The author examines the ethical implications of a new Pentagon research grant to develop autonomous packs of robots that would hunt down humans ominously referred to as "noncooperative human subject[s]."

International regulation must be improved to avoid internet crime, currently estimated at $100 billion in losses annually, causing global catastrophe, some of the world's top crime experts have warned.

European Union ministers are meeting next week to implement a new European space policy which identifies military 'security' as a priority but a new report argues that this could lead to a costly 'Star Wars' arms drive.

As the price of fossil fuels soars, private companies from Hawaii to Japan are racing to build commercial Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) plants which generate energy by exploiting the difference in temperature between seawater near the surface and deep down.

The election of Barack Obama as U.S. president has given crucial impetus toward implementing the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty more than a decade after it was negotiated, according to test ban officials.

Scientists are talking for the first time about the old idea of resurrecting extinct species as if this staple of science fiction is a realistic possibility, saying that a living mammoth could perhaps be regenerated for as little as $10 million.

Authors Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen argue that we need to work out how to make robots into responsible and moral machines. It is just a matter of time until a computer or robot takes a decision that will cause a human disaster, they say.

Intelligence officials are warning that the deepening global financial crisis could weaken fragile governments in the world's most dangerous areas and undermine the ability of the United States and its allies to respond to a new wave of security threats. U.S. government officials and private analysts say the economic turmoil has heightened the short-term risk of a terrorist attack, as radical groups probe for weakening border protections and new gaps in defenses.

An Indian probe landed on the moon on Friday, the Indian Space Research Organisation announced, in a milestone for the country's 45-year-old space programme.

In its first major act of defiance since Senator Barack Obama’s election, North Korea said Wednesday that it would bar international nuclear inspectors from taking soil and nuclear waste samples, which are considered crucial to determining the extent of its weapons program.