2,959 source-backed science facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 10 of 30.
“It took microbiologist Jill Mikucki, now at the University of Tennessee, several years just to get a usable sample of the water – but when she finally did, the analysis revealed a thriving microbial ecosystem. They've never seen sunlight.…”
“When the United States declared independence in 1776, astronomers recognized just six planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.”
“Results of soil samples for 71 properties showed concentrations of PFOA, with seven homes being identified as being high risk.”
“While almost nine in 10 (89 per cent) of UK citizens report that they recycle, according to The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP), 81 per cent are putting the wrong things in their recycling bins.”
“The methane gas turbines have reportedly been installed without public notice, the proper permits, or the necessary air pollution controls, according to the Southern Environmental Law Center and the NAACP.”
“more than a million of them”
“It is concrete evidence that the empire directed one of its most important food sources hundreds of miles from the Andes, down to the Pacific Ocean. Chuño is made by repeatedly exposing potatoes to nighttime frost and daytime sun until nea…”
“In September 2018, the team had three separate instruments running at once near Taylor Glacier almost by chance: a GPS station tracking the glacier's surface, a camera photographing Blood Falls daily, and a string of temperature sensors in…”
“That changed only five years later when William Herschel discovered Uranus in 1781, expanding the known solar system and increasing the planet count to seven.”
“Dearne Valley Divers will study sharks in Scotland... The club began in the 1980s and now has about 60 members, ranging from children to over-65s, who train at Dearneside Leisure Centre... Twenty divers will spend the next few weeks undert…”
“Research done by Wrap found that over 80 per cent of what we bring into our households are recyclable.”
“Today, the number of morning launches in the Lower 48 has been reduced by half, according to MyRadar senior meteorologist Matthew Cappucci.”
“500 network connections”
“chuño had to be produced in the mountains and then transported using llama caravans, often hundreds of kilometers, to feed people living elsewhere in the empire.”
“The new paper in Antarctic Science, led by earth scientist Peter Doran from Louisiana State University, sheds light on the process around the falls bursting. The research was published in Antarctic Science.”
“The tally grew again in 1801 with the discovery of Ceres, a world orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Three similar objects were found soon afterward, and for a time astronomers considered all of them planets, briefly bringing the total to …”
“Each year dozens of tope sharks gather off the Inner Hebrides for a month... The sharks are critically endangered... They are classic looking sharks, about one to two metres in length... Tope sharks appear as critically endangered on the I…”
“Only nine per cent feel “very confident” about what can and can’t be recycled.”
“2.33 million-year-old Homo fossil”
“Because chuño can be made only above roughly 11,800 feet (3,600 meters), the samples at Tambo Viejo must have traveled down from the highlands, most likely via a llama caravan along the Inca road network, Valdez said.”
“Neil is a five-and-a-half-year-old southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) who returns each year to the beaches of Hobart, an Australian capital city, to shed his coat.”
“Neptune's discovery in 1846 raised the total to eight”
“I was mesmerised by literally hundreds of sharks in this bay. You could see all the black slits in the water, they ranged from one to two metres in size... It struck me as being really unusual as I've conducted more than 700 dives across t…”
“However, many can be recycled or reused when taken to a local reuse and recycling centre, which should be within a 20-minute drive.”
“Potatoes are roughly 80% water, and they typically rot within a week at lower, warmer elevations — making them a poor food choice for long-distance storage.”
“With every extra chunk of blubber, the seal seems to be accruing more and more fans, with a TikTok following of 1.4 million.”
“Clyde Tombaugh's discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory in 1930 established the familiar nine-planet solar system.”
“A family of two adults and four kits were originally moved into a five-hectare woodland enclosure in Worcestershire's Wyre Forest in April 2024, in a programme to reintroduce the species to the wild.”
“His team drew attention in 2023 when they used magnets to retrieve hundreds of small spheres from the floor of the Pacific Ocean, near the possible site of a 2014 meteor crash.”
“The discovery happened during the 2024 field season at Tambo Viejo, an Inca provincial center in the Acarí Valley, where an archaeological team had worked for several years.”
“Neil is in familiar territory, he was knocking out these same guide posts 2 years ago in his season 3 visit here in these videos 🦭🚧🦺🚨 #neiltheseal #familiar”
“The debate surrounding Pluto's classification culminated in 2006, when the International Astronomical Union adopted a formal definition of a planet. Under that definition, a planet must orbit the sun, be massive enough to become nearly rou…”
“The beavers are said to be thriving and have since added to their brood, with three more kits being born there within the past month... Richard Boles, from Forestry England, said three kits had been captured on cameras... He said the beave…”
“In the new study, published May 1 in the Journal of Field Archaeology, Valdez and study co-author Katrina Bettcher, an independent archaeologist, reported that the chuño was found alongside an Inca pottery fragment and a broken spindle who…”
“Experts with Tasmania's Department of Natural Resources and Environment estimate that the elephant seal is currently galumphing around with 1,000 kilograms under his belt, according to reporting from ABC News Australia.”
