Researchers at several institutions are searching for microbial solutions for Africa’s low-performing staple crops.
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Microbial-based solutions are perhaps the best-kept secret in agricultural innovation.
Seagulls do more than just swoop for ice cream.
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Seagulls in flight are a nuisance no more.
A man walks past graffiti denouncing strikes by U.S. drones in Yemen, painted on a wall in Sanaa, Yemen.
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Passionate disagreement over drone strikes obscures the fact that we actually don’t know much about how they affect U.S. interests.
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Here’s the technology Amazon needs to get right for drone deliveries – and what it will mean for everyone else.
Race relations with the US police are again under focus.
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Technology poses a challenge to how we treat suspects and police society.
Racing drones in flight.
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If, like auto racing, drone racing becomes a long-lasting sport yielding financial rewards for backers of winning teams, might new technologies find their way into commercial and consumer products?
Seven Sisters in East Sussex.
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After the recent collapse of part of the Seven Sisters cliffs in Sussex there’s an increased awareness of the danger of rockfalls on Britain’s coast.
The scene of the drone strike said to have killed the Taliban’s leader.
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Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor was a tough and smart strategist who held the Taliban together and crushed dissent. Will his legacy endure?
A UAV’s perspective of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina ) on Australia’s sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island.
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Drones are useful tools for studying and protecting wildlife. But with their growing popularity comes a growing need to make sure they don’t harm the animals they’re trying to observe.
Who owns your thoughts? And other important questions raised by technology.
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New and imagined digital technologies have important ethical implications. We should devise relevant social norms through a high-profile, public, collaborative process.
Members of the Senegalese anti-government youth movement Y'en a Marre (We’re Fed Up), in Dakar.
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US President Barack Obama would do well to refocus America’s interventions in Africa to support peaceful activists fighting for democracy.
Yemenis have lived under the shadow of drones for years.
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The US has been mounting semi-secret drone strikes in Yemen for years – and it seems the UK has been deeply involved.
Taking off in a yard near you?
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A bill before Congress could pave the way for the opening of our backyards, neighborhoods, business properties and campuses to commercial drone traffic.
Birds are more dangerous to aircraft than drones.
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Drones don’t pose much of a risk to traditional aviation. Our research shows that collisions with manned aircraft are far more likely to involve a bird.
CASA makes it easier for low risk flying of drones.
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Long awaited changes to the regulations on some drone flights in Australia are set to give the industry a shake up.
Facing the perils: a drone is released to monitor an active volcano in Indonesia.
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can keep remote sensors alive and deal with dangerous scenarios.
Tough decisions are made from distant control rooms.
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Should we allow innocents to be harmed for the greater good? Eye in the Sky puts a modern spin on a classic philosophical moral dilemma.
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Robots can explore where humans fear to tread.
An eye in the sky from the movie of the same name – the reality of drone warfare.
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The moral and ethical dilemmas of future warfare are depicted in this tight British thriller. But what will happen when humans become more removed from the weapons of war?
Some people are concerned by the presence of drones in the air above them.
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Drones are increasingly being used by law enforcement agencies around the world, but this raises some issues around privacy and regulation.