The Pentagon is spending billions of dollars on new forms of space warfare to counter the growing risk of missile attack from rogue states and the "satellite killer" capabilities of China.
A major American attack on Iran's nuclear sites would kill up to 10,000 people and lead to war in the Middle East, a report says today. Hundreds of scientists and technicians would be targets in the opening salvos as the attacks focused on eliminating further nuclear development, the Oxford Research Group says in Iran: Consequences of a War.
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Global warming has finally been explained: the Earth is getting hotter because the Sun is burning more brightly than at any time during the past 1,000 years, according to new research.
The United States is planning to take control of parts of space and develop patrolling military aircraft in orbit as part of a revived Star Wars proposal for an American military empire above the ozone layer.
Geoffrey Sommer of the Rand Corporation suggests that if a real life Armageddon-style asteroid were discovered on a deadly collision course with the Earth politicians would be better off doing nothing and telling no one because advance warning of the end of the world would bring chaos to the streets, rioting in the shopping malls and send the economy spiralling out of control.
NASA has proved the existence of "dark energy", a cosmic force that counteracts gravity and will keep the universe expanding forever. The discovery effectively demolishes the theory that life will be wiped out in a "Big Crunch" when the universe collapses, and should end decades of academic dispute over the forces at work on the universe.
An electric "force field" for armoured vehicles that vaporises anti-tank grenades and shells on impact has been developed by scientists at the British Ministry of Defence.
Scientists have detected a giant asteroid heading towards Earth. It could wipe out humanity, but it could miss us altogether.
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. British Prime Minister Blair warns that in addition to his well-catalogued chemical weapons capability and his suspected biological weapons stockpiles, the Iraqi dictator has clear ambitions to add nuclear devices to his arsenal.
Prepare to be afraid, very afraid. The Government has set up a special unit to find out when the next horseman of the apocalypse will gallop through the neighbourhood. Killer asteroids, doomsday plagues and a morbid fear of something nasty lurking in the lab were once the sole preserve of the feverish minds of science fiction writers. In the past few days, however, the Government has announced that it will turn to sci-fi in a big way to anticipate catastrophes.