Scientific Breakthrough: New State of Matter Discovered
A team of physicists has uncovered a new state of matter—a breakthrough that offers promise for increasing storage capabilities in electronic devices and enhancing quantum…
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Biostasis Program Slows Biological Time to Extend Lifesaving Treatment
When a Service member suffers a traumatic injury or acute infection, the time from event to first medical treatment is usually the single most significant…
New Nanofluidic Device Speeds Up Quality Control for Biologics
Engineers from MIT have developed a nanofluidic device that enables rapid testing of protein drugs produced by living cells. Drugs manufactured by living cells, also…
New Energy-Friendly Chip Can Perform Powerful AI Tasks
Engineers from MIT have designed a new chip to implement neural networks. It is 10 times as efficient as a mobile GPU, so it could…
The Interior Chemistry of Distant Planet’s May Differ from Earth
New research suggests that magnesium peroxide may be abundant in extremely oxidized mantles and cores of rocky planets outside our Solar System. Washington, DC —…
New Graphene Sensors Could Provide Unprecedented Insights into Brain Structure
New nanotechnology funded by DARPA’s RE-NET program and developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison enables monitoring and stimulation of neurons using…
Wyss Institute Continues to Develop Its Soft Exosuit
Wyss Institute has won a DARPA grant to further develop their lightweight Soft Exosuit. The Exosuit is pulled on like a pair of pants and…
Ape-Like RoboSimian Robot in Development
This two minute video shows the early development of RoboSimian, an ape-like robot being developed as part of the DARPA Robotics Challenge. RoboSimian is an…
Scientists Measure and Control the Temperature Inside Living Cells
DARPA researchers have developed new techniques that allow them to measure and control the temperature in living cells. The techniques could support thermal management, control…
Enhanced Hollow-Core Fiber Features Performance-Enabling Properties
Researchers from Honeywell International have modified hollow-core fiber, dramatically improving performance and making it the first hollow-core fiber to demonstrate single-spatial-mode, low-loss and polarization control….
DARPA Focuses on Behavioral Biometrics to Enhance Cyber Security
DARPA’s Active Authentication program is working to develop behavioral biometrics focused on the user’s cognitive processes to enhance cyber security. In the world of network…
DARPA Announces the Vanishing Programmable Resources Program
DARPA’s Vanishing Programmable Resources program seeks to develop electronics capable of dissolving into the environment around them when triggered to do so. The sophisticated electronics…
DARPA’s New Cyber Targeted-Attack Analyzer Program
DARPA’s new Cyber Targeted-Attack Analyzer program looks at how information is connected and moves to uncover and prevent targeted attacks without a human having to…
DARPA Demonstrates the Most Complex 2D Optical Phased Array Ever
By developing new microfabrication techniques, scientists at DARPA have integrated all the components of an optical phased array into a miniature 2-D chip configuration, which…
Foam Injections Could Prevent Deaths on the Battlefield
Future combat medics could save the lives of soldiers, preventing them from bleeding out on battlefields, by injecting medical foam into their bodies. The scientists…
IBM Supercomputer Simulates 530 Billion Neurons & 100 Trillion Synapses
At the Supercomputing 2012 conference last week, IBM Research-Almaden presented its next milestone towards fulfilling DARPA’s cognitive computing program, Systems of Neuromorphic Adaptive Plastic Scalable…
DARPA’s New Pet-Proto Robot Navigates Obstacles
The DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) has begun and over the next two years teams will compete to develop and test hardware and software designed to…
DARPA Program Takes Advantage of Floating Icebergs
If the Arctic continues to melt, there could be more military and commercial activity in this environment. DARPA is working on an all-seeing network of…