Backers of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a global pact banning nuclear tests, said on Tuesday they would seize on U.S. President Barack Obama's disarmament initiatives to further their agenda at the United Nations this month. [More]
India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter mission, which launched last October, ended 14 months prematurely Saturday after an abrupt malfunction, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said in a statement. [More]
India must not join the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, as it might need to conduct further nuclear-weapon blasts since the first test was low-yield, according to a high-level scientist. [More]
Britain is one of the most monitored countries in the world, with an estimated four million cameras nationwide but an internal report released by the Metropolitan Police disclosed their ineffectiveness in fighting crime, noting that for every 1,000 cameras in London, less than one crime is solved per year. [More]
An emerging field known as sentiment analysis, fueled by social networking, is taking shape around one of the computer world's unexplored frontiers: translating human emotions into hard data, which could eventually transform the experience of searching for information online. [More]
As part of an expanding programme of battlefield automation, the US Air Force has said it is now training more drone operators than fighter and bomber pilots and signalled the end of the era of the fighter pilot is in sight. [More]
US ambitions for manned space exploration have hit a major hurdle in the wake of severe budget constraints, according to preliminary findings of a panel appointed by President Barack Obama. [More]
Lack of Gravity Waves Puts Limits on Exotic Cosmology Theories — Clara Moskowitz —Space.com — Aug 18, 2009
Researchers announced that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory Scientific Collaboration (LIGO), a huge physics experiment built to detect gravitational waves, has yet to find any. Rather than be disappointed by the null findings, physicists say the results were expected, and in fact help them narrow down possibilities for what the universe was like just after it was born. [More]
Researchers have devised a system to combat highly virulent, malicious worms by embedding defence mechanisms in key parts of the internet - akin to endowing it with an immune system. [More]
Researchers have found that robots equipped with artificial neural networks and programmed to find "food" eventually learned to conceal their visual signals from other robots to keep the food for themselves. [More]