Planes are under attack from GPS jamming – can we find a fix?
15 July 2024
GPS jamming and spoofing has begun to affect transatlantic flights. Now the race is on to develop alternative ways of navigating
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Russia is building ground-based kamikaze robots out of old hoverboards
12 July 2024
Hoverboards, or self-balancing scooters, are already used by hobbyists as a basis for robots, but now a group in Russia is putting them to use on the battlefields of Ukraine
Millions of UK homes scanned for energy leaks to help reach net zero
8 July 2024
Cars carrying sensors and scanners have been touring UK cities collecting data to help property owners plan carbon-cutting retrofit projects
Farmland near Chernobyl nuclear reactor is finally safe to use again
19 June 2024
Radiation surveys suggest that it is now safe to grow food on farmland that has been unused since the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, but changing its status would face local opposition in Ukraine
How bats pick out their own calls when flying in enormous swarms
5 June 2024
Researchers trained a hawk outfitted with microphones to fly through a swarm of 600,000 bats, revealing how they can hear their own voice in a crowd
Glasses coated in lithium could let us see in the dark
5 June 2024
A film made of lithium niobate and gratings of silicon dioxide converts infrared light into visible light better than the other leading compound, potentially allowing nighttime vision
Cameras inspired by insect eyes could give robots a wider view
15 May 2024
Artificial compound eyes made without the need for expensive and precise lenses could provide cheap visual sensors for robots and driverless cars
The man transforming data from two dramatic storms into music
15 May 2024
Craig Kirkpatrick-Whitby's cancer diagnosis added urgency to his project, as part of musical collective Mining, to turn weather and sea data into music
Sperm whale clicks could be the closest thing to a human language yet
7 May 2024
An analysis of thousands of exchanges between sperm whales suggests they combine short click patterns into longer sequences that could convey a wide range of meanings
Ancient people carved mysterious symbols near dinosaur footprints
26 March 2024
A unique site in Brazil features rock carvings closely associated with dinosaur tracks, suggesting prehistoric people saw the footprints as meaningful
