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Cold comfort: How chilling the lungs could beat heart attacks

9 August 2017

If you can't restart a stopped heart within 5 minutes, brain damage starts. But using the lungs as a heat exchanger to chill the blood may buy us more time

Smart glasses let you turn off the lights in the blink of an eye

28 July 2017

A pair of glasses that can harness the movement around your eye when you blink could be used to manipulate the world around you

Bigger bang theory: teach atoms new tricks to beef up explosives

26 July 2017

Mastering materials that have never been made before could deliver blasts big enough to shoot rockets to Mars

Toy drones can pose more danger to planes than commercial ones

26 July 2017

Toy drones in the UK will soon face similar regulations to commercial ones after a report finds that they pose a danger to aircraft in collisions

Fake duck test shows drones and AI beat humans at bird census

24 July 2017

A fun experiment with hundreds of plastic ducks on a beach shows that AI trained on drone photos could seriously improve seabird colony counts

Buzz of drones is more annoying than any other kind of vehicle

18 July 2017

NASA study suggests that the noise from delivery drones will be more irritating than any other delivery method, regardless of how quietly they fly

For the record

12 July 2017

Next-gen drones will fly and dive into the sea like pelicans

5 July 2017

Underwater "glider" drones can travel far on little power, but they're slow. The US navy wants to give them a speed boost by letting them take flight

ISIS is weaponising consumer drones and we can't stop them – yet

28 June 2017

The terrorist group is already strapping grenades to drones as it fights to retain the Iraqi city of Mosul, but what happens if airborne terror comes to the West?

Drone blowback: High-tech weapons come home to roost

28 June 2017

The growing threat of weaponised drones can be traced back to controversial military hardware deployed after 9/11 and pursued with vigour ever since