accident or warfare have a choice of prosthetic replacements, or in some cases, transplants. But, while prosthetic technology is advancing,
which triggers a rapid chemical reaction that causes the agent to harden. Tests revealed the material was
and much like fighter jet pilots are ejected from their downed aeroplane, we have discovered certain molecules are pushed free from the dying cell,
#Russia is developing a'MICROWAVE GUN':'Weapon can shoot a drone out of the sky from six miles away, claims military official By Jonathan O'Callaghan for Mailonline Published:
13:55 GMT, 16 june 2015 Updated: 18:14 GMT, 16 june 2015 A Russian military official has claimed that they have developed a icrowave gunthe high-frequency weapon can supposedly disable an unmanned drone and even a missile from up to six miles (10km) away.
The weapon apparently deactivates the radios of UAVS and warheads, causing them to lose control. Designed for the surface-to-air BUK missile system, the gun was developed by Russia United Instrument Manufacturing Corporation (UIMC.
Informally named the icrowave gun it will be unveiled as part of the Russian Defense Ministry Army-2015 international event in Moscow in the coming days.
Aside from the six-mile (10km) range, the gun can also apparently operate in a efense perimeterof 360 degrees.
It would be used on missile systems on the ground, to target unmanned planes in the air. By directing high-frequency microwaves towards a target, it is theoretically possibly to destroy unprotected electronics.
The gun would use a'reflector antenna'to focus the microwaves created by a generator.
An unknown'transmission system'would fire the beams towards their target. No other technical specifications have been given
so it unclear exactly how the weapon would work. he new system is equipped with a high-power relativistic generator and reflector antenna, management and control system,
and a transmission system which is fixed on the chassis of BUK surface-to-air missile systems, a UIMC spokesperson told Sputnik News. hen mounted on a special platform,
the icrowave gunis capable of ensuring perimeter defense at 360 degrees. his type of weapon is directed known as a-energy weapon (DEW),
and several have been developed before. The weapons focus on emitting highly focused energy to a target in order to damage it.
Aside from microwaves this can also include radio waves, lasers and even sound waves. The microwave gun is evidence of plans by Russia to modernise its armed forces,
though, according to Business Insider. Hundreds of drones are planned by the Kremlin to enter service by 2025,
while they are also developing a new advanced tank called Armata T-14 that has ceramic armour. 1
#Airbus takes on Spacex: Firm set to build world's largest satellite constellation to beam the internet around the world By Sarah Griffiths for Mailonline Published:
by using satellites, balloons and even drones. a
#Google maps goes LIVE: Satellite firm reveals first breathtaking colour footage of Earth from high resolution cameras on the ISS The world's biggest reality show is about to go live.
Expedition 38 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy of the Russian federal space agency installed the cameras on the hull of the station's Zvezda Service Module.
Professor Banfield and her colleagues sequenced the genomes of organisms found in ground water at a site beside the Colorado river in Rifle Colorado.
Using filters to catch the bacteria they then used shotgun-sequencing on the DNA of the microbes they found
20:01 GMT, 24 june 2015 It could allow soldiers to change the color and pattern of their camouflage instantly,
However, there is still a long way to go before police could use the system to catch criminals, for example,
the Air force Office of Scientific research (AFOSR), the Center of Excellence for Nanotechnologies (CEGN) of King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), the German Research Council (DFG) and the TUM
the Air force Office of Scientific research (AFOSR), the Center of Excellence for Nanotechnologies (CEGN) of King Abdul-Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST), the German Research Council (DFG) and the TUM
NXP believes car makers will find themselves fighting on two major battlefronts. Their core activity will be designing new forms of autonomous connected vehicles,
#Beauty Is Only (3-D Printed) Skin Deep Global cosmetics giant L'oréal has waged a battle against gravity for more than a century, with countless creams, peels and potions as its weapons.
Now the global beauty brand is pulling out the latest, greatest, high-tech guns in the age-old war on wrinkles:
industrial secrets and weapons plans from government and private computers. The Obama administration on Thursday disclosed the breach of computer systems at the Office of Personnel Management
"It's a different form of Cold war at this point, "said Rob Eggebrecht, cofounder and chief executive of Denver-based Intelisecure, a private cybersecurity firm.
