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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: George W. Bush, Bioterrorism, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff, Science
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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, Technology, Punishment, Nanotechnology, Science and Technology
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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: Entertainment, NASA, Science and Technology, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Science
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British troops use mini-drones to find targets on the battlefield
British soldiers on the front lines in Afghanistan have been armed with pocket-sized spy drones that can give operators bird’s-eye views of the battlefield below. The little flying machine, dubbed Black Hornet Nano, is just 4 inches long and...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, United Kingdom, Wars and Interventions
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‘Star Wars’: Obama White House says no to Death Star petition
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comWhether you voted for Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, it's good to know the president isn't a Sith Lord. After ...... -
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: Arable Farming, Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Research, Ketchup
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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.... -
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....
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