No Longer Science Fiction, the U.S. Army is Moving a High-Energy Laser Weapon Into Production for the First Time

No Longer Science Fiction, the U.S. Army is Moving a High-Energy Laser Weapon Into Production for the First Time

The US Army has authorized its first production contract for a directed energy weapons system designed to take down uncrewed threats with high-energy lasers. Designed under the Enduring High Energy Laser program (E-HEL), the LOCUST X3 laser counter-drone system weapon dramatically reduces the cost of taking out threats like adversarial drones compared with expensive kinetic…

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No Longer Science Fiction, the U.S. Army is Moving a High-Energy Laser Weapon Into Production for the First Time

Inside the Mind of a Billionaire Cheater: “At His Level of Wealth, Societal Ethics No Longer Register”

Almost exactly one year ago, investigative journalist Pablo Torre, host of the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast, exposed alleged efforts by Los Angeles Clippers billionaire owner Steve Ballmer (a former Microsoft Executive) to circumvent the NBA’s collective bargaining agreement by funneling undisclosed millions of dollars to All-Star player Kawhi Leonard. Now, the league’s year-long investigation…

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No Longer Science Fiction, the U.S. Army is Moving a High-Energy Laser Weapon Into Production for the First Time

What If Consciousness Exists Beyond the Brain? Some Researchers Say This “Hard Problem” Requires a Radical New Approach

Whether consciousness arises entirely within the brain or involves processes beyond it has long been debated in scientific and philosophical circles. Historically, most academics have associated consciousness with neurons firing and communicating information; however, precisely how neural activity gives rise to subjective experience remains an open question. Neuroscientist and consciousness researcher Christof Koch, a former…

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What If We Become the Aliens of Tomorrow?

What If We Become the Aliens of Tomorrow?

Now imagine another planet where intelligent life appeared one million years, 10 million years or 100 million years before us.  Such a civilization would already have had an extraordinary amount of time to develop. Such a civilization could theoretically have developed technologies far beyond anything we currently possess.  It could potentially have developed for example:…

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No Longer Science Fiction, the U.S. Army is Moving a High-Energy Laser Weapon Into Production for the First Time

What Caused Antarctica to Freeze Millions of Years Ago? New Clues Could Finally Solve This Longstanding Climate Mystery

New clues to the formation of our planet’s oldest and largest ice sheet could help resolve a longstanding enigma about the southernmost continent. Around 34 million years ago, Antarctica’s ice sheet began to take shape during a period when global temperatures were predominantly warmer than they are at present. The exact reason why such a…

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“We’ve Never Seen Anything Quite Like This”: A Strange Ten-Sided “Structure” Has Been Spotted on Saturn’s North Pole

“We’ve Never Seen Anything Quite Like This”: A Strange Ten-Sided “Structure” Has Been Spotted on Saturn’s North Pole

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has glimpsed a strange ten-sided atmospheric wave at Saturn’s south pole, the first regular-sided jet pattern ever observed there. In a recent paper published in Science Advances, researchers examined Saturn’s peculiar decahedron, detecting signs of an entirely new atmospheric phenomenon for the gas giant. A similar hexagon-shaped wave resides at Saturn’s…

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1,500-Year-Old Structure Yields Previously Hidden Rooms, Ancient Paintings, and a Roman Era Channel to Nowhere

1,500-Year-Old Structure Yields Previously Hidden Rooms, Ancient Paintings, and a Roman Era Channel to Nowhere

Archaeologists conducting a new series of excavations at the ancient Turkish city of Smyrna have uncovered three previously hidden rooms and a 1500-year-old Late Antiquity theater that earlier efforts had missed. The new excavations, which took place in Izmir’s historic center, also uncovered a series of ancient paintings that had remained hidden for over a…

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No Longer Science Fiction, the U.S. Army is Moving a High-Energy Laser Weapon Into Production for the First Time

Did Ancient Campfires “Reprogram” the Human Brain with Flickering Light and Red Wavelengths?

A University of St. Andrews-led research team has proposed that the red wavelengths of flickering light emitted by early human ancestors’ campfires helped reprogram the human brain to boost social and verbal communication, leading to modern language and storytelling behaviors found only in humans. The team, which included researchers from Dartmouth College, said the study…

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Conflict in the Final Frontier: The U.S. and China are Preparing for a New Era of Warfare in Space

Conflict in the Final Frontier: The U.S. and China are Preparing for a New Era of Warfare in Space

(Image: U.S. Air Force photo by Andy Morataya) Welcome to this edition of The Intelligence Brief… This week, the United States, China, and other world powers are developing increasingly sophisticated military capabilities in space, raising concerns that Earth’s orbit could become a critical battlefield in future conflicts. In our analysis, we’ll be looking at 1)…

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