2,959 source-backed science facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 11 of 30.
“Taking part in the two-day gathering was Scot Rafkin, director of the Department of Space Studies at the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and a planetary and atmospheric scientist. The summit was held at SwRI's Solar System Science & Ex…”
“RBFRS requested a model from the Met Office to understand the potential extent of contamination from the fire, he added.”
“59 test sites”
“Comparing 21-27 June 2026 – when record heat gripped much of western Europe – against a baseline of 14-20 June, the analysis shows that electricity prices rose by an estimated €371 million in Germany and €360 million in France.”
“Dr Emily Broadwell spent three months on Signy Island in Antarctica investigating rare snow and glacier algae as part of her doctoral research at the University of Bristol.”
“from 2023 to 2025, Amazon Price contracts were unfair, in that Amazon could “unilaterally make negative changes” without any recourse for the customer.”
“Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the UK have historically averaged single-digit numbers of days above 90°F per year. Houston has at least 100.”
“as soon as this Tuesday 30 June, 6:17 am EDT (10:17 UTC)”
“Papyrologists, who study and preserve the ancient manuscripts, announced June 25 that they had digitally unwrapped the surviving portion of one scroll, known as PHerc. 1667, revealing roughly 5 feet (1.5 meters) of continuous Greek text ac…”
“Next up for setting down on Titan is NASA's nuclear-powered Dragonfly, now projected to launch no earlier than 2028”
“The aim of the work undertaken as part of the Risks Beyond Human Eyes project, a joint venture between risk research company ASRA and the University of the West of England, was to identify the risks animals face around the River Tone. The …”
“A recent study by World Weather Attribution found that it would have been “virtually impossible” without climate change driven by fossil fuel emissions.”
“Once on the island, she and five colleagues operated from a former whaling station [...]”
“when Amazon Prime rolled out ads in 2024, the suit said this version of the contract enabled Amazon to unfairly force ad-free customers onto a more expensive tier if they wanted to stay ad-free.”
“This is the first American space robot to go up and do anything like this,”
“Researchers also recovered more than 70 columns of text from a second scroll, PHerc. 172.”
“During its over three-year surface mission”
“How can you predict when a car is going to turn up when you are only 30cm from the ground? MacDonald said. 'You haven't had that experience of hold your mum's hand, look right, left. Otters get killed on our roads.'”
“The samples were transported back to the University of Bristol's Cabot Institute for the Environment, where DNA analysis was conducted alongside specimens from Arctic and Alpine regions.”
“Amazon U.S. “was knowingly concerned in Amazon AU’s conduct.””
“This is a high-risk, high-reward mission,”
“Part of PHerc. 1667 was physically opened in the 1980s, but overlapping layers obscured the writing so badly that the scroll was given a readability score of zero, Federica Nicolardi, a papyrologist at the University of Naples Federico II,…”
“A second Humans to Titan Summit, said Hendrix, is slated around the launch date in 2028 of the NASA Dragonfly mission.”
“Something happens in one part of the system and it cascades through and contaminates everything,”
“Notably, we found red snow algae dominating the ice cap, where Ancylonema glacier algae would normally be expected to prevail.”
“Amazon made $68 billion in ad revenue last year.”
“The Swift telescope launched in 2004”
“In a separate discovery, researchers identified a new book title within scroll PHerc. 139. The end of the scroll references Philodemus' eighth book of 'On Gods.' While this treatise had previously been known to exist, the new discovery rev…”
“Rocket Lab has inked a landmark $8 billion deal to acquire long-time satellite communications giant Iridium.”
“Helen Lewy, part of the Friends of Longrun Meadow in Taunton, decided to be a kestrel as part of the project. She said: 'I went out and sat at the side of a meadow and got my mind into being a kestrel in this landscape. You look around and…”
“Study co-author Dr Chris Williamson, an associate professor in polar microbiology, stressed that this 'hidden diversity' demonstrates the necessity for additional sampling.”
“The five Big Tech firms Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft, and TikTok reportedly rake in two thirds of all ad revenue now, according to a MoffettNathanson report from last year.”
“made up of 330 images captured by Swift”
“The breakthrough comes from the Vesuvius Challenge, an international research effort to digitally read the scrolls that were preserved when Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried by ash and pumice in A.D. 79.”
“at $54 per share, equating to an $8 billion deal.”
“A £400million commitment by Ed Miliband to help support the rainforest has been shelved after Rachel Reeves voiced "optics concerns".”
“Also in 2025, Amazon was also the largest advertiser in the world by amount spent, according to Ad Age.”
“showing a region 200,000 light-years wide and 100,000 light-years high”
“to more than 2.5 million customers.”
“The fund aims to create a $125billion (£94.7billion) forest conservation fund using a mix of public funding and private money.”
“Supermicro is a legitimate hardware company based in San Jose, California that nonetheless has a long list of brushes with legal controversy. And today, according to Bloomberg, it had its Taiwan office and about eight other locations raide…”
“a contract that cost a reported US$30 million”
“the company went bankrupt in 1999.”
“Shares closed down about 8% if you care about that sort of thing.”
