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There are few firearms out there than can do anything else but kill. But, as you might have noticed in the last few decades, military forces around the world are constantly heading towards developing non-lethal weapons that wound or disable the individual instead of killing him. The US Army is no exception to this ru... |
22 July 2008
05:46 GMT |
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Clint Eastwood would have faced a big problem if he had had to handle this revolver. Not to mention the size of the belt he would have had to wear. Still some could say they wear a big gun...This an amazing firearm, Pfeifer Zeliska, a copy of a Remington model 1859 revolver manufactured by Polish Ryszard Tobys of Cze... |
4 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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If you think a black hole is the most energetic event in the Universe, you might want to think again, after you see the surprising X-ray images of the galaxy cluster crashing into one another, images captured by the orbiting X-ray telescopes XXM-Newton and Chandra.The Bullet Cluster is a supermassive cluster resulti... |
18 July 2007
10:18 GMT |
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Have you ever experienced a persistent headache? Yours was nothing compared to that of a 77-year-old Chinese grandmother, which shocked the doctors when they found why: a bullet located in her brain!Jin Guangying, a 77-year-old Chinese woman, living in Shuyang town, Jiangsu province, received the bullet when she was ... |
4 July 2007
11:56 GMT |
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The Pentagon, specifically the U.S. Defense Department, through The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, developed what is probably the weirdest, funniest and most out-of-this-world weapon.Well, it's not exactly a weapon, it's a bullet, as David Hambling, New Scientist correspondent, puts it. Now rea... |
2 July 2007
10:41 GMT |
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This may be a question not many people have asked themselves, and it may sound crazy, too. But in theory, if a human being were covered in a layer of fat thick enough, a bullet could be stopped from reaching vital parts of the body.The Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge really performed such a test f... |
30 June 2007
06:48 GMT |
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This week, two Russian cosmonauts on board the International Space Station (ISS) walked out into space and climbed on the station to install deflector shields, in fact protective panels designed to shield the orbiting station from dangerous space debris and small meteorites. During this spacewalk, the two astronauts... |
7 June 2007
08:55 GMT |
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What is an armor-piercing bullet? Of course, a bullet that (almost) no armor or bulletproof vest can withstand. And by the way, bulletproof vests don't exist. What you see in the movies are bullet-resistant vests, a more accurate term for modern body armor.The degree of resistance of an armor depends on the mat... |
1 June 2007
11:21 GMT |
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Nanotubes have been studied for some time, and there is a great interest in applying their incredible properties in practical applications. They are one-atom thick sheets of graphite (called graphene) rolled up into seamless cylinders with a diameter of the order of a nanometer. A company in the US presented a revol... |
24 May 2007
10:22 GMT |
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It may be the dream come true for conspiracy theory adepts in the JFK assassination. Using 21st century science, the FBI has performed a new analysis of the remains of the bullet that was used by the US government to conclude that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in assassinating President John F. Kennedy in 1963.A res... |
18 May 2007
08:06 GMT |
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