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Strobe weapons: What are they, who is using them and do they work?

Technology

Strobe weapons: What are they, who is using them and do they work?

Belarusian soldiers used flashing lights to daze Polish forces amid a border stand-off last week. Strobe weapons have been claimed to have more serious effects, but evidence is lacking

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Buttons that say STOP GUN VIOLENCE

Health

Gun violence rose 30 per cent in the US during the covid-19 pandemic

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quadruped robot with a rifle

Technology

US military may get a dog-like robot armed with a sniper rifle

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Space

Should we ban space weapons to stop the huge space junk problem?

Analysis

Handheld railgun as powerful as an air rifle to go on sale in the US

Technology

Handheld railgun as powerful as an air rifle to go on sale in the US

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The US Navy has a mechanical battery that could power laser weapons

Technology

The US Navy has a mechanical battery that could power laser weapons

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Laser weapon

Technology

The US Army is building the most powerful laser weapon in the world

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Technology

Google Earth reveals suspected nuclear weapons facility in Pakistan

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What Hiroshima teaches us about coronavirus and the future of humanity

Health

What Hiroshima teaches us about coronavirus and the future of humanity

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Humans

First poison arrows may have been loosed 70,000 years ago in Africa

Many ancient bone points are the same shape as poison-tipped arrowheads used today by San peoples in southern Africa, suggesting the practice is ancient

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Technology

US military electroshock weapon can hit a person 100 metres away

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Physics

Cold war nuclear bomb tests changed rainfall patterns over the UK

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Technology

The US Army is developing AI missiles that find their own targets

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Definition

The invention of the nuclear bomb

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