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Energy & Environment:

• Air Quality in Europe Shows Significant Improvements over the Last Two Decades

Food & Hunger:

• Origin Agritech Reveals Corn Yield Breakthrough

Health & Demographics:

• First Human Transplant of a Genetically Modified Pig Kidney Performed
• Deep Brain Stimulation Didn’t Work for a Young OCD Patient until New Brain Maps Changed Everything
• First Cow to Produce Human Insulin in Its Milk Created in Brazil
• Saving More Mothers and Babies in Nepal
• UK Cancer Study Shows Big Fall in Death Rates since Early 1990s
• Inside the Operating Room: Doctors Test a Revolutionary Brain-Computer Implant

Science & Technology:

• Elon Musk’s Neuralink Shows Brain-Chip Patient Playing Online Chess
• Two Airplanes Lugging Cargo Together Is Texas Startup’s Big Bet
• An AI Robot Is Spotting Sick Tulips to Slow the Spread of Disease through Dutch Bulb Fields

Violence:

• The U.S. Crime Rate Is Still Dropping, FBI Data Shows

Tweets:

• One of the greatest achievements of civilization
• The modal age at death has been rising
• The fall of chores
• Progress megathread