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Bill Gates sitting at a table surrounded by holiday décor and stacks of books.

Seasons readings

Five books to read this winter

These were some of my favorite books from 2025.

Under the sea

Growing older with Remarkably Bright Creatures

Shelby Van Pelt’s novel was the perfect way to start my next decade of life.

Goes without saying

Lessons from a toilet paper shortage

Steven Pinker’s latest book explores the fascinating science behind common knowledge.

Diller instinct

The man who built modern media

Barry Diller’s memoir is a candid playbook for creativity and competition in business.

Permit pending

Why good ideas aren’t always enough

In Abundance, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson explain the bottlenecks that slow progress and what it’ll take to overcome them.

Climate matters

I loved this clear-eyed guide to global warming

Hannah Ritchie’s concise, reader-friendly Clearing the Air.

My work

is driven by the belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to lead a healthy and productive life, no matter where they’re born.

A new way to look at the problem

Three tough truths about climate

What I want everyone at COP30 to know.

Farm aid

A warmer world will hurt this group more than any other

We need to help the world’s poorest people adapt to climate change.

An image of Fervo Energy's Cape Station with an illustration of geothermal energy below the ground.

Turn up the heat

Utah’s hottest new power source is 15,000 feet below the ground

I recently visited Cape Station, the future home of the world’s largest enhanced geothermal power plant.

A collage of images representing innovation in nuclear fission and fusion.

Positive charge

The future of energy is subatomic

Demystifying the science behind fission and fusion

Next-generation plants will usher in a Renaissance of nuclear energy.

Commonwealth Fusion Systems wants to harness the power of the sun to generate electricity.

Natrium plant groundbreaking location with shovels standing in the dirt, a bulldozer in the background, and the TerraPower sign in foreground.

Power up

We just broke ground on America’s first next-gen nuclear facility

Kemmerer, Wyoming will soon be home to the most advanced nuclear facility in the world.

In 2024, I helped break ground on America’s first next-gen nuclear facility.

The last mile

We’re closer than ever to eradicating polio

...And closer than ever to seeing a resurgence.

Bug fix

The buzz stops here

African scientists are engineering mosquitoes that can’t spread malaria.

No fever dream

How the U.S. got rid of malaria

This is how a parasite helped build the CDC and changed public health forever.

No laughing matter

A gut-wrenching problem we can solve

Diarrhea used to be one of the biggest killers of kids—but now it’s one of the greatest global health success stories.

Bill Gates and Kim Broomer, the 2025 Washington State Teacher of the Year, sit and laugh together at a table with a tablet and other learning tools from a kindergarten classroom.

Come as you are

Wiggling is welcome in this kindergarten classroom

Kim Broomer’s classroom is one of the most unique and supportive learning environments I have ever heard of.

Reasons for hope

Welcome to the next phase of the Alzheimer’s fight

I am blown away by how much we have learned about Alzheimer’s disease over the last couple years.

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