Danger Room

In just a few years, a new report warns, we may see a battlefield teeming with cyborg infantrymen and brain-enhanced commanders. And we may not like it much.

Top-secret janitor. Pollster to the spies. Classified comic book artist. The U.S. military and intelligence communities are looking for some awfully odd jobs to fill.

China’s new cargo plane looks a whole lot like the U.S. Air Force’s C-17.

Submariners like to say there are two kinds of ships: subs and targets. The Pentagon’s futurists want to turn that on its head, with a new kind of robotic surface ship that can pinpoint a sub.

Soon three varieties of stealthy U.S. warplanes could all be within striking range of China at the same time.

New developments in neurology and genetics could give rise to new breeds of biologically-enhanced troops possessing what one expert in the field calls “mutant powers.” For Andrew Herr, that future can’t come soon enough.

They’re grabby. They use microbes as fuel. They’re the robots the Navy wants to send to outer space.

Opposition activists in Syria are claiming that were just gassed. But U.S. officials tell Danger Room that they are skeptical about the rebels’ chemical weapon claims.

Get ready to break out the eyeliner and the candelabras, because the Army is going goth with materials so dark, they can absorb 99 percent of all light.

The Kremlin isn’t just upgrading its electronic surveillance to monitor protesters. It’s using that tech to extend Moscow’s influence over its neighbors in the former Soviet Union.

The history of encryption is a tale of broken secrets. But there are the few elusive codes that no one has ever managed to crack.

We’ve published our list of the world’s most dangerous people. And thanks to your comments and tweets, the list has only grown more dangerous. Here’s 15 more.

U.S. embassy security in the post-Benghazi era is shaping up to be a financial bonanza for security contractors.

Three Senators angrily accuse Zero Dark Thirty of misrepresenting the value of torture. Too bad they’re not releasing a major Senate inquiry into the CIA’s torture program.

Darpa’s headless robotic mule now knows some new tricks. Like obeying soldiers’ voice commands, and figuring out its own paths to haul gear.

Of all the proposed fixes for embassy security in the wake of the Benghazi disaster, the need for “non-lethal” technologies endorsed by the independent commission into Benghazi is the most exotic.

The world has gone a little haywire — sometimes for better, sometimes for worse. Here are the 15 people most responsible for making it that way.

The Army has brought up a one-star general on charges of forcibly sodomizing a female subordinate — and threatening to ruin her military career afterward.

Last week, North Korea finally managed to put an object into orbit around the Earth after 14 years of trying. The event was greeted with hysterical headlines. Most of those headlines were dead wrong.

The cyberstalking investigation that ultimately brought down CIA Director David Petraeus has ended with a whimper — and no charges.