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War

Technology

Killer robots are here – we must finally decide whether to accept them

We can no longer ignore the growing threat of fully autonomous weapons. The world must either act to ban them or accept that they are the future of war

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Environment

A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could destroy the ozone layer

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Technology

Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

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flames and smoke rise from an oil storage facility struck in Iran

Environment

Attack on Iran’s oil released as much pollution as a volcano

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Chernobyl 2022

Physics

Exclusive report: Inside Chernobyl, 40 years after nuclear disaster

Features
Dust rising from combine during crop harvesting, no-till technology professional occupation.

Environment

The Iran war is exposing the huge risks in our food system

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A team of Department of Defense drone operators and experts test the technical capabilities of various Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) during a Defense Innovation Unit led prize challenge to identify platforms, components, and capabilities for Blue UAS, which clears and validates flying platforms are safe to fly, cyber-secure, and meet DOD requirements, at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, on Nov. 2-6, 2024. The Blue UAS Refresh Challenge included more than 35 platforms and companies, and an expert team of 40 military drone end-users with participation from each service branch and several major program offices in support of the Department???s ability to quickly scale and field commercially produced drone technologies for military and government use. (DOD photo by Devon Bistarkey, Defense Innovation Unit) https://www.war.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2003592438/

Technology

What to read this week: Katrina Manson’s terrifying Project Maven

Culture
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Technology

Why the world’s militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink

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Technology

Why the US is using a cheap Iranian drone against the country itself

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A mushroom cloud after the explosion of a French atomic bomb above the atoll of Mururoa, also known as Aopuni

Technology

AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

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Technology

How Ukraine became a drone factory and invented the future of war

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Society

Russia-US nuclear pact is about to end and we won’t see another

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Physics

The US is unlikely to test nuclear weapons, despite what Trump says

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Technology

Solar-powered ambush drones can wait for targets like land mines

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