Remember when the military actually put human beings in the cockpits of its planes? They still do, but in far fewer numbers. According to a new congressional report acquired by Danger Room, drones now account for 31 percent of all military aircraft.

To be fair, lots of those drones are tiny flying spies, like the Army’s Raven, that could never accommodate even the most diminutive pilot. (Specifically, the Army has 5,346 Ravens, making it the most numerous military drone by far.) But in 2005, only five percent of military aircraft were robots, a report by the Congressional Research Service n...

Are Moore's Law fans happy to see this atomic wire? Image: Bent Weber

The law of the land is Ohm’s Law — even when the land is really, really small.

Contradicting what was previously thought, researchers at the University of New South Wales have announced that the law governing electrical resistivity — how readily electrical current flows through a material — extends into the quantum realm.

This has major significance for chipmakers, who are starting to wrestle with the forces of quantum physics as transistors and interconnect sizes shrink down to a few dozen nanometers. These forces are among...