[ad_1] DILLINGHAM AIRFIELD, Hawaii—Capt. Sam Soliday is standing in front of a Black Hawk on a gravel airstrip across the street from Oahu’s picturesque northwest coast, a “jungle” patch velcroed to the sleeve of his combat shirt. He’s one of more than 5,000 U.S, Indonesian, Thai, British, and New Zealander troops spread out on islands ...

[ad_1] HONOLULU, Hawaii—A U.S. Army unit was preparing to go to the National Training Center last November when they discovered a problem: an adversary with electronic-warfare gear could “easily identify people talking on their radios…so they needed a way to counteract that.” Lacking time to fix the problem, the unit handed it off to the Third ...

[ad_1] The U.S. Navy must 3D-print more parts if it is to build three submarines per year, a top program manager said Wednesday. Rear Adm. Jonathan Rucker, the Navy’s lead buyer for attack submarines, said additive manufacturing has become essential for meeting construction schedules—and then keeping those new subs operating. “Absolutely we need to have ...

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[ad_1] Daniel Lim reads through the resumes of prospective college students with the excited patter of a color commentator at an NFL game. On his popular TikTok channel, the Duke University senior highlights the seemingly endless number of ultra-achieving students who fail to land acceptances at selective colleges, or, more often, who win some bids ...

[ad_1] After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to shift his research focus. He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to ...

[ad_1] Students these days are terrible at sorting true facts from misinformation online and on social media, many studies show. But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, argues Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. Instead, they just need a little bit of guidance on ...

[ad_1] ST. PAUL, Minn. — Robert Groven, director of the Minnesota Urban Debate League, has been coaching high school debate competitions for more than 30 years, and he’s noticed a marked shift in student behavior in the past decade or so. During debate exercises, there’s been a “consolidation” around points of view that are more ...