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The Office of Naval Research and the National Science Foundation have formed a new research partnership to increase the security and the efficiency of electrical power distribution networks. This innovative collaboration will treat electrical power distribution as a "socio-technical system"-one that...

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) is inviting small businesses to develop technologies that offer en-hanced capabilities to Naval forces fighting terrorists. The Navy and Marine Corps are looking for technologies that will help them anticipate, prepare for, recognize, survive, and retaliate against...

Arlington, VA -- Office of Naval Research Program Officers Dr. Lawrence Kabacoff and Dr. Asuri Vasudevan are co-winners of the second annual Dual Use Science & Technology Achievement Award. The two are being recognized for their work overseeing a successful program to develop "nanostructured"...

No question about it, Toto and Auntie Em could have used a few extra minutes to find Dorothy and get into the storm cellar. When severe weather sweeps through an area, every second of warning time is critical. More time equals more lives saved — the equation is that simple. A unique partnership has...

Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in America. Colonoscopies can help detect pre-cancerous conditions, but on a scale of one to ten of the things most feared by the public, the colonoscopy is right up there The reluctance of the general public to get screened is a...

What do the hawkmoth, the fruit fly, and the bird-wrasse fish all have in common? Over millions of years, each of these animals seems to have figured out how to achieve high-lift in their respective medium…. quickly, and with more stability and less heave, pitch, yaw, torque, drag and cavitation...

The Arctic ice cap is shrinking… that much is known with certainty. Over the past century, the extent of the winter pack ice in the Nordic Seas has decreased by about 25%. Last winter the Bering Sea was effectively ice-free, which is unprecedented, and if this big melt continues, some say the...

Last week the United States Navy successfully tested two new, advanced gun projectiles at its Wallops Island, Virginia, test range. On January 9, 2002, the Autonomous Naval Support Round (ANSR) was successfully fired out to a range of slightly more than 51 nautical miles (about 59 statute miles or...

Your rich uncle dies and leaves you a painted masterpiece he's had hidden away for years. But, it's scratched, torn, and much of the paint has flaked away. You could take it to a painting restorationist, but this can take months and in any case, restoration is very subjective. What to do? You call a...

In a wind tunnel in Hampton, Virginia , on the 30th of May this year, a new kind of cruise missile engine, called a scramjet, was fired up. Just like any other cruise missile engine, it used conventional liquid hydrocarbon fuel, but this one was a mite different. In simulated hypersonic conditions...