The reality of faster-than-light travel. Warp drives have long been the stuff of science fiction. Too speculative, too abstract. But in a recent DARPA-funded experiment studying the Casimir effect—weird pockets of negative energy that appear between microscopic metal plates, the energy pattern looked very similar to the geometry behind a theoretical warp bubble. No one is bending spacetime just yet … but this is starting to feel feasible.
The badass Growler. How does one jet shut down an entire country's air defenses without firing a single shot? During a 2 a.m. raid over Caracas last month, Venezuela's Russian- and Chinese-made missile systems never even launched. That's likely thanks to the U.S. Navy's EA-18G Growler, an electronic warfare aircraft built to jam, spoof, and destroy enemy radar. It clears the skies and erases the enemy's ability to see. In modern combat, that's a superpower.
