19 February 2021
Now that NASA’s Perseverance rover has landed safely on Mars, it will start taking samples and release the Ingenuity helicopter to test flying drones on other planets
19 February 2021
The US Army is building a laser blaster over a million times more powerful than any used before. It is intended to take down fast-moving targets like missiles and drones
17 February 2021
16 February 2021
We need a revolution in artificial intelligence and learning from insects will help us achieve it, says James Marshall
10 February 2021
To get out of an upside-down position, dragonflies do a backwards roll to stabilise their flight – even when they’re unconscious, and if their wings are propped open, they do it when they’re dead
4 February 2021
By fitting bats with GPS collars we have discovered that the nocturnal fliers seek out slopes where late night winds are swept upwards, carrying them high into the air
1 February 2021
We thought bees relied on hardwired instinct to land, but a study involving flying robots suggests that bees may also need to learn about specific surface textures before they can touch down
20 January 2021
Nnedi Okorafor's Remote Control mixes West African folk tales with a sci-fi mystery in a futuristic version of Ghana, as a young girl finds a meteor and gains a deadly power
19 January 2021
Many penguin populations are under threat but you can help researchers keep an eye on them through a citizen science project called Penguin Watch
15 January 2021
Entangled photons have been beamed between drones and to a ground station, creating technology that could form part of an unhackable quantum internet
