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A double hit designed to eliminate any chance of survival China is claiming a “breakthrough” at its Baicheng Weapon Test Center where it develops “Terminal Sensing Ammunition”. This ordnance is especially deadly to troops in tanks or armored personnel carriers, where it times its detonation to go off just outside the hatch for maximum effect. This

Global warming can be limited to 1.5°C by unprecedented improvements in the energy efficiency of everyday activities, according to new research from an international team of scientists at IIASA. A new study published in Nature Energy shows that dramatic transformations in the way we move around, heat and cool our homes, and buy and use

The ROAR project is aimed at showing how machines can communicate with each other and how, in the future, they will be able to carry out tasks now undertaken by humans In both an impressive display of innovative technology and a glimpse of a future in which humans could be redundant, Volvo has shown off

A new study by Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientists suggests it may be possible to prevent tumors from recurring and to eradicate metastatic growths by implanting a gel containing immunotherapy during surgical removal of a tumor. In the study, published online today by Science Translational Medicine, researchers removed breast tumors from mice and placed biodegradable gels

A team of materials scientists at Harvard University and the University of Exeter, UK, have invented a new fiber that changes color when stretched. Inspired by nature, the researchers identified and replicated the unique structural elements that create the bright iridescent blue color of a tropical plant’s fruit. The multilayered fiber, described today in the

Boeing could work out a contracting situation in which the Pentagon asks Boeing to run specific operations with its device Unmanned systems are commonplace in the world of aviation.  But it wasn’t long ago that they were more of an oddity for world militaries. That changed when technological developments finally let systems operate for long

A chemical process that allows color images to be printed on specially coated paper and then erased so that different images can be printed on the same paper has been developed by researchers at Rice, Yonsei and Korea universities. The researchers explain the technique in a paper that will be published in the Aug. 4 issue of

A team of IBM researchers in Zurich, Switzerland, with support from colleagues in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., has developed a relatively simple, robust and versatile process for growing crystals made from compound semiconductor materials that will allow them be integrated onto silicon wafers—an important step toward making future computer chips that will allow integrated circuits to

People often need to be rescued at sea because of stormy weather – exactly the kind of conditions in which it is not safe to fly. Nonetheless, fully-crewed helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft are regularly sent out into such weather to perform maritime rescues, endangering both the crew and the expensive aircraft themselves. Soon, however, a

Image by neilalderney123 via Flickr It has pretty much become a given that grain crops, such as wheat and barley, need to be started from scratch every spring. This means farmers must buy seeds, use seeding equipment to get those seeds into the soil, then apply a lot of fertilizer and hope for weather conditions