This archive spans the years 2017 through 2025, a period marked by rapid advances in clean energy, medicine, technology, and social equity. It collects documented breakthroughs, policy wins, and scientific achievements from the present era. If you want evidence that progress is real and ongoing, this is where to look.
State law does not provide “a sweeping immunity for any and all acts police officers may perform within the scope of their employment,” Justice Leondra Kruger said in the 7-0 ruling.
For “portable batteries” used in devices such as smartphones, tablets, and cameras, consumers must be able to “easily remove and replace them,” reducing costs for consumers and reducing e-waste.
Over the last 3 decades, Belize has achieved a dramatic reduction in its malaria burden – from a peak of about 10 000 cases in 1994 to zero indigenous cases in 2019.
The current estimates suggest that as many as 2,000 blue whales travel up from Mexico to Southern California waters every year, a large chunk of a global population that may be topping 25,000.
Psilocybin-assisted therapy helped 13 people who had struggled with heavy drinking reach the root of what they were drinking to escape, according to new interviews published in Psychology of Addictive Behaviors. Participants described years of self-blame and isolation quieting after their sessions, replaced by something many had never felt toward themselves: compassion. They credited the trained therapists and carefully held setting as much as the medicine itself, calling both essential to feeling safe enough to face old pain. The researchers are honest about the study’s limits, including a mostly white, higher-income participant group. Still, as Oregon and Colorado open legal pathways, these first-person accounts offer a hopeful glimpse of how psychedelic care might one day reach the communities who need healing most.
It’s the first central European country to do so. It is a rebuke to Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has invoked the West’s “moral degeneracy” as one justification for his war against Ukraine.
Spain will become the first of Europe’s five highest energy-consuming countries to pass this symbolic 50% marker.
Japan’s parliament passed legislation to redefine rape as nonconsensual sexual intercourse – removing the provisions regarding use of force – and raise the age of consent from 13 to 16.
Installed rooftop solar grew from 79 gigawatts to 118 gigawatts worldwide last year and is projected to reach 159 gigawatts by the end of this year.
Melanoma may quietly build its own escape routes before it ever becomes dangerous, according to researchers at Tel Aviv University and Sheba Medical Center. They discovered that while the cancer is still confined to the skin’s outer layer, it releases tiny pigment-carrying vesicles called melanosomes that slip into the deeper dermis and coax lymph vessels to grow — essentially paving roads the tumor will later travel to spread. Because melanoma isn’t life-threatening until it leaves the skin, the team believes a vaccine could train the immune system to intercept those melanosomes first. With about 325,000 people diagnosed worldwide each year, this early-stage target could open a hopeful new chapter in shifting cancer treatment from reactive to preventive.
