A revolutionary new space craft design will take advantage of solar winds to reach an unprecedented 180,000 miles per hour.

A geologist warns that hundreds of potentially catastrophic comets remain to be discovered.

Visions of the future from some of the world's greatest thinkers paint a dismal picture for the inhabitants of Earth in the next millennium, with humans vying for supremacy with a new species of intelligent being.

British researchers are developing an autonomous search-and-destroy robot that would be fueled by its victims, in this case slugs.

Espionage has embraced biotechnology with the creation of a microdot which conceals secret messages in the immense complexity of human DNA.

Murat Ozer believes it would be possible to create an electronic version of a black hole in a lab for further research on the real ones.

China has successfully completed a test of its first experimental spacecraft, signalling the introduction of a new space power.

IBM is planning a revolutionary supercomputer that will be dedicated to processing genetic data and will be an estimated 500 times faster than existing supercomputers.

The UK government is to establish a panel of experts to advise on the risk of the Earth being hit by a meteor. Reactions to such a potential disaster could involve using nuclear weapons to deflect a meteor (sic!), or evacuating whole areas where it could strike.

A team of Japanese scientists have created a robotic replica of a rare species of fish. The title of the article is kind of misleading as the robotic fish is intended to replace the real species, not resurrect. The scientists plan on using their invention in \'virtual aquariums\' or for submarine research.