“keep it at least 300 kilometers (185 miles) above Earth's surface”
“through the $3 billion Iridium NEXT campaign, launching 75 replacement satellites aboard SpaceX rockets between 2017 and 2019.”
“Bloomberg’s sources say Taiwan’s effort on Monday, which involved raids on six residences and three “affiliated companies,” included the Taiwan office of Super Micro Computer Inc.”
“In 2024, astronomers found a giant, almost perfect ring of galaxies, some 1.3 billion light-years in diameter.”
“within 16 hours and 42 minutes of receiving notice from USSF's Space Systems Command”
“back in March, the U.S. feds charged two Supermicro employees and a Supermicro contractor with what seems to have been a half-sophisticated, half-hilariously crude scheme”
“The signal was picked up in light that has traveled for 6.9 billion years to reach us.”
“for three different science missions to launch in 2027.”
““The conduct by these individuals alleged in the indictment is a contravention of the Company’s policies and compliance controls, including efforts to circumvent applicable export control laws and regulations. Supermicro maintains a robust…”
“Cosmologists calculate the current theoretical size limit of structures to be 1.2 billion light-years, yet both of these structures are much larger – the Giant Arc is almost three times bigger and the Big Ring's circumference is comparable…”
“announced today (June 29).”
“Supermicro’s latest statement to Bloomberg says it continues to “cooperate with law enforcement and government officials in Taiwan and other jurisdictions in which we operate to ensure our technology is distributed as lawfully intended.””
“BAOs are all a fixed size of around 1 billion light-years in diameter.”
“They want to ban kids from social media.”
“It's the second giant structure discovered by Lopez and her colleagues. The first, called the Giant Arc, is actually in the same part of the sky, at the same distance away. When the arc's discovery was announced in 2021...”
“They propose age restrictions for 'additive apps,' banning anyone under the age of 16.”
“From current cosmological theories we didn't think structures on this scale were possible, We could expect maybe one exceedingly large structure in all our observable Universe.”
“According to recent polling by Fox News, banning kids from social media is supported by 74% of Republicans and 56% of Democrats.”
“The discovery, led by astronomer Alexia Lopez of the University of Central Lancashire, was presented at the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in 2024, and was published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.”
“Recent research from the British Medical Journal found that 85% of Australian teens had accessed social media in the previous seven days.”
“Neither of these two ultra-large structures is easy to explain in our current understanding of the universe,”
“Booker is a likely Democratic presidential primary candidate for 2028, and he told Semafor, 'This blueprint offers several serious ideas for how to rein in these harmful practices, promote more responsible technology, and better protect ki…”
“The first, called the Giant Arc, is actually in the same part of the sky, at the same distance away.”
“Semafor, which was the first to report on the Project 2029 proposal, notes that the executive director of the organization is Chad Maisel, who used to advise President Joe Biden and Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey.”
“after a man in his 20s used a massage gun on and around his eyes”
“This blueprint offers several serious ideas for how to rein in these harmful practices, promote more responsible technology, and better protect kids online.”
“doing it weekly for around three months, with each 'treatment' taking several minutes”
“the school has spent $500,000 on two Ameca robots”
“multiple tears in his retinas and serious bruising (commotio retinae) in both eyes”
“this review puts the price at between $100,000 and $500,000, depending on configuration”
“The retina in his right eye had also detached from the eye wall”
“we plan to have Ameca onsite until Fall 2026”
“This is the first case of retinal dialysis with multiple bilateral retinal tears in the literature associated with percussive massage gun use.”
“On average, the US Public Education system spends about $16,500 per student in a given year”
“he sought medical help just 6 days after noticing his symptoms”
“California’s spending is a little higher, at an average of $21,600”
“the District of Columbia has the highest per-student figure at $37,300”
“Idaho brings out the rear with $11,200”
“That means you could fund 23 kids’ education for a year with the $500,000 spent on these robots”
“Markiplier’s Iron Lung hit the number two spot on its opening weekend, finishing behind Sam Raimi’s Send Help but ahead of the Melania Trump documentary.”
“his $50 million box-office success”
“He has nearly 39 million subscribers on the platform”
“Fifteen minutes of new footage is being added to the hit horror film starting on July 3.”
“'Iron Lung', independently funded by the Youtuber, narrowly lost the box office number 1 spot to 'Send Help'.”
“the film cost $170 million to make, $120 million to market, and has a break-even point of about $300 million”
“The film’s $68 million opening weekend globally”
“it’ll end up making about $200 million by the end of its run”
“could lose almost $100 million”
“the studio also grossed over $4 billion from its movies in 2025”
“Milly Alcock and Jason Momoa star in DC's latest film, in theaters on June 26”
“While Supergirl didn’t meet our box office expectations, it’s just one component of a broader, long-term strategy at DC Studios that we remain confident in”
“that long-term strategy continues later this summer with Lanterns on HBO Max”
“Clayface in theaters in October”
“next summer with James Gunn’s upcoming Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow, which is now filming”
“reduce blur and shakiness by up to 50% with software”
“Meta now offers up to 3K video”
