Companies are racing to provide radioactive fuel for America's nuclear renaissance, and are powering debate along the way. Even as the government continues to oppose Iran's efforts to enrich uranium for power plants, projects to do just that are under way in the U.S.
Israel's military launched a spy satellite toward space early Monday, the Defense Ministry said, and a senior official suggested it could help keep track of developments in Iran.
The European Union's most ambitious technological project, a satellite navigation system designed to provide users with unprecedented accuracy, faces disaster as it remains mired in vicious disputes among the eight companies chosen to build and operate the system.
Last week two events in Washington - a conference on "planetary defense" held by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the release by NASA of a report titled "Near-Earth Object Survey and Deflection Analysis of Alternatives" - gave us good news and bad on this front. On the promising side, scientists have a good grasp of the risks of a cosmic fender-bender, and have several ideas that could potentially stave off disaster. Unfortunately, the government doesn't seem to have any plan to put this expertise into action.
North Korea has reportedly moved a ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States to a launching site, but officials in Seoul and Tokyo said they saw no reliable signs that the North intended to test the missile soon.
A committee of the Japanese governing party approved a proposal to allow the military use of the country's space program for the first time.
Miniaturization, the ubiquity of consumer electronics and the global Internet are speeding up the creation of a worldwide "network of things," where cars, phones, turnstiles - even books and clothing - know about us: who we are, where we are, what we are doing.
Defense analysts are concerned that China's participation in Europe's Galileo project, an alternative to the U.S. GPS system, will enable them to develop precision guided munitions and "smart weapons."
Good overview of the status of the International Monitoring System, a global network of sensors in 89 countries that watch for nuclear tests and other seismic anamolies.
The U.S. has agreed to sell Israel over 5,000 bombs, including 500 BLU-109 "bunker buster" bombs. The sale raises questions about whether or not Israel is preparing for a pre-emptive strike on Iranian nuclear facilities.