The Technology for Autonomous Weapons Exists. What Now?
Nov 26, 2024 · O n e bluebird day in 2021, employees of Fortem Technologies traveled to a flat piece of Utah desert. The land was a good spot to try the company’s new innovation: an attachment for the DroneHunter — which, as the name halfway implies, is a …
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The Great American Nuclear Weapons Upgrade - undark.org
Nov 4, 2024 · I n the plains of western South Dakota, about 25 miles northeast of Mount Rushmore, the Ellsworth Air Force Base is preparing to receive the first fleet of B-21 nuclear bombers, replacing Cold War-era planes. Two other bases, Dyess in Texas and Whiteman in Missouri, will soon follow. By the 2030s, a total of five bases throughout the United States will host nuke-carrying bombers for the first ...
Baring Teeth: The Long Battle Over Fluoride Comes to a Head
Mar 6, 2024 · Back in 1991, after my only Son was born; I started studying about the reasoning behind mandatory water fluoridation and In 2006, I had the honor to meet with Paul Connett, PhD of the famed Fluoride Action Network, up in New York @ St Lawrence University at the 2nd Annual FAN Convention & got to also meet a lot of other people who where Toxicologists , Dr David Kennedy, DDS,Toxicologist among ...
Maybe She’s Just Tired, Maybe It’s Undiagnosed Iron Deficiency
Aug 26, 2024 · A bout three years ago, Soumya Rangarajan struggled day after day with exhaustion, headaches, and heart palpitations. As a frontline hospital doctor during the Covid-19 pandemic, she first attributed her symptoms to the demands of an …
Book Review: Why the Medical Establishment Often Gets It Wrong
Nov 1, 2024 · L ike many surgeons, Marty Makary used to routinely treat appendicitis by removing the patient’s appendix, a procedure performed nearly 300,000 times a year in the U.S. That changed about a decade ago after he read a research study that found antibiotics may be an effective alternative. Despite subsequent research confirming that appendectomies can often be avoided, Makary estimates only ...
Can New Mexico’s Ancient Water System Survive Climate Change?
Oct 9, 2024 · S antiago Maestas has grown apples, peaches, and apricots on his New Mexico property for more than five decades. He still cherishes the network of ancient gravity-fed irrigation ditches that deliver the water that keeps his orchard thriving. Those irrigation ditches, scattered across the state and known as acequias (pronounced ah-SEH-kee-ahs), have endured for hundreds of years.
The Search for Critical Minerals is Going High Tech
Nov 13, 2024 · I n the fall of 2023, Matt Theurer and his team at HyperSpectral, an artificial intelligence company, landed a meeting with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. They had sophisticated technology to pitch to the famed Department of Defense research organization: artificial intelligence software that analyzes the light emitted and absorbed by a given material, then uses that data to ...
Snip or Skip? The Complicated Debate Over Circumcision.
Jan 1, 2024 · Overall a fairly balanced and nuanced article on a topic usually treated with derision. If we were discussing bodily autonomy, consent, and medical justification in almost any other context, it would go without saying that surgery removing healthy tissue justified by shaky medical reasoning done without the patient’s express consent would be a no-go.
As Offshore Wind Ramps Up, Scientists Flag Potential Impacts
Aug 21, 2023 · L ast year, the Biden administration announced an ambitious goal: enough offshore wind to power 10 million homes by 2030. The move would reduce carbon emissions, create jobs, and strengthen energy security. It would also help the United States — which was responsible for just 0.1 percent of the world’s offshore wind capacity last year — catch up with renewable energy leaders like China ...