The undefined scope of the FSB's involvement worries researchers, especially in the wake of several high-profile cases in which the FSB relied on an ambiguous reading of what constitutes a state secret to accuse Russian researchers and an American technology specialist of spying (Science, 10 March 2000, and ScienceNOW, 13 December 2000).
Below you'll find the likes of spy thrillers, science fiction, animation, music figure biopics, character dramas, and exposés.
The series is named after a small camera developed by National Geographic that can be attached to a variety of animals for short periods of time, making the animals spies for science.
Novelists and playwrights pick up hints from philosophy, spying or science of potential future developments at a time when they are too abstract for journalism and too frightening for politics.
With her credible combination (by prime-time standards) of physical domination and quiet cool, Ziva David is one of the most appealing of a growing group of female action heroes who are infiltrating cop shows, spy shows, science-fiction shows and other genres where men once did the lion's share of the enforcing.
The playwright didn't accept this verdict, following Arcadia with another revision of his spying-and-science script.
Once strictly in the realm of spy novels and science fiction flicks, biometrics are increasingly being used by real-world hotels, resorts and cruise ships.
An expert in mysteries (but not in spy stories or science fiction), in gothic novels, and other such "trash" (her term), she used her love of books to sharpen her professional tools.
YOU'VE seen them in spy films and science-fiction movies: eye-scanners, fingerprint readers, facial-recognition systems.
The story has clearly appeared as a political struggle, pitting morally opposed forces against each other: disinterested knowledge against interested knowledge - research against spying and the science of archaeology, with little immediately practical application, against the science of geology, so useful to national governments seeking expansion of wealth and power.