China has in recent years introduced two new stealth fighters that analysts say bear a striking resemblance to the F-22
The move came after the Pentagon's chief weapons tester told Congress that nearly every major weapons program tested in 2014 showed"significant vulnerabilities"to cyber attack,
The advent of new business models, like cloud mining, allowed companies to dodge this bullet in the short term by shifting to business schemes where the marginal cost of operation was lower
and other ISPS In the ongoing battle between net neutrality advocates and the ISPS, one of the hot-button issues that emerged is
Al-air batteries have actually been used in specialized military applications for years, which is important it means there some preexisting expertise
Bending light with a microchip The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has demonstrated solid-state optical phased array technology in a microchip bringing the ability to bend light to the battlefront.
from battleship radar to beamforming in mobile communications. Essentially, the aim is the same: to shape the wavefront of light (dynamically
which could lead to greatly enhanced capabilities for numerous military and commercial applications ncluding autonomous vehicles, robotics, sensors and high-data-rate communications.
See the featured image on top as an example of implementation on the battlefront. Thanks to the secrecy behind DARPA exact achievements, there is a lack of technical details coming out of the defense agency.
but for more specific battlefront demands. If so, it means that phased array optical technology has reached finally silicon-processing-level integration a significant landmark in its development e
Gauss guns, magic bullets, and magnetic millibot surgeons Sometime around the turn into the 20th century, medical extraordinaire Paul Ehrlich coined the word zauberkugel
when H. G. Well epic 1938 thriller The War of the Worlds was broadcast to an unsuspecting American public.
We are not referring to a deadly kind of bullet that often follows a highly contorted trajectory.
Instead, we are talking about a device fired by a much more controllable kind of gun namely,
something called a Gauss gun, after the famous mathematician of the same name. Similar to a coil or rail gun, a Gauss gun linearly accelerates an object using electromagnetic fields.
It can also be configured to store potential energy in the positions of objects inside its bore,
and Pierre Dupont have built a proof-of-principle Gauss gun that could propel a tiny device they call a millibot throughout the body.
The key insight made by the researchers is that the coils of an MRI machine could be used to implement a Gauss gun.
The Gauss gun would enable tiny devices to breach barriers between fluid chambers or even go through solid tissue itself.
The beauty of the Gauss gun is that the MRI magnets do everything position the components,
We asked corresponding author Pierre Dupont directly what the Gauss gun could put out. He said that they have demonstrated already up to 15mm penetration depth into a brain tissue phantom using an 18gauge needle.
when devices like the Niobe eventually add beefy Gauss gun style attachments, remote robotic surgery will have entered a new era.
The fine membranes that separate these spaces are precisely the targets a Gauss gun could work on.
(and that of others) to apply negative stiffness to ballistics by using nylon (rather than a sponge) as their build material.
enhancing the potential of this technology for both military and consumer applications. hether youe serving our country in uniform, playing in a big game,
As the immune response picks up, more antibodies are pumped out and other immune cells swing into action to clear virus-infested cells and combat the infection.
letting you fire a gun or grab an apple. The gloves also include a 9-Axis inertial measurement unity (IMU) sensor,
letting you fire a gun or grab an apple. The gloves also include a 9-Axis inertial measurement unity (IMU) sensor,
#Facebook solar-powered Internet drone Aquila is ready for real-world testing In its latest announcement,
Facebook reveals to have completed building its first full-scale drone, Aquila, that aims at providing Internet access to the most remote parts of the world.
The drone is now ready for real-world testing and the company said it will test it in the United states later this year.
The drones have a wingspan of 42 meters (46 yards. Because the planes must constantly move to stay aloft,
Parikh said Facebook is not planning to sell the drones but will use them to expand Internet access.
Although Facebook does not immediately face policy or legal hurdles in testing its drone in the United states,
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#Facebook solar-powered Aquila, Internet-beaming drone, ready for real-world testing In its latest announcement, Facebook reveals to have completed building its first full-scale drone, Aquila, that aims at providing Internet access
to the most remote parts of the world. The drone is now ready for real-world testing
and the company said it will test it in the United states later this year. Aquila is powered a solar unmanned plane that beams down internet connectivity from the sky.
The drone, which was built in 14 months, is able to fly in the air for 90 days at a time,
The drones have a wingspan of 42 meters (46 yards. Because the planes must constantly move to stay aloft,
Parikh said Facebook is not planning to sell the drones but will use them to expand Internet access.
