People Change:
Oxford scientists have developed an AI based tool that can identify heart failure risk from CT scans five years before it strikes.
An article in the Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology Journal predicts 1.8 billion people worldwide will suffer from metabolic liver disease by 2050.
According to America’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, American healthcare spending was 18% of 2024 GDP and forecast to reach 20% by 2033, while the Bureau of Labor forecasts that healthcare will be the fastest growing employment sector over the next decade.
Climate Change and the Environment:
A scientific reassessment has concluded that the probability of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation collapsing is now above 50% as a result of climate change.
There was major flooding in New Zealand, China and the Solomon Islands while more than 50% of America is now drought stricken.
Low Cost Renewable Energy:
According to Ember, solar accounted for 43% of 2025 clean power production; and solar capacity grew by 30% and wind by 8.2% in 2025 while fossil fuel generation dropped by 0.2%. Even China and India recorded drops in electricity generated from fossil fuels.
According to the Global Wind Energy Council, in 2025 647 GW of solar capacity were added as well as a record 165 GW of wind capacity.
According to IRENA, at end 2025 renewable power capacity accounted for 49% of global installed power generation capacity.
Ember calculated that Chinese PV exports in March were double those in February while the 10 GW capacity exported to Africa was 176% higher than February.
While China is the dominant producer of rare earth minerals, Myanmar accounts for 8% of production.
Asia’s first Osmotic Power Plant, which is powered by water alone, went into production in Japan.
The IEA forecasts that global biodiesel production will more than double from 2023 to 2030, but still making up less than 6% of global oil supplies.
PV Magazine recorded that “Japanese researchers developed a molybdenum-based spin-flip emitter that efficiently harvests triplet excitons from singlet-fission tetracene dimers, producing strong near-infrared emission. This approach could boost solar cell efficiency and enable new quantum technologies by converting otherwise “dark” excitons into usable light.”
Autonomous Electric Vehicles:
In March 2026 224,000 EVs were sold in the EU, 50% more than January 2026 as consumers reacted to events in the Middle East.
Uber has allocated more than US$ 10 billion for the purchase of thousands of autonomous vehicles and shares in their developers.
CATL has developed a battery capable of allowing an EV to drive 1,500 km on one charge; announced plans to start mass producing sodium-ion batteries by year; and installed batteries on some 900 ships as part of electrifying shipping.
BYD is rolling out a five minute EV charging system.
Australian mining company Fortescue, which aims to reach zero emissions at its giant Pilbara operation by eliminating the burning of all fossil fuels by the end of 2027, thus saving $Aus 100 million per year, added a 15th electric excavator to its fleet, each unit of which saves a million litres of diesel.
Mass Data Mining and Storage:
According to both Rystad Energy and Bloomberg NEF data centre capital expenditure was US$ 770 billion in 2025 compared to US$ 450 billion in 2024.
Anthropic released Claude Mythos, its most powerful AI model yet with the ability to identify software system security flaws, to a very limited group of organisations.
The number Swift payment messages sent annually has grown from 8.7 billion in 2019 to 13.5 billion in 2024, while the time taken to transfer funds has been reduced from five days to 90% arriving within one hour.
