Cheap drone attacks have outsized effect on global economic inflation
12 January 2024
Drone attacks on shipping in the Red Sea are having a global economic impact and showing how an organisation without a navy can challenge control of the seas
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Found 782 results for drones
Sharks can be deterred from beaches by catching and releasing them
3 January 2024
A non-lethal method of catching great white sharks and releasing them 500 metres further out to sea can make the predators steer clear of beaches where people swim
Best use for sunlight navigation device
27 December 2023
Alastair Reynolds: An exclusive short story for ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ
13 December 2023
Lottie and the River is a moving vision of the future from astrophysicist turned award-winning science fiction author Alastair Reynolds
The spy balloon saga of 2023 inflated US-China political tensions
13 December 2023
One of the year’s most unexpected controversies exploded after a US fighter jet shot down a Chinese balloon that drifted across North America – it also sparked fears over other unidentified flying objects
Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024
12 December 2023
A neuromorphic supercomputer called DeepSouth will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain
Robotic mouse with flexible spine moves with greater speed and agility
6 December 2023
Most robots lack a flexible spine, so researchers created a 3D-printed mouse with the ability to bend its back and found that it could move faster
‘Insect-eye’ compass can navigate by the sun even on a cloudy day
27 November 2023
By mimicking how some insects use polarised light to navigate, a light-detecting compass can tell where magnetic north is even if clouds are covering the sun
Drone delivers defibrillators for cardiac arrest faster than ambulance
22 November 2023
People who have gone into cardiac arrest can get treatment faster if a drone delivers a defibrillator, but there needs to be someone nearby trained in CPR, shows a trial in Sweden
How the US and China talking AI safety could reduce nuclear war risk
16 November 2023
At a meeting between US president Biden and China president Xi, there was agreement on the need for more US-China government talks on AI safety
