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Pentagon dreams of Star Trek interstellar travel
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Defense Department first proposed Star Wars, now it wants Star Trek. The Pentagon research agency that helped foster the Internet now wants someone to dream up a way to send people to a star. The winner will get half a million...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Washington, DC, Orlando, Florida, Politics
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Pointing to threat, pulling in profit
Tribune Washington BureauWASHINGTON -- Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he called a...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Finance, Defense
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Spotlighting a terrorism risk, and profiting
WASHINGTON — Over the last decade, former Navy Secretary Richard J. Danzig, a prominent lawyer, presidential advisor and biowarfare consultant to the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security, has urged the government to counter what he...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Defense, Finance
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Latest Michigan news, sports, business and entertainment
DETROIT SHOOTING String of Detroit shootings leaves 1 dead, 12 hurt DETROIT (AP) — Detroit police say a 54-year-old woman was killed and four other people wounded in an argument and shooting on the city's west side. Chief Chester Logan says the...Tags: Students, Federal Bailout Funds, Murder, Gerald Ford, DTE Energy Company
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Michigan Tech institute gets $1 million contract with US military for radar-related research
HOUGHTON, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Tech Research Institute has a $1 million contract to conduct radar-related research for the U.S. military. Houghton-based Michigan Technological University on Thursday announced the 6-month contract with the U.S....Tags: U.S. Military, Research
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Former UCLA professor to plead guilty to defrauding government
A former UCLA physics professor has agreed to plead guilty to federal fraud charges and pay almost $1.7 million for turning in false invoices related to nanotechnology research he was performing for the Department of Defense. Alfred Wong, 75, of...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Punishment, Technology, Nanotechnology, Prosecution
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk likes autonomous driving cars, but prefers term 'autopilot'
Autoblog.comFiled under: Emerging Technologies, EV/Plug-in, Tesla Motors Looks like Tesla might be hiding more in its software than blind spot detection and adaptive cruise control. According to Bloomberg, Tesla CEO Elon Musk is "discussing" autonomous cars with... -
A smart investment
The human brain is a marvelous instrument, capable of the subtlest thoughts, feelings and perceptions, and of dreams even the gods might envy. Yet for all our cleverness in other areas, we still know embarrassingly little about how our own brains actually...
Tags: Alzheimer's Disease, Schizophrenia, Science, National Institutes of Health, Fiction
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Obama outlines private-public project to study the brain
Making good on a promise first hinted at during his State of the Union speech in February, President Obama on Tuesday unveiled the broad outlines of a scientific initiative aimed at mapping the human brain. The project's ambitious goals include...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Unrest, Conflicts and War, David Geffen School of Medicine, Values, Defense
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Radar shows U.S. border security gaps
WASHINGTON — A sophisticated airborne radar system developed to track Taliban fighters planting roadside bombs in Afghanistan has found a new use along the U.S. border with Mexico, where it has revealed gaps in security. Operated from a Predator...
Tags: Michael T. McCaul, U.S. Army, Afghanistan, Immigration, Organized Crime
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Harris: 3 innovations from Chicago science scene that offer ideas, shape of things to come
Internet-centered technology has advanced to the point that smartphone apps and e-commerce sites seemingly sprout overnight. Indeed, many can be built inexpensively from off-the-shelf software in weeks. Scientific breakthroughs, however, often require...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Flu, Argonne National Laboratory, MRSA, Symptoms
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Dan Goods, JPL's science seer
When artist Dan Goods arrived at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, they gave him a six-month shot. In May, he'll have been there 10 years as JPL's "visual strategist." He glued soda bottles to the roof of his Taurus to create music on an m.p.h. pipe organ....
Tags: Peace Corps, NASA, Science, Music, Entertainment
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