No bell's week is a tradition around these parts. Flora graham, senior editor of the nature briefing, joins me to discuss this year's winners. And let's start on monday with the nobell prize for physiology or medicine. This year the medicine prize went to physiologist david julius and a molecular neurobiologist, rdem patiputian.
AI weather forecasters, mapping the human brain and the 2021 science Nobel prizes.
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00:52 Improving the accuracy of weather forecasts with AI
Short-term rain predictions are a significant challenge for meteorologists. Now, a team of researchers have come up with an artificial-intelligence based system that weather forecasters preferred to other prediction methods.
A group of researchers are undertaking an enormous task: to make a cellular atlas of the entire brain. This week, they publish a suite of papers that has accomplished this feat for one part of the brain — the motor cortex.