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"Swarm squadrons of network-enabled drones capable of confusing and overwhelming enemy air defenses" could fight alongside fighter jets in the British army.
Drones

"Swarm squadrons of network-enabled drones" could confuse and overwhelm the enemy.

By Victor Tangermann

A statistician is warning that scientists are leaning on machine learning algorithms to find patterns in data where none exist.
Machine Learning

Many researchers now use machine learning to analyze data. There's just one glaring problem.

By Jon Christian

The Navy just awarded Boeing a contract to build a giant robot submarine, which it says will prowl the depths of the ocean autonomously.
Robotics

The Navy's working on a deadly new ocean hunter.

By Jon Christian

This weekend, Elon Musk took to Twitter to confirm that he'd left the research group OpenAI — citing disagreements with the group's direction.
Artificial Intelligence

Elon Musk: "I didn't agree with some of what [the] OpenAI team wanted to do."

By Jon Christian

According to a new study, the growth of the number of people who think the Earth is flat is directly tied to the growth of conspiracy theories on YouTube.
Future Society

"Their algorithms make it easy to end up going down the rabbit hole."

By Jon Christian

In a new essay, a law professor grappled with the specter of sex robots designed to look like children — and more about the complicated future of sexbots.
Robotics

The rise of sexbots is raising uncomfortable questions.

By Jon Christian

An anthropologist is making the case that long space missions, like a crewed trip to Mars, would require crew members with senses of humor.
Mars

Knock knock.

By Jon Christian

The Australian government is gearing up to plant a billion new trees, as part of a vast campaign aimed to meet the climate targets.
Climate Change

Could a worldwide tree-planting spree save the planet?

By Jon Christian

NASA's Opportunity Mars rover's last words weren't literally that "my battery is low line," the reporter behind the viral tweet clarified.
Mars

Obviously.

By Jon Christian

An ambitious new analysis found that there's space to plant 1.2 trillion new trees — a number that would absorb more carbon than human emissions.
Climate Change

Scientist: Trees are "our most powerful weapon in the fight against climate change."

By Jon Christian

A NASA director warned that Elon Musk's proposed Starship design was going to be "orders of magnitude" more difficult than any NASA project in history.
Starship

Elon Musk's Mars plan is "orders of magnitude" harder than any NASA project in history, a NASA leader warned.

By Jon Christian

This self-sustaining livable yacht has everything you'd need to live off the grid if climate change rendered the land uninhabitable.
Climate Change

It's solar-powered, hurricane-proof, and incredibly expensive.

By Kristin Houser

CEO Elon Musk confirmed in a tweet that a "Party and Camping Mode" would roll out in "probably a month or two."
Tesla

Elon Musk wants to keep the party going.

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Call for a Ban on AI-Controlled Killer Robots
Robotics

Should an AI make the final decision to take a life?

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists developed a piece of machine learning software that can predict the prognosis of ovarian cancer and at a higher accuracy.
Cancer

It's up to four times more accurate than standard methods.

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers at the University of Surrey launched a 4.9 foot harpoon from a satellite at a piece of space debris to catch it out of the sky.
Off-World

The satellite still has one more trick up its sleeve.

By Victor Tangermann

Surveys of all the matter in the universe missed about a third of what was predicted by calculations. Scientists may have finally found the missing stash.
Off-World

Calculations for how much matter exists in the universe never matched actual measurements.

By Dan Robitzski

Dubai International Airport faced a 30-minute shutdown after a drone was spotted nearby, It's the third major airport to face recent drone-related delays.
Drones

A Dubai official blamed the shutdown on "a guy in the desert."

By Dan Robitzski

Hung-Chun Chang, the scientist who created five monkey clones of a gene-edited animal, defends his research in an interview with New Scientist.
Science & Energy

"With completely identical monkeys, we can use fewer of them."

By Kristin Houser

A philosopher wanted to unify the various field-specific definitions physicists have for black holes. He decided that the variety was good for science.
Black Holes

Physicists can't agree.

By Dan Robitzski