A new startup, Space X, is trying to dramatically reduce the launch costs for putting a satellite into orbit, almost $200 million less than the current method.
Artificial noses that sniff explosives, cameras that I.D. you by your ears, chips that analyze the halo of heat you emit. Together these developments herald a high-tech surveillance society that not even George Orwell could have imagined -- one in which virtually every advance brings benefits as well as intrusions.
The European Union has signed contracts with a group of Chinese companies to develop a range of commercial applications for Europe's planned Galileo satellite navigation system.
Feature article on the growing power and promise of collaborative software projects for business and science.
A business oriented overview of the boom in surveillance technologies to counter terrorism.
America's critical transportation, power, and communications systems remain quite vulnerable and lack funds to remedy that.
Sensor networks promise a mammoth extension of the Internet. Within five years, these sensor computers could be shrunk to the size of a grain of sand and deployed over much of the globe, resulting in thousands of new networks.
A detailed feature article on the U.S. military's modernization effort to prepare for 'network-centric warfare'.
DARPA researchers are working on aircraft materials that when exposed to heat or an electromagnetic charge, would morph -- or twist -- wings into the most aerodynamic shape for take-off, cruising, or landing, just as a bird manipulates its wings to lift itself into flight and soar.
The U.S. military is racing to ready wireless broadband communications for combat soldiers, a move that could dramatically alter the way wars are fought and won, just as the Internet has altered the way the wired world shares and uses data.