Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JOPLIN, Mo. — It’s hard to shoot down an enemy plane you can’t find. That was the whole idea behind a surprisingly low tech means ...

If you've watched "Top Gun," you might've noticed that the F/A-18's countermeasures use chaff/flare. While both chaff and flares are used by military aircraft to defend against incoming missiles, they ...

My wife, Debbie, makes weekly loaves of fresh sourdough bread! This bread goes well with anything, but particularly delicious with a cup of coffee! Which makes me think of the process of getting the ...

Have you ever felt left out? It’s no fun being excluded by others, right? In today’s story, we’ll meet two animals who are always excluding others – until one crafty critter finds a way to invite ...

What looked liked rain on an Aussie weather radar this week turned out to be masking something a lot more powerful. What appeared to be an ominous storm cloud rolling across the weather radar was ...

Chaff - the shreds of aluminum, fiberglass and plastic used by the military to help trick radars - is considered safe, even though government officials concede research on the effect it has on humans ...

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My friend David Ruggiero is working on a new project called “Upcycling Northwest.” Upcycling, of course, is the in-word for smarter/better recycling, making use of the energy in the initial production ...

The traditional way of cutting animal feeds has, for long, been predominantly by use of pangas (machetes). Needless to say, this method is not efficient. It is characterised by low output and equally ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. For example, we keep an ear out for Alan Jones's chaff bag. You may remember he put Julia Gillard in it ...

A privacy technique that is simpler than encrypting a message with a key. Chaff is the unusable part of a plant, and winnow means to separate the chaff so it can be discarded. Thus, chaff is sent ...