by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
A Chinese device called the ZKZM-500 laser assault rifle is purported to emit a high-power laser beam that can incinerate you from over a mile away. Ouch! In 2015, the Chinese government dedicated 2 billion yuan to researching and developing compact laser devices of...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
The promise of nuclear power is enormous. It produces energy via nuclear fission rather than chemical burning, generating a huge amount of electricity while putting zero carbon into the atmosphere. It works constantly. On average, nuclear power plants produce energy...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Scientists at Sweden’s KTH Royal Institute of Technology have created a transparent wood composite that allows light to filter though. The material could be used to replace glass windows in order to reduce energy costs. Wood is 10x better at insulating than...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Psst! Your fly is unzipped. This is just one potential use of the talking lasers being developed by the Defense Department’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWP). It’s a laser that can “talk” using a physics phenomenon called the Laser-Induced Plasma...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Everyone has a unique cardiac signature, which means your ticker beats in a slightly different way than mine or anyone else’s. It’s this novel biometric marker that the Pentagon is using to identify people with an accuracy rate of 95% from up to 200 meters away — no...
by stephen | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Below we will share the impressions made and the deep thoughts provoked as the above GIF progressed to greater and greater distances. Orbiting Earth The first part shows a beam of light orbiting the Earth. It makes the trip 7.5 times every second. The depiction...
