📈 Human Progress
In the last decades humanity has made great progress with less extreme poverty, increased health, wealth and democracy. We follow in the tradition of professor Hans Rosling.
🔬Scientists have created a microscope armed with quantum entanglement
A new microscope outperforms all existing modern microscopes. The innovation does this by combining high-intensity light and quantum entanglement.
🐠 Two new massive marine parks in Australia
Australia establishes two new marine parks around Christmas Island and Cocos Island. Together the parks will be twice the size of the Great Barrier Reef marine park.
🐝 Sponsor-A-Hive - good for the bees and food security
Sponsor-A-Hive is giving away hundreds of homes for native bees. The project promotes food security as well as protecting the bees.
👵 Optimists live longer
According to a study, women and men live significantly longer if they are optimistic. For women, the effect was almost as great as the difference between those who have not been diagnosed with diabetes and those who have.
🐘 Kenya is counting all of its wild animals for the first time
Kenya is doing a counting of all the wildlife, land-living, and marine, throughout their 58 national parks in order to create stronger conservation strategies.
🙏The benefits of gratitude
Being grateful does good for your health and well-being, but what does it mean really? And how can you start to practice it?
☢ A new detector makes it harder to smuggle radioactive material
A new detector built by researchers at KTH can detect grams of radioactivity. The new technology could be useful in, for example, airports.
📱 Africa Connecting – Unleashing the Power of Billions
There is a digital revolution going on in Africa – in part driven by the world's highest concentration of young people. This is what you need to know about it.
🏝 Leonardo DiCaprio launches Galápagos rewilding project
Leonardo DiCaprio, together with conservationists, is launching a 43 million dollar rewilding project on the Galápagos Islands.