The BioLogical Undersea Energy (BLUE) program seeks to develop power supplies that capture and convert microscopic forms of marine biomass (e.g., dissolved organic matter (DOM), phytoplankton,...more
Current DoD team training assessment is limited, relying on rudimentary checklists and post-hoc, subjective evaluations of performance that will not be able to scale to future team training...more
Emerging infectious disease hotspots are expected to increase globally within the next 50 years. While technology has advanced agnostic lab-based testing, agnostic sample preservation still relies on...more
The Synthetic Hemo-technologIEs to Locate and Disinfect (SHIELD) program will develop safe and effective prophylactic countermeasures to defeat bloodborne pathogens and prevent bloodstream infections...more
Anesthetics are remarkable drugs that have long-enabled surgical interventions, but their inherent lack of safety necessitates careful monitoring nearly exclusively within an operating room...more
The goal of the DARPA Tellus program is to develop the Methodology to program microbial sense-and-respond devices to reliably detect a variety of chemical and physical stimuli, process this...more
The goal of the MTC is to galvanize discovery of novel traumatic injury signatures to enhance triage decision-making in austere, complex, and mass-casualty settings. DARPA is soliciting innovative...more
Conventional soil bioremediation is laborious, inefficient, and expensive, requiring soil preparation, nutrient delivery to remediating organisms, and continuous site monitoring. Plants and their...more
The Guardian has compiled a list of responses to its latest open thread, and has announced the winner of the social enterprise gift hamper packed with presents.