The future of drone warfare belongs to adaptive synthetic organisms, not flying flocks of kamikazes — swarms that can lose parts, reassign functions, and keep fighting, as living systems cannot. The future of drone warfare will not belong to the side that…
Algae-like biological entities were found in outer space in July 2013 by Sheffield University researchers, who collected the little critters on sterile studs of a balloon launched not far from Liverpool, UK. Researchers believe the entities did not originate on Earth. Likely…