Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley are building a flying robot about the size of a fly for military reconaissance.

Krisotfer Pister is leading a team of researchers at the University of California at Berkeley that is developing tiny, electronic devices called "smart dust," designed to capture mountains of information about their surroundings while literally floating on air. If the project is successful, clouds of smart dust could one day be used in an astonishing array of applications, from following enemy troop movements and hunting Scud missiles to detecting toxic chemicals in the environment and monitoring weather patterns around the globe.

Researchers are using computers to generate ``digital organisms\'` that
undergo evolutionary processes such as mutation and reproduction. As a
result, they have overturned a long-standing assumption of evolutionary
theory.

A Harvard biochemist and biological warfare expert charged yesterday that Russia's widespread network of germ warfare plants remain barred to Western inspectors despite long-standing agreements with the United States and Britain to end the secrecy.

After initially playing down the chance that a falling jetliner could disable or destroy a nuclear power plant, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is now planning to study whether a plant could survive such a disaster.

Small robotic aircraft may help the U.S. military to identify targets and
assess damage in the Afghan war. Ten years after they were extensively deployed in the Gulf War, robotic aircraft with video camera "eyes" have found a secure niche in U.S. military engagements.

Intelligence analysts hunting Taliban bases and troop movements with globe-circling satellites have significantly improved their eyesight since the Gulf War a decade ago, experts say. Improved high-speed computer connections can instantly flash full-color scenes to battle commanders at sea and on the ground, making satellite images far more useful today than ever before.

Computer scientists revealed the inner workings today of a chemically assembled nanotransistor a key step in what some describe as a final frontier of super-powerful, inexpensive computers beyond the bounds of silicon.

A team of researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara has taken a key step towards building a quantum computer by suggesting for the first time a practical way to bring the elusive phenomenon known as "electron spin" under precise control.

Hoping technology might end the global warming problem that technology has caused, a Texas space scientist wants to build solar power plants on the moon and send their electric energy down to Earth on beams of microwaves.