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Teddy Wade The Military Is Altering the Limits of Human Performance
Breakthroughs in biometric science mean future troops will fight with weapons that understand them—inside and out.
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Young-Joon Ahn / AP How to Stop a Nuclear Missile
Lasers-armed drones and interceptor missiles are among America’s possible tech options for impeding a North Korean nuclear strike.
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Reuters Will America's Nuclear Weapons Always Be Safe From Hackers?
The future arsenal will be networked, presenting unique security challenges for the U.S. Air Force.
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Ng Han Guan / AP ISIS Has a Drone Strategy Too
The Pentagon is rushing to develop new technology to fight the group’s unmanned aerial vehicles in Iraq.
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Mark Blinch / Reuters Can the NSA Stop the Next Snowden?
How the intelligence community learned to spy on itself
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Kacper Pempel / Reuters Was Russia Behind the DNC Hack?
A brief guide to the evidence.
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Kim Hong-Ji / Reuters How to Tell the Difference Between a Nuclear Test and an Earthquake
Use a Slinky.
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Reuters Why Join ISIS? How Fighters Respond When You Ask Them
A study finds that motivations vary widely.
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U.S. Department of Energy The Next Manhattan Project
Anticipating cutting-edge scientific research before it happens may be key to protecting against bioterrorism.
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William Belcher/U.S. Air Force The Military Tackles Anonymous Data-Sharing
DARPA is tackling online privacy. But can you trust them?
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Mandel Ngan/AP Why Obama's Cybersecurity Plan May Not Make Americans Safer
The president's proposal promises to anonymize data. Experts don't think that will help.
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Muhammad Ghouri/Flickr A Hacker's Hit List of American Infrastructure
In an 800-page document dump, the U.S. government revealed critical vulnerabilities.
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Kevin Lamarque/Reuters The Veterans With Robotic Arms
The U.S. government is investing heavily in the creation of sophistcated prosthetic limbs for returning soldiers. Could they someday be used on the battlefield, too?
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Office of Naval Research The Navy's Future Fleet of Swarming Boat-Drones
The use of autonomous boats could lead to more artificial intelligence in modern combat.
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Dominic Bartsch/Flickr Who Will Defend Tomorrow's Digital Countries?
Estonia is offering virtual citizenship to millions. They will need real military protection.
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Don McCullough/Flickr Predicting PTSD
New research suggests that it may be possible to identify who's more likely to have negative lasting effects from trauma—and to stop the symptoms before they start.
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Dmitry Lovetsky/AP How Technology Is Unraveling the Clues of Flight MH17
Building a case with satellite imagery, black boxes and tweets
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Reuters The Military Doesn't Want You to Quit Facebook and Twitter
The Defense Department is already using social media to track your mood.
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Jae C. Hong/AP The Military Is Building Brain Chips to Treat PTSD
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Sarah Holmlund/Shutterstock The Military Wants to Teach Robots Right From Wrong
The U.S. government is spending millions on developing machines that understand moral consequence.
