📈 Human Progress
🥼 Swedish government decides on billion-dollar investment in research and innovation
About a month ago, the Swedish government’s research grants were presented. Extra money is needed in research due to the pandemic. Matilda Ernkrans (S) Minister for Higher Education and Research told Forskning & Framsteg:“We invest billions in research and...
⌛ The world’s best atomic clock can help us reveal the secrets of the universe
Today’s atomic clocks are so accurate that if they were built at the birth of the universe 13.8 billion years ago, they would only have lasted half a second today . But even the enormous precision is not enough for a research team from MIT that has now developed...
🏆 6 wins from 2020 that makes the future come sooner
Nature and the Great Outdoors is back on the map! While spending much of our time isolated indoors this last year, nature took on significance. People found both refuge and entertainment outdoors, in nature. In America, the passage of the Great American Outdoors Act...
🇺🇳 Young Champions of the Earth, UN’s prize for those wanting to change the world
Every year the UN holds a contest where ambitious, brilliant and brave environmentalists from the age 18 to 30 can enter. This year seven Young Champions of the Earth was selected – one from each region of the globe. How does the contest work? In short, everyone...
