The World as You'll Know It
Newsletter / Issue No. 71
Why Are Younger Adults Dying of Heart Disease?
Despite great medical advances, patients aged 18 to 54 are suffering more fatal heart attacks, especially women. The culprits may be nontraditional risk factors that go well beyond obesity and high cholesterol.
Plus
New gene therapy helps deaf children hear. Companies break ground on two new small nuclear reactors in the US. And failing to get interviews for multiple residencies, a medical school graduate investigated the AI system that he believed turned him down.
Technology / Feature
How healthy am I? My immunome knows the score.
Groundbreaking new tests reveal patterns in our immune systems that can signal underlying disease and tell us how well we might recover from our next cold. I got my results in a text message.
By David Ewing Duncan
Technology / Feature
A $10-Billion Plan to Sell Africa's Wind and Sun to Countries 7,000 Miles Away
A deep look at how green hydrogen could capitalize on remote areas of renewable resources and redraw the world's energy map.
By Paul Tullis
Podcast / Podcast
A Podcast Series about the Future of Aging
Podcast / Podcast
A Podcast Series about the Future of Aging
Robotics / Feature
Small, Flexible and Sometimes Weird. The Next Generation of Robots is Here.
By Clive Thompson
Robotics / Feature
Small, Flexible and Sometimes Weird. The Next Generation of Robots is Here.
By Clive Thompson
Artificial Intelligence / Feature
One Company's Decision to Put AI Into the Ground
What does it mean to adopt AI? For John Deere it meant hundreds of millions of dollars, a new corporate culture and forever changing the relationship between a farmer and the land.
By Gideon Lewis-Kraus
Robotics / Feature
Robots' final frontier? Taking care of us.
To understand how far robots are from replacing humans, just look at the everyday task of using a fork.
By Clive Thompson