Martin Sweeting lectures on the implications of MEMs and microsatellites. He argues that microsatellites are the "Personal Computer" of space, providing affordable access to space at last.

There is another internet - already operational - where users are receiving connections up to 100 times faster than people at home. It is a network so swift and so powerful its advocates are claiming it has already changed the way we will interact with the internet in the future.

Britain would have been placed under the control of local military commanders with powers to take "whatever steps, however drastic" were necessary in the aftermath of a Soviet nuclear attack during the cold war according to newly-released official war plans.

Respected scientists on both sides of the Atlantic warned yesterday that the US is developing a new generation of weapons that undermine and possibly violate international treaties on biological and chemical warfare.

Human rights groups are analyzing the recent strike by an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on suspected terrorists in Yemen. They are concerned that not only does the attack represent an expansion of the war on terrorism beyond Afghanistan but that it signifies the "dawn of an age of robotic warfare."

Security analysts warn that with the disarmament agenda crumbling, more and more states including possibly Japan, Australia, and South Korea will seek to defend their own interests by developing nuclear weapons.

There is a growing backlash against the rapidly emerging field of nanotechnology that could see a rerun of clashes over genetically modified crops according to experts at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics.

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Fears of cyberterrorism during the war on Iraq proved unfounded, says Peter Rojas, but increased online security will benefit us all.

United Nations nuclear inspectors, barred from Iraq by Washington, are increasingly worried that the widespread looting and ransacking of Iraq's nuclear facilities may result in terrorists building a radioactive "dirty bomb".

The battlefield of the future will be revolutionised by computing, robotics and biotechnology to create "killer insects" that can hunt down their prey in bunkers and caves and eat humans alive, experts say.