
Perfect encryption may not be worth having (3)
17 February 2021

17 February 2021

16 February 2021
We need a revolution in artificial intelligence and learning from insects will help us achieve it, says James Marshall

10 February 2021
To get out of an upside-down position, dragonflies do a backwards roll to stabilise their flight – even when they’re unconscious, and if their wings are propped open, they do it when they’re dead

4 February 2021
By fitting bats with GPS collars we have discovered that the nocturnal fliers seek out slopes where late night winds are swept upwards, carrying them high into the air

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

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

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

2 December 2020
From The End of Everything by Katie Mack and How to Argue with a Racist by Adam Rutherford to Martha Wells’s Murderbot sc-ifi series, New ÒÁÈ˾þÒs 2020 gift guide has a book for everyone