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The drone’s tail, propeller and wings unfold after launch

The US plans to launch swarms of attack drones from robo-submarines

12 February 2019

The US Navy has a project that plans to use an autonomous submarine to launch a swarm of attack drones from underwater


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Most workers have little flexibility in their day

6 February 2019


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Drones are causing airport chaos - why can't we stop them?

9 January 2019

For the second time in less than a month a drone has shut down an airport – here's why they wreak so much havoc and what would happen if one hit a plane


A drone in front of a plane

Rogue drones have brought Gatwick airport to a standstill

20 December 2018

Tens of thousands of passengers are unable to travel as drones were spotted flying near Gatwick Airport, UK. Police have yet to find the perpetrators


Jura mountains

Dan Holdsworth captures a vanishing landscape in a point-cloud

12 December 2018

Armed with drones, helicopters and military-grade software, a British photographer has developed a new way to remember glaciers


Drone owners in India must get government approval before every flight

Drone owners in India must get government approval before every flight

11 December 2018

A law designed to open up civilian access to the skies in India overturns a ban on drones, but only by giving the government automated control over when they can take off


Serge Wich: How drones are conserving wildlife

Serge Wich: How drones are conserving wildlife

7 December 2018

Tracking declines in biodiversity in the tropics can be tricky – but drones and astrophysicists are helping conservationists to keep up, explains biologist Serge Wich


Bee hatching

Some honeybees have four parents or no mother – and we don’t know why

28 November 2018

The first genetic study of part-male, part-female honeybees shows these bees can have multiple fathers, but it's unclear how this happens


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The first detailed look at how Elon Musk's space internet could work

7 November 2018

Elon Musk has revealed little about his plans to provide internet from space, but a new simulation shows how it could work and who will be able to afford it


A person with a keyboard looks at a screen with CCTV footage

Search engine for CCTV lets you find people from their description

28 October 2018

Trawling through surveillance video for a suspect or missing person is slow work, but a new system can automatically match footage of people to their descriptions


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