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Boeing has won a patent for a protective force field that could stop vehicles from being harmed by explosions, Popular Science reports. It might sound futuristic — and it is. The patent isn't about ...

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 ...