Although Facebook does not immediately face policy or legal hurdles in testing its drone in the United states,
#Facebook solar-powered Aquila, Internet-beaming drone, ready for real-world testing In its latest announcement, Facebook reveals to have completed building its first full-scale drone, Aquila, that aims at providing Internet access
The drone is now ready for real-world testing and the company said it will test it in the United states later this year.
The drones have a wingspan of 42 meters (46 yards. Because the planes must constantly move to stay aloft,
Parikh said Facebook is not planning to sell the drones but will use them to expand Internet access.
Although Facebook does not immediately face policy or legal hurdles in testing its drone in the United states,
#Facebook solar-powered Internet drone Aquila is now ready for real-world testing In its latest announcement,
Facebook reveals to have completed building its first full-scale drone, Aquila, that aims at providing Internet access to the most remote parts of the world.
The drone is now ready for real-world testing and the company said it will test it in the United states later this year.
The drone, which was built in 14 months, is able to fly in the air for 90 days at a time,
The drones have a wingspan of 42 meters (46 yards. Because the planes must constantly move to stay aloft,
Parikh said Facebook is not planning to sell the drones but will use them to expand Internet access.
Although Facebook does not immediately face policy or legal hurdles in testing its drone in the United states,
today war on poverty is a proxy war on obesity. Consumers are demanding better food
designed so as to ensure that the product is passed gently along the tank walls, as soon as it comes into contact with the deaeration tank specially designed cover.
the juice thus forms a very thin film over the tank walls. Utilising the tank entire surface area,
including the cover, enables the tank volume to be reduced by more than a third. So this design not only saves space,
it also ensures energy economies, since thanks to the lesser volume needing to be evacuated smaller vacuum pumps can be installed.
The threat came late last week after a Turkish court banned media coverage of a police raid on Turkish Intelligence agency trucks,
Prior to the ban, Turkish news outlet Birgun had tweeted images of documents that allegedly showed the convoy had been carrying weapons destined for extremists fighting against the forces of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
#Will Zuckerberg use his Internet-laser drones for good or for evil? According to the International Telecommunications Union more than 50 percent of the world population is currently without Internet access.
While Facebook is looking to send drones#the size of massive passenger planes into orbit to bring Web access to the masses Google is looking at high-altitude balloons
#Smart grenade seeks out bad guys What if grenades could locate threats and detonate all on their own?
A new smart grenade can do just that. With this grenade, soldiers will know with certainty that it will strike its target.
The U s army is developing the SAGM, Small arms Grenade Munitions round. The SAGM is a new kind of grenade that can find an enemy hiding behind an object, a wall or other would-be cover.
This is next-generation enhanced grenade lethality. Why make grenades smart? When enemies take positions behind,
say, low mud walls typical of battle environments like Afghanistan, they can avoid grenade rounds.
In order to most effectively hit a target, soldiers often require a direct line of sight with an M203 rifle-mounted grenade launcher and standard grenades.
A smart grenade could solve this problem. Just like other marttech that can complete tasks without its user providing instructions,
this smart grenade can find its target itself. When the SAGM is fired, the grenade will recognize its surroundings
and the cover used by the enemy for concealment. It then detonates over the target.
The SAGM is an air-bursting grenade and more than doubles the lethality of the current 40-mm grenade against targets that are not directly in a soldier line of sight.
The idea is that the 40 mm low-velocity grenade is compatible with the M203
and M320 rifle-mounted grenade launchers used by the Army. A team at the U s army's Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center at Picatinny Arsenal in New jersey is developing the SAGM,
beginning its research in 2012. ARDEC mission is to develop technology and engineering solutions for America's soldiers.
How does it work? Using an SAGM, a soldier will not need to do any sort of pre-fire programming sequence.
The soldier just needs to accurately aim the weapon and fire--the smart grenade will take care of the rest.
While in the air the SAGM will detect walls, without even relying on a range finder. After it passes the wall,
the SAGM explodes itself in the air above the target. To be truly versatile and effective downrange,
the SAGM will need to be able to detect and process a wide range of objects people may hide behind.
The Army is working on developing a sensor system that will make the SAGM so smart it can do just that.
