US Army will test its most powerful laser weapon ever next year
29 October 2021
Lasers are currently used to shoot down small drones, but a more powerful weapon could take on larger targets
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US military may get a dog-like robot armed with a sniper rifle
14 October 2021
A four-legged robot made by Ghost Robotics and outfitted with a sniper rifle and night-vision cameras was displayed at a meeting of the Association of the United States Army
Karmalink review: An intriguing mix of Buddhism and nanotech
15 September 2021
A young boy uses nanotechnology to decipher the clues in his dreams in Karmalink, an original sci-fi drama set in a near-future version of Cambodia
A New World Order review: A powerful sci-fi movie without dialogue
8 September 2021
A New World Order follows two people caught in a war against the machines. It has no dialogue and shows just how powerful silent films can be, says Simon Ings
Information and the future of defence
21 July 2021
Our future prosperity is intimately linked to the cyber environment and the forces that operate within it. We asked a panel of experts to assess the implications for the future of defence
Dubai police will use citywide network of drones to respond to crime
16 July 2021
Dubai police will be able to respond to an incident anywhere in the United Arab Emirates city within a minute, thanks to a network of pre-positioned drone bases
Quantum data link established between two distant Chinese cities
21 June 2021
A secure quantum link has been created between two Chinese cities, allowing researchers to send entangled photons more than 500 kilometres using a relay hub in the middle that doesn't need to be trusted
Complex social lives of orcas revealed by drone observations
15 June 2021
Killer whales tend to have close friendships with those of similar age and sex, scientists have discovered by filming them from drones
DARPA drone interceptor seems to be armed with a form of Silly String
10 June 2021
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has developed a drone interceptor that fires what appears to be a form of Silly String into their rotors, bringing them down with minimal risk of accidental damage
#70: Coronavirus origin story; Big Oil’s nightmare; history of the gender pain gap
3 June 2021
From a bat… or from a lab? It seemed the question of where SARS-CoV-2 originated had been settled, but recently it's been reignited. Amid lots of conflicting and confusing news stories, the team explores what we really know about the origins of...
