December 18, 2018
Eyes in the sea: Swarms of floating robots observe the oceans
In 1999, Peter Franks, a biological oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, published a hypothesis that, to his …
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June 16, 2017
Comment: A moving target: What you need to know about drone regulations
In 2015, about 700,000 drones were sold in the U.S. In 2016, the number exceeded 2.5 million. And the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has …
August 17, 2016
Observers at the edge of the ice: Smaller, cheaper machines can safely go where humans can't
Any tourist bound for Greenland or Alaska on a cruise ship would be happy to capture video of a huge chunk of ice as it calves from the face of a …
June 12, 2013
Droning on for science
Amid rolling green pastureland dotted with livestock and the occasional cluster of trees, Costa Rica’s imposing Volcán Turrialba rises 600 meters …