Russia's early warning defense against missile attack, a key aspect of the hair-trigger doctrine of nuclear deterrence, is deteriorating because Moscow cannot replenish the array of satellites it

The World Bank, which recently issued an incomplete report of Korea's Y2K readiness, updated the information, according to the Ministry of Information and Communication. The ministry said yesterday

Vaughan Pratt has created the world's smallest web server, a matchbox-sized device that is small enough to fit into a shirt pocket. Using off-the-shelf components, the Stanford professor of computer

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed transparent glass coated with a dirt-resistant, highly water-repellent film. Tiny film-surface dimples encourage the formation of water droplets,

Japanese paper producers are using genetic engineering to develop trees with higher pulp content, hoping to catch up with the technical standards of their U.S. and European competitors, company

Nike Inc. has scored a victory in its legal battle against accusations that its Asian factories have unaccepatable working conditions. Judge David Garcia of California Superior Court dismissed a suit

Defence Research and Development Organisation scientists are now working on integrating the re-entry technology developed in the intermediate range ballistic missile, Agni, and the polar satellite

India's state-of-the -art Insat-2E satellite is ready to be shipped to Kourou in French Guyana for launch by the European Ariana rocket in the next two months, an Indian Space Research

Russian officials have scrapped the Mir space station's much-hyped space mirror experiment after the shiny metal object got stuck and failed to properly unfurl. It was a bitter disappointment for

An ambitious Russian attempt to reflect the sun's light toward dark areas of the Earth's failed when a giant mirror malfunctioned. In the test, astronauts aboard the Russian space station Mir were to