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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...

Sign up to participate in the HACKtheMACHINE Unmanned competition, which will be held virtually on Nov 16-19.

For the fifth consecutive year, the U.S. Navy leads the government in an annual ranking of patent portfolios.

The Navy is seeking solutions to reduce weight and lower the center of gravity for surface ships to improve their performance at a reasonable cost. LASer-welded corrugated-CORe (LASCOR) metallic sandwich panels are stiff, lightweight steel structures that offer the Navy corrosion resistance, reduced weight and less distortion.

The Walter Munk Award for Distinguished Research in Oceanography Related to Sound and the Sea will be presented to Dr. Thomas Rossby on June 4, 2003, at The Oceanography Society - Oceanology International Americas Ocean Conference in New Orleans.

A Ceramic Polymer Innovation in Medicine

That bar code on your cereal box holds information read by a laser scanner. It's not much information, but it's enough to let the supermarket take your money, keep track of inventory, follow trends in customer preference, and restock its shelves. Scanners and bar codes speed up checkout, but they've...

Hearing Loss Pill Coming on Market For the last several years, the Office of Naval Research has funded the research of Colonel Richard D. Kopke, MD, and Commander Michael E. Hoffer, MD, at Naval Medical Center San Diego on the prevention and restoration of hearing loss — loss that is due to...

A razor nick during a much-too-close-shave ten years ago may result in hundreds of thousands of lives saved in the future. Scientist Frank Hursey was working with absorptive materials back in the late 80’s when he cut himself shaving. He picked up a volcanic mineral he’d been studying and decided to...

Sea tests concluding Sept. 19 demonstrated the Environmental and Ship Motion Forecasting System.