Air-chaeological drones search for ancient treasures
24 September 2014
A pair of drones is flying over ancient Greek cities, building precise 3D maps and searching for clues to still-buried artefacts
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19 September 2014
All the latest on newscientist.com: 6 solar strangenesses, US drone zones open, Ig Nobels, Apple Watch, ants vs spiders, epileptic poetry and more
US opens 'drone zones' for a year of pioneer testing
17 September 2014
From farming to firefighting, drones will soon fly into everyday life in the US – the Federal Aviation Administration has six flight zones paving the way
Ethical trap: robot paralysed by choice of who to save
10 September 2014
Can a robot learn right from wrong? Attempts to imbue robots, self-driving cars and military machines with a sense of ethics reveal just how hard this is
Myths and reality of the Nazi space rocket
3 September 2014
Seventy years ago this month, one of the second world war's scariest weapons began to rain terror on London. But the V-2 was also the world's first spacecraft
What it's like to fly passenger planes from the ground
7 August 2014
Bob Fraser explains what it feels like to pilot a Jetstream airliner containing passengers on 800-kilometre trips from a desk
Baidu will battle Google for hearts and minds
23 July 2014
The digital lives of people outside the West are up for grabs and a Chinese dragon will fight Silicon Valley giants to get to them first
What was the Malaysian jet doing over a war zone?
17 July 2014
Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was shot down over war-torn eastern Ukraine. But why was it flying in such a dangerous area?
ButtonMasher: Photorealism takes gaming deeper
8 July 2014
A new wave of games uses thousands of photos to recreate every detail of the real world and heighten our sense of immersion
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26 June 2014
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