The Siena Drone Awards highlight gorgeous images of wildlife photos from a unique perspective. Nominees include photos of an erupting volcano, polar bears, and migrating birds. Winners will be ...

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 ...

A bird banking in a crosswind doesn't rely on spinning blades. Its wings flex, twist and respond instantly to its environment ...

Students at the University of Maryland trained a tiny drone to fly safely through tight spaces by mimicking the visual processing and flight behavior of honeybees. “We designed this robot to navigate ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. WORCESTER, Mass. — Don't be fooled by the fog machine, spooky lights and fake bats: the robotics lab at ...

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 ...

The technology of war is evolving fast, and drones are at the center of it. We've seen this in the ongoing U.S.-Israeli war with Iran. Unmanned drones are cheaper than missiles, easy to mass produce, ...