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WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Magnetorestrictive materials might not be commonplace, but now they’re helping China’s latest generation of stealth submarines become undetectable at sea….

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF When it comes to making big things humanity’s great, but we’re getting better at creating things at the nanoscale too…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF We are increasingly learning how to manipulate the code of life – DNA – and we’re doing some very weird…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Communications speeds matter in todays world and as China looks to supercharge its digital economy this could give it a…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF LiON batteries have a variety of social and environmental issues ranging from they explode and are hard to recycle, to…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF China led the field in hypersonic weapons, and the USA in laser weapons, but now China has just leapfrogged the…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Not everything man made is better than what nature can create, although increasingly using synthetic biology we’re re-creating nature.  …

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF What if employees helped create AI regulations? Would it be like Turkeys trying to regulate Christmas? Or could it really…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of war isn’t with massive platforms like aircraft carriers, it will increasingly be dominated by drones and other…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Quantum computers can already do calculations that would take traditional computers billions of years in minutes. Now they’re getting faster….

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Is this a glimpse into the future where humans and AI will actually battle one another via Terminators?   Love…

WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Being able to extend the detection range of your military systems is a critical piece of any military’s arsenal and…