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In some of the darkest days of the Cold War, the U.S. intelligence community was alarmed by a startling discovery: the Soviet Union was bombarding the U.S. Embassy in Moscow with microwaves, in what ...

Chinese scientists claim to have created a 'real-life Death Star' capable of devastating enemy satellites in orbit. The science-fiction-inspired weapon combines pulses of microwave radiation into a ...

LONDON — A beam weapon that uses the heating effect of microwaves to cause pain is to be issued to U.S. troops in Iraq, according to a report on the Telegraph Web site. The supposedly nonlethal weapon ...

Imagine a future when our technology functions not by using energy gained through the burning of fuel, the use of batteries, or the stretching of miles of cables. A future when energy can be beamed ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Variety via Getty Images Do you remember the moment in "Star Wars" when the Death Star ...

Even though it may look, sound, and act like a death ray, China claims that its new long-range pain beam isn't lethal. Considering the claim that it can cause "overwhelming pain," though, a victim ...

Kevin Parkin described the history and status of microwave beam-heated propulsion at Space Access 2019. Technical summary is at Parkin Research. Kevin showed more pictures of the test systems. Kevin ...

Researchers found that power could be sent to a free-flying drone via a beam of microwave radiation. The team estimated the efficiency of this process and compared it with that for a fixed-position ...