• 51 million lives in Africa have been saved over the past five decades by vaccination. WHO.
• Since 1987, countries classified as low-income has declined from 30% to 11%. World Bank Blogs.
• The teen birth rate in the United States was 11.7 births per 1,000 girls in 2025. By contrast, the teen birth rate in 1991 was 61.8 births per 1,000. NPR.
• America’s teens are now drinking, smoking, and fighting less. An American teenager today is now about a third less likely than a 1990’s-era teenager to die. Vox.
• Heat pumps may soon outsell air conditioners in US. Canary Media.
• Solar is set to oust coal as the leading generator of electricity within six years. BloombergNEF.
• The humpback whale population in Rio has jumped from around 2,000 to around 35,000 in approximately 40 years, close to their population before whaling. AP.
• A new Gobi Desert plant keeps generating eight hours after sunset, without batteries. Tech Times.
• A scroll sealed since the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, has been virtually unwrapped and read from beginning to end. Vesuvius Challenge.
• A second grader wanted to know if his pet caterpillar would remember him. His experiment shocked scientists. Good Good Good.
• Astronomers directly detected an atmosphere around LHS 1140 b, a rocky planet 48 light-years away that sits squarely in its star’s habitable zone: the “Goldilocks” band where liquid water can exist. New York Times.

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