* Superconductor step forward: USA’s Brookhaven National Laboratory adds insights into the “pseudogap” phase.
* Quantum dots may lead to dark pulse lasers, with applications in atomic clocks and networking technologies.
* European governments look to defense cuts to balance budgets.
* EADS mulls expansion in India, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar, where defense spending is expected to grow at healthy rates.
* Israel is cutting its defense budget for first time in years.
* AVI BioPharma snags US Army contract worth up to $291 million to develop antidotes for biological threats, such as the Ebola and Marburg viruses.
* Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) demonstration satellites, built by Northrop Grumman and Raytheon to track missiles as part of a BMD system, successfully tracked a Minuteman III ICBM.