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
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
No, the worst-case climate change futures haven’t been ruled out
19 January 2018
A single study has been hailed for narrowing the range of possible climate change scenarios, but figuring out how the world will warm is more complicated than headlines suggest
Deadly solar flares may have helped seed life on Mars and beyond
19 January 2018
High-energy particles that can strip away planetary atmospheres and cause biological damage might also forge the complex organic molecules that give rise to life
Good news: animals won't shrink as the climate gets warmer
19 January 2018
A 19th-century ‘rule’ connecting animal body size and environmental temperature has been challenged, allaying fears that animals may decrease in size as the climate gets warmer
Cute cats the size of kittens are seeing their homes destroyed
18 January 2018
Güiñas are the smallest cats in the Americas, smaller than most domestic cats, and they are becoming increasingly rare
