Innovations in medicines and biotechnology have increased life expectancy and saved many lives. Explore how this happened, and how more progress can be made.<br><br><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/medicine-biotech"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/d51cf2b6-5a2d-4e28-eb37-583917055a00/w=1024"/></a>

The world is warming despite natural fluctuations from the El Niño cycle.<br><br><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/global-temperatures-el-nino-la-nina" target="_blank"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/40c0d7fb-f503-45b1-8eda-8cc001f4dd00/w=1350"/></a>

The path to recent advanced AI systems has been more about building larger systems than making scientific breakthroughs.<br><br><a href="https://ourworldindata.org/scaling-up-ai" target="_blank"><img src="https://ourworldindata.org/cdn-cgi/imagedelivery/qLq-8BTgXU8yG0N6HnOy8g/ded84c3a-78c9-40c4-ace2-6bf8dd7c4f00/w=1350"/></a>