Aerospace and defense company Boeing recently earned a patent for its first ever force field. The design, submitted to the United States Patent and Trademark Office as a "method and system for ...

We present a way to dramatically accelerate Gaussian process models for interatomic force fields based on many-body kernels by mapping both forces and uncertainties onto functions of low-dimensional ...

The nanosciences were revolutionized by the invention of atomic force microscopy 1, which enabled the first perceptions of the nanoworld by measuring the proximity forces exerted by a sample on a ...

An illustration of the protective arc from Boeing’s patent filing. Boeing could be bringing force fields to life. The traditionally metaphysical concept of a protective force field, seen only in ...

Boeing has filed a patent for something that could possibly be called a force field, but it's not. From the patent, it's a "Method and system for shockwave attenuation via electromagnetic arc." When ...

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Lasers pound their target with high velocity, but the starship remains unfazed. A force field protects our heroes from the vicious attacks of evil intruders, allowing them the opportunity to save the ...

America’s military-industrial complex keeps coming up with innovative ideas for how to win asymmetric wars in far-flung locations around the world. As if insect-like drones and Terminator bots were ...

The University of Colorado Boulder has announced a discovery 7,200 miles above Earth of a protective shield similar to the force fields you might see in “Star Trek.” The discovery of this barrier in ...