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Plextek has been selected as a supplier on the £180 million Digital Decision Accelerators for Defence (DDAD) Framework, supporting the British Army's ASGARD program - its flagship Transformative Capability Initiative focused on battlefield decision-making and digital targeting.

The military tested a new approach in Venezuela and during strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

The military tested a new approach in Venezuela and during strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

In a study published in the Journal of Historical Geography, researchers Dr. Chris McCarthy and his colleagues have documented, for the first time, the Great Mongolian Road, a major yet understudied east-west caravan route across Inner Asia. The study utilized maps, called gaihōzu, produced by the Japanese Imperial Army between 1873 and 1945, combined with field verification across 1,200 km of southern Mongolia, to determine their accuracy and document the various support systems available to camel caravans and merchants, which are vital for successful navigation and survival in these harsh arid landscapes.

Friday brought unwelcome news for China’s space program. Two separate rockets failed their missions, destroying a classified military

Career pressure—not ideology—causes military officers to protect or overthrow dictators. New research from the Department of Political Science shows that ambition and anxiety can transform "ordinary men" into the regime's ruthless henchmen—or into those who bury the regime.

France’s automotive giant Renault is making an unexpected pivot from passenger cars to military hardware. The company has

Today, as Greenland once again becomes a strategic prize, history seems poised to repeat itself. Staying with the Polar Inuit means refusing to speak of territory while erasing those who inhabit it.

In the aftermath of the U.S. military strike that seized Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on Jan. 3, 2026, the Trump administration has emphasized its desire for unfettered access to Venezuela's oil more than conventional foreign policy objectives, such as combating drug trafficking or bolstering democracy and regional stability.

Germany, France, Sweden, and Norway have dispatched military personnel to Greenland following Denmark’s urgent request, creating an unprecedented

Donald Trump is clearly in a hurry to dominate the political narrative in his second term of office. He began 2026 with strikes in Syria against Islamic State groups, the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, threats to intervene in Iran and the declaration that the US would take control of Greenland—by hook or by crook.

President Donald Trump's insistence that the U.S. will acquire Greenland "whether they like it or not" is just the latest chapter in a co-dependent and often complicated relationship between America and the Arctic's largest island—one that stretches back more than a century.

This reported machine may be linked to “Havana syndrome,” a debated condition characterized by a strange panoply of symptoms that were experienced by U.S. officials stationed in Cuba

Most people in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Italy clearly endorse military support for Ukraine. They overwhelmingly reject Russia's positions on territorial claims and restrictions on Ukraine's political sovereignty.

The U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Monday that Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot will operate within

Mathematicians rely on numbers, but finding words to explain different levels of certainty has stymied everyone from the ancient Greeks to the most famous modern philosophers. Maths columnist Jacob Aron tells the story of how a CIA analyst finally cracked it

North Korea is the biggest military sponsor of Russia in its unjustifiable war against Ukraine. North Korea is

Artificial intelligence infrastructure and military expansion will push copper consumption to extremely high levels over the next decade

Johns Hopkins University geneticists and a small army of researchers across the country, including students, are working to catalog the vast and largely unknown soil microbiome of the United States.

Military tech doesn’t age in the same way as civilian things do. A 30 year old car is

Poland and South Korea have a strong relationship in the form of military cooperation. Poland is buying lots

As warfare is reinvented in Ukraine, and Silicon Valley races to maintain its A.I. lead, China’s battery dominance is raising alarms far beyond the auto industry.

Despite the fact that the U.S. is home to over 15 million military veterans that make up more than 6% of the total workforce, little research is available about their quantitative impact on the economy.

Old military air samples turned out to be a treasure trove of biological DNA, allowing scientists to track moss spores over 35 years. The results show mosses now release spores up to a month earlier than in the 1990s. Even more surprising, the timing depends more on last year’s climate than current spring conditions. It’s a striking example of how fast ecosystems are adjusting to a warming world.

Military brinkmanship between President Trump and Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela has led to an increase in electronic warfare in the region.

Four disc-shaped spacecraft launched from Virginia this week, introducing a novel satellite architecture that could change how military

Britain has suspended every Ajax armoured vehicle trial following incidents where 30 soldiers experienced physical symptoms from noise

On December 11, Russian war monitoring channels began sharing strange news – a Russian Air Force cargo plane

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been mass produced for decades in consumer products like frying pans, water-resistant clothing, food packaging and cosmetics. They have also been used in a range of industrial applications, including firefighting foam, metal coatings and mechanical lubricants. The ubiquity of these chemicals in groundwater, along with the strength of their unique covalent carbon-fluoride bond, has raised a critical question: how can we remediate the contaminated groundwater at hundreds of military, industrial, municipal and other sites across the country?

President Donald Trump is expected to sign a defense bill this week that orders an investigation into whether the U.S. military bioengineered Lyme disease.

Germany has unveiled plans to introduce voluntary military service. From January 2026, all 18-year-old men will be required to complete a questionnaire asking if they are interested and willing to join the armed forces. Women will not be required to fill out this form.

