Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands during a news conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem, Israel, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025 ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth finishes the installation of a Department of War plaque at the River Entrance in front of the Pentagon on Nov. 13, 2025. (Madelyn Keech/DoD) The Senate Armed Services ...

The foundation overseeing the design of the future Global War on Terrorism Memorial on the National Mall in Washington has unveiled the first renderings of what the site will look like. Crafted by ...

Charlie D'Agata is CBS News' senior national security correspondent. He was previously a senior foreign correspondent and has spent more than two decades covering international news for CBS. An Apache ...

The Defense Department’s much-slimmed list of codes for tracking service members’ faith groups was revised just days after an earlier version drew the ire of Mormon lawmakers and others for excluding ...

The US Department of Defense has added Cirrus Design Corporation, the Duluth, Minnesota-based aircraft manufacturer that does business as Cirrus Aircraft, to its updated list of “Chinese military ...

The Defense Department moved last month to cut roughly 180 religion codes from its previous list of about 220 recognized faiths. The new list, expected to take effect in July, recognizes 31 religious ...

A "Book of Mormon" is seen among ammunition as U.S. Marines with the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, check their equipment at a company operation base in Toor Ghar, Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on ...

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