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Those UFOs Spotted Over Kansas City Last Night Were Darpa Test Balloons
What were those two strange objects flying over Kansas City, Missouri yesterday? Plenty of people took to Twitter to speculate that they might be anything from internet balloons for Google’s Project Loon to slimy green aliens. But in reality, they’re almost certainly Darpa’s new test balloons. What was Darpa testing? How to fly around without…
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Scathing Report Accuses The Pentagon Of Developing An Agricultural Bioweapon
A new technology in which insects are used to genetically modify crops could be converted into a dangerous, and possibly illegal, bioweapon, alleges a Science Policy Forum report released today. Naturally, the organisation leading the research says it’s doing nothing of the sort.
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Prosthetic Memories Help Brain Injury Patients With Short-Term Recall
If, at its most essential, the brain is a mass of wires and circuits, then when something goes wrong, logic suggests the brain can be rewired to fix it. This is the theory behind a host of research that seeks to correct things such as mental illness, paralysis and blindness, and impaired cognitive ability by…
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Why DARPA Is Investing Big In Gene Drives
A powerful and controversial new genetic engineering technology called a gene drive offers the potential to drastically reshape our world by overriding natural selection. And the US military’s research arm is among one of the technology’s biggest research funders.