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Cutting edge British satellite will monitor illegal shipping and fishing

Sep 17, 2018

A pair of advanced British satellites launched yesterday on an Indian rocket, which represent the first wholly British radar satellite project, according to BBC News. In the past, British engineers have used th...

Mexican free-tailed Bats use biological sonar jamming to steal food

Jayaram Pawar

Nov 9, 2014

Innovation

Researchers in a new study have found that Mexican free-tailed bats use sonar to jam signals of some other bats, and once jammed, they steal their food! The study was published in the journal Science as to how ...

Radar shows millions of mayflies near Mississippi River

Platonium

Jul 25, 2014

Innovation

So many mayflies have emanated from the Mississippi River that they are actually showing up on weather radar. The National Weather Service in La Crosse captured the insects on radar Sunday as they began leav...

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