10 June 2021
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has developed a drone interceptor that fires what appears to be a form of Silly String into their rotors, bringing them down with minimal risk of accidental damage
3 June 2021
Surveillance of right whales in the North Atlantic show that individuals born today will grow to be a metre shorter, on average, than whales born in the early 1980s
2 June 2021
A secure quantum internet is one step closer thanks to a quantum memory made from a crystal that can store entangled photons
27 May 2021
Military drones may have autonomously attacked humans for the first time ever during a conflict in Libya last year, according to a United Nations report
12 May 2021
Whale sharks are the world’s largest fish but they can suspend themselves upright while feeding at the water’s surface by sucking in enough air to float
7 May 2021
A new US Navy autonomous drone will locate birds’ nests near airfields, armed with a device that covers the eggs in oil to suffocate the embryos and prevent them hatching
7 May 2021
A proposal to power a future Mars base includes an enormous kite flown by robots, along with solar power and a battery that stores energy by compressing gas underground
14 April 2021
Military drones can resist radio-jamming anti-drone devices, but a microwave weapon could take down a whole swarm at once, or disable just one with sniper-like precision
10 April 2021
Female putty-nosed monkeys of West Africa will use calls to enlist the help of males when they see a leopard approach
8 April 2021
The Ingenuity helicopter, which hitched a ride to Mars aboard NASA’s Perseverance rover, is getting ready to perform its first test flight on 12 April
