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Top 10 Coolest Army Science and Technology Advances of 2018!

Army Research Laboratory

Dec. 12, 2018 | 5:00

ADELPHI, Md. (Dec. 17, 2018) -- This year has had its share of science and technology advances from Army researchers. The RDECOM Research Laboratory, the Army’s corporate research laboratory (ARL), has the mission to discover, innovate and transition science and technology to ensure dominant strategic land power.

The lab’s chief scientist, Dr. Alexander Kott, handpicked the “coolest” advances to showcase what Army scientists and engineers are doing to support the Soldier of the future with a “Top 10” list from 2018:

No. 10: Transporting quantum information with minimum distortions
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41534-018-0107-x

No. 9: Ultra-broadband super-sensitive atomic antenna
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/full/10.1063/1.5028357

No. 8: Brain-like computer solves super-complex problems
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8124199

No. 7: Peeking inside a gas turbine’s combustor with a strong X-ray
https://www.army.mil/article/203716

No. 6: Cool coating stops attacks of sand
http://gasturbinespower.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/article.aspx?articleID=2649343

No. 5: A super-hero nanocrystalline alloy
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05027-5

No. 4: Extreme power for jumping robots
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6387/eaao1082

No. 3: New explosive is more powerful than TNT and safer
https://cen.acs.org/materials/Double-oxadiazole-replace-TNT/96/web/2018/06

No. 2: Humans teach artificially intelligent agents
https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.11545

No. 1: Taming the atom
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25483