The year 2025 has not been a great one for U.S.-Chinese relations. Tit-for-tat tariffs and the scramble over rare earth elements has dampened economic relations between the world's two leading economies. Meanwhile, territorial disputes between China and American allies in the Indo-Pacific region have further deepened the intensifying military rivalry.

In late September, a Spanish military plane carrying the country’s defense minister to a base in Lithuania was reportedly the subject of a kind of attack—not by a rocket or anti-aircraft rounds, but by radio transmissions that jammed its GPS system.  The flight landed safely, but it was one of thousands that have been affected…

A JetBlue aircraft carrying passengers to New York executed emergency maneuvers Friday to dodge a U.S. Air Force

Women serving in the Indian Armed Forces suffer systemic discrimination across all stages of their military careers, a new study shows.

Friends and family will come together to celebrate, share gifts and eat traditional foods as the eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah begins on Dec. 14, 2025.

DARPA program could yield models of disease spread in days instead of weeks

There were many ways in which the elites of ancient Roman society flaunted their wealth. They built vast villas, sponsored extravagant games and imported luxury goods. And military top brass, at least those stationed at an Egyptian port, may have advertised their status with a pet monkey at their side. That's one of the insights from the analysis of 35 monkey burials in an ancient animal cemetery in Berenike on the east coast of Egypt.

by Daniel H. Wilson, is one of best fiction picks of 2025. In the novel, aliens talk through an AI headset and land in the Cherokee Nation, while the military scrambles to contain and control the unknown

A fake photo of an explosion near the Pentagon once rattled the stock market. A tearful video of a frightened young "Ukrainian conscript" went viral: until exposed as staged. We may be approaching a "synthetic media tipping point", where AI-generated images and videos are becoming so realistic that traditional markers of authenticity, such as visual flaws, are rapidly disappearing.

Olive oil is the Swiss army knife of foodstuffs. It can dress salads, sauté vegetables, even grease squeaky hinges. And for archaeologists, its ubiquitous presence in excavated pottery offers a window into the economic, political and social organization of the ancient world.

Spain on Monday deployed more than 100 troops to help contain an outbreak of African swine fever outside Barcelona that has sparked fears for the country's powerful pork export industry.

Anduril Industries, the defense tech company that has captured Silicon Valley’s imagination and billions in investment, watched two

Taiwan’s government announced a massive military expansion package on Wednesday that will inject T$1.25 trillion into defense capabilities

Reports in the media suggest that the U.S. might be preparing a military action against Venezuela and its

The Netherlands is an important military ally of Ukraine. It is also a valuable donor. The Netherlands has

By Charles Swihart, Preactive IT Solutions On November 13, 2025, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA),

Botanist James Wong is constantly asked if he plays music to his army of plants. Time to put this notion to the test...

As the Trump administration carries out what many observers say are illegal military strikes against vessels in the Caribbean allegedly smuggling drugs, six Democratic members of Congress issued a video on Nov. 18, 2025, telling the military "You can refuse illegal orders" and "You must refuse illegal orders."

The information needed to decipher the last remaining unsolved secret message embedded within a sculpture at CIA headquarters in Virginia sold at auction for nearly $1 million, the auction house announced Friday.

Ukraine recently attacked a military compound in the Voronezh region of Russia. What was interesting about that attack

The encoded panels’ creator, Jim Sanborn, sought to unburden himself of the puzzle, and then discovered before an auction he had archived its solution in the Smithsonian.

Is it a gassy whale? A top secret submarine? Godzilla rising from the surfer-filled waters of Hermosa Beach?

UK Defence Minister John Healey has announced that Britain stands ready with military countermeasures after Russia’s intelligence ship

It is one of the world's most famous unsolved codes whose answer could sell for a fortune—but two US friends say they have already found the secret hidden by "Kryptos."

The war in Ukraine is absolutely horrible, but it is not actually global. Some people have been calling

Ukraine secured a major defense commitment from France on Monday, signing a letter of intent to acquire up

Russia still wants the world to see it as a great military power. But the reality is quite

The U.S. has many international allies and commercial military partners. However, a few countries have as good of

The military continues to play a vital role in powering San Diego's economy, supporting nearly 357,000 local jobs and contributing $61.3 billion to the region's total economic output, according to the 2025 Military Economic Impact Report (MEIR). The report is released annually by the San Diego Military Advisory Council (SDMAC) and the University of California San Diego's Rady School of Management.

A Chinese plant scientist at the University of Michigan who drew national attention in June 2025 when she was arrested and accused along with another Chinese scientist of smuggling a crop-damaging fungus into the U.S. pleaded guilty on Nov. 12, 2025, to charges of smuggling and making false statements to the FBI. Under her plea agreement, Yunqing Jian, 33, was sentenced to time served and expected to be deported.

“ has not been solved,” said artist Jim Sanborn after releasing his parting clues to the “K4” section of his sculpture puzzle

The USS Gerald Ford strike group has entered Latin American waters, according to U.S. officials who confirmed the

Jun Sunseri remembers his grandfather, Stanley, sharing stories about his service in World War II. A mechanic in the U.S. Army Air Forces, Stanley was deployed to North Africa and Italy, where he repaired bombers and fighter planes that flew across Europe.

