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The United States 🇺🇸 spent $923 billion in 2022 on R&D, around 30% of global R&D spending. China 🇨🇳 spent the equivalent of $812 billion (adjusted for purchasing power parity). 🔬🧬🧫🔭🧪

In 2020, China 🇨🇳 overtook the United States 🇺🇸 in terms of its share of the world’s top 1% of cited scientific papers

These two photographs are separated by only 66 years.

NYC violent deaths vs other US cities

Immigrants win Nobel prizes 🏅🏅

Solar and wind power is growing quickly in Poland, but coal still dominates— The share of electricity produced by solar and wind in Poland almost doubled in just two years. In 2021, these renewable sources produced just 11% of its power; by 2023, this was 21%. You can see this

The shortage of excellent engineering talent mentioned by Elon Musk below would be far worse without immigration Cc: Paul Graham Alec Stapp Noah Smith 🐇 Amjad Masad

Researchers have reconstructed the complete wiring diagram, or connectome, of the fruit fly’s adult brain—a feat akin to mapping all the buildings, avenues, and streets in a complex city. bit.ly/4hc6BmO News from Science

In the past, most people worked in agriculture; in today’s rich countries, only a small share do— For most of human history since the agricultural revolution, the majority of the labor force in countries like France, the United Kingdom, Italy, and the Netherlands worked in

Ozempic (semaglutide) is a synthetic version of a hormone found in Gila monster venom. The most promising solution to antibiotic resistance comes from the antimicrobial peptides in Komodo dragon blood. Maybe some of those weird-sounding NSF/NIH grants are useful after all...

Global average life expectancy has more than doubled since 1900— We can expect to live more than twice as long as our ancestors in 1900. As the chart shows, global average life expectancy was just 32 years at the beginning of the 20th century. This was a short life by today’s

OpenAI in India 📈🇮🇳