Theye made the fuze"smart"by including sensors. The sensors and logic devices scan and filter the environment,
detect the obstacle, figure out the best place to detonate and then autonomously airburst the fuze.
The grenade is designed to have three firing modes. The first one is the airburst after it detects the cover where someone is concealed.
The next is a default detonation when it hits the target called oint detonation. The third mode is a self-destruct feature.
This final one is designed to decrease collateral damage and reduce unexploded ordnance left on the battlefield.
The Army has also been developing the XM25 grenade launcher as a direct fire method for these sorts of concealed targets.
This weapon uses an onboard laser system to gauge distance to its target. It has a programmable air burst round that determines the distance to its target.
The SAGM provides indirect fire. What next? SAGM is in its third and final phase of development,
and is expected to undergo evaluation this summer. It is hoped that the smart grenade will become an official Army program of record this year d
#Health insurer Anthem says database of customer employee info hacked Anthem, the second-largest health insurance company in America, said late Wednesday that a database containing personal information of approximately 80 million of its customers
#How drones and insects merged in ways that might surprise you Hornets, wasps and termites are pests to many households in America,
Micro drones on a MAST Mission Is it a wasp? Is it a spider? Is it a fly?
What may look like the average neighborhood pesky critter is actually a tiny drone conducting a military surveillance mission.
The Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) program is the Army Research Laboratory collaboration with a number of teams.
and individual soldiers with the capability to conduct surveillance within complex urban environments and difficult terrain significantly increasing their safety.
MAST hopes to produce lots of different microbots that will give Soldiers additional eyes and ears for different environments.
for example, the soldiers could deploy a reconnaissance team of microbots. The robots could penetrate a building undetected,
a state of the art tiny combat drone, reported for duty this year. Prox Dynamics PD-100 Black Hornet Block II Personal Reconnaissance System is a tiny drone helicopter that can fit into the palm of your hand.
The company says it is the world smallest operational unmanned air system. It may look like a toy remote control helicopter on the wish list of kids young and old,
but it serious combat tech. Black Hornet is sophisticated a very military tool with three cameras tucked into a very small unit a pretty impressive engineering feat.
On missions, the tiny drone can travel about three quarters of a mile and provide real-time live motion video back to the operator.
During deployments in Afghanistan for example, The british Army uses Black Hornet to investigate terrain and locate snipers.
Tiny termite-bot deployment teams Robotic crews that could build new structures On earth or even Mars and without human supervision?
These tiny robot construction crews could be deployed abroad to support humanitarian operations, like helping the Army Corps of Engineers build bridges and refuges.
#US Air force confirms Boeing's electromagnetic pulse weapon For the last few years, the creative minds of Hollywood had outpaced seemingly the reality of technological and scientific advances in the weapons field.
But no longer. Stepping out of the realm of science fiction and into reality is the joint U s. Air force and Boeing electromagnetic pulse weapon,
capable of targeting and destroying electrical systems without the collateral damage often associated with traditional firepower.
this new weapon"is a bomb--but without the bomb.""Known as the"CHAMP, "or Counter-electronics High-powered Microwave Advanced Missile Project, the American military project is an attempt to develop a device with all the power of a nuclear weapon but without the death and destruction to people and infrastructure that such a weapon
causes. Theoretically, the new missile system would pinpoint buildings and knock out their electrical grids, plunging the target into darkness and general disconnectedness.
The project has been in the works for a few years now, and has met with significant success in preliminary trials.
and not cities at large that makes the new weapon so effective, as it would allow military members to cut off electricity supplies to enemy parties while keeping civilians out of the melee.
According to Air force Research Laboratory commander Major general Tom Masiello, CHAMP is"an operational system already in our tactical air force."
"While it appears that the Laboratory has only commissioned five such devices with Boeing, with the Air force's recent confirmation of the weapon's existence,
Military forces have been actively developing next-generation weapons that take warfare well beyond the guns and rockets that populate modern arsenals.
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#Researchers develop special fluorescent ink to reveal counterfeit products One day soon, the simple act of taking a photo with your smartphone could help fight crime,
and ink formula. e have introduced a level of complexity not seen before in tools to combat counterfeiters,
Ballet dancer turned defense specialist Allison Barrie has traveled around the world covering the military terrorism, weapons advancements and life on the front line.
