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6 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Research shows that Soldiers exposed to shockwaves from military explosives are at a higher risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease -- even those that don’t have traumatic brain injuries from those blasts. A new Army-funded study identifies how those blasts affect the brain. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke in collaboration with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, now known as DEVCOM, the Army Re...

 E-Mail RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- The U.S. Army awarded grants to seven academic teams across scientific disciplines to advance basic science research and enable the development of technologies critical to national defense. The teams will research topics in human agent-teaming, artificial intelligence, novel materials and quantum physics, among others. The awards are a part of the Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative, known as MURI. Army Research Office,...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Army researcher Michael Golt receives the Maj. Gen. Harold J. Greene Award for Innovation. view more  Credit: U.S. Army ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- A U.S. Army researcher won the Armys top award for innovation, using a futuristic approach to more quickly identify the best protective materials for Soldiers. Using robotics and machine learning, Michael Golt, a scientist at the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, now known as DEVCOM, Army Research Labora...

6 RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Kombucha tea, a trendy fermented beverage, inspired researchers to develop a new way to generate tough, functional materials using a mixture of bacteria and yeast similar to the kombucha mother used to ferment tea. With Army funding, using this mixture, also called a SCOBY, or symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast, engineers at MIT and Imperial College London produced cellulose embedded with enzymes that can perform a variety of functions, suc...

 E-Mail IMAGE: With Army funding, researchers developed a new way to generate tough, functional materials using a mixture of bacteria and yeast similar to the kombucha mother used to ferment tea. view more  Credit: Tzu-Chieh (Zijay) Tang, MIT RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Kombucha tea, a trendy fermented beverage, inspired researchers to develop a new way to generate tough, functional materials using a mixture of bacteria and yeast similar to the kombucha mother used to ferment tea....

 E-Mail IMAGE: A new modeling approach allows engineers to simulate an entire vortex collision without needing to do extensive data processing on a supercomputer. view more  Credit: Purdue University/Carlo Scalo RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. -- Design of Army aerial vehicles and weapon systems relies on the ability to predict aerodynamic behavior, often aided by advanced computer simulations of the flow of air over the body. High-fidelity simulations assist engineers in maximizing how ...

An investigation into the culture at VMI seemed flawed from the get-go, but the school is already making changes to address charges of racism.

6 ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Robotic systems packed with muscle tissue can produce never-seen-before agility and versatility, Army researchers said. Researchers with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, now known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory are teaming with collaborators at Duke University and the University of North Carolina on high-risk studies in biohybrid robotics. “Though impressive in their own right, today’s robots are deployed to serve ...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Researchers at the Armys Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology develop an acoustic fabric being tested on the International Space Station could be used to develop... view more  Credit: Space BD / JAXA - image composite by Juliana Cherston, MIT RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. --- An Army-funded smart fiber being tested on the International Space Station could be used to develop space dust telescopes and allow astronauts to feel th...

 E-Mail ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Robotic systems packed with muscle tissue can produce never-seen-before agility and versatility, Army researchers said. Researchers with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, now known as DEVCOM, Army Research Laboratory are teaming with collaborators at Duke University and the University of North Carolina on high-risk studies in biohybrid robotics. "Though impressive in their own right, todays robots are deployed to serve a limited purp...