DARPA is building a laser weapon. OK, so that's not a surprise, but what is a surprise is that it could be in the air by the end of the year.

Boston Dynamics' DARPA-funded Cheetah robot broke the land speed record for legged robots six months ago. Now it broke the record for humans, too.

Because it's awesome, that's why! And there's probably military applications, but mostly it's awesome.

The picture above is not the robot cheetah because baby cheetahs are cuter than robot cheetahs.

Answer.

The FDA notoriously takes forever to approve new drugs and medical procedures, all in the name of so-called "safety" and "preventing flipper-babies.

Earlier in October, NASA Ames Research Center director Simon Warden mentioned a new project NASA was working with DARPA on: a "hundred year starship," designed for colonizing other planets.

The US government has big plans for the battlefield of the future and they look a sound an awful lot like an 80's toy commercial.

DARPA-funded engineers at Southern Methodist University (SMU) have been working on Panoptes for awhile, which is a gadget that uses low-resolution sensors instead of a lens to capture a high-resolution image.