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📈 Young people spend more time in nature. 🦾 AI scientist performs six months of work in one day. 👮 London has fewer murders than in over 20 years.
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🌄 Destroying stereotypes about young people
If we tried to guess whether today’s young people spend more or less time in nature compared to those in the 2000s, most would probably guess less.
We tend to assume that today’s youth only scroll TikTok and barely move, least of all into nature. But that’s wrong.
According to the Swedish SOM Institute’s long-term data series, today’s young people are much more often out in nature than those who were young in the 2000s.
Exercise levels are steady, they continue to have high trust in researchers and societal institutions, they drink less alcohol, and they read books just as much as before.
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📈 Long-term study: Swedish young people spend more time in nature, trust researchers and have strong confidence in institutions
Three out of four young people exercise at least once a week and many spend time in nature regularly. A large majority of young people have high confidence in researchers and Swedish public authorities. Book reading is stable over time and audiobook listening has increased.
🦾 AI scientist performs six months of work in one day
Kosmos can read 1,500 scientific papers and run 42,000 lines of analysis code in a single run. The AI system has already made seven discoveries in neuroscience, materials science, and statistical genetics.
👩🏫 Nine out of ten children in the world now attend primary school
In 1900, only 31% of boys and 23% of girls of primary school age attended school globally. In 2023, 91% of boys and 89% of girls are enrolled in primary school. The gender gap in school enrollment has decreased from 8 percentage points to 2 percentage points in just over a hundred years.
⚰️ Lithuania has more than halved its suicide rate
Lithuania's suicide rate has dropped from 44 to 19.5 per 100,000 residents since 2004. Free psychological help is now available in all 60 municipalities and reaches over 30,000 people annually. Approximately 10,000 people have been trained to identify and help people with suicidal thoughts.
👮 London has fewer murders than in over 20 years
London recorded 70 murders during the first nine months of 2025, the lowest number since monthly measurements began in 2003. Knife crime decreased by seven percent. Hospital admissions for knife injuries among people under 25 fell by 10 percent over 12 months to June 2025.
💉 New vaccine can stop meningitis in Africa
A five-in-one vaccine has begun to be used in several African countries to protect against bacterial meningitis. The vaccine costs only three dollars per dose and protects against four types of bacteria that cause almost all meningitis epidemics in the region.
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