New research helps defuse some of the overhyped fears around genetically modified food by showing that most of the supposed risks from GM food are inherent in conventional crops and have been for centuries.
China's sending a man into space highlights the direction the PLA is headed and military analysts fear Taiwan is being left far behind.
President Bush has dispatched a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers to live and work secretly outside Washington, activating for the first time long-standing plans to ensure survival of federal rule after catastrophic attack on the nation's capital.
China is prepared to use nuclear weapons against the US if it is attacked by Washington during a confrontation over Taiwan, according to a senior Chinese military official.
As computer networks become cheaper and more powerful, a new distributed computing paradigm is poised to transform the practice of science and engineering.
Space-based missile defences could result in swarms of dangerous debris that make low-Earth orbits permanently unusable, a prominent US astronomer has warned.
British researchers say they are close to producing an off-the-shelf system that exploits quantum physics to create a secure communications channel.
A simple computerized test has been touted as being able to accurately identify trained terrorists before they can board planes or even enter the country and has proven infallible in FBI and U.S. Navy testing, according to Infoseek founder Steve Kirsch.
In a surprising feat of miniaturization, scientists are reporting today that they have produced nuclear fusion in a footlong cylinder just five inches in diameter. While the device is probably too inefficient to produce electricity or other forms of energy, the scientists say, egg-size fusion generators could someday find uses in spacecraft thrusters, medical treatments and scanners that search for bombs.
Europe's "Little Ice Age" may have been triggered by the 14th Century Black Death plague, according to a new study.