🔋 Ukraine uses large battery parks to keep power supply running
Ukraine has installed six large battery parks with a total capacity of 200 megawatts that can deliver electricity to approximately 600,000 homes for two hours. The battery parks connect to the power grid and deliver power if another source goes offline, helping to avoid blackouts.
🦠 AI creates viruses that kill E. coli bacteria
AI models have designed 16 working viruses that can attack E. coli bacteria in the laboratory. The development of the technology could lead to new treatments against antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.
🖥️ Light-powered chip makes AI one hundred times more efficient
Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a chip that uses light to perform calculations in AI systems. The chip drastically reduces energy consumption while maintaining 98 percent accuracy.
⛰️ New technology can extract lithium with a tenth of the water consumption
The first commercial facility will produce 5,000 tons of lithium per year from 2027, which doubles US annual production.
🚗 Battery-electric cars gain market share in the EU
Battery-electric cars increased their market share to 15.8 percent during the first eight months of 2025, compared to 12.6 percent in the same period the previous year.
🚭 Number of tobacco users has dropped by 180 million since 2000
This represents a decrease of 27 percent in relative terms.
💉 Gavi's vaccines saved 1.7 million lives in 2024
Over 1.2 billion unique children have been vaccinated against a range of deadly diseases through routine vaccination since 2000.
🦿 Robot ballet AI enables robots to collaborate in factories
Google DeepMind's AI system RoboBallet automatically plans how industrial robots should perform their tasks, a process that previously required hundreds to thousands of hours of manual programming.
🤗 Record high safety worldwide – more people feel secure than ever
73 percent of the world's adults feel safe walking alone at night in 2024, the highest figure since measurements began in 2006.