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A US Air Force Colonel described a simulation in which an AI drone went rogue, but the military claims this was taken out of context.

US Military Denies AI Drone Killed Its Operator During Simulation

By Frank Landymore

The Colorado checkered whiptail — a rare asexual lizard — overeats to cope with the stress of noisy military flyovers, scientists say. In a word: relatable.

Asexual Lizards Stressed by Military Overeating to Cope, Scientists Say

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

World military leaders met to establish international rules for the responsible development of AI weapons. Safe to say: the alleged rules are pretty lax.

Artificial Intelligence

World Leaders Debate Whether It’s Okay to Kill People With Terminator-Style Robots

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NIBBB hasn't officially pointed fingers, but the broader ballooning community seems convinced that the Pentagon is to blame for the missing pico balloon.

Group of Dudes Fear the Pentagon May Have Shot Down Their Balloon

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to one Harvard researcher, if we don't put a lid on the US-China AI arms race soon, civilization as we know it could end up paying a hefty price.

Artificial Intelligence

Harvard Researcher Warns AI Arms Race Could Destroy Civilization

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In a viral video, an uber-expensive F-35 jet bounces weirdly on the runway before ejecting the fighter pilot inside — and man, is it freaky to watch.

Advanced Transport

Watch a Pilot Get Ejected From an F-35 Jetfighter Right as It Crashes

By Noor Al-Sibai

SpaceX has revealed a new project called "Starshield," a satellite project that is "designed for government use," according to the company's website.

SpaceX Unveils Military Satellite Called Starshield

By Victor Tangermann

The Netherlands have deployed armed ground drones, marking the first time that an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) has been utilized by a NATO country.

NATO Just Deployed Its First Killer Ground Robot

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The US military finally tested Microsoft's expensive HoloLens smart goggles for combat, and it's probably safe to say that the goggles failed.

Microsoft’s AR Headset Was a Complete Disaster During a Military Test

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Navy SEALs candidates go through brutal training, including a Hell Week. One Navy SEAL candidate died after completing training, and took drugs to survive.

RX and Medicine

Navy SEALs Are Allegedly Taking Viagra for a Very Strange Reason

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A Colorado lawmaker warned that DNA-based bioweapons are on the horizon — and that private DNA-testing companies may make that possible by selling data.

House Rep Worried 23andMe Will Lead to Bioweapons That Kill Specific People Based on DNA

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The families of fallen Israeli soldiers are having the dead's sperm harvested, with the hope of that it will one day be used to father a child.

Israel Extracting Sperm From Dead Soldiers and Using It to Create Children

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency recently developed and tested a new Black Hawk helicopter that can fly with no one inside it.

Welp, DARPA Just Flew a Black Hawk Helicopter with No Pilot

By Tony Ho Tran

Members of the US Space Force are frustrated by the fact that large swaths of the population know nothing about the new military branch.

Space Force Members Annoyed That Nobody Takes Them Seriously

By Tony Ho Tran

Military Desperately Trying to Recover $100 Million Stealth Jet From Bottom of Ocean

Military Desperately Trying to Recover $100 Million Stealth Jet From Bottom of Ocean

By Tony Ho Tran

The US Department of Defense has helped develop technology that allows a single person to control 130 drones for military operations.

New Military Tech Lets One Person Fly Swarm of 130 Drones

By Tony Ho Tran

A new Pentagon department may be bad news for the unusual Trump-era transparency into the military's secretive cache of UFO sightings.

Robots and Machines

New Pentagon Group Accused of Trying to “Bury” UFOs Again

By Noor Al-Sibai

US government agencies are in surprising lockstep as they condemn Russia for unexpectedly exploding one of its own satellites.

US Agencies, Military Rush to Condemn Russia Blowing Up Satellite

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence just dropped its hotly-anticipated declassified report on "unidentified aerial phenomena," or UFOs.

Robots and Machines

The Pentagon Just Released Its UFO Report

By Jon Christian

A new report by the Air Force Research Laboratory suggests that the Space Force should prepare to treat the Moon and cislunar space as a military domain.

Military Report Says Space Force Must Prepare for Moon Warfare

By Dan Robitzski

Senator Ron Wyden wrote a letter urging the Defense Department to come clean about the various ways it secretly spies on Americans.

Senator Says the Military Is Secretly Spying on Americans

By Dan Robitzski

In a grim development, Indonesian officials say they've found debris from its Navy's missing submarine -- and its crew are now presumed dead.

