This archive covers technology and innovation breakthroughs that improve lives, protect the environment, and expand human possibility. From medical devices to clean energy tools, the stories here focus on what’s working and who’s making it happen.
Hadassah-University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem has announced an “unprecedented achievement” in the treatment of multiple myeloma cancer – the second-most common hematological disease.
“A universal influenza vaccine would be a major public health achievement and could eliminate the need for both annual development of seasonal influenza vaccines,” said Dr. Hugh Auchincloss, acting NIAID Director.
The landmark clean energy facility is expected to be online by 2028, significantly sooner than typical projections for deployment of commercial fusion power.
Pfizer’s RSV vaccine ABRYSVO just became the first licensed option for at-risk adults as young as 18, closing a long-standing protection gap for younger people living with chronic conditions. About one in ten U.S. adults aged 18 to 49 has a condition like diabetes, asthma, or heart failure that raises their risk of severe RSV illness — and until now, they had nothing. The vaccine targets RSV’s prefusion F protein, a breakthrough that finally unlocked effective design after decades of frustrating research. With approvals now spanning pregnant individuals, older adults, and at-risk younger adults, ABRYSVO marks a quiet but powerful turning point in a field that struggled for half a century — a reminder that patient science eventually delivers real protection to real people.
Compared to existing methods, the researchers found that CoDE-ACS could rule out a heart attack in more than double the number of patients, with an accuracy of 99.6%.
“In our first treated case, we were thrilled to see that the aggressive decline usually seen after birth simply did not appear,” said lead author Professor Darren Orbach of Boston Children’s Hospital.
The first of its kind in the world, the e-motorway that charges EVs while they drive may lead to an expansion of a further 3,000 km of electric roads in Sweden by 2045.
The Loop by URB in Dubai is a sustainable urban highway meant for runners, pedestrians, and cyclists. It uses kinetic power to run on 100% renewable energy, is irrigated with 100% recycled water, and also integrates vertical farms into its design.
Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have developed a hydrogel that can be applied to the cavity in the brain left behind after a tumor is removed, slowly releasing medication to kill any cancer cells left behind.
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon, Florida International, and Santa Clara Universities have developed an automated screening tool using machine learning that can predict strokes with 84% accuracy, outperforming existing diagnostic models.
