A new technology in Japan could let you control electronic devices without lifting a finger simply by reading brain activity.
Scientists have concluded that a Chinese missile test in January that smashed an aging weather satellite was the messiest space event ever, adding more than 1,500 big scraps of debris to a junkyard that's orbiting the Earth.
The head of the U.N. nuclear agency warned that as many as 30 countries could soon have technology that would let them produce atomic weapons "in a very short time," joining the nine states known or suspected to have such arms.
The United States is in jeopardy of isolating itself from allies and adversaries alike if it forges ahead with reported plans to militarize space and pursue a go-it-alone, deep-space exploration policy, according to a panel of experts.
A runaway black hole is streaking through the Milky Way galaxy, dragging an aging star along to snack on as it heads in Earth's general direction, astronomers reported today. There is absolutely no need to panic, though: The black hole will get no closer to our solar system than 1,000 light-years, and that will not happen for 200 million years or so.
Buckle up for the ride of your lifetime: space tourism is set to leap out of the pages of science fiction and take off in the coming years if a clutch of Japanese companies have their way. "Space flight, which had just been an idle dream for mankind, became a routine job for astronauts in the 20th century," says Kohki Isozaki, head of space tourism promotion at the Japanese Rocket Society. "And this will become your reality in the 21st century," he predicted.