This Week in the Future, October 26-30, 2009
What a week. A robot pathologist finds a victorious Japanese solar race cars in a cadaver. Cancer-immune mole rats smoke with impunity, while genetically engineered flowers scrub the air of pollutants. Sign me up for this future.
Some of our favorite stories this week:
- A Japanese team wins the annual Global Green Challenge, crossing Australia in their solar car over four days
- Toyota plants carbon-scrubbing flowers outside their Prius plants
- A helmet-mounted radar for soldiers gives them 360-awareness of potential threats
- Scientists investigate further the curious case of the hideous mole rat, which seems to be immune to cancer
- And a robot pathologist performs ultra-precise autopsies all by itself
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