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The company Astra, a startup based in Alameda, was set to launch their first payload Tuesday from the Pacific Spaceport Complex in Alaska, but the launch was delayed due to weather. Photo courtesy of DARPA

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How a California startup aims to prove it could launch orbital rockets on a daily basis

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A new project at DARPA aims to improve people’s ability to learn new things by stimulating nerves in the neck or behind the ear.

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New Pentagon program will pay tech inventors to think like terrorists

DARPA’s new “Improv” program wants hackers to weaponize common gadgets in order to anticipate the next big threats.

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President Barack Obama unveiled the BRAIN Initiative, a new effort to map the human brain.

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A team of American and British researchers announced Thursday that it developed the first working "invisibility cloak" for objects that enables them to deflect microwaves.

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