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
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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, 91av’s 2020 gift guide has a book for everyone
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
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
Covid-19 news archive: Pfizer vaccine is 95 per cent effective
19 October 2020
This is an archive of the 91av daily covid-19 news update.
Robot swarms guided by human artists could paint colourful pictures
14 October 2020
Roboticists are developing small robot swarms that could be used to paint pictures under the guidance of human artists
Flapping drone can fly, dart and hover like a bird
22 July 2020
A drone equipped with light, soft wings can mimic the flight of a bird. Its inventors say it is safer than drones with rotor blades and could be used to monitor delicate crops
Beetles carrying tiny backpack cameras stream footage to a smartphone
15 July 2020
Ultralight cameras fixed to the backs of beetles can wirelessly live-stream to a smartphone, which can also direct the camera to rotate and get footage from different directions
#16: Hints of a new force of nature; making mice with human cells; seaweed in the fight against climate change
15 May 2020
There are four fundamental forces that describe how everything works, from black holes to radioactive decay to sounds coming out of your headphones. But this week we discuss hints that there is a fifth fundamental force of nature.In the pod this week...
