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How Koalas Survive Forest Fires: Australia Is Global Test for Animals Drones

How Koalas Survive Forest Fires: Australia Is Global Test for Animals

SYDNEY—Researchers are deploying heat-seeking drones and studying the chemistry of leaves to determine how creatures like the koala can survive in a burned landscape, a new effort to understand the effects of devastating wildfires across the globe. About 73,000 square miles were burned in Australia’s most recent fire season, an…
bubmag
September 6, 2020
Drone survey reveals large earthwork at ancestral Wichita site in Kansas Drones

Drone survey reveals large earthwork at ancestral Wichita site in Kansas

Left: Drone-acquired orthoimage of the site showing major features discussed in the paper. Right: Thermal images mosaic collected from 11:15 pm-12:15 am. (Images from Figure 6 of the study). Credit: by Jesse Casana, Elise Jakoby Laugier, and Austin Chad Hill. A Dartmouth-led study using multisensor drones has revealed a large…
bubmag
September 3, 2020
The Making of the “Good CIA” Drones

The Making of the “Good CIA”

For decades, it’s been an article of faith among leftists that the CIA is fundamentally malign, and has been since its founding. Its purpose was to extend American hegemony; its method dirty tricks (not excluding murder) to undermine popular movements or governments and impose brutal right-wing authoritarian regimes in client…
bubmag
September 3, 2020
‘A guy in a jetpack’ seen flying at 3,000ft within few hundred yards of passenger jet landing at LA airport Drones

‘A guy in a jetpack’ seen flying at 3,000ft within few hundred yards of passenger jet landing at LA airport

The pilots of a passenger jet landing at LA International reckon they were approached by a mysterious flyer equipped with what was described as a "jetpack," passing within a few hundred yards of their aircraft. The encounter occurred Sunday evening local time as American Airlines flight 1997, flying out of…
bubmag
September 1, 2020