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Weapons

Physics

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

President Donald Trump appears to have ordered a return to nuclear testing after decades of uneasy but effective treaties banning the practice 鈥� but will it actually happen?

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Technology

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

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Humans

Ancient mammoth-tusk boomerang is twice as old as we thought

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Society

This is how to avoid annihilating ourselves in a nuclear war

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Group of modified swords analysed with neutron tomography

Humans

Many Iron Age swords may be tainted by modern forgery

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Neanderthals hunt a cave bear.

Humans

Gravity may explain why Neanderthals failed to adopt advanced weaponry

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Physics

Fusion reactors could create ingredients for a nuclear weapon in weeks

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30 DJI Matrice 300 RTK drones purchased for the armed forces of Ukraine

Technology

What does Ukraine鈥檚 million-drone army mean for the future of war?

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Technology

Ukrainian AI attack drones may be killing without human oversight

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Researchers Michelle Bebber holding an atlatl weapon

Humans

Women and men throw spears equally well using ancient atlatl tool

Men typically throw objects with a greater velocity than women can 鈥� but with a spear-launching tool called an atlatl, men and women鈥檚 throwing velocity is indistinguishable

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Technology

3D-printed explosive can’t detonate unless filled with fluid

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Technology

A volunteer project used GPS to detect a North Korean missile test

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Humans

Prehistoric dart-throwing atlatl weapon even more deadly than thought

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Technology

Efforts to regulate ‘killer robots’ are threatened by war in Ukraine

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