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Expensive drones take flying lessons from cheaper stunt doubles

12 August 2016

Training an AI to fly a drone by trial and error involves a lot of crashing – best to get cheaper drones to pass on their knowledge to more expensive ones

US Air Force wants to plasma bomb the sky using tiny satellites

9 August 2016

Three teams are competing in a US Air Force project to improve radio communication by directly seeding the ionosphere with plasma

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Mall tales: an artist's take on modern retail psychology

5 August 2016

Shopping malls are hot property in the Arab Gulf states, but Sophia Al-Maria doesn't exactly warm to them in her new video installation

How drones are learning to find their own way in the world

27 July 2016

From delivering pizzas to tracking whales, we have high hopes for drones. Here are three advances that will help them live up to the buzz

Controversial pesticides may be lowering the sperm count of bees

26 July 2016

Widely used neonicotinoid pesticides may harm the fertility and viability of male honeybees, contributing to the collapse of bee populations

Amazon to begin UK delivery drone trials to make them safer

26 July 2016

The firm wants to deliver parcels to private addresses over a short distance as part of its Prime Air initiative - now it will get the chance to test its technology

Forest flying takes drone swarms to places once off limits

21 July 2016

For drone swarms, forests are the ultimate challenge. Avoiding trees and shrubs while keeping formation shows they could tackle almost any obstacle course