Aerospace and Defence Industry

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Increasingly navies around the world are fielding autonomous drone ships to patrol and monitor, and even defend, regions around the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if you could glue light together? Using quantum mechanics that’s what DARPA’s doing to improve the capability of lasers….

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In the future aircraft will be autonomous and drone-like so China is beating everyone to creating the first drone carrier….

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF A rocket capable of lifting 250 tons into orbit that can be reused time and time again? That’s a planetary…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF One day AI will be ably to outfly human pilots in all situations, and that day is approaching fast.  …

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Space suits cost billions of dollars to develop and NASA’s old suits have needed a redesign for a long time….

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By using memory safe programming languages companies could see a huge drop in the number of successful cyber attacks.  …

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Aerospike engines are almost science fiction like, enabling aircraft and drones to reach orbit like a conventional aircraft with just…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF As military organisations around the world field hypersonic missile systems researchers might have found a new way to identify and…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Lasers are used to try to determine everything from how the universe works to warfare, and new techniques are making…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Countries are struggling to find ways to defend themselves against fast moving hypersonic weapons systems, and early detection is crucial….

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF By creating a laser out of pure glass future lasers can be much smaller, simplified, and be much more stable…