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Advances in neuroscience by the military will make soldiers more deadly

Advances in neuroscience by the military will make soldiers more deadly | Science News | Scoop.it
Soldiers could have their minds plugged directly into weapons systems, undergo brain scans during recruitment and take courses of neural stimulation to boost their learning, if the armed forces emb...
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More Than Human? The Ethics of Biologically Enhancing Soldiers

More Than Human? The Ethics of Biologically Enhancing Soldiers | Science News | Scoop.it
Our ability to "upgrade" the bodies of soldiers through drugs, implants, and exoskeletons may be outstripping the ethical norms of war as we've understood them.
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A morphologically specialized soldier caste improves colony defense in a neotropical eusocial bee

Here we provide evidence for a physical soldier subcaste in a bee. 

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Thinking Underwear for Warriors : Discovery News

Thinking Underwear for Warriors : Discovery News | Science News | Scoop.it
Sensors in the fabric monitor respiration, heart rate, activity, body posture and skin temperature.
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Scientists Make Supersoldier Ants

Scientists Make Supersoldier Ants | Science News | Scoop.it
When eight bizarrely big-headed soldier ants turned up in a wild colony collected from Long Island, N.Y., scientists knew they had found something interesting.
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DARPA Wants to Give Soldiers Robot Surrogates, Avatar Style - IEEE Spectrum

DARPA Wants to Give Soldiers Robot Surrogates, Avatar Style - IEEE Spectrum | Science News | Scoop.it
Soldiers controlling bipedal robot surrogates on the battlefield?
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What goes on in the mind of a sniper?

What goes on in the mind of a sniper? | Science News | Scoop.it
Snipers play a crucial part in modern warfare but how easy is it for them to justify taking aim at, then killing, individual men and women?
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Special Forces Get Social in New Psychological Operation Plan

Special Forces Get Social in New Psychological Operation Plan | Science News | Scoop.it
The elite forces of the U.S. military think they've found a new way to sway opinion in the Pentagon's preferred directions: a voice-based so...
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Soldier bees guard their nest against attack by robbers

Soldier bees guard their nest against attack by robbers | Science News | Scoop.it
Jatai bees are the first known bee species to have a specialised soldier class to protect their colony...
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Maltreated children show same pattern of brain activity as combat soldiers

Maltreated children show same pattern of brain activity as combat soldiers | Science News | Scoop.it
Children exposed to family violence show the same pattern of activity in their brains as soldiers exposed to combat, new research has shown.
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