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Pentagon, NASA Talking Interstellar Travel

President Barack Obama may have scrapped plans to return the moon, but now the Pentagon and NASA are working to create an organization that could one day take mankind to the stars and beyond. NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a research arm of the Pentagon, held an invitation-only meeting earlier...

Pentagon Wants Secret of Flying Snakes

(Nov. 24) -- Look, up in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's ... a snake? Yes, and the Defense Department wants to know how this specific genus of tree-dwelling snakes, called Chrysopelea, are able to launch themselves into the air and glide long distances without the aid of wings. To this end, the Defense Advanced...

Tobacco-Based Vaccines Could Pwn Future Pandemics

(Nov. 4) -- Pandemics and bio-terror threats might one day be a health hazard of the past. A massive undertaking by the U.S. military is rapidly transforming vaccine production, yielding fast-tracked approaches to wipe out new illnesses before they spread. The military's been after better bio-threat prevention methods...

'100-Year Starship' on the Drawing Boards at NASA

(Nov. 1) -- A NASA official's brief mention of a spaceship that could could travel to the stars has set off a flurry of speculation over the space agency's plans. "We just started a project with [Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency]," Simon "Pete" Worden, the head of the NASA Ames Research Center, said last month at...

To Boldly Go to New Worlds, NASA Announces '100-Year Starship'

(Oct. 22) -- It might sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a NASA official says that "within a few years" scientists will unveil a prototype for a spaceship capable of taking earthlings to other worlds. Speaking at a Long Now Foundation conference in San Francisco over the weekend, Simon Worden, center director at...

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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military.

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