EU drones could drop life rafts to migrants in the Mediterranean Sea
29 October 2021
The European Maritime Safety Agency has contracted drone company Tekever to use uncrewed aircraft for search-and-rescue missions
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US Army will test its most powerful laser weapon ever next year
29 October 2021
Lasers are currently used to shoot down small drones, but a more powerful weapon could take on larger targets
Tardigrades could survive interstellar travel in extreme hibernation
29 October 2021
The microscopic organisms have previously survived exposure to the vacuum of space and are able to hibernate using just 0.01 per cent of their normal energy
Jupiter's Great Red Spot extends far deeper than we realised
28 October 2021
We only had a skin-deep look at Jupiter before the Juno spacecraft began orbiting the planet in 2016 and the measurements the NASA mission has taken reveal unexpected information about its deep interior
YouTube policy change limited spread of harmful videos across the web
28 October 2021
In 2019, YouTube altered its recommendation algorithm to stop promoting videos the company deemed harmful, which limited how much they were viewed even on other social media platforms
Two people suppressed HIV for years while pausing medication
28 October 2021
A growing number of cases show that some people with HIV can avoid becoming ill even while pausing their medication, as virus levels in their blood remain low
Birds in Patagonia have a surprising taste for truffles
28 October 2021
Truffles, the fruiting bodies of certain fungi, rely on mammals to eat them and spread their spores – and in Patagonia, it turns out birds help with dispersal too
DNA of Native American leader Sitting Bull matched to living relative
28 October 2021
Tatanka Iyotake, popularly known as Sitting Bull, is famed as a 19th century leader of the Hunkpapa Lakota Sioux people – and DNA strengthens the claim that he has living descendants
Australia has had zero measles in 2021 due to covid-19 border closure
27 October 2021
Many countries have seen sharp falls in the number of measles cases as a result of covid-19 controls, but the pandemic has also interrupted immunisation programmes
Physicists fail to find mysterious 'sterile neutrino' particles
27 October 2021
After decades of looking, physicists are no closer to discovering theorised particles that could help solve ongoing problems in physics
