Military Tech

Artificial intelligence has beaten humans at chess, Go, and even complex MOBA games like DoTA, but now they're moving up to real...

Blue Origin might not be as big of a player in the current space race as other companies like SpaceX or Boeing, but it does have a...

Unless you're Elon Musk, you may be uncomfortable with adding a "brain implant" into your head (unless it teaches you kung fu). And...

If you thought Elon Musk was just a paranoid, robot-hating crackpot with an inexplicable talent for rocketry, think again.   ...

DARPA, the U.S. government's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and frequently its "weird science" department, likes to open...

When it comes to military secrets, it's often said that loose lips sink ships. Now, the phrase must evolve: if the US military has its...

The idea of a ray gun feels wonderfully retro in the modern era. Where laser guns are still common in science fiction, ray guns evoke...

Considering how often lasers show up in science fiction, it's interesting that the concept of "talking lasers" might show up in...

When Ronald Reagan imagined the battle for space, he envisioned something out of Star Wars (and who can blame him): a global...

The prospect of invisibility has been both fascinating and terrifying to humanity for centuries.We'd all love the power to disappear....

Newly-released video of an encounter between U.S. Navy pilots and an Unidentified Flying Object in 2015 is raising eyebrows and...

This is the part where we cue the yellow text crawl, John Williams' score, and sounds effects of TIE fighters and X-Wings, but we're...

Just a couple weeks afte NASA's newly announced design for a quieter supersonic X-plane, we now have an even faster, weirder-looking...

For decades, sci-fi fans have been haunted by the infamous velociraptor door-opening scene in Jurassic Park.Did that stop Boston...

The early 2000s had fraudulent emails from Nigerian princes. The 2010s have seductive Facebook messages from hackers using fake...

On January 8, 1943, inventor Nikola Tesla was found dead in room 3327 in Manhattan's New Yorker Hotel where he spent the last years...

A new report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence alleges that, in a hypothetical future conflict with Russia or...

When a "genius billionaire playboy philanthropist" launches his own roadster into space on the back of a reusable rocket, it's a...

When Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in 1947 with the Bell X-1, we doubt he was concerned about noise complaints filed in the...

In an era of satellite sabotage and lasers, it's easy to forget that nuclear weapons are still major threats to international...