MICHIOCAN, Mexico (PNN) - May 23, 2013 - Farmers wearing bulletproof vests and toting assault rifles ride in pick-up trucks emblazoned with the word “self-defense” to protect this rural Mexican town from a drug cartel.

Has 10,000 times the energy density of gas.

HOUSTON, Texas (PNN) - May 21, 2013 - Against all probability, a device that purports to use cold fusion to generate vast amounts of power has been verified by a panel of independent scientists.

The research paper, which hasn’t yet undergone peer review, seems to confirm both the existence of cold fusion and its potency: The cold fusion device being tested has roughly 10,000 times the energy density and 1,000 times the power density of gasoline. Even allowing for a massively conservative margin of error, the scientists say that the cold fusion device they tested is 10 times more powerful than gasoline - which is currently the best fuel readily available to mankind.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 21, 2013 - District and federal terrorist pig thug officials arrested 17 people Monday after protesters opposing foreclosures attempted to storm the entrances of the Amerikan Gestapo Department of InJustice division.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 8, 2013 - The Pentagon’s electromagnetic pain weapons are about to make a new friend. It’s an anthropomorphic test dummy that’s going to get blasted by everything the Pentagon’s non-lethal weapons agency can throw at it.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 1, 2013 - Worried about drones spying on you? Soon, a device might be able to send you text and email alerts that let you know when a drone is nearby.

A Washington, D.C.-based engineer is working on the "Drone Shield," a small, Wi-Fi-connected device that uses a microphone to detect a drone's "acoustic signatures" (sound frequency and spectrum) when it's within range.

By Brent Johnson

Have you ever seen one of those television commercials for the Army? "Be all that you can be." "An army of one." Or those really interesting, effect-laden ads for the Marines? "Maybe you could be one of us. The few, the proud the Marines."

WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 6, 2013 - As a Senate committee prepares to begin voting this week on far-reaching immigration legislation, advocates are watching warily to see whether relatively tame opposition balloons into the kind of fierce resistance that killed Congress' last attempt to overhaul the system.

LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico (PNN) - May 6, 2013 - The central principle of quantum mechanics - that the act of measuring a quantum object actually changes it - has some pretty amazing potential in the world of cryptography. Los Alamos National Laboratory just revealed that it has been using a new design of quantum cryptography setup for more than two years.

NEW YORK (PNN) - May 6, 2013 - Killer robots might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but they're alarmingly close to becoming a reality. A new report from the United Nations Human Rights Commission suggests that lethal autonomous robots need to be regulated before they become the military weapons of the future.

Prototype system can heat and cool without draining battery power.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (PNN) - April 22, 2013 - Buyers considering an electric car must bear in mind that using battery-powered heating and air conditioning can decrease the car’s range by a third or more. A New York Times reviewer recently ran into this problem on a test drive, ending up stranded with a dead battery.