[ad_1] Marines deploying to Asia for recent exercises learned to hide their command posts using local cell phone networks and other commercial tech, part of a growing push within the military to adapt to modern battlefields.  The Marines’ command posts, whose tell-tale radio emissions could give away their position to an enemy, were able to ...

[ad_1] Two years ago, the U.S. Navy’s Task Force 59 began its sprint toward a hybrid manned-unmanned fleet, bucking acquisition norms as it wrung out new ideas and new uncrewed systems and passed them to 5th Fleet operators. Now its concepts are spreading to other commands, even as TF59 continues to push new boundaries in ...

[ad_1] Many U.S. observers are waiting in dread for China to attempt a military takeover of Taiwan sometime before 2027, but beneath the threshold of armed conflict, China is already attacking vital Taiwanese information streams, both physically and virtually, while the island develops new tools and techniques to resist. In April, a Chinese fishing vessel, ...

[ad_1] Joint Base Pearl Harbor – Hickam, Hawaii— The Pentagon is accelerating development of new breakthrough technologies and stepping up exercises with regional partners in preparation for the expected increase in aggressive military activity by China in the South China Sea. The move is aimed at deterring a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, which many experts ...

[ad_1] This article was originally hakai magazine, an online publication on science and society in coastal ecosystems.Read more articles like this hakaimagazine.com. Scientists in South Africa have discovered that ceramic nesting boxes can protect endangered African penguins from climate change. Seabirds once laid their eggs in burrows dug centuries ago in layers of their own ...

[ad_1] Graphical representation of sea surface temperature increase in the Gulf of Maine and Gulf of St. Lawrence since August 2018. The Science Museum hosted a discussion panel last Tuesday on addressing rising water temperatures in the Gulf of Maine. Courtesy of NASA Earth Observatory Seawater temperatures in the Gulf of Maine are more than ...

[ad_1] In the mid-1970s, Bill Morrison was a teenager reading about fly fishing in Field and Stream magazine. He borrowed his grandfather’s fiberglass fly rod and bought his popper bug at Security Sporting Goods, the only sporting goods store in Alexandria at the time. Then he went out to his family’s farm pond and taught ...

[ad_1] The California Legislature created medical districts in 1946 with a mission to improve community health care. A generally elected district director is an elected official whose sole mission is to promote the health and well-being of the residents of the communities served by the district. 37 out of 79 hospitals are not operational (2017 ...