Daily Archives: Mar 14, 2026

Not every day does the internet cable of a police station turn into a front-line seismic observatory. But in 2024, when the magnitude 7 Mendocino Fault earthquake ruptured offshore, a pulse of laser light speeding down a coastal fiber-optic cable recorded its ugly march in unprecedented resolution. This was...

The Ukrainian front line is now almost 1,250 kilometers long, an enormous battlefield where Russian troops have moved from massed offensives to what Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi describes as the "thousand cuts" strategy committing swarms of four-to-six-man attack groups to infiltrate Ukrainian lines. Those small groups take advantage of cover...

It started with a photo a Ukrainian MiG-29, its wing bearing an unidentifiable, winged payload. Within several hours, the photo had pinged its way through defense communities, fueling rumors that Kyiv had stealthily developed one of its most ambitious weapon programs. For a nation embroiled in a grueling air...