22 June 2021
Meteorites carry important information about the history of the solar system, but finding them is tricky and time-consuming – drones and AI could help speed up the process
21 June 2021
A secure quantum link has been created between two Chinese cities, allowing researchers to send entangled photons more than 500 kilometres using a relay hub in the middle that doesn't need to be trusted
15 June 2021
Killer whales tend to have close friendships with those of similar age and sex, scientists have discovered by filming them from drones
10 June 2021
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has developed a drone interceptor that fires what appears to be a form of Silly String into their rotors, bringing them down with minimal risk of accidental damage
3 June 2021
From a bat… or from a lab? It seemed the question of where SARS-CoV-2 originated had been settled, but recently it's been reignited. Amid lots of conflicting and confusing news stories, the team explores what we really know about the origins of covid-19....
3 June 2021
From a bat… or from a lab? It seemed the question of where SARS-CoV-2 originated had been settled, but recently it's been reignited. Amid lots of conflicting and confusing news stories, the team explores what we really know about the origins of...
3 June 2021
Surveillance of right whales in the North Atlantic show that individuals born today will grow to be a metre shorter, on average, than whales born in the early 1980s
2 June 2021
A secure quantum internet is one step closer thanks to a quantum memory made from a crystal that can store entangled photons
27 May 2021
Military drones may have autonomously attacked humans for the first time ever during a conflict in Libya last year, according to a United Nations report
25 May 2021
True photographic memory is yet to be proved but some people have a very rare condition which allows them to recall past events in detail
