On a frozen landscape in Svalbard, Norway, where the glaciers bleed into the Arctic Ocean, a small buzzing drone lifted into the air. Its mission was not surveillance, nor delivery. It was science.

Intelligent drones and unmanned aerial systems (UAS) are rapidly evolving from experimental prototypes into essential infrastructure across disaster response, health care delivery, agriculture, ...

Using custom drones to collect the first high-resolution vertical profiles of water vapor isotopes over Greenland, researchers have uncovered hidden processes driving ice loss—offering a major advance ...