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An atomic-scale close-up of the copper-lithium particle, one of many embedded in the microstructure of the nanocrystalline copper-tantalum-lithium alloy. The blue features represent the lithium atoms, the yellow features represent the tantalum atoms encasing the lithium atoms and the orange features represent the surrounding copper matrix. (Lehigh University)
External Government
June 17, 2025

Army Researchers, Academia Create Stronger, More Durable Copper That Could Advance Military Systems

ADELPHI, Md. – U.S. Army researchers, in collaboration with academic partners, invented a stronger copper that could help advance defense,…

MIT researchers developed a hopping robot that can leap over tall obstacles and jump across slanted or uneven surfaces, while using far less energy than an aerial robot. (Image credit: Melanie Gonick, MIT)
External Non-Government
May 20, 2025

Hopping Gives This Tiny Robot a Leg Up

Insect-scale robots can squeeze into places their larger counterparts can’t, like deep into a collapsed building to search for survivors…

A Northwestern University-led research team has developed the first two-dimensional (2D) mechanically interlocked material. With 100 trillion mechanical bonds per 1 square centimeter, the new material contains highest density of mechanical bonds ever achieved. Credit: Mark Seniw, Center for Regenerative Nanomedicine, Northwestern University
External Government
May 20, 2025

Chainmail-Like Polymer Could Be the Future of Body Armor

Researchers supported by grants and instrumentation provided by the U.S. National Science Foundation have created the first 2D polymer material…

five U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and one NASA experimental science payloads
External Government
May 20, 2025

U.S. Space Force Launches Six Experiments to International Space Station to Expand Scientific Knowledge in Support of Warfighters

KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – The U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC), in partnership with the National…

A team from the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division monitors data collected during an oxygen system contamination test to check for potential aircrew air impurities using the Navy’s new test rig called the Gaseous Injection Analyzer, or GaIA. The warfare center built the service’s singular test capability to verify modern oxygen systems effectively filter contaminants in compliance with today’s military standards in partnership with Johns Hopkins University. (U.S. Navy photo by Todd Frantom)
External Government
May 20, 2025

Aircrew Safety Improved With New Oxygen Purity Test at NAWCAD

NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION, Patuxent River, Md. – For the first time, the Navy can precisely test how…

Caption: Artist’s concept of Dragonfly soaring over the dunes of Saturn’s moon Titan. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Steve Gribben
External Non-Government
May 20, 2025

Dragonfly Mission Passes Critical Design Review

NASA’s Dragonfly, the first rotorcraft designed for scientific exploration on another ocean world, has passed its Critical Design Review. Led…

photo of bonded magnet
External Government
May 20, 2025

Scientists Develop Rare Earth Free Magnet for Use in Industrial Motors

Many of the industrial motors used today are induction motors. However, permanent magnet motors are generally more efficient than induction…

Marines test the TowFLEXX TF-3 Milspec, a new aircraft tug capability, with the MQ-9A Reaper at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in March 2025. The TowFLEXX allows a single operator to maneuver military aircraft with unprecedented precision, maintaining the aircraft's nose wheel alignment while enabling 360-degree turns in confined spaces. (U.S. Navy photo)
External Government
May 20, 2025

Marines Fast-Track New Tug for MQ-9 Reaper

Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md. – The Navy and Marine Corps Multi-Mission Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems program office…

green laser beams
External Non-Government
May 20, 2025

Penn State Launches Center of Excellence in Directed Energy

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State recently launched the Center of Excellence in Directed Energy (CEDE), a University-wide center designed…

Rick Cross works on the Titan compressor system at the Jupiter Laser Facility. The gratings (rainbow reflection) allow the Titan laser to provide peak power while preserving the optical components of the system. (Photo: Garry McLeod/LLNL)
External Government
April 15, 2025

A Brighter Future for the Jupiter Laser Facility

Since the 1970s, the Janus laser, now part of the Jupiter Laser Facility (JLF), has served as an experimental proving…

External Government
April 15, 2025

X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Concludes Seventh Successful Mission

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFNS) — The X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 (OTV-7), the U.S. Space Force’s dynamic unmanned spaceplane,…

A pilot trains in the Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division in Patuxent River, Md. Tactical pilots from the Marine Corps and Air Force conducted the first-ever joint training exercise flying simulated combat missions together in F-35 and F-22 fifth-generation fighter jets in the JSE on March 24-27, 2024. (U.S. Navy photo by Terri Thomas)
External Government
April 15, 2025

Marines, Air Force Fight as a Joint Force for the First Time in the Navy’s Joint Simulation Environment

NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER AIRCRAFT DIVISION, Patuxent River, Md. — For the first time, U.S. Marine Corps F-35 and Air…

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