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Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time
Drones are a common sight on the battlefields of Ukraine, but they are normally controlled by human pilots Frank Herrmann/Getty Images Fully autonomous drones with no human oversight have killed soldiers on the battlefield for the first time. This is according to a senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry, marking a watershed moment in…
Fish Skin Doesn’t Just Reflect Light – It Might Actually Sense It : ScienceAlert
A glittering school of silverside fish may remind you of a disco ball, a dazzling display made up of many tiny mirrors. But emerging research suggests the skin of these fish is capable of far more than just reflecting light. Masakazu Iwasaka is an interdisciplinary engineer at Hiroshima University in Japan who has been researching…
A robot swarm is on a mission to map Greenland’s perilous ice sheets
The ambitious expedition aims to fill data gaps about the glacier-sea boundary to predict when the world might tip into a catastrophic climate regime.
July 23, 1999: Chandra X-Ray Observatory launches
Back to Article List Today in the history of astronomy, NASA’s flagship for X-ray astronomy heads for space. The Chandra X-ray telescope, seen here in an artist’s rendition, has continued to return observations in the 27 years since its launch. Credit: NASA/James Vaughan On July 23, 1999, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory launched aboard the Space…
College enrollment shows slump – Taipei Times
STEM DOMINANCE: Enrollment for courses in science, technology, engineering and mathematics continued to grow despite the overall decline, statistics showed Taiwan’s college and university enrollment fell to 1.057 million last year, down 147,000 over the past five years, as the nation’s declining birthrate continues to reduce undergraduate numbers, while the proportion of students in science…
