Nature has been the cornerstone of human survival since the dawn of civilization. It provides us with the essentials of life — air, water, food, and shelter — while also offering aesthetic, cultural, ...

Unmanned aerial vehicles may get all the headlines, but they're not the only flying robots in town. Micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) are their smaller cousins. These tiny devices could be the key to ...

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It's late spring in the suburbs of Fern Bay and Cynthia Sleight Meyles offers a glass of fresh ginger soda to cool the humid afternoon. The ginger was grown in one of the dozen or so bountiful garden ...