DARPA

Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting

2013-05-19 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...

Former UCLA professor to plead guilty to defrauding government

2013-05-09 16:24:00

A former UCLA physics professor has agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud charges and pay almost $1.7 million for turning in false invoices related to nanotechnology research he was performing for the Department of Defense. Alfred Wong, 75, of...

Obama outlines private-public project to study the brain

2013-04-02 19:48:00

Making good on a promise first hinted at during his State of the Union speech in February, President Obama on Tuesday unveiled the broad outlines of a scientific initiative aimed at mapping the human brain. The project's ambitious goals include...

Radar shows U.S. border security gaps

2013-04-03 17:22:00

WASHINGTON — A sophisticated airborne radar system developed to track Taliban fighters planting roadside bombs in Afghanistan has found a new use along the U.S. border with Mexico, where it has revealed gaps in security. Operated from a Predator...

Dan Goods, JPL's science seer

2013-02-20 00:00:00

When artist Dan Goods arrived at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, they gave him a six-month shot. In May, he'll have been there 10 years as JPL's "visual strategist." He glued soda bottles to the roof of his Taurus to create music on an m.p.h. pipe organ....

British troops use mini-drones to find targets on the battlefield

2013-02-04 10:11:00

British soldiers on the front lines in Afghanistan have been armed with pocket-sized spy drones that can give operators bird’s-eye views of the battlefield below. The little flying machine, dubbed Black Hornet Nano, is just 4 inches long and...

‘Star Wars’: Obama White House says no to Death Star petition

2013-01-12 07:34:11

MIT develops ketchup bottle that lets you use every drop

2012-05-25 07:05:00

The research institution that brought you the fax machine and GPS has come up with another potentially world-changing invention: a bottle coating so slick that every last bit of ketchup slides out quickly and easily. In what could be a disruptive...

Ava robot, controlled by iPad, Kinect, roams CES with ease [Video]

2012-01-11 16:36:24

Scientists creating very fast robotic ostrich legs

2011-11-14 16:36:20

Aircraft set to reach 20 times the speed of sound in test flight

2011-08-09 16:36:51

Launch of hypersonic aircraft pushed back a day by weather

2011-08-10 16:36:46

The mule-like Legged Squad Support System was developed by the military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. DARPA provided images of the beast on Sept. 12, 2012, showing the robot being tested on rough terrain.

2012-09-12 00:00:00