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By the end of the four-year program, DAPRA hopes that researchers can demonstrate “a safe, precise treatment that delivers a 100-fold reduction in mosquito feeding. In the age-old war against the pesky, disease-carrying mosquito, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is trying a new tactic. Rather than depend on bed nets, repellants or anti-malarial therapeutics
It’s always terrifying to receive a phone call from Dr. James Giordano. Not that he is a scary person, but he talks about scary things: specifically national security threats that are in the near future, but few people are thinking about. Giordano, a Georgetown professor of neurology and biochemistry, and chief of the neuroethics studies
“Enabling a breakthrough in robotic augmentation of high-tempo military maneuver and operations requires disrupting the notion of an intelligent system as a rigid multi-body platform optimized for slow, carefully planned movement in uncluttered terrain,” Stanton said. “Fundamental research is needed to transpose smart materials from the current paradigm of fixed properties and mechanics with extrinsic