Of course, nothing came of these investigations (other than the foundations of modern chemistry), but it turns out all Boyle, ...

The US Department of Defense's research arm, DARPA, has put out a Request for Information (RFI) for "large bio-mechanical ...

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — which has been known to fund the development of sci-fi-sounding ideas ...

What DARPA wants to specifically look into are new methods and "technical insights" to create these "large, self-assembled, mechanically stable biological growths in space." There are plenty of ...