Robots and Machines

Debris Found From Missing Submarine, All Crew Presumed Dead

By Jon Christian

Footage leaked to a documentary filmmaker named Jeremy Corbell shows unidentified flying objects swarming above a US Navy warship.

Robots and Machines

Pentagon Confirms That Leaked Video Is Part of UFO Investigation

By Jon Christian

The US Strategic Command, an agency that oversees the nuclear arsenal, tweeted our some nonsense. Here's what happened behind the scenes.

Child Tweets Nonsense From Official US Military Account

By Dan Robitzski

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency put out a call for military jetpack, wingsuits, parafoils, and glider designs. for use in combat.

DARPA Is Officially Studying Combat Jetpacks for the Military

By Tony Ho Tran

Military.com reports that the newest U.S. military branch, established in 2019, has now created a unit dedicated to "orbital warfare."

Space Force Created an “Orbital Warfare” Unit, and It Has Its Own Spaceship

By Jon Christian

General David Thompson, the Space Force's second in command has tested positive for the coronavirus, according to Politico.

Space Force’s Second-in-Command General Has COVID

By Victor Tangermann

The Marine Corps just issued a memo banning all servicemembers from mining cryptocurrency like Bitcoin on government-issued devices.

Marine Corps Bans Service Members From Mining Bitcoin on Military Devices

By Dan Robitzski

US armed forces killed the suspected head of a Qaeda affiliate in Syria this month using an inert Hellfire missile warhead with six blades.

The US Military Crushed, Chopped Up Al Qaeda Terrorist With Sword-Covered Hellfire Missile

By Victor Tangermann

The newly-minted US Space Force launched a secretive Boeing spacecraft this weekend, loaded with military and NASA equipment.

US Space Force Launches Secretive Spacecraft

By Jon Christian

New reports suggest that the U.S. military and federal government knew about the coronavirus outbreak as early as November.

US Intelligence Warned of “Cataclysmic” Coronavirus in November

By Dan Robitzski

Photos emerged this week, on social media, of dolphins loaded into a military transport jet — chilling, like blocks of tofu, in shallow tubs of water.

US Military Loads Explosive-Sniffing Dolphins Into Cargo Plane

By Jon Christian

Researchers at the University of California San Diego say they've built a "thermal camouflage" material that can hide from tech like night vision goggles.

Future Materials

This Material Makes You Invisible to Night-Vision Goggles

By Jon Christian

The United States Navy claims that a Chinese warship fired a laser weapon at one of its surveillance aircraft last week, prompting diplomatic action.

Robots and Machines

US Claims China Fired Laser Weapon at Navy Spy Plane

By Jon Christian

On Monday, the Pentagon announced the official adoption of a series of new principles for ethical use of artificial intelligence in warfare, the AP reports.

These Are the Pentagon’s New Ethics “Principles” for AI in Warfare

By Foster Kamer

The U.S. Space Force caused a social media frenzy by tweeting out a photo of its utility uniform nametapes on camouflage uniforms.

Space Force Unveils Camouflage Uniform, Sparking Twitter Frenzy

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. Army is developing tech that uses facial recognition software to identify targets from up to .5 kilometers away, even in the dark.

Artificial Intelligence

Army Developing Tech to ID Terrorists in the Dark From .5 KM Away

By Kristin Houser

Soon after the launch of Pokémon Go, players reportedly began wandering onto Canadian military property in pursuit of the game's virtual creatures.

Pokémon Go Led to a Surge in Trespassers on Military Bases

By Kristin Houser

Pentagon officials signed a memo earlier this week urging members of the military to stop using consumer DNA tests, calling them a security threat.

Pentagon Urges Military Members to Skip At-Home DNA Tests

By Dan Robitzski

The radioactivity from a nuclear blast in space could disable crucial satellites, so the military is trying to find a way to scrub them clean.

The Military Is Unprepared for Nuclear Strikes on Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

Russia says that it has an operational hypersonic weapon — the world's first — and plans to mount it on an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Russia Becomes First Nation with an Operational Hypersonic Weapon

By Dan Robitzski

The United States Navy bans its members from using short video sharing app TikTok on their government-issued mobile devices.

Navy Bans TikTok, Calling It a “Cybersecurity Threat”

By Kristin Houser

During Thursday's debate, Bernie Sanders suggested cutting the military's bloated budget and putting it towards a more important fight: climate change.

