In conservation, it can be difficult to simply consult the evidence.

When a building collapses at night or a wildfire fills a structure with blinding smoke, the drones that rescuers send in to find survivors share a critical weakness with the human eye: they need light ...

Bats are sweet, whimsical, diverse, and essential as eaters of insects, many, many insects. A Clark University bat walk ...

Firework shows are controversial in this day and age. While beautiful, fireworks are loud, bright, and smoky, and they can be ...

In eastern Brazil, Coleocephalocereus goebelianus towers above surrounding plants, making its beacon even clearer Some flowers lure bats into pollinating them by stinking like fermenting fruit, ...

Researchers are advancing robotics with bat-inspired echolocation drones for GPS-denied environments and humanoids capable of skating and flips. The drone system uses ultrasonic pulses to navigate ...

Community help is no longer just nice to have in the world of bat conservation, it is essential to large-scale bat monitoring and the protection of threatened and understudied species, according to ...

Arcani's HARK passive acoustic drone detection system isolates signals in complex battlefield conditions to detect, classify and track drone threats in real time.

Birds are the undisputed champions of epic travel -- but they are not the only long-haul fliers. A handful of bats are known to travel thousands of kilometers in continental migrations across North ...

A solar plant in England is affecting a species of bats. As the renewable energy sector gains significant momentum, a few unexpected issues have emerged. When a team of engineers was constructing a ...

Science fiction is not monolithic. There are, in fact, two major sub-genres that divide sci-fi — hard sci-fi and speculative (or soft) sci-fi — and most of the time, the delineation between the two is ...

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