A senior German military official has issued a sobering assessment: Russia possesses the capability to launch an attack

Warming temperatures and increased precipitation in the Canadian High Arctic are mobilizing new pathways for subsurface contaminants to spread from more than 2,500 contaminated sites associated with industrial and military sites across the region.

Soldiers arrived in Akita Prefecture this Wednesday after local officials made an unprecedented call for military assistance. The

Researchers have developed a highly sensitive method for detecting hotspots in the environment, such as bushfires or military threats, by harnessing the focusing power of meta-optical systems.

Ukraine is rebuilding its armed forces in the face of changing warfare and arising new threats. This process

The evening before Vice Admiral Richard Correll was supposed to breeze through his confirmation hearing, everything changed. At

Russian President Vladimir Putin, dressed in a military uniform, announced on Oct. 26, 2025, that Russia had successfully tested a nuclear-powered missile. If true, such a weapon could provide Russia with a unique military capability that also has broader political implications.

An Australian executive working for a U.S. defense firm has admitted to peddling stolen military-grade software to a

President Donald Trump announced on Thursday that he has directed the Pentagon to begin testing nuclear weapons to

Trump has a few favorite presidential activities: ending military conflicts, fighting illegal immigration, and equalizing trade relations –

Researchers have uncovered microbial evidence in the remains of Napoleon’s soldiers from the 1812 Russian retreat. Genetic analysis revealed pathogens behind paratyphoid and relapsing fever, diseases likely contributing to the army’s massive losses. Using advanced DNA sequencing, the team pieced together centuries-old infection clues, connecting historical accounts with modern science. Their work redefines our understanding of how disease shaped history’s most infamous retreat.

Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French emperor’s troops as they withdrew from Russia.

A mass grave holding soldiers from Napoleon Bonaparte's French army reveals some of the diseases that killed the Grande Armée during its disastrous retreat from Russia in 1812.

In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led about half a million soldiers to invade the Russian Empire. But by December, only a fraction of the army remained alive. Historical records suggest that starvation, cold, and typhus led to their demise.

Genetic material pulled from 13 teeth found in a grave in Lithuania revealed infectious diseases that felled the French emperor’s troops as they withdrew from Russia.

When 115,000 tons of food waste hit Surrey's processing facility each year, an invisible army goes to work—billions of microbes convert everything from banana peels to leftover pizza into renewable natural gas (RNG). Now, UBC researchers have identified a previously unknown bacterium in the Natronincolaceae family that plays a crucial role in this process.

Uncovering the CIA’s Kryptos puzzle took three parts math and one part sleuthing

A bipartisan group of lawmakers has asked the military to explain why cleanup of PFAS chemicals at bases nationwide has been pushed back.

Over the summer, the United States deployed warships to the Caribbean—ostensibly to menace drug traffickers but also as a none-too-subtle warning to Venezuela. Earlier in the year, a U.S. Navy destroyer bobbed along waters close to Iran for similar reasons. And in the Taiwan Straits and Pacific, China and the U.S. frequently show off their respective maritime military might.

A 3,500-year-old Egyptian fortress has been discovered on an ancient military road in the north Sinai Desert.

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a high-speed data connection.

Starfront Observatories allows amateur astronomers to rent a spot for their telescopes and photograph the cosmos over a high-speed data connection.

After decades of speculation, two writers uncovered the answer to the Kryptos code’s final cipher

Jim Sanborn planned to auction off the solution to Kryptos, the puzzle he sculpted for the intelligence agency’s headquarters. Two fans of the work then discovered the solution.

Governments which employ private military companies, such as Wagner and Africa Corps, can be held liable for any human rights violations committed by these firms, research from Edith Cowan University (ECU) has highlighted.

Scott Sutfin-Glowski, who joined Microsoft in 2012, is resigning over the company's work with Israel's military.

At the start of September 2025, US president Donald Trump sent a naval task force into the Caribbean to tackle drug trafficking in the region. The initiative has led to strikes on four alleged drug boats off the Venezuelan coast so far, killing at least 21 people.

As Moscow's military offensive grinds on at Europe's eastern edge, tensions are skyrocketing on the continent due to repeated, brazen violations of European airspace deliberately orchestrated by Russia. Europe has announced counter-measures, in the form of a "drone wall" to combat this new threat.

There is still active discussion surrounding the theoretical possibility that Ukraine could receive Tomahawk cruise missiles from the

Beyond the race for scientific, commercial and military purposes, there is another space race of a more curious sort. A race to be the first to send various objects up there. But why?

The Department of Defense funds biomedical research to ensure military and pandemic preparedness. This includes mRNA vaccine projects that RFK, Jr., recently defunded

A study published in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, led by Dr. Mohammad Reza Eghdami and his colleagues, examined the remains of a Parthian-era individual. The Parthians were descendants of the Parnian tribe and part of the Dahae Union. They were renowned for their military prowess, particularly in their mounted warfare tactics and skilled archery.

Russia’s orbital surveillance program has moved beyond theoretical threat. Two spacecraft now tail German military satellites thousands of

A federal judge has shut down drone manufacturer DJI’s attempt to scrub its name from the Pentagon’s roster