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Air Force Study Shows How to Boil Eyeballs with Lasers

We may not be using lasers on the battlefield yet, but when we do we'll know exactly how to use them to make our enemies' eyeballs explode. And how to create heat-induced bubbles inside "biological substances" (i.e., bodies). A researcher funded by the Air Force to study laser safety has inadvertently also produced a lot of data on what makes them unsafe too. His paper is ominously titled "Laser Induced Shock Waves and Vaporization in Biological Systems and Material Science." More »

3:02 PM on Fri May 2 2008
By Annalee Newitz
1,820 views, 21 comments

Latest by n/a: @ManchuCandidate: Exactly. Same reason it used to be a good strategy to shoot the horses first. Confused, injured horses were good for creating a lot of chaos on the battlefield. more »

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Navy Battleship with a Cloaking Device

Meet the first (semi) invisible warship: it's painted in "low reflectivity" materials that make it hard to see on radar. While not invisible to the naked eye, this Swedish ship, called the Visby Corvette, is for all intents and purposes invisible to many of the instruments Navies would use to pick it up. Researchers say the next generation of high-stealth ships like this might be invisible to the naked eye, too. Want to see more of this invisible ship? More »

7:00 AM on Thu Mar 6 2008
By Annalee Newitz
3,588 views, 33 comments

Latest by Upsilon: Great, just what we need... Another Philadelphia Experiment... The government just can't get enough seamen welded to its walls, can it?Anyone see what I did there? ~Y more »