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3.14 Ways to Celebrate National Pi Day

While Thursday will herald St. Patrick's Day celebrations with verdant inebriation, and on Tuesday, fans of Caesar will beware the Ides of March, today is a special day reserved for math geeks to relish in the glory of pi. National Pi Day occurs yearly on March 14, aka "3.14," the first three digits of pi, which is equal...

Squid May Help Make Soldiers Invisible

For decades, military scientists have tried to figure out the best way to make things disappear, or at least hide them very well. Members of the U.S. Army's First Earth Battalion hoped to bend physics and render themselves invisible, when they weren't trying to kill goats by staring at them. The British Ministry of...

Five Options for Replacing Stalled Virtual Border Fence

(Nov. 6) -- Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has already frozen work on the controversial "virtual fence" that was supposed to secure roughly 1,900 miles along the United States' southwest border. Now, she's expected to announce its cancellation by mid-November. SBInet was supposed to integrate data from...

Army Gears Up to Outfit Soldiers in 'Iron Man' Suit

(Sept. 28) -- Defense companies are hoping someday to outfit soldiers with external skeletons that would bestow the wearer with superhuman capabilities. That day may still be years away, but Raytheon, one of the companies working on this technology for the Army, is riding the coattails of "Iron Man," which helped...

Plane Arrives in Antarctica to Evacuate Ill American

(Sept. 13) -- After being delayed by blizzard conditions, a medical evacuation flight has arrived in Antarctica to rescue a seriously ill American. The man, whose illness and name have not been disclosed, is at the U.S. McMurdo Station on Antarctica's north coast. A New Zealand air force plane with three medical staff on...

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Raytheon Company () is a major American defense contractor and industrial corporation with core manufacturing concentrations in weapons and military and commercial electronics.

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