🚙 Global electric vehicle sales increases – expected to exceed 20 million vehicles in 2025
The International Energy Agency predicts that 25 percent of new cars in Europe will be electric this year. The price gap between electric cars and gasoline cars is decreasing rapidly, especially in China where two-thirds of electric cars are now cheaper than gasoline cars.
🦾 Google's new AI teaches itself to solve problems that humans get stuck on
Google DeepMind has used chatbot models to come up with solutions to major problems in mathematics and computer science. The system, called AlphaEvolve, combines the creativity of a large language model with algorithms that can scrutinize the model's suggestions to filter and improve solutions.
🍾 ESS accelerator starts with 542 meters proton beam
For the first time, protons have been accelerated all the way from the ion source to the beam dump, a distance of 542.5 meters in the 600-meter-long accelerator tunnel. ESS will be the world's most powerful neutron source and as a giant microscope for studying various materials.
🔋 Researchers are developing liquid batteries that can be printed in any shape: "Like toothpaste"
Researchers have created batteries with electrodes in liquid form that can be 3D-printed without losing capacity. The battery can be stretched to double its length and has been tested through 500 charging cycles without performance loss.
🧬 Baby saved by the world’s first personalized CRISPR treatment
A nine and a half month old boy received the world's first custom gene editing treatment for his rare genetic disease CPS1 deficiency. The treatment fixed the boy's specific mutation and he can now eat normal amounts of protein without getting dangerous ammonia levels in his blood.
💉 Study for world's first tuberculosis vaccine in 100 years reaches recruitment target earlier than expected
The clinical trial of potentially first new tuberculosis vaccine in a century has successfully recruited all 20,000 participants several months earlier than planned. The vaccine showed 50% effectiveness in earlier phase 2 studies, which could reduce millions of tuberculosis cases globally.
👩💻 ChatGPT uses less energy than an hour of Netflix
One hour of Netflix watching equals the energy required for between 300 and 3000 ChatGPT prompts. Ending your shower one second earlier saves enough water to compensate for 40 ChatGPT prompts.
📉 Diabetes-related deaths in the US drop to lowest levels in years
New preliminary figures from the CDC show that diabetes-related deaths in the US have decreased to 26.4 deaths per 100,000 people according to data from the third quarter of 2024. This decrease reverses the concerning increase observed during the COVID-19 pandemic.
🦾 An AI-generated scientific paper approved in peer review process
An article entirely created by the Sakana's AI Scientist has been approved in the peer review process. This is the first time a fully AI-generated scientific paper has passed the same review process that human researchers go through.