Safety in numbers
11 September 2013
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Found 789 results for drones
Future law: Can you be slandered by a robot?
11 September 2013
In a world awash with robots, teleports and self-driving cars, you are going to need a good lawyer, warns Richard Fisher
Forget roads – drones are the future of goods transport
4 September 2013
In rural parts of the world, building a reliable road infrastructure seems nigh on impossible. Andreas Raptopoulos has another idea: vast networks of drones
Today on New Scientist
22 August 2013
All the latest on newscientist.com: six health myths to ignore, fresh interstellar travel plans, mind-altering drug helps heroin addiction, and more
Drones tag and track quarry using nanoparticle sprays
21 August 2013
The US Air Force is funding work to let drones tag suspects or cars with a spray that gives them a distinct spectral signature, making them easy to track
Listen to the music of the drones to forecast weather
21 August 2013
A system that listens to the distinctive buzzing sound of drone propellers could one day measure air pollution and provide weather updates
Race to Mars: Who will be first to the Red Planet?
10 July 2013
Two private teams say they will get people to Mars within the next 10 years. Find out how they plan to pull it off – and if the astronauts can come back
Today on New Scientist
5 July 2013
All the latest on newscientist.com: the end of colour blindness, black hole blitzars, killer quantum apps, hipster toad, drone strikes on the farm, and more
One Per Cent
3 July 2013
Telescopic contact lens, drones scour seas for drug-runners and how your router betrays you
Precision herbicide drones launch strikes on weeds
3 July 2013
A drone zipping over fields can spot the colour variations that give away weeds amongst crops, before sending in a ground vehicle to spray the densest patches
