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Space War Editorial Team
Editorial Team

Space War Editorial Team

Editorial Team

The Space War Editorial Team produces Space War's coverage of military space and defense technology. We report on missile defense and space-based systems, nuclear weapons and arms control, drones and directed-energy weapons, and the great-power competition shaping security beyond Earth. Articles reflect our team's collective editorial process, source verification, drafting, technical review, and editing, rather than a single writer's work. Space War takes editorial responsibility for content under this byline. For more on how we work, see our editorial policy.

Flora And Fauna

In New Mexico’s Carlsbad Cavern, hundreds of thousands of Brazilian free-tailed bats spiral out each summer evening and eat about three tons of insects, mostly moths and beetles, while Texas colonies intercept corn earworm moths above cotton country

Every summer evening, hundreds of thousands of Brazilian free-tailed bats spiral out of Carlsbad Cavern and climb thousands of feet into the desert sky to intercept corn earworm moths bound for cotton and sorghum fields across the southern Plains — a functioning pest-control system that saves farmers hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

Sep 8, 2026
Farm News

Why does breaching a single earthen levee along a Central Valley river reconnect juvenile salmon to floodplain rice fields where they grow up to five times faster than fish stuck in the main channel?

Winter-flooded rice fields on California's Yolo Bypass produce 53 to 150 times more zooplankton than the leveed Sacramento River, and juvenile Chinook salmon released into them grow two to five times faster than fry stuck in the main channel — the finding now driving a program to release two million hatchery fry a year onto working farmland.

Sep 8, 2026
Nukewars

Why did the US Air Force designate a 106,000-acre live-fire training reservation in the southeastern Coastal Plain as a national stronghold for the red-cockaded woodpecker, and why does controlled artillery use appear to help the bird recover?

Inside the 106,000-acre Avon Park Air Force Range, live-fire training ignites the same low-intensity ground fires that longleaf pine savannah evolved with — and the red-cockaded woodpecker, downlisted from endangered to threatened in 2024, has become one of the strangest beneficiaries of controlled artillery use.

Sep 7, 2026
Earth

The Rocky Mountain Arsenal outside Denver manufactured nerve agents and pesticides for four decades, and after a Superfund cleanup the 15,000-acre site became a National Wildlife Refuge now hosting bison, bald eagles, and one of the largest urban prairie dog colonies in the country

The Rocky Mountain Arsenal produced sarin, mustard agent, and pesticides for four decades before a $2.1 billion Superfund cleanup turned the 15,000-acre site into a National Wildlife Refuge ten miles from downtown Denver, now home to a wild bison herd, bald eagles, and one of the largest urban prairie dog colonies in North America.

Sep 7, 2026
Flora And Fauna

Sea otters along California’s central coast that habitually use rocks to crack open snails and mussels show measurably less tooth damage than otters that bite prey directly, a difference biologists documented across years of tracking 196 radio-tagged animals at Monterey Bay and four other sites

A 2024 study in Science tracking 196 radio-tagged southern sea otters in Monterey Bay found that individuals who reliably use stone anvils to crack shellfish suffer measurably less tooth damage than otters that bite prey directly — a difference that keeps them alive when their preferred prey disappears.

Sep 7, 2026
Physics News

The Big Bang should have produced matter and antimatter in equal parts and annihilated both into pure energy, yet roughly one extra matter particle survived for every billion antimatter particles, and nobody knows why the balance tipped

The Big Bang should have produced matter and antimatter in equal amounts and annihilated both into radiation. Instead, roughly one extra matter particle per billion survived — and physicists are still hunting for the mechanism that tipped the balance.

Sep 2, 2026