1 February 2021
We thought bees relied on hardwired instinct to land, but a study involving flying robots suggests that bees may also need to learn about specific surface textures before they can touch down
20 January 2021
Nnedi Okorafor's Remote Control mixes West African folk tales with a sci-fi mystery in a futuristic version of Ghana, as a young girl finds a meteor and gains a deadly power
19 January 2021
Many penguin populations are under threat but you can help researchers keep an eye on them through a citizen science project called Penguin Watch
15 January 2021
Entangled photons have been beamed between drones and to a ground station, creating technology that could form part of an unhackable quantum internet
14 January 2021
Fertilised eggs from northern white rhinos are set to be implanted in surrogates this year, with the hope of producing offspring
13 January 2021
Some flies, including houseflies and blowflies, have specialised hindwings to help them take-off faster, making them trickier to catch
16 December 2020
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
8 December 2020
The population of Chinstrap penguins on Elephant Island, a core breeding location off the coast of Antarctica, has declined by 57 per cent in the last 50 years
4 December 2020
A US project has found that AI-controlled military robots perform worse when humans interrupt them – but letting the robots operate alone raises serious ethical questions
