David julius and his team found the underlying mechanisms of something that all of us preciate, is what makes this research so interesting. And i think they've won really for their ability to help us understand how we get a sense of the world through sensing heat and through touch.
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.