A 47 page Congressional Research Bureau report Conventional Prompt Global Strike and Long-Range Ballistic Missiles: Background and Issues was written by Amy F. Woolf, Specialist in Nuclear Weapons ...

Manufacturers rely on tungsten carbide–cobalt for tools that must survive extreme wear. Yet shaping ...

Among the weapons the Air Force might deploy are space-based lasers, a space plane capable of delivering a half-ton payload anywhere in the world in 45 minutes, and the “rods from god.” The rods are ...

Dr. Kevin Matthews and Dr. Seth Villarreal discuss cryo vacuum workflows and their impact on preserving sodium battery interfaces for accurate analysis. Discover how SparkNano uses spatial atomic ...

Pictured is all that remains of a 1-mm tapered tungsten rod held by a graphite holder after being bombarded by 5 kilojoules of 2.5 million volt electrons in only 50 nanoseconds. The rapid deposition ...

Lattices of microscopic tungsten rods can act as heat shields, researchers have found. Such structures may dramatically boost the efficiency of incandescent light bulbs and of thermophotovoltaic ...

There are few things more soothing on a Friday afternoon than watching something get sliced up on a lathe. It's a blast to zone out to whether it's metal or wood that's getting the treatment. But when ...