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.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (PNN) - April 18, 2013 - Former President Pervez Musharraf fled a courtroom on Thursday after judges ordered his arrest to answer allegations he committed treason in 2007, an ignominious retreat for a man who once dominated Pakistan and had hoped to revive his political fortunes.

NEW YORK (PNN) - April 11, 2013 - We’re all going to die; and when we do, Google wants us to continue controlling our digital selves.

Google announced today that users of its myriad digital services can control how their data is handled while they’re taking a dirt nap. The awkwardly named Inactive Account Manager lets you tell Google to delete or share your precious data with a predetermined person after a specified period of inactivity.

PARIS, France (PNN) - April 5, 2013 - Not content with housing a pair of celebrity pandas that attract hordes of avid onlookers, a zoo in France has decided to put their droppings to good use by recycling them into gas and electricity.