3,003 source-backed science facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 1 of 31.
“seven-time Grammy-winning producer”
“four-hectare Azerbaijan Park”
“The western blacklegged tick, California’s main Lyme carrier, has been found in 56 of the state’s 58 counties.”
“recruited 63 healthy adult participants”
“combined 11 former livestock farms into a 67,000-acre reserve”
“BBC analysis of temperature data shows a clear shift. In the 1960s, the first 30C day was occurring on average on 13 July. In the 2020s that figure has been 19 June.”
“currently expected around 2030”
“Forty-four per cent of respondents said “more focus should be placed on protecting the environment, even if that harms economic growth”.”
“four-time Grammy-winning singer-producer”
“70% of land mass on our planet is suitable for human life.”
“In San Mateo County, about one in every 20 young western blacklegged ticks tested in 2024 and 2025 carried the bacteria that cause Lyme disease.”
“Rather than copying one DNA strand to make the other, as happens in normal DNA replication, the system uses two different reverse transcriptases to independently generate the two complementary strands”
“return of cheetahs to the Great Karoo after an absence of about 130 years”
“they are prepared to extend the lifetime of the station if directed by Congress (which wants to keep going at least another two years)”
“Less than a quarter (24%) said the focus should be on growth, “even if that comes at the expense of protecting the environment”.”
“the foldable iPhone “lacks a telephoto camera,” he writes.”
“40% of the soil humanity uses to sustain itself is already degraded and is becoming barren.”
“At Wunderlich County Park in Woodside, the figure was more than 12%.”
“The result is an extraordinarily simple strand of DNA, consisting of the repeating sequence C-A-C-A-C-A”
“Three cheetahs were initially released”
“handed out early-stage contracts valued at about $415 million in 2021 to three teams led by Nanoracks, Blue Origin and Northrop Grumman”
“a main wide lens and an ultrawide.”
“Almost 3 and a half billion people on the planet are affected by land degradation.”
“Long Island covers about 900,000 acres.”
“When they did, both DNA synthesis and the bacterium's antiviral defense broke down, confirming that the amino acids were critical to the process”
“reintroduced the desert-adapted subspecies of the critically endangered black rhinoceros”
“SpaceX Crew-13, which launches no earlier than Sept. 12”
“iPhone 17 Pros, by contrast, do have a 4x telephoto option.”
“Droughts have increased by two thirds since the year 2000.”
“At a common application rate, Ostfeld calculates that blanketing it with bifenthrin would require roughly 90 million gallons.”
“the new research examined brain recordings from 35 people being monitored for treatment-resistant epilepsy.”
“Fewer than 5,000 black rhinos remain worldwide”
“about a 15-minute drive from the heart of the NASA campus”
“4x optical zoom was technically a step down from the 5x optical zoom of the 16 Pro series”
“Water is becoming a scarce resource and the demand for it will surpass the sources by 40% by 2030.”
“Across 43 recording sessions, the researchers followed the activity of 1,373 brain cells.”
“Elephants followed in 2017, after an estimated absence of 150 years”
“more than 1,000 rocket launches per year by 2030.”
“5x was also available on the iPhone 15 Pro Max”
“85% of the affected people live in medium and low-income countries and much of the mass migration has to do with food and income being unavailable due to land degradation.”
“cells in those regions were about 30 percent more likely to send signals together. In some parts of the task, the increase reached 49 percent.”
“lions were also reintroduced to Samara. The animals had been absent from the area for about 180 years”
“SpaceX have driven U.S. launch cadences up more than 800% since 2015.”
“Pro Max could offer an incredible 6x optical zoom, and possibly even variable aperture photography”
“Over the last 8 decades the average temperature in Mongolia rose by 2 degrees Celsius and precipitation dropped significantly.”
“The shared ripples linked areas separated by as much as 220 millimeters and even appeared across the brain's two halves.”
“the first lions introduced to Samara were Titus and Sikelele, followed by another female, Sheba”
“Within 180 days of the memo's publication, NASA, the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the Department of Defense (DOD) are directed to begin identifying potential locations for future launch activities.”
“setting consumers back up to $2,500”
“77% of the country, or in another words, eight out of every ten steps of the land, are affected by desertification and is increasingly being covered by the encroaching sands.”
“coordinated signaling rose by about 13 percent while they held the images in mind and by 19 percent when they tried to recognize one.”