“As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary”
“Eleanor Nash, community ranger, said beaver kits were usually nursed for about two to three months. "During that time they are looked after by the whole family, so their older siblings will help to look after them as well and it's quite co…”
“Inside a small storage room, the team uncovered a clay pot sunk into the dirt floor, its top half long gone. As researchers scooped soil out of the broken pot, they reached its bottom. "Almost at the base of the vessel, the two samples of …”
“they urge anyone who sees the elephant seal to keep a safe distance, roughly 20 meters from the seal, starting from your outstretched hand.”
“The tally grew again in 1801 with the discovery of Ceres, a world orbiting between Mars and Jupiter. Three similar objects were found soon afterward, and for a time astronomers considered all of them planets, briefly bringing the total to …”
“The animals in the Wyre Forest have built many dams that help to reduce flooding since moving into the enclosure, including one stretching 30 metres. "We've now got probably about eight to 10 smaller dams that have been built," Boles added.”
“The two freeze-dried potatoes survived thanks to the Acarí Valley's extremely dry conditions, which help preserve organic remains that would otherwise decay — the same conditions that have previously yielded naturally mummified guinea pigs…”
“Neil's home 🏠🦭#neiltheseal #season4 #welcomehome @Neil the Seal 🦭”
“The debate surrounding Pluto's classification culminated in 2006, when the International Astronomical Union adopted a formal definition of a planet. Under that definition, a planet must orbit the sun, be massive enough to become nearly rou…”
“The exhibition includes large inflatables of the moon and the Earth, as well as the other seven planets in our solar system”
“Two lumps of potato discovered in a roughly 500-year-old Inca storage room in Peru are a rare find: freeze-dried potatoes predating the Spanish invasion, a new study finds. [...] It is concrete evidence that the empire directed one of its …”
“Next year, Neil is likely to be even bigger.”
“"The helium leaks and propulsion systems failures remain unresolved as of March 2026, and NASA is uncertain as to when this testing will be completed or human-rating certification for the Starliner will be obtained,"”
“In March the council introduced a food waste collection as a pilot and says it has successfully collected over 110 tonnes of waste, which has been transformed into green energy and fertiliser.”
“In the new study, published May 1 in the Journal of Field Archaeology, Valdez and study co-author Katrina Bettcher, an independent archaeologist, reported that the chuño was found alongside an Inca pottery fragment and a broken spindle who…”
“NASA will need to purchase more flights from those vendors, SpaceX and Boeing, "to continue to fully crew the ISS through 2030,"”
“TDC said its new Simpler Recycling collections - which affect 27,000 households - had already seen a 31% increase in food recycling and a 5% rise in mixed recycling.”
“SpaceX has been flying astronauts successfully since 2020 and is readying to send its 13th operational crewed mission (known as Crew-13) to the orbiting complex in September.”
“Our teams have identified a number of nearby properties where bathrooms, washing machines and sinks are plumbed into the surface water sewer incorrectly”
“Boeing, however, has just one astronaut flight under its belt — CFT, which launched in June 2024 and encountered multiple problems, resulting in NASA having to bring the two astronauts back home on a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule instead of S…”
“Yorkshire Water sewage spills down to 1,000 a week”
“NASA ultimately reclassified Starliner's first crewed flight as a Type A mishap, the most serious type in human spaceflight, in February 2026.”
“Water firm invests £1.4m to cut sewage discharges”
“The fact that it took 21 months for the agency to do so is concerning...”
“the Deerlands combined storm overflow had discharged following heavy rainfall on 26 June”
“while collecting "$17 million in additional costs to accelerate spaceflights originally planned for the Starliner,"”
“Thames Water says the equivalent of 300 bathtubs of concrete is being discharged into its sewers each year, and it has to spend about £1.6m clearing it from pipes.”
“The helium leaks and propulsion systems failures remain unresolved as of March 2026, and NASA is uncertain as to when this testing will be completed or human-rating certification for the Starliner will be obtained”
“In 2019 a "concreteberg" weighing as much as 20 elephants blocked three sewers.”
