A team of researchers in China has unveiled what they describe as the world’s first open-source flight control system designed specifically for bamboo-frame drones, offering a potential breakthrough in the push for low-cost, eco-friendly unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The system, developed by researchers at Northwestern Polytechnical University’s school of civil aviation, aims to solve a long-st...
A team of researchers in China has unveiled what they describe as the world’s first open-source flight control system designed specifically for bamboo-frame drones, offering a potential breakthrough in the push for low-cost, eco-friendly unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The system, developed by researchers at Northwestern Polytechnical University’s school of civil aviation, aims to solve a long-standing bottleneck in sustainable drone design: integrating non-traditional materials such as bamboo...
A Chinese woman who sacrificed her job and life to get revenge on a neighbour who poisoned her pet dog to death has shown her face publicly for the first time. After her beloved pet dog Papi, a 13-year-old white West Highland Terrier, was poisoned and killed in a children’s playground in her residential compound in Beijing in 2022, Li Yihan has dedicated her life to defending the animal’s rights. ...
A Chinese woman who sacrificed her job and life to get revenge on a neighbour who poisoned her pet dog to death has shown her face publicly for the first time. After her beloved pet dog Papi, a 13-year-old white West Highland Terrier, was poisoned and killed in a children’s playground in her residential compound in Beijing in 2022, Li Yihan has dedicated her life to defending the animal’s rights. Police found a 65-year-old man surnamed Zhang, who lived in the neighbourhood, to be the...
It wasn’t long ago that counting on a mega cap tech stock to rise was a pretty safe bet, but that certainty has been turned on its head this year. The tech-heavy index has dropped 5.9% in 2026, partly from the uncertainty due to the Iran war. A tech selloff isn’t unusual when the market abruptly shifts into risk off mode, said John Belton, portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds.
It wasn’t long ago that counting on a mega cap tech stock to rise was a pretty safe bet, but that certainty has been turned on its head this year. The tech-heavy index has dropped 5.9% in 2026, partly from the uncertainty due to the Iran war. A tech selloff isn’t unusual when the market abruptly shifts into risk off mode, said John Belton, portfolio manager at Gabelli Funds.
wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images By Christopher Gannatti, CFA What happens when biology becomes something we can read, interpret and act on like software? For most people, that moment doesn’t arrive in a lab or a research paper. It arrives in something personal, something familiar, something that forces you to care about the outcome in a way that theory never does. If you’ve ever had a dog, you u...
wildpixel/iStock via Getty Images By Christopher Gannatti, CFA What happens when biology becomes something we can read, interpret and act on like software? For most people, that moment doesn’t arrive in a lab or a research paper. It arrives in something personal, something familiar, something that forces you to care about the outcome in a way that theory never does. If you’ve ever had a dog, you understand how quickly they become part of the structure of your life. They start as a presence in the background, but over time, without much notice, they become something closer to family. That’s what makes a serious diagnosis feel different. It’s not just information—it’s a shift in the future you thought you were going to have. And in many cases, especially with aggressive cancers, the conversation quickly moves from what can be done to how much time is left. Introducing Rosie That’s where this story begins. Rosie, a rescue dog in Australia, was diagnosed with mast cell cancer, an aggressive and often difficult-to-treat disease. 1 Under normal circumstances, this would set a fairly well-understood treatment path and set of expectations. But Rosie’s owner, Paul Conyngham, approached the situation differently. With a background in technology and systems engineering, he reframed the problem in a way that would have sounded unusual not long ago. Instead of thinking about cancer purely as a biological condition, he asked what it would mean to treat it as a data problem. The first step in that reframing was sequencing. A sample of Rosie’s tumor was taken, along with a sample of her healthy tissue, and both were translated into digital information. At a basic level, sequencing is the process of reading DNA, the underlying code that governs how cells function and convert it into a format a computer can analyze. That detail matters because it represents a shift in how disease is understood. For most of medical history, illness has been something we observe through symptoms, imagi...