“more than 60 mammal species, including the Big Five, have been recorded on the reserve, along with 225 bird species”
“Rocket landing sites are getting extra attention, with the president's policy designating agencies to identify federal lands available for development as independent launch vehicle reentry sites within the next 90 days.”
“Netflix announced a quartet of actors joining the cast for the show’s third season, Battle of Alabasta.”
“Countries have already committed to the one billion hectare by 2030 and more than 70 countries had submitted already their drought management plans.”
“A ripple is a very brief burst of rhythmic oscillations in neuron excitability – roughly 90 cycles per second, lasting only about a tenth of a second.”
“In 2021, a leopard was seen at Samara for the first time”
“SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said his company is aiming to launch 30 or more Starship flights a day by 2030, which equates to more than 10,000 flights per year.”
“Expect the new season sometime in 2027.”
“60 organisations exhibiting their solutions”
“identifying the boundary of its main stellar body some 260 kiloparsecs from its center.”
“brought together 11 farms covering five of South Africa’s nine vegetation biomes”
“launching the Victus Nox mission with Firefly Aerospace with 27 hours' notice in 2023”
“Toei announced two new One Piece films, with the first expected to land in summer 2027.”
“In Veneto, in June 2026, temperatures were more than 3 degrees above the 1991-2020 average.”
“That makes it around 1.7 million light-years across – which makes it, according to a team led by astrophysicist Carlos Marrero de la Rosa of Spain's Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, the largest galaxy known to date.”
“One of the major achievements of Chandrayaan-3 was that it inspired 140 crore Indians across the globe.”
“Rocket Lab launched within just 17 hours.”
“Winding the clock back about 40 years”
“In July, the heat was exceptional especially at altitude, with the freezing level rising above 4,000 metres.”
“For comparison, the stellar disk of the Milky Way is roughly twenty times smaller in diameter," Marrero de la Rosa told ScienceAlert.”
“From that humble beginning, today we have reached the number one position in nine areas,”
“If all goes according to plan, MMX will launch on Oct. 19 at 3:41 p.m. EDT (1941 GMT; 4:41 a.m. on Oct. 20 Japan time), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) announced on Thursday (Aug. 20).”
“Then in 2029, Toei will release Baad Film.”
“On Piz Boè, according to the Arpav report updated to 31 July, the active layer has exceeded 7.4 metres in depth.”
“a structure 520 kiloparsecs, or 1.7 million light-years, across.”
“the first day of the mission's launch window, which extends through Nov. 7.”
“Both movies will celebrate One Piece’s manga turning 30 next year, and the anime’s 30th in 2029.”
“According to the figures cited by Legambiente, the province of Belluno has to contend every year with 150-200 collapses and landslides.”
“For the new study, he and his colleagues used the 2.5-meter Isaac Newton Telescope at Spain's Roque de los Muchachos Observatory to obtain the deepest images ever taken of IC 1101.”
“MMX will spend about a year traveling to Mars.”
“a bridge linking 11 islands in Lake St. Lawrence, Canada”
“Phobos and Deimos, which are just 14 miles (22 kilometers) and 7.5 miles (12 km) wide, respectively.”
“Three birds hang in the air like charcoal smudges on white paper,”
“55-pound (25 kilograms) French-German rover called Idefix.”
“Three Florida manatees bustle up against the edge of a freshwater drain in Everglades National Park”
“collecting about 0.35 ounces (10 grams) of material.”
“three undergraduate students sort through the sludge to count and collect fish and invertebrates from the coasts of Canada”
“MMX will leave Mars orbit with these samples in 2030 and deliver them to Earth for analysis a year later.”
“The Bronx River extends 23 miles through southeastern New York.”
“Mars and Earth align properly for interplanetary launches just once every 26 months, so this was a significant delay.”
“The WSC manages four accredited zoos and one aquarium in New York City.”
“JAXA originally intended to launch MMX in 2024 but had to stand down due to issues with the H3.”
“Starting in 2007, a pair of beavers made their home in the area.”
“The clip shows the moment of ignition of one of the spacecraft's six Raptor 3 engines, which burns for approximately 15 seconds.”
“This otter’s return is a gift, not just to the Bronx River but to the communities that have fought for 50 years to bring this river back to life.”
“That burn lasted approximately 60 seconds, as seen in video posted by the company the next day.”
“the first such sighting recorded in about a century.”
“In an Aug. 20 X post, Musk said SpaceX aims to support 30 Starship launches per day, or more.”
“Since the 1970s, however, groups like the Bronx River Alliance and Bronz Zoo have been working to restore the river to its previous state.”