You can reach her at wargames@foxnews. com or follow her on Twitter@Allison barrie w
allet dancer turned defense specialist Allison Barrie has traveled around the world covering the military, terrorism, weapons advancements and life on the front line.
Microsoft employee demonstrated it by designing a model of drone with the hand gesture to manipulate tools that were visible to her with the help of headset.
which their research indicated was the protein that triggers the immune response by the Xa21 plant receptor.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the United states Air force Office of Scientific research provided funding for the work p
but these drugs have to be administered for long periods of time to successfully trigger cell death and shrink tumors,
and trigger the disease, said Alex Parker, Ph d.,CHUM researcher and associate professor in the department of neuroscience at the University of Montreal.
that system triggers a misguided attack against the worm's own neurons. he worm thinks it has a viral or bacterial infection and launches an immune response.
It's like supplying each cell with its own scuba tank, which it can use to breathe from
or knee osteoarthritis or the severe injuries caused by major trauma, for example in road traffic accidents or war injuries."
It's like supplying each cell with its own scuba tank, which it can use to breathe from
or knee osteoarthritis or the severe injuries caused by major trauma, for example in road traffic accidents or war injuries."
the Walter reed Army Institute of Research, the Canadian Immunization Research Network, and the U s army Medical Research Institute of Infectious diseases.
acting like a chemical and electronic shield, on top of the nanostructures. They also integrated all the metal contacts on the back side of the cell, for added absorption.
Quake Wars. The researchers trialled it on 50 hardcore gamers playing Doom 3, with results that suggest no disadvantage for users of Kahawai versus a standard thin-client (i e.,
#Herpes virus genetically engineered to destroy skin cancer cells A new study has pointed to a chink in the armor of skin cancer cells,
#Ballistic wallpaper to help protect soldiers seeking temporary shelter It sounds like an old Goon Show joke,
but soldiers may one day protect themselves from blasts by wallpapering temporary shelters. It may not be very decorative,
you can still spot obscure windows dating back to the Second world war showing traces of sticky tape that the owners never bothered to strip off.
Britons would crisscross their windows with ordinary tape to keep the glass from turning into flying daggers during bomber attacks.
According to Nick Boone, a research mechanical engineer with the US ARMY Corps of Engineers'Engineer Research and development Center (ERDC) in Vicksburg, Mississippi, soldiers will often take temporary shelter in abandoned buildings made of masonry, brick, cinderblock,
but when struck by an explosive shell or missile, they can collapse into dangerous rubble.
and keeps blast-damaged walls from turning into a hail of flying debris. Boone says that the wallpaper has undergone already blast testing at Fort Polk, Louisiana, and Eglin Air force base,
#Robo-Mate exoskeleton aims to lighten the load for industry The development of powered exoskeletons has so far been restricted largely to the laboratory, the military,
such as the Motorola HC1, Golden-i and the AITT system, which are designed to give industrial workers or military personnel a helping hand in carrying out highly specialized tasks.
Indeed, in the last few years alone we've seen advances that suggest they could find use in generating new heart tissue, fighting off superbugs and the controlled release of anti-inflammatory drugs.
simply by increasing the size of its electrolyte tanks. According to the researchers, the vanadium flow battery works especially well with their hybrid electrode, allowing them to boost the electric current,
Some tools are better left to stand alone rather than Swiss army knife. The Mode:
because they expressed light-sensitive proteins that trigger the release of dopamine. The resulting good feelings led the mice to return to the same point in the maze where they had received the treatment.
lightweight material for military and transportation applications, but Rabiei became curious about its potential in radiation shielding.
which would strip away our atmosphere and surface water and bombard us with radiation if left unchecked.
now that scientists have found the witchthat can turn off triggers that cause the condition in tens of millions of people worldwide.
RTS, S triggers the body immune system to defend against the Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasite when it first enters the human host bloodstream or liver. t absolutely an astonishing day,
and reliability $5. 34 billion for Science to continue to lead basic research in the physical sciences $8. 8 billion for weapons activities to ensure a safe, secure,
and sustain nuclear security R&d $1. 9 billion for nuclear nonproliferation to continue to reduce global stocks of weapons-useable nuclear materials $5. 8 billion for environmental management to"address the legal
and moral obligations to clean up the legacy of the Cold war.""Non-energy related budget requests include:
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