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Perfect encryption may not be worth having (3)

17 February 2021


Insect brains will teach us how to make truly intelligent robots

Insect brains will teach us how to make truly intelligent robots

16 February 2021

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


Dragonflies do a backwards roll to fly upright – even when unconscious

Dragonflies do a backwards roll to fly upright – even when unconscious

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


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Bats soar to heights of 1600 metres by riding late night winds

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


Remote Control review: Fusing Ghanaian stories with a sci-fi thriller

Remote Control review: Fusing Ghanaian stories with a sci-fi thriller

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


Drones have been used to send quantum internet signals

Quantum internet signals beamed between drones a kilometre apart

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


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Houseflies have specialised wings that make them harder to swat

13 January 2021

Some flies, including houseflies and blowflies, have specialised hindwings to help them take-off faster, making them trickier to catch


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Keep drones away from nesting birds please

16 December 2020


Baboons that live together in tight-knit groups have similar ‘accents’

Baboons that live together in tight-knit groups have similar ‘accents’

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


Christmas gift ideas: The 13 best science and technology books of 2020

Christmas gift ideas: The 13 best science and technology books of 2020

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


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