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The Economist
The Economist
10 Oct 2024


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Science & technology | Flying fish

Meet Japan’s hitchhiking fish

Medaka catch rides on obliging birds, confirming one of Darwin’s hunches

THE JAPANESE picture book “Soratobu medaka” tells the extraordinary tale of tiny stream-dwelling fish called medaka hitching a ride on an obliging bird to a far-off freshwater pool. The story has delighted children in the country since 1999, when it was first published, but now comes an even more delightful twist: it is true.

This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline “Flying fish”

Ships wake in the ocean with swell & stormy skies.

Noise-dampening tech could make ships less disruptive to marine life

Solutions include bendy propellers and “acoustic black holes”

Collage composition with a Nobel Prize medal, surrounded by various scientific and technological images. These include a neural network diagram, a person wearing a VR headset, molecular structures, a landscape graph, and a coiled filament

AI wins big at the Nobels

Awards went to the discoverers of micro-RNA, pioneers of artificial-intelligence models and those using them for protein-structure prediction


Google’s DeepMind researchers among recipients of Nobel prize for chemistry

The award honours protein design and the use of AI for protein-structure prediction


AI researchers receive the Nobel prize for physics

The award, to Geoffrey Hinton and John Hopfield, stretches the definition of the field

A Nobel prize for the discovery of micro-RNA

These tiny molecules regulate genes and control how cells develop and behave

AI offers an intriguing new way to diagnose mental-health conditions

Models look for sound patterns undetectable by the human ear