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Using Facial Recognition to Identify Unknown Subjects in History’s Great Portraits
Who Is Buying Up More Drones Than Law Enforcement? Universities
‘Nanofishnet’ Could Be the First Metamaterial to Impossibly Bend Light in the Visible Spectrum
London Residents May Get Anti-Aircraft Missiles on Their Rooftops to Defend the Olympic Games
Video: ‘Anti-Piracy Curtain’ Makes Boarding Ships a Wet, Dangerous Mess for Pirates
Doors Unlock With Keyed Vibrations Sent From Your Smartphone Through Your Bones
Video: Last Year’s DARPA Hypersonic Glider Test Failed When Vehicle Sped Right Out of Its Own Skin
The Human Element
Video: DARPA’s Updated Humanoid Hits the Treadmill, Climbs Stairs, Does Push-Ups
What Must a Humanoid Disaster-Response Robot Do to Win DARPA’s Challenge?
DARPA Wants Humanoid Robots That Can Drive Tractors, Open Doors and Save the Day
Video: The Navy’s ‘Shoulder-to-Shoulder’ Firefighting Robot’s First Trial By Fire
Investigation: Despite Repeated Failures, DARPA Bought Director’s Family’s Lousy Bomb Tech
Video: Former DARPA Chief Regina Dugan Talks Hypersonic Gliders and Hummingbirds at TED
The Navy’s New Autonomous Research Lab is a ‘Hunger Games’ Arena for Robots
Pirate Bay Wants to Put Unassailable Servers in the Sky, Aboard Small Aerial Drones
Video: Aircraft Carrier Crews Guide In Robot Planes With Visible Hand Gestures
DARPA Chief Departs Defense Department to Work for Google
Microsoft’s ‘Universal Translator’ Lets You Speak Foreign Languages In Your Own Voice
Robotic Balloon Cranes Could Turn Any Shore Into a Seaport
Could Iran’s Ultra-Tough Concrete Withstand Bunker-Busting Bombs?
Video: DARPA’s Cheetah Sets a Land-Speed Record for Running Robots
U.S. State Department Wants You to Find Fugitive Gem Thieves Via Twitter
Speech Jamming Gun Freezes Any Talker Mid-Sentence
Chinese Drones Will Use Genetic Algorithms to Learn to Hunt For Submarines
Video: Flamethrowing Navy Railgun Blasts Terrifying Projectiles Through Superheated Air
The Airborne Laser, Missile-Zapping Laser Plane of the Future, Is No More
Video: Spray-On Antenna Material Turns Just About Anything into a Signal Array
A Tribute to the Fifty: A Nine-Story Forging Press That Can Benchpress a Battleship
The Air Force is Buying iPads To Replace Pilots’ Books and Maps
Video: President Obama Test-Fires a Marshmallow Cannon at the White House Science Fair
iRobot’s 710 Warrior, Strong Enough to Tow a Car, is Finally Ready for the Field
DARPA Invests In Megapixel Augmented-Reality Contact Lenses
Video: A New ‘Smart Bullet’ Deploys Fins and Guides Itself to a Laser-Designated Target
The World’s First 3-D, Free-Standing Invisibility Cloak Conceals from All Angles
Video: DARPA Rubs a Flame With an Electric Wand to Extinguish It
In Its First Night Flight, the F-35 Soars at Sundown
The Army’s Newest Surveillance Drone Can Shoot 80 Years’ Worth of Video In a Day
Borderworld: How the U.S. Is Reengineering Homeland Security
Next-Generation Surveillance Robots Can Analyze Their Environment
The Navy’s Gremlin Uses Sonic Waves to Find Underground Bombs
Invisible Warriors: The Future of Camo
Future Tanks Will Be Cooler, and Thus Invisible to Thermal Detection
The Next Generation of Silent Submarines Could Defeat Radar and Sonar Sensing
MIT’s Nano-Bio-Bandage Can Stop Your Bleeding Almost Immediately
Predictions for 2012: China Steps Up
Mae Jemison, Who Was the First Black Woman in Space, Will Now Lead 100-Year Starship Project
What We Know So Far About the Successor to the B-2 Stealth Bomber
How a Decade of IEDs Has Reshaped Bomb Disposal Tech
DARPA’s ‘Membrane Optics’ Spy Satellite Could Capture Close-Up Video of Earth from Orbit
Marines in Afghanistan Execute the World’s First Cargo Resupply with an Unmanned Helicopter
For the First Time, Predator Drones Participate in Civilian Arrests on U.S. Soil
Video: Iran Puts Its Captured RQ-170 Drone on Display
The Army’s Latest Innnovation: A Sandwich That Stays Fresh for Two Years
Carbon Nanotube Stealth Paint Could Make Any Object Ultra-Black
Reports Indicate Iran Has America’s Missing RQ-170 Stealth Drone
DARPA’s Impossible-Sounding Shredder Challenge is Already Solved
China Daily: There Should Be a Beijing-Washington Hotline to Avoid Cyber-Misunderstandings
Blue Devil Airship is Getting a Super-High-Speed Optical Laser Downlink Upgrade
Video: Truck-Sized Inflatable Anteater ‘Bot Traipses Through Water and Grass
Video: DARPA’s FastRunner is a Robo-Ostrich Capable of 30 MPH Sprints
Operation Ghost Click, the Biggest Cyber-Bust Ever, Shuts Down Estonian Bot Ring
To Create the Perfect Machine, Soldiers Build a Robot Out of Robots
A Texas Sheriff’s Department is Launching an Unmanned Helodrone that Could Carry Weapons