Bugs

What Drones Are Learning From Insects

What Drones Are Learning From Insects

Large, unmanned aerial vehicles, aka UAVs or drones, look like regular (albeit, menacing) airplanes. But there are also small drones that look like big insects, and they’re being programmed to act like them too. Insectile drones could evolve into useful minions to track, map, and respond to climate change.

When Climate Bites

When Climate Bites

Just as coastal cities are looking to bolster themselves for sea level rise, public health systems must now develop a disease-prevention and tracking strategy for a warming world. How is climate change remaking the world of vector-borne disease (and technologies harnessed to fight it)?