WASHINGTON — Could a foreign country build a directed-energy weapon tailored to target a single diplomat walking through a house, leaving other occupants unaffected? What about drugs that target a ...

Nearly two years ago, Juliano Pinto, a 29-year-old paraplegic man, kicked off the World Cup in Brazil with the help of a brain-interface machine that allowed his thoughts to control a robotic ...

Flashback: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) sponsored this talk entitled Brain Science from Bench to Battlefield: The Realities – and Risks – of ...

Since the 1950s, allegations of government mind control weapons (now called neuroweapons) and nonconsensual human experimentation and targeting have been dismissed as science fiction. However, with a ...

Top defense officials were reportedly briefed Tuesday by researchers on the injuries suffered by 26 U.S. diplomats and their families in Havana, and the “neuroweapons” that could be responsible. Dr.

In general, the universal prohibition on biological weapons is widely supported, and there is healthy concern over how dual-use technologies—those with both beneficial and dangerous applications—might ...

Scientists now believe that neuroweapons are the mostly likely cause for the mysterious attacks that left more than two dozen U.S. government officials stationed in Havana with symptoms including ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American A year ago historians of technology Lee ...

It sounds like something a wild-eyed basement-dweller would come up with, after adjusting the fit of his tinfoil hat. But military bureaucrats really are asking scientists to help them “degrade enemy ...

The following review was written by Ms. Cheryl Welsh to summarise the paper published by Torture: Asian and Global Perspectives in its latest issue. Cheryl Welsh Since the 1950s, allegations of ...

Flashback: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) sponsored this talk entitled Brain Science from Bench to Battlefield: The Realities – and Risks – of ...