Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from DARPA

Solar geoengineering might work, but local temperatures could keep rising for years

Imagine a future where, despite efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly, parts of the world have become unbearably hot. Some governments might decide to “geoengineer” the planet by spraying substances into the upper atmosphere to form fine reflective aerosols – a process known as stratospheric aerosol injection.

The Conversation

ARPA-H: High-risk, high-reward health research is the mandate of new, billion-dollar US agency

A new multibillion-dollar federal agency was created with a goal of supporting “the next generation of moonshots for health” in science, logistics, diversity and equality. And the agency now has it’s first leader, as President Joe Biden announced Renee Wegrzyn as director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health,…

The Conversation

These cyborg cockroaches could save your life — and be a privacy nightmare

While researchers have spent decades making robo-bugs, a new concept from a Japanese lab could transform this potentially life-saving technology.

Inverse

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

US military working on 'invisibility cloak' to hide its troops from enemies

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DAPRA) announced the new invention would be made of a "smoke-like obscurant" to replace a the current controversial white phosphorus

Daily Mirror

US has successfully tested two hypersonic missiles, Pentagon reveals

Tests come amid concerns the US is lagging behind Russia and China in hypersonic missile technology

The Independent UK

US successfully tests hypersonic weapons amid arms race with China, Russia

The United States successfully tests two Lockheed Martin hypersonic missiles, amid growing concerns that Russia and China are having more success developing their own hypersonic weapons.

ABC News

The national bidding war for ARPA-H

An intra-state bidding war has broken out for the chance to house the headquarters of a multi-billion-dollar new science agency aimed at curing major diseases—before the agency's structure has even been finalized by Congress.

Axios

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

The G Word Begs Americans To Fall Back in Love with Uncle Sam

Adam Conover and President Barack Obama want to unruin the federal government. But they’re not really willing to truly consider that it’s too big and too wasteful.

Reason

DARPA pokes yet another hole in blockchain’s ‘decentralization’ claim

In an effort to better understand the risks associated with blockchain technology, DARPA partnered with Trail of Bits to dive deeper into Crypto's promises.

Input

Biden picks first woman, person of color as science adviser

President Joe Biden has chosen Arati Prabhakar to be his science adviser

The Independent UK

Cryptocurrency tech is vulnerable to tampering, a DARPA analysis finds

A new analysis commissioned by DARPA quantifies how the decentralized tech that runs the currency system could be compromised.

WEKU

Frydenberg expects ‘close’ battle to hold seat as Labor cost of living attacks continue – as it happened

Follow all the day’s news

The Guardian - AU

U.S. completes second hypersonic missile flight test

The missile reached altitudes greater than 65,000 feet and flew for more than 300 nautical miles.

Axios

This Day In Market History: DARPA Is Formed To Fight The Cold War

Each day, Benzinga takes a look back at a notable market-related moment that occurred on this date. What Happened? On Feb. 7, 1958, the U.S. Department of Defense founded the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Benzinga

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Benzinga

Twitter Reorganizes Security Team: All You Need To Know

Twitter Inc (NYSE:TWTR) shook up the top ranks of its security team this week with the termination of the head of security and the exit of the chief information security officer, the New York Times reports. Peiter Zatko, the head of security, is no longer at the company. Rinki Sethi, the chief…

Space

What is DARPA?

Everything you need to know about the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

1 2 3 4

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.