China has indicated plans are under way for a next-generation nuclear-powered aircraft carrier armed with futuristic energy weapons including a rail gun, an electromagnetic weapon that the United ...

"As dangerous threats to America's safety increase with each passing day, so does the need to combat any potential enemy. For almost 20 years, a leading defense enterprise has been developing a ...

Railgun has hosted some $4 billion in private transactions since its launch. It has recently been integrated into a new Ethereum developer toolkit. Railgun has processed a record $1.6 billion in ...

A back-to-roots trade is emerging as market participants take notice of the privacy corners of the crypto ecosystem, bringing attention back to what dominated much of the 2017-18 bull market cycle.

The US Navy was never able to work out how to build a reliable railgun. Japan apparently has. Way back in 2005, as America was still enjoying its “unipolar moment,” the United States Navy began its ...

Although it has become common in science fiction, the development of a practical railgun has been excruciatingly slow, with the United States abandoning its railgun project in 2022. A key US ally in ...

The fighters in military-style uniforms pointed their rifles at the three unarmed men and ordered them out onto a sunny balcony, before barking at them to pause. “One minute. You want to film them?” ...

Step inside our workshop as we assemble a functioning railgun using copper rails, a capacitor bank, and a whole lot of planning. From the wiring to the first successful launch, we show every moment of ...

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin transferred around $2.6 million worth of tokens through the privacy-focused protocol Railgun on Wednesday, in what appears to be both a routine financial ...

Instead of gunpowder, railgun technology uses electromagnetic energy to fire a projectile along a set of rails at ultra-high velocity. Instead of using gunpowder to shoot an artillery shell, railgun ...

North Korea has issued a warning to Japan over its upcoming test-fire of a prototype railgun. The futuristic weapon signals Japan is mulling a preemptive attack on the nuclear-armed country, state ...

For the railgun, it's used to propel projectiles at tremendous speeds without the need for cordite or other explosives. The United States, India, China, France, and Germany have all looked at ...