2,654 source-backed science facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 12 of 27.
“A study published in the scientific journal Nature Human Behaviour examined more than 105,000 real news headlines viewed nearly six million times.”
“The $30 million salvage operation gets underway as soon as this week with the planned launch of a robotic lifesaver.”
“Hayabusa2 launched in December 2014”
“Scanning the cosmos since its launch in 2004, Swift has been sinking faster and faster...”
“In their 2022 study, the researchers found that 17% of American adults qualified as having severe levels of PNC.”
“Scanning the cosmos since its launch in 2004, Swift has been sinking faster and faster because of recent intense solar activity.”
“rendezvoused with the asteroid Ryugu four years later”
“to raise its orbit from the current 224 miles to the desired 373 miles.”
“Among that group, 61% reported feeling unwell quite a bit or very much, compared with 6% of those who didn't.”
“It will take Katalyst’s autonomous spacecraft, named Link, about a month to rendezvous with Swift and catch it, and another couple months to raise its orbit from the current 224 miles (360 kilometers) to the desired 373 miles (600 kilomete…”
“delivered them to Earth in 2020”
“The 1.6-ton gamma ray observatory must be above 185 miles for the rescue to work.”
“the sun is expected to have a relatively calm, 10 billion-year life.”
“It’s expected to reach that point of no return in October, according to the latest estimates.”
“now is set to make a flyby of the asteroid Torifune on July 5”
“It's expected to reach that point of no return in October, according to the latest estimates.”
“In about 5 billion years, it will run out of hydrogen to fuse in its core and begin fusing hydrogen in its shell, causing it to expand enormously into a red giant star and then an even larger "AGB star," before it ultimately dies as a whit…”
“If all goes well, Swift could be back in business by September, according to Lee.”
“said in a presentation on Hayabusa2 during the 35th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) on June 11”
“Roughly the size of a small kitchen refrigerator with a 40-foot solar wingspan, Lift sports three arms...”
“Letter to the Editor published June 19 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics”
“NASA signed a contract with Katalyst last September with only two requests: It has to be a rush job, but please don’t make things worse.”
“The flyby will see Hayabusa2 get within 1 to 10 kilometres of Torifune”
“Lift sports three arms with a reach of just over 3 feet.”
“L2 Puppis, located 200 light-years away”
“NASA has bought a little more time for Swift, turning off all scientific instruments to slow its descent. Observations ceased in February.”
“study the roughly 450‑metre‑wide asteroid”
“Each arm has two finger-like pinching grippers that resemble the hands of a Lego mini figure.”
“L2 Puppis may be losing up to one-millionth of a solar mass per year”
“We don’t currently have the budget to build another one to replace that.”
“whizzes past at 5.3 kilometres per second”
“It will take Katalyst's autonomous spacecraft, named Lift, about a month to rendezvous with Swift and catch it.”
“expelling a dusty disk that's thought to harbor a planet 12 to 16 times the mass of Jupiter”
“The company’s next-generation robotic rescuer, scheduled to fly next year, will tackle satellites as high as 22,300 miles (35,800 kilometers) up.”
“flyby at a distance of only about 1 kilometre”
“It will take Katalyst's autonomous spacecraft, named Lift, about a month to rendezvous with Swift and catch it, and another couple months to raise its orbit from the current 224 miles to the desired 373 miles.”
“Esseldeurs, M., Mathis, S., & Decin, L. (2026). The fate of Earth during the Sun’s giant phases. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 710, L26.”
“Thirty-six-year-old Hubble, which received repeat servicing by spacewalking astronauts during the shuttle era, could follow in 2028 with a life-extending Katalyst boost.”
“as demonstrated by NASA's DART mission in 2022”
“If all goes well, Swift could be back in business by September, according to Lee.”
“the European Space Agency's PLATO mission, a space telescope that aims to search for Earth-like planets around sunlike stars, will launch next year.”
“Only China has attempted a mission like the upcoming one, successfully boosting a satellite into a higher graveyard orbit four years ago.”
“the ultimate goal of the Hayabusa2 extended mission is to visit the tiny asteroid 1998 KY26 in 2031”
“Observations ceased in February.”
“As a yellow dwarf star, the sun is expected to have a relatively calm, 10 billion-year life.”
“Right now 150 million people are living under extreme heat, hundreds have died, schools are shut, grids are buckling.”
“which is just 11 metres (36 feet) wide”
“The company's next-generation robotic rescuer, scheduled to fly next year, will tackle satellites as high as 22,300 miles up.”
“But in about 5 billion years, it will run out of hydrogen to fuse in its core and begin fusing hydrogen in its shell, causing it to expand enormously into a red giant star...”
“the rapid study found that the heat would have been virtually impossible just five decades ago, and is 200 times more likely today than it would have been 20 years ago.”
“The second thing is that we have a high uncertainty on the size of the object”
“Now, in a Letter to the Editor published June 19 in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics...”
“Those warnings blanketed about three-quarters of the country at the peak of the heat wave.”
“now is set to make a flyby of the asteroid Torifune on July 5, Satoshi Tanaka of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said in a presentation on Hayabusa2 during the 35th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group (SBAG) …”
“to glimpse our solar future. L2 Puppis, located 200 light-years away in the "poop deck" constellation Puppis...”
