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Russia bares its military teeth -- Staff  -- BBC  -- October 2, 2003
Russia

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Ivanov has said his country does not rule out a pre-emptive military strike anywhere in the world if the national interest demands it.

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India and China face off in space -- David Whitehouse  -- BBC  -- January 10, 2003
Lunar Development

India's desire to get to the Moon is another example of how Chinese space plans are shaking up the international space scene.

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Cyber women test what's real -- Jo Twist  -- BBC  -- October 22, 2003
Virtual Reality

Software cyberbabes, created by powerful computers, sophisticated modelling packages and active imaginations are getting extremely human-like. But they raise questions about what people might be able to do with the models if they get too realistic and we cannot tell the difference anymore.

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Rat-brained robot does distant art -- Lakshmi Sandhana  -- BBC  -- July 28, 2003
Neurotechnology

Working from their university labs in two different corners of the world, American and Australian researchers have created what they call a new class of creative beings: "the semi-living artist".

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