Bernie Sanders: Spend Money on the Climate Instead of Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

Turkey's military expects to have its hands on the first Songars, a drone equipped with a machine gun, before the end of 2019.

Middle Eastern Nation First to Buy Drone Armed With Machine Gun

By Kristin Houser

United States forces reportedly killed a terrorist using an R9X missile — a "ninja bomb" that crushes its target while also slicing them up with blades.

Robots and Machines

Sword-Covered “Ninja Bomb” Reportedly Used to Crush Terrorist

By Kristin Houser

Rising global temperatures could lead to more unplanned explosions of military ammunition stockpiles, experts told Scientific American.

Science & Energy

Ammunition Stockpiles Are Exploding As Global Temps Rise

By Kristin Houser

DARPA is funding research into bacteria for bomb detection that could sense explosives below the ground and then glow on its surface.

DARPA Is Engineering Glowing Bacteria for Bomb Detection

By Kristin Houser

A Pentagon report predicts that American infrastructure and the U.S. military could collapse within 20 years due to the ravages of climate change.

Pentagon Report Predicts Collapse of US Military Within 20 Years

By Dan Robitzski

Hyperstealth Biotechnology has filed a patent on a new invisibility cloak material that bends light to make objects disappear.

Watch a Real-Life Invisibility Cloak Designed for Military Use

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. military is developing non-invasive technology that would allow soldiers to control drones with just their brain.

The Pentagon Wants to Control Drones With Soldiers’ Brain Waves

By Kristin Houser

China is building a flying saucer-like experimental attack helicopter, and according to state media, it could fly as soon as 2020.

New Chinese Military Aircraft Looks Exactly Like a Flying Saucer

By Jon Christian

Startup Anduril has built an anti-drone quadcopter for the U.S. military that kills other drones by slamming into them at 100 miles per hour.

See a Drone Kill Another Drone by Slamming Into It at 100 MPH

By Kristin Houser

Portugal's navy recently demonstrated prototype weapons created out of remote-controlled toy cars modified to house grenade launchers.

Robots and Machines

Portugal’s Navy Has a Unit That Turns Toys Into Grenade Launchers

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. military might use injections of nanoparticles to give soliders night vision capabilities without the need for bulky goggles, says scientist.

Prosthetics and Devices

Scientist: US Soldiers Could Receive Night Vision Eye Injections

By Kristin Houser

The CDC has ordered a military germ lab to "cease and desist" all research involving high-level disease-causing materials after a failed safetly inspection.

CDC Shuts Down Military Germ Lab Due to Safety Concerns

By Kristin Houser

Israel believes soldiers might control the "tank of the future" using a joystick like the one that comes with an Xbox gaming console.

Robots and Machines

Israel Demos “Tank of the Future” Featuring Xbox-Style Controller

By Kristin Houser

France's defense minister has announced plans to develop anti-satellite laser weapons to help the nation prepare for potential future attacks.

France to Develop Anti-Satellite Laser Weapons for Space Warfare

By Kristin Houser

A letter signed by 24 prominent scientists called on the U.N. to declare wartime destruction of the environment a war crime.

Scientists: Harming the Environment Should Be a War Crime

By Dan Robitzski

France is assembling a "red team" of sci-fi writers to help it predict what sorts of technologies it might face on the battlefield of the future.

France Is Hiring Sci-Fi Writers to Predict Future Military Threats

By Kristin Houser

The U.S. military says it downed an Iranian drone using a new directed-energy weapon — but Iran is denying to incident even took place.

US Navy’s Energy Weapon Gets First “Kill,” Shoots Iranian Drone

By Kristin Houser

To demonstrate the potential military benefits of the Flyboard Air, the inventor of the flying hoverboard rode it above a parade while wielding a rifle.

Advanced Transport

Someone Carrying a Rifle Just Flew Over Paris on a Hoverboard

By Kristin Houser

A Russian sub caught fire on Monday, killing 14 sailors — and Russia won't say what kind of sub it was or what it was doing near the ocean floor.

Advanced Transport

Russian Sub That Caught Fire Possibly Sent to Cut Internet Cables

By Kristin Houser

Soldiers in Afghanistan will be the first in the United States military to use its pocket-sized Black Hornet recon drones.

US Army Announces First Deployment of Its Pocket-Sized Drones

By Kristin Houser

Later this week, NATO officials are expected to announce the a strategy for militarizing outer space as individual nations ramp up weapons programs.

NATO Plans to Launch Its Strategy for Militarizing Space This Week

By Dan Robitzski