📈 Human Progress
🧬DeepMind plans to releases a database with all known proteins in the world
A few months ago, we published an Optimist's Edge article on how science is trying to find a cure for aging. Proteins play a major role in aging, and the fact is that they play a major role in almost all biological processes. Proteins have a variety of functions...
🚀 Bezos’ spaceflight breaks records
On July 20 at 9:12 am, New Shepard took off from Blue Origin’s launch site in West Texas. The craft reached an altitude of 107 kilometers before deploying parachutes and descending back to earth, while the booster stage successfully made a powered landing. The...
🌳 Ethiopia planted 350 million trees – in 12 hours
India has been holding the record for most trees planted in a single day. The record was 50 million trees and has not been broken, until two years ago, according to BBC. In July 2019 Ethiopia announced that the country planted over 350 million trees during a 12 hour...
