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Technology & Innovation

Why These Badass Balloons Are the Pentagon's New Secret Weapon

High-tech high-altitude balloons could enhance military capability and provide a force multiplier for existing weapon systems.

Executives And Employees Dramatically Differ On How Things Are Going And The Future Of Work

Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, many workers have been able to experience the luxury of working from home, and we appear to love it—or do we?

shown here fumigating area against pests.

23 November 2021

Strategic Influence

Are locust plagues unstoppable?

A single swarm of locusts can number in the billions and eat and destroy vast amounts of field crops.

Decaf coffee is increasingly popular as people reduce their caffeine intake. But is it any good?

Despite the negative opinions of some coffee aficionados, decaffeinated coffee is growing in popularity.

Communication & Cognition

Applying for jobs? Here's why some employers give you personality tests

Ask psychologists about the validity of workplace personality tests, and you’re likely to get many different answers.

Experts say simple steps have helped Victoria’s stillbirth rate fall for the first time in 20 years

A program coming out of Victoria shows promising results in reducing the number of stillborn deaths.

Technology & Innovation

Parkes radio telescope, aka The Dish, celebrates 60 years of scientific discoveries

Sixty years after being built in a sheep paddock, the Parkes Radio Telescope is still helping to explore the universe.

Military History

Korean War Campaigns

1950-1953: Korean War; fought between North Korea (supported by China, USSR) and South Korea (supported by UN, US). Ended in an armistice.

Army officer standing with mask on.

20 November 2021

A simple solution to maintaining life-saving vaccines

From polluted water to COVID-19, in this TED Talk, an engineer explains how she was driven to save as many lives as possible given the recent pandemic.

Strategic Influence

Time To Start Fielding Tomorrow’s....... Capabilities Today

In this article, David Deptula—USAF LTGEN (Retired) and currently Dean of the Mitchell Institue for aerospace studies (a think tank)—argues that the USA urgently needs to turn new technologies into operational capabilities.