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  • Freedom arrives in Pacific waters

    Published March 28, 2013

    Amid heavy rhetoric from North Korea, the Navy's first littoral combat ship USS Freedom has joined the 7th Fleet in the Pacific.

  • Immigrants could cause a superbug apocalypse, scientists warn

    Published March 28, 2013

    Immigrants may import dangerous and potentially lethal superbug strains, a medical journal recently warned -- and robots may hold the answer.

  • Bye bye, TNT: New generation of explosives for the Army

    Published March 26, 2013

    A far stabler new explosive called IMX-101 will soon replace TNT to make soldiers safer on and off the battlefield -- and the U.S. Army has ordered as much as $780 million worth of it.

  • Smartphones and Cyber Insecurity?

    Published March 22, 2013

    Big changes are afoot in government and defense mobile device contracts as the pace of cyber crime swells.

  • World’s only bionic eyes keep getting better

    Published March 21, 2013

    The Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System, the world’s only bionic eyes, keep getting better. A new study suggests they can help blind patients locate and identify objects and people -- and even read.

  • New defense against cyanide attacks

    Published March 20, 2013

    Reports suggest that the first chemical weapon has been unleashed in Syria. Chemical weapons like anthrax, sarin, mustard and ricin often make headlines, but some security experts believe the threat from cyanide is real too -- and a new antidote holds promise.

  • MALE drones needed now to fly solo in hot spots

    Published March 19, 2013

    Independent drones that don’t need bases could give the U.S. military quicker and more flexible reaction to hotspots.

  • Encrypt data with jokes

    Published March 18, 2013

    This one’s no laughing matter: Humor and encryption may not seem obvious partners, but new research advocates using jokes to hide your secret information in plain sight.

  • Dirty bomb material secured at site in Philadelphia, thousands of sites remain in U.S.

    Published March 15, 2013

    The National Nuclear Security Administration and Temple University recently announced that they had secured a device containing cesium 137 that could be used to build a radiological dirty bomb.

  • Formula One team under cyber attack

    Published March 14, 2013

    In a face-to-face final cyberbattle, one unlikely Brit proved the ultimate weapon against an attack on a Formula One Team.