A week of progress: health tech, climate wins, and hopeful species
This week’s good-news roundup highlights a new AI tool from Imperial College London that detects heart disease from ECGs in seconds with high accuracy, a Galeas urine test identifying 92% of bladder cancers in a UK trial, Timor-Leste’s WHO-validated elimination of trachoma, Turkmenistan’s reported fixes to methane leaks, and broader positive developments ranging from France’s move to curb ultra-fast fashion to China’s solar capacity surpassing coal, England expanding free school meals, UK plug-in solar panels, New Zealand’s kakāpō population hitting a 75‑year high, and Brazil’s longevity research offering insights into longer, healthier lives.