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We Must Cut Greenhouse Gas Emissions To Zero By 2050, Says UK Climate Committee

The impact of global warming, which has already risen by 1 °C above preindustrial levels, is becoming increasingly clear. If we’re to avoid catastrophic changes, we must avoid going above 1.5 °C, the report adds. If other countries agree to adopt this target, there’s a chance.

Google Releases AI Training Data Set With 5 Million Images And 200,000 Landmarks

In a significant step toward its goal of more sophisticated landmark-detecting computer vision models, Google open-sourced Google-Landmarks-v2, a new, larger landmark recognition corpus containing twice as many photos and seven times as many landmarks.

Dual Clinical Trials Suggest Vasopressin Hormone Therapy Can Treat Autism

Both blocking and boosting vasopressin does seems to confer social improvements in some autistic subjects

New Form Of Dementia Discovered, Redefining Mainstream Alzheimer’s Science

This "excellent" study will cause many scientists to reevaluate the results from past failed clinical trials.

Breakthroughs In Neuromorphic Computing Could Speed Computers And AI By Ten Times

With the dramatic expansion of machine learning algorithms in recent years, applications are now demanding larger amounts of data storage and power to complete these difficult tasks.

Speeding Up Tree Planting By One Hundred Times Using Drones

BioCarbon Engineering wants to counter act climate change and carbon emissions by speeding the planting of trees by one hundred times by using drones.

Apple’s Q2 2019 Earnings Call: IPad, Wearables, And Services Are Solid

Wearables grew almost 50% year-over-year, with the Apple Watch having its best results ever in a non-holiday quarter, and AirPods demand continuing to outpace supply.

Common Blood Pressure Medication May Be Repurposed To Treat Dementia And Parkinson’s

The drug was effective in inducing autophagy and in enhancing the clearance of toxic proteins across all animal models.

Stanford Innovation Brings Blood Test For Chronic Fatigue Syndrome One Step Closer

For decades, sufferers of chronic fatigue syndrome have battled to prove this debilitating illness is not a psychological condition, but in fact an actual biological disease.

Existing Drug That Offers Dormancy Over Death May Be Better For Combatting Cancer

"It's designed for people with chronic disease so that they can take it for a long time. So, we think fostamatinib is a perfect candidate for this kind of years-long 'lock-'n'-block' type of approach."

Antarctica Ice Shelf The Size Of France Threatened By Effects Of Climate Change

According to the authors of the study, this temperature increase could intensify the rate of melting, and thus undermine the stabilizing pinning points that allow Ross Island to exert its influence.

Odor Receptors In Taste Cells Suggest You Can Smell With Your Tongue

"This may lead to the development of odor-based taste modifiers that can help combat the excess salt, sugar, and fat intake associated with diet-related diseases such as obesity and diabetes."