Military

Naval Engineers fired the first industry-built electromagnetic railgun launcher at their test facility, “commencing an evaluation that is an important intermediate step toward a future tactical weapon for ships.” This first testing starts “a two- month-long test series by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to evaluate the first of two industry-built launchers.” These tests will … [Read more...]

Researchers at Rice University believe that “microscopic channels of gold nanoparticles have the ability to transmit electromagnetic energy that starts as light and propagates via ‘dark plasmons.’” Plasmons are “waves of electrons that move across the surface of a metal, like water in a pond, when disturbed.” Head researcher, Stephan Link, has “developed a way to ‘print’ fine … [Read more...]