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War

sci fi weapons

Technology

Death rays: How the dream of an ultimate weapon became a dark farce

The quest for the ultimate destructive weapon is a convoluted story of egos, charlatanry and deception – with a starring role for mercurial genius Nikola Tesla

Features

Technology

China may have developed a quantum radar that can spot stealth planes

News

Technology

They Shall Not Grow Old review: Restored footage brings war to life

Culture
crowd

Technology

The alarming rise of a power that knows no borders, and how we resist

Culture
Reagan and Gorbachev

Technology

Trump pulling the US out of a nuclear treaty is anything but smart

News

Humans

Tree rings reveal plague hit medieval Europe’s construction industry

News
skeletons

Environment

Iran’s Pompeii: Astounding story of a massacre buried for millennia

Features
AI artwork

Technology

Artificial intelligence is about to revolutionise warfare. Be afraid

Features
Planet of the Apes

Humans

Don’t miss: Apes get ideas, hole becomes art, games lose boundaries

Culture

Humans

A new data-driven idea of warfare doesn’t quite add up

Mathematical models of conflict are seductive, but we shouldn’t throw out the lessons of the past, warns David Betz

Culture

Technology

Landmine muncher automatically sifts soil and explodes them

News

Environment

Four ways dolphins are amazing – and one way they’re not

Features

Environment

Inside the secret military programme that uses dolphins as weapons

Features

Earth

Colombia’s peace deal unwittingly unleashed hell on the Amazon

News