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Meet the Invincible, Invisible Soldiers of 2001

Today's soldiers are invisible. They can't be harmed by bullets or chemical weapons. They can see through walls and distinguish enemy from civilian with a simple glance. At least, that was the vision...

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Pentagon Looks to Sabotage Pakistan’s Bomb Supply

The Pentagon's bomb squad has a new idea to thwart Afghan insurgents' weapon of choice: by adding chemicals that'd render its main ingredient non-explosive or even make it lethal to the bomb builders...

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Cairo Contagion: Military Tracks Uprising’s ‘Infectious’ Ideas

The revolt that started a year ago today in Egypt was spread by Twitter and YouTube, or so the popular conception goes. But a group of Navy-backed researchers has a more controversial thesis: Egyptians...

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Darpa’s Next Grand Challenge: Build Us Lifelike, Humanoid Robots

Imagine robots that can do everything you can do -- and probably do it even better. Brace yourself, because that era might be here sooner than you think: The Pentagon agency behind some of the most...

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Navy Grounds Drone Copter Fleet

In recent years, the Navy's Fire Scout robotic helicopters have racked up quite a resume: Drug busts off the coast of Latin America, covert surveillance in the skies above Afghanistan. But now, the...

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