Aerospace and Defence Industry

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Caltech have built a new kind of microchip that can learn to heal its own information pathways.   One of the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF ESA have laid out their plans to colonise the Moon by 2030.   The European Space Agency (ESA) is pressing…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF It’s like combining Google Maps with Tivo, authorities can watch an entire city with just a one camera.   An…

The US Navy’s new augmented reality helmet pushes diving into the twenty first century A new high-tech diving helmet being developed by the U.S. Navy…

The race for hypersonic speed has never been hotter In August 2011 a superfast unmanned military drone, the Falcon HTV-2 (Force Application and Launch from the Continental US…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Security forces are about to get a new tool in the fight against terror   Scientists at a US university…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Let us salute the end of criminal line ups and berate the loss of our future privacy.   If you…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Growing your own products just became a thing.   If you needed to be convinced just how fast technology is…

A new form of AI demonstrates that humans will be no match for intelligent weapons Retired United States Air Force Colonel Gene Lee recently went up…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are entering the age of fully autonomous warfare and inevitably, one day, humans will not be in the loop…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The research, development and weaponisation of AI has made experts uneasy about its impact on humanity’s future, by voicing their…

4D Printing could change how we construct buildings and maintain city infrastructure Many are only just getting their heads around the idea of 3D printing…