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Departing Darpa deputy director to head up UK’s new science funding body
Peter Highnam appointed as the first chief executive of ‘high-risk, high-reward’ Aria
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UK’s innovation strategy reiterates ambitious science funding targets
The country’s aim to spend a record £22 billion on research each year will go alongside immigration reforms and an agency for blue skies research
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Leader sought for UK’s blue skies science funding body
Risk takers wanted to lead UK’s agency modelled on the US’s Darpa
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UK will have new ‘high-risk, high-reward’ research funding agency in 2022
£800 million fund is based on the US Advanced Research Projects Agency model
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Queen’s speech reveals new research agency planned for UK
Government plans transformative research body based on US’s Arpa to deliver new technologies
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Darpa wants to genetically engineer soldiers’ skin bacteria to protect them from mosquitoes
Pentagon programme aims to change chemical cues released by human skin microbes to provide a long-term defence from mosquito-borne diseases
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US military wants AI to discover new molecules for it
Defence research agency launches project to optimise unknown molecule discovery to protect against threats
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Pentagon’s pursuit of insect-delivered genetic modification of crops prompts warnings
French and German scientists worry that Darpa programme may violate the biological weapons convention and inadvertently start a new arms race
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Review
The imagineers of war
A history of the Pentagon’s infamous Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
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Opinion
Safety first with gene editing
Why Darpa is creating a biosafety and biosecurity toolkit for genome editors
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Better windows with aerogels
Researchers have developed ways of making improved, cheaper transparent silica aerogel composites that could revolutionise windows