A weapon is mounted on the Lehit ground robotic system, developed by specialists of the International Legion under the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, during a demonstration in Ukraine on December 9, 2025. (Getty Images)
Cover: Edited version of US Air Force, US Navy, and US Marine Corps aircraft along with US Army Patriot missile batteries line up on the runway for an elephant walk during a routine operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base in Japan on May 6, 2025. (US Air Force)
A weapon is mounted on the Lehit ground robotic system, developed by specialists of the International Legion under the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, during a demonstration in Ukraine on December 9, 2025. (Getty Images)
A telescope at the quantum communication ground station in Xinglong, north China's Hebei Province, January 18, 2017 (Xinhua/Jin Liwang via Getty Images)
Ari Dyckovsky, 17, works on quantum physics experiments in the Physical Measurement Lab, March 5, 2012 in Gaithersburg, MD (Katherine Frey/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
FCC Chairman Thomas Wheeler (R) waits for the beginning of a hearing before the Privacy, Technology and the Law Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Committee May 11, 2016. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)