2,959 source-backed science facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 12 of 30.
“Nearly 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius buried a vast collection of scrolls in ash and scorched them into solid black lumps.”
“while the Welsh government is understood to require 3,500 reverse vending machines to handle glass at the outset of the DRS scheme in Wales”
“This $75 million futuristic fairy tale was filmed in a dreamy, desaturated preternatural haze that draws audiences into its emotional depths, making 'A.I.' one of Spielberg’s finest films made during what can be considered his darker, more…”
“the first signs of ozone depletion actually appeared as early as 1957.”
“Apocalyptic rhetoric about how it’s game over for the climate if we do not cut greenhouse emissions 43% by 2030 is not only annoying but wrong. There’s no such thing as game over for the climate. … there is no inflection point where we all…”
“Yunnan hospitals get dozens of these cases each year.”
“The result, the researchers concluded, was the new 20-million estimate for the number of insect species that call Earth home.”
“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…”
“the proposal from Exchange for Change is to launch with 100 suitable machines around the country”
“Spielberg naturally brought along his faithful A-list team of Oscar-winning collaborators that included cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, editor Michael Kahn, and composer John Williams for this PG-13 sci-fi adventure whose eventual global …”
“It took another 30 years for scientists to develop the atmospheric monitoring capabilities that led them to discover the hole.”
“gave Joe Biden’s absurdly ambitious $1.7 trillion climate proposal an F-minus grade”
“University of Utah mycologists Colin Domnauer and Bryn Dentinger sequenced the genomes of 53 mushroom samples from across the wider Lanmaoa genus.”
“According to a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, however, that head count is also likely an undercount, with the actual number of insect species topping out at anywhere from 14 million to 20 million—or more …”
“The handwriting and text of PHerc. 1667 suggest the scroll dates to the second or third century B.C., making it one of the oldest scrolls in the Herculaneum collection.”
“if you look at any deposit return scheme as it's being rolled out in all of the 40-plus nations that it's currently running in”
“Released by Warner Brothers on June 29, 2001, the mature sci-fi film attracted a diverse audience that was mesmerized by the depiction of a climate-changed world and the advancement of artificial humans called mechas.”
“By 1984, the ozone layer over Halley was only two-thirds as thick as it had been in earlier decades.”
“Ivory Soap environmentalism that rejects 99.44 percent pure as a sellout to Big Oil”
“By identifying 1,515 corresponding genes across the selected specimens, the researchers obtained a clearer answer to the question of what defines a mushroom species as part of the genus Lanmaoa.”
“A total of 54,000 species were detected among the 1.6 million insects.”
“The end of the scroll references Philodemus' eighth book of 'On Gods.' While this treatise had previously been known to exist, the new discovery reveals the work extended across at least eight volumes.”
“Spielberg was then brought in as a potential director in 1995, and the two cinematic geniuses collaborated for years to map out the story.”
“over the past 76 years, finding that the earliest sign of ozone depletion would have been detectable over the tropics by 1957.”
“A few extra degrees of warmth by 2100 doesn’t sound so horrific, especially to people who will not be alive in 2100.”
“There are now 17 recognized species in the genus, including four that haven't been identified before, two of which the researchers specifically named here: Lanmaoa fallax and Lanmaoa carbonilivor.”
“That method yielded an estimate of 2,400 Microgastrinae species in the ACG and a whopping 333,000 insect species overall.”
“More than 600 Herculaneum scrolls remain unopened.”
“Upon Kubrick's surprising death in 1999 (some believing foul play for revealing industry secrets), four days following the release of 'Eyes Wide Shut', Spielberg agreed to complete the project for his friend and mentor and eventually draft…”
“carbon tetrachloride use was banned from consumer products in the 1970s due to health concerns, then further restricted by the Montreal Protocol in 1990.”
“including four that haven't been identified before, two of which the researchers specifically named here: Lanmaoa fallax and Lanmaoa carbonilivor.”
“including trees—with 1,500 species in the ACG compared to 73,000 across the planet”
“Trying to stay true to Kubrick’s ideals, Spielberg was intimately involved in the writing, producing, and directing of 'A.I.', which represents one of only two films in his entire career where that creative trifecta occurred, the other fil…”
“about 90% of Earth’s fresh water ice may not be on solid ground after all.”
“The research has been published in Mycologia.”
“Coming off of 1998's triumphant 'Saving Private Ryan', 2001's 'A.I.' continued the pattern of Spielberg’s serious segment of his career in a run that included four science fiction movies dropped over a seven-year period.”
“a contract between the companies that was renegotiated earlier this year will require Amazon to pay Anthropic based on token usage, leading to much higher bills for Amazon”
“The master wouldn’t revisit the genre again for ten years until 2018’s 'Ready Player One.'”
“Earlier this year, the company committed $50 billion to the AI lab”
“Watch A.I. Artificial Intelligence on Hulu:Hulu with Ads: $11.99/month or $119.99/yearPremium (No Ads): $18.99/month”
“Amazon put $4 billion into Anthropic’s coffers as OpenAI was in bed with Microsoft”
“Jeff lives in beautiful Bend, Oregon amid the ponderosa pines, classic muscle cars, a crypt of collector horror comics, and two loyal English Setters.”
