The Afghan war has been the coming out party for the Internet as the new medium of modern warfare communications and planning. Just as it did in society at large, US military officials said that Web-based technology had sparked a profound revolution in the way armies wage war, bringing enormous advantages and an explosion in the information available to soldiers. But the new technology - originally devised for military purposes but now spearheaded by private enterprise - has also thrown up significant problems, not least information overload.
IBM researchers said on Wednesday they have demonstrated a calculation that could be used to break complicated codes, marking a small step in the advance of quantum computing, a technology based on quantum mechanics.
Researchers at an ICANN annual meeting warned that an attack designed to flood the Web's master directory servers with traffic "is capable of bringing down the Internet."
Hungarian scientists claimed on Friday to have found evidence of living organisms on Mars after analyzing 60,000 photographs taken by the Mars Global Surveyor probe.
French and Canadian bees are getting busy on a remote island in Canada to produce what scientists hope will be a new superbee, resistant to deadly varroa mites that have crippled the global honey market.
A top aide to President Bill Clinton said Monday unspecified hostile countries are studying U.S. computer networks for ways to spark mayhem if war breaks out. 'This is not theoretical. It's real,' said Richard Clarke, White House National Security Council staff co-ordinator for security, infrastructure protection and counter-terrorism.
The Air Force is preparing for the return of the Leonids Meteor Storm, the largest display since the space age began. The Leonids small meteors threaten sensitive military and civillian satellites.