An international consortium of universities from the United States and Italy has just been awarded a 5-year, $15 million research contract for developing more efficient, lighter batteries. The US Army is very interested in reducing the weight its troops have to carry into the battlefield.
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7 May 2012
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Since launching massive surveillance and intelligence satellites is extremely expensive, the US military is currently turning to alternative options for boosting its presence on the battlefield. One of its agencies is interested in building a constellation of small, cheap and disposable spacecraft.
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16 March 2012
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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 will be able to use their brains to control firearms and other equipment directly. Naturally, o... |
7 February 2012
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Scientists at the University of Denver have found that male soldiers with high marital satisfaction show less symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder upon their return, if their spouses send them letters, e-mail or care packages during deployments to the battlefield.Conversely, the same was not true for active sol... |
6 June 2011
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A large-scale survey of people serving in the United States military has revealed that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a condition about five times more likely to affect servicemen with a mental health history than individuals who never experienced such problems. It was made clear that soldiers who were inju... |
3 May 2011
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While modern-day celebrities have made a point out of altering the shape and size of their nose for purely aesthetic reasons, or for conforming with the demands of working in Hollywood, people living in the Middle Ages did so for entirely different reasons, such as actually fixing someone's face. A recently-anal... |
28 December 2010
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A newly-developed nanoscale material could one day be used to tell if soldiers affected by a blast wave are at risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or if they were subjected to traumatic brain injuries following the event. As the Iraq and Afghanistan rage on pointlessly and with little notable de... |
2 December 2010
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According to a new scientific study, it would appear that adding special visors to the standard-issue helmets of American soldiers currently serving abroad could help reduce the incidence of traumatic brain injuries. This condition can already be considered the hallmark of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, experts sa... |
23 November 2010
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that allowing soldiers some time to meditate before they go into battle could make them more tough mentally, as well as better capable of controlling their own emotions. This could lead directly to them being a lot more effective in battle, without the risk of snapping, ... |
20 February 2010
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Undoubtedly, one of the major drawbacks of wars is the fact that people die in them. Military analysts and strategists have tried for a long time to reduce the number of casualties by as much as possible, but the best they could come up with until now was flying airplanes high in the sky, and striking their targets f... |
9 February 2010
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The future, or at least glimpses of it, is here. Well, at least in terms of military technology, which always seems to come first. According to the most recent projects set forth by various companies and research agencies, the combatants of tomorrow will be a totally different breed of fighting machines, endowed with... |
2 February 2010
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For a long time, the United States military has been in doubt over how to most efficiently distribute water to its soldiers when they set out on two- or three-day missions. The solution they came up with in 1982 is called the Shapiro equation and has been used to this day to calculate just how much water a military m... |
8 July 2009
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Australian authorities have suspended the killing of thousands of kangaroos near a disused military installation near Canberra, after environmentalists and animal rights groups have argued that the killings are unnecessary and unjustified. The animals came under attack when military officials said that they were dest... |
18 May 2009
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Scuba diving is mostly known around the world for the fact that it can make people more relaxed, and more in tune with the calmness of the oceans. Floating near the bottom of the sea, with none of the familiar sounds of civilization ringing in their years, those who practice the sport say they feel a strange sensatio... |
11 May 2009
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Many battles throughout history have been waged against all possible odds by armless and unprepared men, who in the end managed to vanquish their opposition and win the confrontation. In several of these cases, people have always wondered how is it that some soldiers or warriors are so cool under pressure that they c... |
16 February 2009
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It's not a hovercraft and it could never be a true plane. Developed during the Cold War by the former Soviet Union, the Ekranoplan is one of the weirdest flying machines designed by man. It was also undetectable by radar even without using the stealth technologies of present time.This is a really strange aircra... |
12 July 2007
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