Welcome to Cyberwar Country, USA Wired, Feb. 11, 2008 The US Air Force has launched the Cyber Command, dedicated to the proposition that the next war will be fought in the electromagnetic spectrum, and that computers are military weapons.
Synthetic biology -- the emerging science of creating genomes, cellular components and even whole cellular organisms from scratch -- confronts regulators with some tricky problems.
The Defense Department is exploring the feasibility of creating a space-based solar power network that uses satellites for capturing the sun's energy and streams it down to Earth for use as electricity.
Global climate models are missing a good chunk of plant information that could significantly alter long-term climate change predictions. A new technique for modeling phytoplankton -- microscopic plants in the upper layers of the Earth's waters -- could reveal a much more accurate picture.
The U.S. military is working on computers than can scan your mind and adapt to what you're thinking.
Israel is developing a robot the size of a hornet to attack terrorists. And although the prototype will not fly for three years, killer Micro Air Vehicles, or MAVs, are much closer than that.
As NASA's space shuttle fleet sputters toward a planned 2010 retirement, the next generation of U.S. space planes is gestating in the heart of the U.S. military.
A new brain-computer-interface technology could turn our brains into automatic image-identifying machines that operate faster than human consciousness. Researchers at Columbia University are combining the processing power of the human brain with computer vision to develop a novel device that will allow people to search through images ten times faster than they can on their own.
As the tools of biotechnology become accessible (and affordable) to a wider public for the first time, hobbyists are recapturing the collaborative ethos of the microcomputer era and applying it to tinkering with the building blocks of life.
Aerospace industry groups are lobbying the U.S. congress to fast-track funds for developing space weapons.