“By combining advanced navigation techniques and the engineering capabilities of Hayabusa2, we have made it possible to achieve a flyby at a distance of only about 1 kilometer.”
“L2 Puppis may be losing up to one-millionth of a solar mass per year, according to previous estimates...”
“The flyby will see Hayabusa2 get within 1 to 10 kilometers (0.62 to 6.2 miles) of Torifune, using its instrument suite to study the roughly 450-meter-wide (1,476 feet) asteroid as it whizzes past at 5.3 kilometers per second (3.3 miles per…”
“expelling a dusty disk that's thought to harbor a planet 12 to 16 times the mass of Jupiter.”
“Hayabusa2 launched in December 2014.”
“For example, the European Space Agency's PLATO mission, a space telescope that aims to search for Earth-like planets around sunlike stars, will launch next year.”
“and rendezvoused with the asteroid Ryugu four years later.”
“But even if Earth survives, our solar system siblings will not be spared; the simulations suggest Mercury and Venus will be engulfed by the hellish blaze of our dying star.”
“delivered them to Earth in 2020.”
“According to Google's own estimates, processing a median-length text prompt with its AI assistant Gemini consumes around 0.24 watt-hours.”
“Torifune was first given the designation 2001 CC21.”
“In March 2026, OpenAI estimated that more than 900 million people use its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, every week, tallying billions of queries daily.”
“roughly 450-meter-wide.”
“But according to the most recent estimates by the International Energy Agency, US data centers guzzled some 224 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2025 — more than 5 percent of the country's electricity use.”
“5.3 kilometers per second.”
“That's a significant uptick from an estimated 1.9 percent consumed in 2018, well before the mainstream surge of generative AI.”
“visit the tiny asteroid 1998 KY26 in 2031.”
“In the race to secure market leadership for generative AI products, companies like Google, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft and Oracle are investing tens to hundreds of billions of dollars to build AI-focused data centers.”
“just 11 meters (36 feet) wide.”
“In one 2025 paper published by UNESCO, computer scientist Ivana Drobnjak of University College London and colleagues compared energy consumption of Meta's language model Llama-3.1 with smaller AI models dedicated to particular tasks — ones…”
“would be the smallest asteroid ever visited.”
“While Google spokesperson Ralf Bremer notes that the 0.24 watt-hours currently spent on processing median-length Gemini prompts is already 33 times more efficient than it was back in 2024”
“NASA's DART mission in 2022.”
“using about 50 percent less energy than transformer-type models to process texts of around 8,000 words in length, Klambauer says.”
“The spacecraft has been operating well, despite needing to briefly enter a protective safe mode last year, and now is set to make a flyby of the asteroid Torifune on July 5, Satoshi Tanaka of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA…”
“Dinner-plate-sized "wafer-scale chips" can pack nearly 70 times as many transistors as a single, postage-stamp-sized GPU and consume 143 times less electricity for communication than comparable GPUs, says computer engineer Rakesh Kumar of …”
“Hayabusa2 launched in December 2014 and rendezvoused with the asteroid Ryugu four years later.”
“Over the past eight years, NVIDIA GPUs have improved 45,000 [times] in energy efficiency for large language model workloads," he says.”
“The spacecraft collected samples and delivered them to Earth in 2020, completing its primary objectives.”
“Manea and colleagues estimate that gain cells in lieu of traditional GPUs can reduce the energy guzzled by one of the most energy-consuming parts of transformer-based LLMs by four orders of magnitude.”
“The ultimate goal of the Hayabusa2 extended mission is to visit the tiny asteroid 1998 KY26 in 2031, which would be the smallest asteroid ever visited.”
“Maaß, for example, is part of a team that received roughly $5.8 million from the German government to test neuromorphic chips, among other strategies, to reduce the energy required for AI models.”
“The spacecraft could even attempt to land on the miniscule world, which is just 11 meters (36 feet) wide.”
“nanoelectronics expert Tony Kenyon of University College London, whose team recently received $17 million from the UK government to develop neuromorphic computing.”
“Such reconnaissance could provide vital information before intercepting a threatening asteroid with a kinetic impact, as demonstrated by NASA's DART mission in 2022.”
“Joshi; he recently estimated that manufacturing optical chips could consume up to an order of magnitude less energy than conventional ones of the same size.”
“You recently estimated that better siting — along with energy-efficient hardware and software — could reduce future carbon and water footprints of US data centers by 73 percent and 86 percent, respectively.”
“Google spokesperson Ralf Bremer emphasized the company's goal of reaching net-zero emissions across its operations by 2030 and replenishing 120 percent of the fresh water consumed by its offices and data centers by 2030.”
“So far, he and his team have counted nearly 220 policies introduced to address data center sustainability at the US state level, 18 at the federal level, and more from other countries, though not all were ultimately adopted.”
“But according to the most recent estimates by the International Energy Agency, US data centers guzzled some 224 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2025”
“Compared to data centers of the pre-AI days that consume, say, 100 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 83,000 homes with average demand”
“the newcomers are often 'hyperscale' and can use a gigawatt or more, or roughly a tenth of the electrical capacity of Los Angeles.”
“Without them, according to one 2025 estimate, US data centers could soon be releasing the equivalent of 24 to 44 megatons of CO2 annually”
“the latter equivalent to the annual emissions of Norway.”
“For every megawatt for which we install fossil fuel power,”
