review a long video of an event a security camera feed or video from a police cruiser's windshield camera.

which is one of the most powerful tools we have today. he new sensor could have an advantage over current bomb-screening methods says co-lead author Ren-Min Ma an assistant professor of

when not connected to detonators. This is the explosive that was found in Richard Reid s shoe bomb in 2001 and Umar Farouk Abdulmtallab s underwear bomb in 2009.

US Attorney general Eric holder Jr. was quoted recently in news reports as having xtreme extreme concernabout Yemeni bomb makers joining forces with Syrian militants to develop these hard-to-detect explosives which can be hidden in cell phones and mobile devices.

ETN has more nitro functional groups and is more electron deficient than the DNT we detected in our experiments so the sensitivity of our device should be even higher than with DNTMA says.

#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.

Other valuable isotopes are produced by Cold war era machines known as calutrons operating in Russia. Their extreme age

#Power plant battery uses tanks of water Scientists have created new, water-based organic batteries that are built long-lasting

with two tanks of electroactive materials dissolved in water. The solutions are pumped into a cell containing a membrane between the two fluids with electrodes on either side releasing energy.

The tanks of electroactive materials can be made as large as neededncreasing the total amount of energy the system can storer the central cell can be tweaked to release that energy faster or slower

That limits their usefulness for applications like weapons and chemical detection and medical imaging and diagnosis, says Jay Guo,

But Gupta and his landlubbing team had no idea that a search for F-18 would identify not only images of a fighter jet but also of F18-class catamarans.

Beyond obvious applications such as hiding military vehicles or conducting surveillance operations this cloaking technology could eliminate obstaclesâ##for example structures interrupting signals from cellular base stations could be cloaked to allow signals to pass by freely.

For example drug smugglers recently have deployed makeshift submarines to clandestinely ferry narcotics long distances underwater. An improved more robust underwater sensor network could help spot these vessels.

and far lighter than the metal in tanks now used to contain the gas say researchers.

Stress and strain tests also found that the 0. 5 percent ratio was optimal for enhancing the polymer s strength. he idea is to increase the toughness of the tank

Metal tanks that can handle natural gas under pressure are often much heavier than the automakers would like. e says the material could help to solve longstanding problems in food packaging too. emember

Another possible application is small portable X-ray sources to improve medical care for people injured in combat as well as to provide more affordable medical imaging for hospitals and laboratories.

I began exploring additional applicationsdantus says. e soon learned how effective it was for detecting traces of hazardous substances from distances up to 10 meters away. s described in the journal Applied Physics Letters the bomb-detecting

In the lab they simulated a harmless predatory scenario placing the zebrafish and the robotic Indian leaf fish in separate compartments of a three-section tank.

They placed test subjects in a two-chamber tank with one well-lit side and one darkened side to establish which conditions were preferable.

In a separate tank they simulated a heron attack from the water s surface#herons also prey on zebrafish

but no one yet has found the smoking gun, says Mike Lamb, an assistant professor of geology at California Institute of technology (Caltech).

The two ethanol-exposed groups deviated significantly from this pattern spending more time in other regions of the tank.

#Swarms of tiny drones built to spy on hurricanes University of Florida Posted by Cindy Spence-Florida on June 5 2013u.

Light hits a shallow tank of liquid plastic and cures it one layer at a time, slowly building up an entire 3d object.

The printed object base adheres to a flat metal sheet that slowly raises out of the tank of liquid.

The tank is shaped like a cashew; a half-instead of the square shape used by every other DLP printer.

and the tank whips around the curve of the machine before returning to its home position.

Autodesk chose the unusual tank design because it requires the machine to use a lot less force, according to Autodesk 3d printing research scientist Andreas Bastian.

Each time the projector cures a layer, it creates a huge amount of suction between the 3d printed object and the bottom of the resin tank.

or even footage that shows that goofy tank in action, but my personal run-in with the printer at Pier 9 was welcome confirmation that Ember really exists,

The Body Steering driver's seat of the Humancar The vehicle custom CPU operates off trigger buttons on the center brake handle to engage functions such as regenerative power,

Scientists from Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation have copied now this system in a propulsion system that could ultimately find use in boats recreational watercraft or submarines.

Populous Ethiopia has one of the fastest growing GDPS on the continent after years of famine and civil war.

wheels and tank-style treads that will allow users to modify the base structure into a selection of totally different robots suited to a range of tasks."

#CNN gets go-ahead to use drones in newsgathering News media heavyweight CNN has reached an agreement with the Federal aviation administration (FAA) designed to usher in the use of drones in newsgathering and reporting.

while the government agency says the initiative will help to inform its drone policy moving forward."

to others it may seem a little overdue with the FAA still outlawing drone use for commercial purposes.

the Professional society of Drone Journalists has pushed for the establishment of an official framework for drone journalism,

the company will look to use drones to open up new possibilities in videography.""Our aim is to get beyond hobby-grade equipment

and an epic sci-fi battle scene that had us dodging bullets like Neo from The Matrix.

and soldiers could simulate battle without leaving their barracks. Perhaps psychologists could even use it to help patients resolve painful childhood memories.

That's where DNATRAX comes inoriginally designed for biodefense work DNATRAX was created as a way to simulate germ warfare attacks on indoor and outdoor targets.

Aside from tracking down contaminated food LLNL says that DNATRAX can also help combat food piracy.

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