News tagged with armed forces

SpaceX plans historic first flight on May 7

SpaceX confirmed it plans to launch a rocket and capsule on May 7 in a historic first flight of a private spaceship to the International Space Station.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

NASA OKs Feb. launch of private space station trip

A private California company will attempt the first-ever commercial cargo run to the International Space Station in February.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 20

Hackers claim to breach NATO security

A group of computer hackers on Thursday claimed to have breached NATO security and accessed hoards of restricted material.

Technology / Internet

created Jul 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 7

KUKA makes a robot that knows what it is picking up (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Making a robot that can pick things up is not really a challenge anymore. Provided you calibrate your force sensors correctly the task is fairly simple. Making a robot that knows what it is picking up is ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jun 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog

Camera-less iPhone 4, iPhone 4S on sale in Singapore

The camera is normally a big selling point, but in Singapore Apple's iPhone 4 and 4S are now available without the function -- to cater to military personnel banned from taking image-capturing devices into ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA's curiosity continues mobility checkouts

(PhysOrg.com) -- Spacecraft specialists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., have been putting the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, through various tests in preparation for shipment ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hubble celebrates 19th anniversary with fountain of youth

Over the past 19 years Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going "bump in the night" as they collide with each other and have a variety of close encounters of the galactic kind. Just when ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4

Young ex-servicemen at increased risk of suicide

Young men who have served in the British Armed Forces are up to three times more likely to take their own lives than their civilian counterparts, research published tomorrow (March 3) has found.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Radiation riddle remains even after scientist's lifetime research

A large tract of land not far from E. John Ainsworth's Pleasanton, Calif., home bears no evidence of the research on radiation health effects he led in the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

London 2012 security: 'Sonic weapon' to be used

Britain's Defense Ministry says an acoustic device that can be used as a "sonic weapon" will be deployed during the London Olympics.

Technology / Other

created May 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

War bound to bowl bound

As LSU and Alabama square off for the national college football championship, even the most rabid Tiger or Tide fan might not realize the influence that the US military had in the widespread appeal of football. According ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blast overpressure is generated from the firing of weapons and may cause brain injury

The brain may be injured by the noise, which is produced when, for example, an anti-tank weapon (Bazooka, Karl Gustav) or a howitzer (Haubits) is fired. Scientists at the Sahlgrenska Academy demonstrated mild injury to brain ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0