Ten Fascinating Things
- The next blockbuster drug may owe its success to AI: how deep learning will find patterns in genomic and medical data to inspire new therapies.
- India and Pakistan are renewing their love affair with coal — but with America as a role model, that’s hardly surprising.
- Hold on one apple-pickin’ minute! Orchard laborers will need to watch their jobs now that robots can spot and pluck fruits just as well humans.
- The nervous and immune systems seem unconnected, but Nature explains how tiny electric shocks may help the former to stimulate the latter.
- AI is a black box to humans, but Nvidia is letting people peer inside to see how its self-driving car technology works.
- This Bloomberg piece describes how Microsoft continues to out-innovate Apple with new hardware. Question is: are we ready to buy the future?
- This striking photo essay explores the epic scale of Airbus’s assembly line.
- A new blood test can discern the genetic subtleties of different prostate cancers, which should allow doctors to target treatments more effectively.
- How does an ecologist go about counting bird populations? Nowadays, using high-resolution satellite imagery to identify the creatures one-by-one.
- No water? No problem, at least for the United Arab Emirates: one Abu Dhabi firm plans to tow icebergs from Antarctica to harvest pure drinking water.
