📈 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.
🇷🇼 Africa's Singapore sizzling with innovation
The small and mountainous country of Rwanda is sizzling with innovation and digitalization. Legal reforms aimed to encourage new innovative business models and a curious population have created a breeding ground for an interesting startup scene.
🚢 Ships are to release alkalinizing agents over coral reefs
Researchers have found a new method to help coral reefs while the world seeks a permanent solution.
🔬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.