Saw This In a Movie Once, Pretty Sure It’ll Work*

*Steven Wright Scientists Not So Sure ‘Doomsday Machine’ Won’t Destroy World Scare headline aside . . . Three physicists have reexamined the math surrounding the creation of microscopic black holes in the Switzerland-based LHC, the world’s largest particle collider, and determined that they won’t simply evaporate in a millisecond as had previously been predicted. Rather, [...]

Boeing Shoots, They Score!

Boeing: We zapped a UAV with a laser Boeing is seeing a glimmer of progress in its work toward fielding laser weapons. The defense industry giant on Monday said tests of its Laser Avenger system in December marked “the first time a combat vehicle has used a laser to shoot down a UAV,” or unmanned [...]