The secret site where Iran is suspected of developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching targets in Europe has been uncovered by new satellite photographs.
A large American spy satellite has lost power and is expected to crash back to Earth sometime late next month. A spokesman with the U.S. National Security Council refused to speculate on the possibility that the satellite may be shot down by a missile to prevent any debris causing damage.
Boeing has said that it will attach sophisticated antennas to its new satellites as part of a broader push - supported by the Pentagon - to counteract concerns that these space assets may be disrupted by terrorists and hostile governments.
Ice is melting so fast in the Arctic that the North Pole will be in the open sea in 30 years, according to a team of leading climatologists.
ISRAEL’S armed forces have been ordered by Ariel Sharon, the prime minister, to be ready by the end of March for possible strikes on secret uranium enrichment sites in Iran, military sources have revealed. Among Israeli concerns is that Iran's developing space program could give them an early-warning capacity that will prevent future pre-emptive strikes.
At a recent military engineering conference, blueprints and prototypes of several next-generation battlefield robots -- some equipped with weapons -- were unveiled. Some of these robots could be in use in Iraq as early as next year in an effort to reduce U.S. casualties.
Earth?s defences may need to be boosted against risk of potentially deadly microbes returning on space probes.
Researchers have developed a robot that looks and acts enough like a cockroach that it is capable of infiltrating a group of them and altering their behaviour. The researchers see other uses for their technology in controlling sheep and poultry.
Rees, Royal Society professor of astronomy at Cambridge University, will say that it is now possible to conceive of computers so powerful that they could build an entire virtual universe.
Regulations are needed to ensure that the products of industrial nanotechnology do not pose unexpected risks to human health, British scientists say.