Abstract: While coherent transceivers are widely deployed for long-haul transmissions, short-reach systems predominantly rely on intensity modulation with direct detection. In this paper, we discuss ...

The U.S. military has spent a century modernizing almost everything with the exception of one machine gun. The Browning M2 ...

The video tells the story of how the American bazooka transformed infantry warfare during World War II. It follows U.S.

In the spring of 1943, the newly commissioned Capt. Glenn Miller was stationed in New Haven, Conn., where he was assembling what would become his last great band, the Army Air Forces Training Command ...

Even though I’ve been running for a decade, I still often wonder about—okay, occasionally obsess over—my running form. Is my foot striking the ground properly? Am I moving my arms too much or not ...

Army veteran and retired world class athlete John Register could have felt sorry for himself after losing his left leg in a training accident prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics. Instead, Register took ...

Abstract: Music generation has become an important area of research, with applications in automated composition, personalized soundtracks, and virtual entertainment. Recently, diffusion models such as ...

In 1942, during World War II, Allied fuel was vanishing into the desert before it ever reached the front lines. This is the story of the German jerry can, the engineers who designed it, and the Allied ...

An Editor at Large: Satire from columnist Gerry Baker detailing how the U.S. easily won the 2026 Battle of Greenland, but the consequences proved convulsive for all. Photo: Sean Gallup/Getty Images ...