Europe is considering plans to spend more than 5 billion pounds on a string of giant solar power stations along the Mediterranean desert shores of northern Africa and the Middle East.
Craig Venter, the controversial DNA researcher involved in the race to decipher the human genetic code, has built a synthetic chromosome out of laboratory chemicals and is poised to announce the creation of the first new artificial life form on Earth.
The author looks at the growing use of robots in battle and argues that it is "imperative that we create international legislation and a code of ethics for autonomous robots at war before it is too late."
A team of world-leading neuroscientists has developed a powerful technique that allows them to look deep inside a person's brain and read their intentions before they act.
A Danish researcher believes he may have solved the classic Fermi paradox. Extra-terrestrials have yet to find us because they haven't had enough time to look.
British scientists are undertaking a three-year, £300,000 government study to work out the feasibility of changing the direction of threatening asteroids.
The idea that an array of easily available and addiction-free drugs could be used to improve memory or increase intelligence is the stuff of science fiction dystopia. But a new report by leading scientists in the fields of psychology and neuroscience argues that, very soon, there really will be a pill for every ill.
An interview with the developers of the online game, Second Life, on the booming trade in virtual property.
America has begun preparing its next military objective - space. Documents reveal that the US Air Force has for the first time adopted a doctrine to establish 'space superiority'.
European researchers have begun work on a research programme to create a flotilla of orbiting mirrors that could return clear pictures of exo-planets, worlds that circle other stars.