Spy balloons flying 40km up track drug smugglers on the ground
24 January 2018
The US military are testing uncrewed balloons filled with helium that can keep watch over a small area by catching different winds in the stratosphere
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Ruptured Tibetan glaciers triggered massive speedy avalanches
24 January 2018
In 2016, a pair of glaciers suddenly collapsed and sent huge chunks of ice hurtling downhill. The events suggest such disasters are more common than we thought
Veganism should be an informed and evidence-based choice
24 January 2018
It is possible to get all the nourishment we need from a vegan diet, but without knowledge and discipline it is also possible to sleepwalk into nutritional deficiency
YouTube's bots aren't protecting kids from all its nasty videos
24 January 2018
YouTube has become the top source of videos for kids of all ages, but without transparency on its algorithms, it is hard for parents to trust
What does China’s monkey breakthrough mean for human cloning?
24 January 2018
The creation of monkey clones is a big breakthrough, but making a copy of an adult is still not possible and the ethics of cloning remain unchanged
Scientists have cloned monkeys and it could help treat cancer
24 January 2018
Meet the first of a possible army of cloned monkeys that could treat many diseases, but is this a step to human cloning, and will anyone but China accept them?
The origin of insect wings has been revealed by gene editing
24 January 2018
Wings have helped insects to dominate the skies for 400 million years, and now CRISPR is revealing exactly how the first wings evolved
AI that cracked ancient secret code could help robot translation
22 January 2018
Breaking ciphers is like learning to translate a language, so a technique that unscrambled one of the earliest known examples could assist machine translation
Black holes are firing a triple-threat of speedy particles at us
22 January 2018
Black holes have the weirdest kids. Three types of the highest energy particles in the cosmos could all be born in the chaos near a supermassive black hole
Medieval gamblers turned their back on fate and made dice fair
19 January 2018
Dice from archaeological digs in the Netherlands and the UK became fairer 600 years ago – 250 years before we began to really understand probability
