11 December 2018
A law designed to open up civilian access to the skies in India overturns a ban on drones, but only by giving the government automated control over when they can take off
7 December 2018
Tracking declines in biodiversity in the tropics can be tricky – but drones and astrophysicists are helping conservationists to keep up, explains biologist Serge Wich
28 November 2018
The first genetic study of part-male, part-female honeybees shows these bees can have multiple fathers, but it's unclear how this happens
7 November 2018
Elon Musk has revealed little about his plans to provide internet from space, but a new simulation shows how it could work and who will be able to afford it
28 October 2018
Trawling through surveillance video for a suspect or missing person is slow work, but a new system can automatically match footage of people to their descriptions
24 October 2018
Donald Trump said this week that the US will pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, saying both Russia and China possess the missiles it bans
26 September 2018
We can now decode dreams and recreate images of faces people have seen, and everyone from Facebook to Elon Musk wants a piece of this mind reading reality
19 September 2018
A group of people learnt how to pilot drones with their thoughts, using a headset that converts brain waves into flying instructions
17 September 2018
The 2018 91av Asks the Public survey reveals that people are well-informed about science and technology, but politicians are ignoring their hopes and fears
12 September 2018
Sci-fi loves to depict military AIs as malign killer minds or robots. But the truth is more subtle and more terrifying – and it's happening right now
