China is building a huge weather-control machine – will it work?
9 May 2018
Water shortages are a huge problem for Chinese agriculture, so the country has just begun the world's largest ever weather control experiment
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Found 311 results for drones
Flying beetle cyborgs guided with tiny battery-powered backpacks
3 May 2018
Beetles have been turned into autonomous flying robots. They could one day swarm through disaster zones on search and rescue missions
UK smart missile will decide where to look for its next target
27 April 2018
Giving the Brimstone weapon system greater autonomy could reduce the number of civilian casualties but critics worry about lack of human control
The US army has made a virtual North Korea to train its soldiers
20 April 2018
The US army has built a system that can quickly create virtual locations for soldiers to train in. It took only three days to make North and South Korea
Watch a swarm of underwater drones hunt and surround a boat
16 April 2018
Dozens of underwater SwarmDiver drones can autonomously explore an area or encircle an object. To launch them they are just thrown into the sea
Palm trees have been spotted changing sex for the first time
5 April 2018
Four Quindío wax palms in Colombia have changed sex from male to female, which was thought to be impossible for such plants
Biology's moonshot: The mission to decode the DNA of all life
4 April 2018
A new plan to sequence all Earth's animals and plants could lead to medical and material advances that dwarf even what the Human Genome Project has achieved
US wants first drones that can kill people truly independently
23 March 2018
Small drones that can automatically spot, identify and target vehicles and people are planned by the US military, although humans would still be overseeing them
Swarms of cheap drones are attacking missile defences in Yemen
8 March 2018
Home-made drones are attacking the world’s most sophisticated defence systems. It’s not clear if the attacks have worked yet, but it’s a trend likely to continue
The best way to take down a drone is with another drone
14 February 2018
Illegal or unwanted drones put air travellers at risk, so a competition called DroneClash is calling for new ways to tackle them
