Taking flight can be stressful—especially for a lithium-ion battery that powers a drone. Too much strain on these cells causes damage and shortens a device’s… Read More »Study examines how takeoff strain affects drone battery performance
LiDAR, which stands for Light Detection and Ranging, is a remote sensing technology that utilizes laser light to measure distances and generate precise, three-dimensional representations… Read More »What is LiDAR?
Researchers have invented a new kind of artificial seed to sense environmental parameters without impacting the health of the environment. The soft robot, named Acer… Read More »Eco-friendly fluorescent artificial seeds monitor soil temperature
Researchers from the University of South Australia (UniSA), the University of Adelaide (UoA), and Yale University have recently introduced a groundbreaking method aimed at significantly… Read More »Optical scientists discover new way to boost fiber laser power
Javier Santos, a researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has pioneered an ingenious artificial intelligence (AI) approach. This method efficiently reconstructs extensive data, such as… Read More »New AI approach reconstructs broad field of data from small number of sensors
Researchers from Monash University have devised a novel lithium-sulfur battery configuration featuring a nanoporous polymer-coated lithium foil anode. This innovation significantly reduces the amount of… Read More »New lithium-sulfur battery design uses less lithium and lasts longer
Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) have achieved a breakthrough by applying reinforcement learning to solve complex video game challenges. Their… Read More »AI learns to create video game moves that defeat top human players
A recent breakthrough in bee research conducted by a team from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf has shed light on the long-standing mystery of bee sex… Read More »Researchers uncover the molecular dice game behind bee sex determination
Imagine being aboard an airplane where two pilots share control – one human, one computer. They each focus on different aspects, but when they align… Read More »Air-Guardian: AI copilot enhances human precision for safer skies
Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have achieved a significant breakthrough, enhancing the efficiency of microcombs by a factor of 10. This achievement… Read More »Microcombs made 10 times more efficient, paving the way for new discoveries
Managing group decisions poses significant challenges, especially when dealing with a swarm of robots. At the IRIDIA artificial intelligence research laboratory, Université Libre de Bruxelles,… Read More »Self-organizing hierarchy approach improves collective perception accuracy in robot swarms
Satellite observations have unveiled the remarkable benefits of replanting logged forests on Borneo with diverse seedling mixtures in one of the world’s largest ecological experiments.… Read More »Replanting logged forests with diverse tree species accelerates recovery
A group of seismologists from NORSAR in Kjeller, Norway, collaborated with a colleague from the State Space Agency of Ukraine, and their findings, published in… Read More »Seismic monitoring used to track explosions in Ukraine
A team of scientists from the University of Colorado at Boulder, led by Professor Ryan Hayward, envisions a future where airborne drones are guided by… Read More »New photomechanical material converts light into mechanical work
Researchers at the Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT) in Bremen have devised an innovative approach that employs drone imagery and artificial intelligence (AI)… Read More »Drone imagery and AI used to map mangrove forests and estimate carbon stocks
The 2023 excavation season at the Cova Gran rockshelter in Santa Linya, Lleida, has concluded. Alfonso Benito Calvo, a geologist at the Centro Nacional de… Read More »3D technology helps archaeologists reconstruct the burial of 14,000-year-old woman
Researchers from Oregon State University have discovered that gray whales feeding off the Oregon Coast ingest an estimated 21 million microparticles daily, as revealed by… Read More »Gray whales eating millions of microparticles per day
Elythor, a startup born out of EPFL, has recently introduced an innovative drone that possesses the remarkable ability to dynamically adjust its wing shape in… Read More »Revolutionizing drone inspections: Elythor’s morpho, the shape-shifting UAV for power plants