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10/05/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Deployment effects on diet quality and nutrition markers in special operations soldiers

A multi-institutional team of researchers has determined the impact of combat deployment on the diet quality and nutritional status of Special Operations Forces (SOF) soldiers. Nutritional status markers for pre-deployment baseline data were collected via blood extraction from 107 male participants assigned to an elite U.S. Army Special Operations unit. Additionally, all participants answered a […]

05/07/2018 / By David Williams

DARPA developing neural interface technology to connect soldiers to advanced military systems and weapons wirelessly

Ever wonder what the U.S. military’s own researchers are working on at the moment? Online reports indicate that one of their latest projects involves the use of neural interfaces, specifically non-invasive ones that would allow soldiers to connect with computers and other electronic systems both digitally and wirelessly. This information is based on a pre-solicitation […]

04/30/2018 / By Ethan Huff

The true investigation of how the U.S. military recruited Japanese germ warfare scientists and Nazi space weapons developers

The Japanese government recently released the names of more than 3,000 former members of the infamous germ warfare unit of the Imperial Japanese Army (IJA), which conducted heinous lethal experiments on innocent Chinese and Allied civilians during World War II. And with this”data dump” comes a fresh reminder as to how the American government actually […]

11/27/2017 / By Michelle Simmons

How many calories do you burn walking? It depends – on what you’re carrying and whether you’re going uphill or down

Researchers have developed a new way to determine how many calories a person burns when walking uphill or downhill, as reported by the Science Daily. Researchers from the Southern Methodist University (SMU) have developed a more accurate method called the “Minimum Mechanics Model” to estimate how much energy a soldier uses when walking. “Our new […]

11/20/2017 / By Frances Bloomfield

Wars keep on killing: Gulf War illness causes DNA damage in vets, according to new research

Gulf War Illness (GWI), or Gulf War Syndrome, is the name given to a cluster of chronic symptoms affecting Gulf War veterans and civilian workers. The cause behind these symptoms — which range from fatigue to joint pains to memory problems — has been studied and debated on for the longest time. Yet scientists from […]

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