All-seeing eyes: The epic plan to track almost everything on Earth
30 October 2019
Firms are racing to create a real-time database of every object on Earth larger than a car. It would help investors and conservationists, but could it be abused?
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10 year challenge: How science and the world have changed
18 January 2019
The last 10 years have seen amazing advances in science and technology – and stark damage to the world we live in. Like a lot of people on social media we thought we'd take a look back at the last ten years in science and New Scientist
At London's Barbican Hall, sound and vision ushered in the End Times
1 November 2018
Two impossibly difficult pieces of music, a neural network and a curtain were the unlikely ingredients for musical triumph this Halloween
Drones plus AI help to spot sick trees and plants in time
17 May 2018
Drones fitted with multispectral cameras are scanning forests for beetle attack, and orchards and vineyards for signs of disease before it’s too late
Earthquake AI makes it easier to predict devastation of strikes
16 March 2018
A new computer system can identify seismic activity with twice the accuracy of the current best algorithms and is nearly as good as human experts
There is a good case to unleash job-killing AI on the high seas
11 August 2017
Life on a container ship can be hellish, so maybe we shouldn't mourn the loss of these roles too much as the first crewless vessels take shape, says Paul Marks
