Chemistry deals with that most fundamental subject: matter. New drugs, materials and batteries all depend on our ability to ...

Inspired by biological systems, materials scientists have long sought to harness self-assembly to build nanomaterials. The ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Ryan Truby and his team members received a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Director’s Fellowship, which is presented to selected DARPA Young Faculty ...

(RTTNews) - The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded BAE Systems' FAST Labs research, development, and production organization a $16 million Phase 2 contract for the ...

This might be the most interesting drone competition since the Outback Challenge. I wouldn’t use a single airframe, have a look at the bottom for what I would do. The US Defence Advanced Research ...

Battery technology is on the cusp of enabling high-performance flight applications. DARPA just released a “Lift Challenge” for drones, with a prize pool of $6.5M. DARPA is hosting a live webinar on ...

Through its Tactical Technology Office (TTO), DARPA wants to move drones to the next level with its Lift Challenge – a US$6.5-million competition aimed at creating small drones capable of lifting ...

An IBM quantum computing mixing chamber in the company's Thomas J Watson Research Center. (IBM) Programme officials with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have selected 11 US and ...

The Pentagon’s secretive technology incubator has launched its latest X-plane competition, this time with an eye toward identifying concepts for a highly efficient uncrewed cargo drone. The US Defense ...

The Department of Health and Human Services on Monday officially announced Alicia Jackson as the new director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, even as ARPA-H is beset by budget ...

The X-65 aircraft, which Aurora Flight Sciences is building for DARPA as part of the CRANE program, will use short air bursts to steer instead of traditional flaps and rudders. But rising costs, ...

DARPA's Lift Challenge aims to develop small uncrewed aircraft systems (drones) capable of carrying up to four times their own weight, a substantial leap from the typical 1:1 payload-to-weight ratio.