Drone pilots deserve medals even without risking their lives
22 September 2017
Remote warfare raises questions about who gets military honours, but the stress and trauma drone crews face deserves recognition, says David Hambling
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The new nuclear race: Why North Korea isn’t the real story
20 September 2017
The sabre-rattling between Pyongyang and Washington is masking a dangerous destabilisation in deterrence – making nuclear war by accident a real possibility
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
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
Life aloft: The unexplored ecosystem above your head
7 June 2017
We have nature reserves on land and at sea, but the sky has never been considered a habitat, let alone one worth preserving, until now
Wake-up call: How turbulence could reveal secret nuclear subs
24 May 2017
If there's truth in cold war claims about tracking subs, it would rewrite our theories of turbulence and foil our nuclear deterrent
Where the wind blows: Mapping our wildest gusts
17 May 2017
A new wind atlas will help turbines avoid the doldrums – and solve some of wind's enduring mysteries
Tomorrow's menu: Termites, grass and synthetic milk
22 March 2017
The population is set to rise by 2.5 billion in three decades. We have plenty of ingenious ideas about how to keep us all fed, but will they be too tough to swallow?
Tree of life: How figs built the world and will help save it
14 December 2016
From clothing Adam and Eve to linking the Maasai with heaven, the fig tree appears in countless origin myths. Discover the source of its exceptional powers
Jellymageddon: Can we stop the rise of the jellyfish?
13 July 2016
Acoustic shocks, electrocution, and robot shredders – extreme measures are being considered to tackle the increasing numbers of jellyfish in the oceans
