by Katie Drummond | Sep 24, 2012 | Monitor
World’s Most Wired War Healer Joachim Kohn Kohn, responding to e-mails in his office on the Rutgers campus. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired Dr. Joachim Kohn has never seen combat. He has never retaliated enemy fire, deployed with a platoon to some foreign, war-ravaged nation,...
by Spencer Ackerman | Sep 11, 2012 | Monitor
An explosive ordnance disposal technician learns to use a man-portable bomb reconnaissance robot built by QinetiQ during a training exercise at Joint Base Lewis McChord, Washington, August 2011. Photo: DVIDS The Pentagon’s science advisers want military robots...
by Benjamin Plackett | Sep 7, 2012 | Monitor
A close up of a bee’s all seeing eye USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Laboratory /Flickr The Air Force wants its new spy sensors to work like a bee’s eye. Here’s why: Most of the military’s optical sensors, which convert an image into an...
by Robert Beckhusen | Aug 24, 2012 | Monitor
An Iraqi army soldier runs during an ambush exercise taught by U.S. troops. Now, Darpa wants to use neuroscience to improve the mental and physical reactions of soldiers under threat. Photo: Department of Defense Everyone knows there are some instinctual reactions to...
by Robert Beckhusen and Noah Shachtman | Aug 15, 2012 | Monitor
The Air Force’s X-51A Waverider hypersonic missile attached to the wing of a B-52 Stratofortress. Photo: USAF Updated 2:39 p.m. ET A crucial test for the Air Force’s experimental Mach 5 missile has ended in failure, according to the Air Force....