Researchers Designing Eye-Enhancing Virtual Reality Contact Lenses for Soldiers
As part of the SCENICC program, DARPA researchers are working on futuristic contact lenses that will offer a dual purpose. These lenses will allow users…
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DARPA Seeks Researchers for PERFECT Program
DARPA is looking to further increase processing speed in their intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems and has set up a Proposers’ Day workshop to further…
Foldit Players Remodel Catalyst Enzyme for Diels-Alder Reactions
The online community of Foldit has helped produce solutions that have evaded scientists for years. Initially funded by DARPA, this community consists of roughly 240,000…
DARPA Researchers Use Electricity to Suppress Fire
DARPA’s research team at Harvard University is focusing on electricity as a means to fight fire. By using a flame-suppression system based on destabilization of…
DARPA’s Galileo Program to Image Objects in GEO Faster
Current technology is limited for imaging objects in space since researchers use astronomical long-baseline interferometers and can only view objects from limited angles. DARPA is…
Research for High Pressure Materials for DoD Underway
The DoD needs stronger, lighter, and more resilient materials that can be used in any number of applications from armor, to lighter weights which allow…
DARPA Researchers Treat Previously Lethal Doses of Radiation Successfully
DARPA researchers successfully treat previously lethal doses of radiation using bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI) and antibiotics. Furthermore, this treatment was found to be effective up to…