“NASA will need to purchase more flights from those vendors, SpaceX and Boeing, 'to continue to fully crew the ISS through 2030'”
“Mr Justice Mould concluded the scheme would not 'materially impact' the government's ability to meet net zero targets”
“while collecting "$17 million in additional costs to accelerate spaceflights originally planned for the Starliner"”
“On Friday evening, (26 June) we were made aware of a burst on our Cargo Fleet sewage main near Dockside Road in Middlesbrough. There is potential that this was caused by a third party, but our teams are working around the clock to find a s…”
“NASA ultimately reclassified Starliner's first crewed flight as a Type A mishap, the most serious type in human spaceflight, in February 2026”
“The EA advised against bathing at Seaton Carew North, Seaton Carew Centre, Seaton Carew North Gare, Redcar Coatham, Redcar Lifeboat Station, Redcar Granville, Redcar Stray, Marske Sands and Saltburn.”
“Boeing, however, has just one astronaut flight under its belt — CFT, which launched in June 2024 and encountered multiple problems, resulting in NASA having to bring the two astronauts back home on a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule instead of S…”
“Northumbrian Water said due to the damage "sewage in the system has backed up, and we have needed to carry out very controlled, heavily diluted discharges through our storm overflow in Redcar".”
“NASA named Astrobotic, Firefly Aerospace and Intuitive Machines as the providers of four robotic landers that will deliver scientific payloads to the surface of the moon”
“Through 2029, NASA hopes to launch up to 20 such missions as part of the CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative”
“Each CLPS lander mission will carry at least three NASA payloads.”
“Two lunar deliveries were awarded to Astrobotic's Griffin 1 lander, one of which will fly Astrolab's FLIP rover the surface of the moon in the second half of 2026.”
“Already expected this year was Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 1 cargo lander. It's slated to launch on the company's New Glenn rocket, which exploded last month during an engine test. That anomaly has complicated the Blue Moon timeline, thou…”
“(NASA plans to build its Artemis base near the moon's south pole”
“Like Perseverance and Curiosity, the test rover is powered by a radioisotope thermoelectric generator (RTG)”
“The Stereo Camera for Lunar Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) array will study lander engine exhaust plume effects on lunar dust...; a Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA) will test landers' ability to determine positioning and navigate using la…”
“NASA provided an Artemis update today (June 30), announcing new lunar landing contracts for its Moon Base initiative and a surprise new possible rover mission that could be headed to the moon's south pole. [...] the agency named Astrobotic…”
“Through 2029, NASA hopes to launch up to 20 such missions as part of the CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative to support the first phase of the agency's moon base plans, and the landers announced today will be some of the fi…”
“Each CLPS lander mission will carry at least three NASA payloads. The Stereo Camera for Lunar Plume Surface Studies (SCALPSS) array will study lander engine exhaust plume effects on lunar dust [...] a Laser Retroreflector Array (LRA) will …”
“There is another,”
“It was back in England, in 1781. William Herschel had just made what was possibly the greatest astronomical discovery the world had seen up to that point: a new planet, Uranus... He was looking through it from the back garden of his home i…”
“...including the famous discovery machine that was the 20-foot, or -meter, in focal length telescope with its 18-inch (457-mm) aperture...”
“...and the less successful 40-foot (12-meter) telescope.”
“Lassell built reflectors with apertures of 24 and 48 inches (61 and 122 centimeters).”
“And the great Leviathan of Parsonstown in Ireland is Lord Rosse's own behemoth, still standing today as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.”
“The 'race' was won by the 40-inch (one-meter) refractor at Yerkes Observatory in Chicago in 1897, which cost $500,000 at the time (about $20 million in today's money)...”
“...only rivaled by the one-meter Swedish Solar Telescope on La Palma, but even this is stepped down from 42 inches to 39 inches (107 cm to 99 cm).”
“Percival Lowell, obsessed with his delusions about canals on Mars, founded the Lowell Observatory in Arizona in 1894.”
“I have argued that in the 1880s, America was a bit of an astronomical backwater compared to Europe, but by the 1920s the United States had become the leading nation, certainly in terms of observational astronomy, said Smith.”
“William Herschel had just made what was possibly the greatest astronomical discovery the world had seen up to that point: a new planet, Uranus. The fact that Herschel had found a seventh planet from the sun was revolutionary in itself. All…”
“The 'race' was won by the 40-inch (one-meter) refractor at Yerkes Observatory in Chicago in 1897, which cost $500,000 at the time (about $20 million in today's money).”
“The Hooker Telescope saw its first light in 1917.”
“The Hale Telescope, named after the Mount Wilson director and which has a 5.1-meter (200-inch) mirror and came into operation on Mount Palomar in 1949.”
“Launched in 1990, Hubble continues against all the odds to push the frontiers of science. "Its output is staggering," said Smith. It has made over 1.7 million individual observations in the past 36 years, and 23,000 research papers based o…”
“and then what would be the largest telescope in the world at that time, the 2.5-meter (100-inch) Hooker Telescope, made possible thanks to a generous financial gift from John Hooker.”
“The "Humans to Titan Summit 2026" was held here on June 11 and June 12”
