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MIT develops ketchup bottle that lets you use every drop
The research institution that brought you the fax machine and GPS has come up with another potentially world-changing invention: a bottle coating so slick that every last bit of ketchup slides out quickly and easily. In what could be a disruptive...
Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Science and Technology, Arable Farming, Research, Ketchup
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Radar-evading Navy ship for sale in public auction
For sale: An exotic, once top-secret radar-evading ship, dubbed the Sea Shadow, that was built by one of the world's largest defense contractors during the height of the Cold War. Specifications: about 68 feet wide, 164 feet long and around 563 tons....
Tags: Museums, Howard Hughes, Christopher Johnson, Auction Service, Defense
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Pentagon releases results of 13,000-mph test flight over Pacific
The results are in from last summer’s attempt to test new technology that would provide the Pentagon with a lightning-fast vehicle, capable of delivering a military strike anywhere in the world in less than an hour. In August the Pentagon's...
Tags: Military Equipment, Science and Technology, The Pentagon
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DARPA director Regina Dugan takes job as Google senior executive
Regina Dugan, who spent the past two and a half years as the first female director of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA), has accepted a job as senior executive at Google, a spokeswoman for the agency confirmed.
Dugan was the 19th...Tags: Companies and Corporations, Science and Technology, Science, Economy, Business and Finance, Atlantic Ocean
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Ava robot, controlled by iPad, Kinect, roams CES with ease [Video]
TechnologyiRobot's Ava, an iPad controlled, Kinect-guided testbed for the potential of robots to do everyday chores.... -
Foldit gamers help unlock possible AIDS-fighting protein
L.A. Times Tech BlogFoldit gamers help unlock possible AIDS-fighting protein: The next time someone tells you that playing video games is a waste of time, feel free to bring this up. Over a three week period, gamers playing Foldit, an online a protein-folding game, helped to... -
Scientists creating very fast robotic ostrich legs
TechnologyOstrich robot: Scientists at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition have created "FastRunner" a robot inspired by an ostrich.... -
Aircraft set to reach 20 times the speed of sound in test flight
L.A. Times Tech BlogAn experimental, arrowhead-shaped aircraft that could potentially reach blistering speeds of 13,000 mph above the Pacific Ocean is set to blast off Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base.... -
Launch of hypersonic aircraft pushed back a day by weather
L.A. Times Tech BlogThe launch of an experimental aircraft capable of reaching 13,000 mph was scrubbed today due to bad weather at Vandenberg Air Force Base.... -
Test of hypersonic aircraft fails over Pacific Ocean
L.A. Times Tech BlogA test flight of an experimental aircraft capable of speeding through air at 20 times the speed of sound ended prematurely Thursday morning, when the arrowhead-shaped plane stopped sending back real-time data to engineers and scientists who were... -
DARPA issues statement on failed flight of hypersonic aircraft
L.A. Times Tech BlogThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency released a statement on today’s flight of the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2.... -
Pentagon: Aircraft flew at 20 times the speed of sound [Video]
L.A. Times Tech BlogThe Pentagon released video footage of a test flight of an unmanned experimental aircraft as it sped through air at 20 times the speed of sound earlier this month....
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