Honeybees routinely travel up to 2 miles (3 km) from their hive in search of food before returning home, with remarkable ...

For most of scientific history, discoveries in nature depended on what a person could see while standing in one place. Mountains were climbed, forests were walked, and oceans were sampled (in ...

Drones will probably move first into jobs deemed “too dull, dirty or dangerous” for humans, says MIT automation expert Mary “Missy” Cummings. To monitor marine mammal populations off Alaska, for ...

The four-year-old war in Ukraine has shown how the nature of conflict has fundamentally changed – a lesson now being learned ...

Already home to a thriving drone industry led by Boeing subsidiary Insitu, the Pacific Northwest is also a hot spot for putting the devices to work in the service of science. Researchers in Washington ...