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    <em></em>It's a bacteria-eat-bacteria world, scientists say. <em>Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus, <strong></strong></em>shown here in false color, attacks common germs six times its size, then devours them from the inside out.
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    'Predatory Bacteria' Might Be Enlisted In Defense Against Antibiotic Resistance

    Sep 06, 2018
    Microbe-eating-microbes are found in "almost every ecosystem on Earth," says a defense department scientist who hopes bacteria of this type might one day be deployed to fight human infections.
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    The Two-Way
    What are the must-haves for a successful humanoid robot?
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    Backflipping Robot Is A Giant Leap For Robot Kind

    Nov 17, 2017
    As it jumps, twists and lands a full backflip, Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot takes another step toward full functionality in a world designed for humans.
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    Small pulses of electricity to the brain have an effect on memory, new research shows.
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    Electrical Stimulation To Boost Memory: Maybe It's All In The Timing

    Apr 20, 2017
    Research in epilepsy has found a key to why small pulses of electricity to the brain sometimes help and sometimes hurt a failing memory. Brains hurt by physical trauma or dementia might benefit, too.
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    Inside DARPA, The Pentagon Agency Whose Technology Has 'Changed the World'

    Mar 28, 2017
    Journalist Sharon Weinberger discusses the Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, which develops innovative scientific technologies for the military. Her new book is The Imagineers of War.
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    All Tech Considered
    Otherlab is among the companies working with DARPA on prototypes for disposable drones.
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    Someday Disposable Drones May Deliver A Payload, Then Vanish

    Mar 02, 2017
    DARPA, the Pentagon's R&D agency, is working with partners to develop low-cost gliders that travel about 100 miles and disappear within hours. The vehicles could have humanitarian and military uses.
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    UNLV Is Playing A Pivotal Role In The Future Of Robotics

    Feb 29, 2016

    Robots populate the landscape of our sci-fi fantasies. 

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    All Tech Considered
    For this part of the course, robots can either walk over the cement bricks or plow through. Carnegie Mellon's CHIMP tries the latter.
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    At DARPA Challenge, Robots (Slowly) Move Toward Better Disaster Recovery

    Jun 07, 2015
    Developers of disaster recovery robots gathered in California this weekend to compete for a $2 million prize. Some robots shone. Many got stuck, moved at a snail's pace or fell down on the course.
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    The Two-Way
    Dennis Hong's Tactical Hazardous Operations Robot (THOR) looks scary. But it's here to help.
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    The Pentagon Wants These Robots To Save The Day

    Jun 05, 2015
    A competition in California is trying to ready robots for disaster response. But the bots have a ways to go.
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    UNLV School of Engineering opens new lab for bots and drones

    Apr 23, 2015

    As UNLV's robotics and drone lab preps for upcoming disaster-relief competition, its real mission is to "inspire wonder"

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