23 October 2019
Terrorists, trolls and hugely successful firms are threatening the internet’s “anything goes” ethos as countries clash over how to deal with them. Should we be worried?
21 October 2019
How many people really attend gatherings or protests, such as the recent Brexit march? Artificial intelligence may be able to figure it out
15 October 2019
Humpback whales use their flippers to create a barrier that traps gathered prey, which they can then usher towards their mouths by swatting the water
20 September 2019
Turkey is to become the first nation to use drones able to find, track and kill people without human intervention, when it deploys them in Syria in a few months
20 September 2019
A drone equipped with a nail gun can autonomously hover over a roof and fix tiles in place. Tests showed it was highly precise and held steady while firing
17 September 2019
A majority of people in the UK support imposing limits on air travel to curb carbon emissions, a sign that social attitudes on climate change may be shifting
4 September 2019
The boom in online retail has left our streets clogged with polluting delivery vans. We navigate the high-tech solutions that will distribute your parcels without the damaging emissions
30 August 2019
A robot pilot is learning to fly. It has passed its pilot’s test and flown its first plane, but it has also had its first mishap too
14 August 2019
While killer bees terrorised the US, in Puerto Rico, an extraordinary accident of evolution has transformed them into a beacon of hope against the threat of insectogeddon
17 July 2019
Elon Musk’s company Neuralink has finally broken its silence, unveiling a brain-computer interface it says people could use to control devices with their minds
