At this point, railguns are among the most devastating long-range weapons that can be deployed to the battlefield. Experts at the US Navy Office of Naval Research (ONR) want to make them even more effective, by having them ... [read more >>] Scientists say that the next step in modern warfare will be to augment the minds of soldiers taking the battlefield, so that they are able to interface with their weapons directly. What this means is that the warfighters wi... [read more >>] A team of experts at the DOE Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) have announced the development of a prototype bullet that can guide itself towards a target located up to a mile (1.6 kilometers) away. The entire design is ba... [read more >>] Using a combination of mathematical formulas and advanced computer programs, researchers Richard Conn Henry and Steve H. Hanke recently developed a calendar that basically makes time stand still. The new way of organizing t... [read more >>] Researchers at the University of Bristol have developed state-of-the-art algorithms that allow a specialized software to detect if a song will become a hit. The discovery has already drawn massive interest from worldwide me... [read more >>] Compiling a list of the world's fastest cars is not an easy task, considering that many people already have their established preferences about which car deserves to occupy a spot in the top. Some of these vehicles are... [read more >>] Years ago, when Honda first presented Asimo to the world, everyone was utterly impressed. But the corporation managed to leave everyone speechless again, when it launched the new-generation Asimo, which can now perform task... [read more >>] Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) really outdid themselves this time. They managed to create an advanced three-dimensional printer capable of building numerous structures from scratch, in a fairly... [read more >>] According to the conclusions of the latest scientific study on the issue, there is no Death Star-type celestial object skimming the outskirts of our solar system, ready to annihilate our planet in 2012.There are currently n... [read more >>] A team of experts at the Brown University has just released a new report on the War on Terror, which seeks to quantify the exact costs the United States are facing, and will continue to face, in this conflict. The document ... [read more >>] |