Embryos from the last two northern white rhinos set to be implanted
14 January 2021
Fertilised eggs from northern white rhinos are set to be implanted in surrogates this year, with the hope of producing offspring
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Houseflies have specialised wings that make them harder to swat
13 January 2021
Some flies, including houseflies and blowflies, have specialised hindwings to help them take-off faster, making them trickier to catch
Keep drones away from nesting birds please
16 December 2020
Baboons that live together in tight-knit groups have similar ‘accents’
16 December 2020
Male Guinea baboons that live in gangs produce grunts that sound more like one another than those outside their group, similar to human accents
Chinstrap penguin population halved at key Antarctic breeding area
8 December 2020
The population of Chinstrap penguins on Elephant Island, a core breeding location off the coast of Antarctica, has declined by 57 per cent in the last 50 years
Military robots perform worse when humans won't stop interrupting them
4 December 2020
A US project has found that AI-controlled military robots perform worse when humans interrupt them – but letting the robots operate alone raises serious ethical questions
Watch Dogs: Legion review – The perfect antidote to lockdown
2 December 2020
In Watch Dogs: Legion you can play as or team up with any of the characters of the game, and strolling around its digital version of London is a real treat, says Jacob Aron
Christmas gift ideas: The 13 best science and technology books of 2020
2 December 2020
From The End of Everything by Katie Mack and How to Argue with a Racist by Adam Rutherford to Martha Wells’s Murderbot sc-ifi series, ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ’s 2020 gift guide has a book for everyone
Image of herons nesting high in the treetops wins drone photo award
11 November 2020
This shot of a great white heron and grey heron in their respective treetop nests in Russia was taken by Dmitrii Viliunov using a drone. It won first prize in the wildlife category for the 2020 Drone Photo Awards
Hawk-inspired robot with movable wings is an agile long-distance flyer
28 October 2020
A robot with wings that move like a hawk’s can fly more stably and nimbly than other flying robots – and it uses less power, extending flight time
