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30 DJI Matrice 300 RTK drones purchased for the armed forces of Ukraine

What does Ukraine’s million-drone army mean for the future of war?

19 January 2024

In 2024, Ukraine will have more drones than soldiers in its armed forces, and the aerial vehicles and the artificial intelligences that can control them are changing the way war is waged


Could DARPA's enigmatic X-65 plane revolutionise aircraft design?

18 January 2024

The US military will test an aircraft that flies without mechanical control surfaces like flaps and rudders, potentially boosting stealth characteristics


Cheap drone attacks have outsized effect on global economic inflation

12 January 2024

Drone attacks on shipping in the Red Sea are having a global economic impact and showing how an organisation without a navy can challenge control of the seas


A great white shark cruising through Australian waters

Sharks can be deterred from beaches by catching and releasing them

3 January 2024

A non-lethal method of catching great white sharks and releasing them 500 metres further out to sea can make the predators steer clear of beaches where people swim


2NK6HH7 CHINESE SPY BALLOON seen from a US Air Force U-2 above America. Photo: USAF

The spy balloon saga of 2023 inflated US-China political tensions

13 December 2023

One of the year’s most unexpected controversies exploded after a US fighter jet shot down a Chinese balloon that drifted across North America – it also sparked fears over other unidentified flying objects


Supercomputer that simulates entire human brain will switch on in 2024

12 December 2023

A neuromorphic supercomputer called DeepSouth will be capable of 228 trillion synaptic operations per second, which is on par with the estimated number of operations in the human brain


Robotic mouse with flexible spine moves with greater speed and agility

6 December 2023

Most robots lack a flexible spine, so researchers created a 3D-printed mouse with the ability to bend its back and found that it could move faster


Ant head with compound eyes

‘Insect-eye’ compass can navigate by the sun even on a cloudy day

27 November 2023

By mimicking how some insects use polarised light to navigate, a light-detecting compass can tell where magnetic north is even if clouds are covering the sun


Everdrone Exiting skybase

Drone delivers defibrillators for cardiac arrest faster than ambulance

22 November 2023

People who have gone into cardiac arrest can get treatment faster if a drone delivers a defibrillator, but there needs to be someone nearby trained in CPR, shows a trial in Sweden


Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden

How the US and China talking AI safety could reduce nuclear war risk

16 November 2023

At a meeting between US president Biden and China president Xi, there was agreement on the need for more US-China government talks on AI safety


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