BBC: The US Army has transported to Afghanistan what it calls its Active Denial System, a truck-based weapon that focuses an intense, but nonlethal beam of microwaves onto enemy soldiers at distances of about 500 m. ADS is part of the Pentagon’s Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program, which includes optical weapons that distract without blinding and acoustic weapons that focus intense sound to warn off attackers.
An ultracold atomic gas can sync into a single quantum state. Researchers uncovered a speed limit for the process that has implications for quantum computing and the evolution of the early universe.
January 09, 2026 02:51 PM
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