“last month when Anthropic released its Fable 5 AI model”
“It's been noted that Osment doesn't blink once in the film, and he displays an incredible depth of feeling on screen for such a young actor.”
“That report came from Amazon, and happened to come as the company is reportedly ramping up to release its own cybersecurity-focused AI agent designed to spot vulnerabilities—the exact thing that Fable 5 is supposedly so good at.”
“Besides 'A.I.', those additional releases were 2002’s 'Minority Report', 2005’s 'War of the Worlds', and 2008’s 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.'”
“It’s incorrect that changes from our expanded collaboration will increase our costs.”
“roughly 6.5-hour spacewalk”
“The company recently raised $200 in seed funding, bringing its total valuation to $1 billion.”
“starting at about 8:35 a.m. EDT (1235 GMT).”
“Funding was provided by VC firms Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, as well as by Nvidia.”
“Coverage will begin at 7:00 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT).”
“Based in downtown San Francisco, it currently has a technical staff of around twenty researchers.”
“Williams and Meir will replace a 200-pound (90-kilogram) wrist joint, which malfunctioned 'during normal Canadarm2 operations on May 27 after the arm drew elevated motor current and did not move as expected,' NASA officials wrote in a June…”
“Its website features several job postings with starting salaries of up to $500,000.”
“The spare joint was already on board the ISS, which has been continuously occupied by rotating astronaut crews since November 2000.”
“Two of Mirendil’s cofounders, Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta, previously worked at Anthropic; they left the company in January.”
“Repairs to robotics, like Canadarm2, are normal and expected after more than 25 years of continuous operations, as the system was designed with replaceable components and planned maintenance in mind," NASA officials added in the preview.”
“Anthropic’s Fable 5, which was publicly released earlier this month, only to be swiftly shut down in response to an order from the Trump administration, comes with security guardrails that prevent it from responding to queries on potential…”
“The 56-foot-long (17-meter-long), 3,300-pound (1,500-kg) robot arrived at the orbiting lab aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in April 2001.”
“In an X post earlier this month, company CEO Satya Nadella wrote that “agentic systems that improve over time” could soon become an important asset for businesses. “I think of it as a hill climbing machine,” he wrote.”
“Today's extravehicular activity (EVA) will be the second for Williams, who will be 'spacewalk crewmember 1' and will wear a spacesuit with red stripes. It will be the fifth for Meir, who will be 'spacewalk crewmember 2' and will wear a sui…”
““The most direct path to maturity and massive impact for the AI industry is to let engineers and researchers outside the labs to do real AI work, i.e. to push the frontier in their own domains of expertise,” Andreessen Horowitz wrote in it…”
“The duo performed an EVA together this past March, spending seven hours prepping the orbiting lab for a new solar array.”
“Season three of the show, which premieres on July 3, finally begins to answer those questions in some very exciting and surprising ways. It also answers many of the new questions raised by the admittedly disappointing second season. Apple …”
“Astronauts have performed a total of 279 spacewalks outside the ISS to date.”
“Silo season three debuts on July 3. It then continues with new episodes each Friday, leading to the finale on September 4.”
“NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will fix the International Space Station's Canadarm2 during a spacewalk today (June 30)”
“But we will talk about the season generally, and if you want to know absolutely nothing, just know season three is much better than season two... If you loved the first season of Silo but didn’t think the second season measured up, come ba…”
“Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will perform a roughly 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) today”
“However, the biggest flaw of the season is that those questions don’t begin to get answered in any meaningful way until almost halfway through the season... Then, it starts to happen. And for the second half of the season, Silo returns to …”
“starting at about 8:35 a.m. EDT (1235 GMT)”
“At minimum, they estimate, there are likely somewhere between 14 and 20 million insect species in the world.”
“Coverage will begin at 7:00 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT)”
“Scientists have certainly tried, though, with the most recent estimates hovering around 6 million or so.”
“Williams and Meir will replace a 200-pound (90-kilogram) wrist joint”
“Within these traps, they identified over 50,000 insect species.”
“during normal Canadarm2 operations on May 27 after the arm drew elevated motor current and did not move as expected,”
“From there, they estimated the total number of insect species in the ACG, nearly 333,000.”
“NASA officials wrote in a June 22 spacewalk preview”
“The team had access to a rich source of insect life: more than 1.5 million specimens collected over the years from 15 Malaise traps (tent-like traps used for gathering wasps and other flying insects) in the Área de Conservación Guanacaste …”
“since November 2000”
“...and wasps collected from rearing roughly 1,500 species of caterpillars, their insect hosts.”
“after more than 25 years of continuous operations, as the system was designed with replaceable components and planned maintenance in mind,”
“And finally, using four other groups of life as a reference (trees, frogs, birds, and a specific family of moths), they arrived at their range for the global census: 14 to 20 million species.”
“56-foot-long (17-meter-long), 3,300-pound (1,500-kg) robot arrived at the orbiting lab aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in April 2001”
“Clovis culture, who occupied the Americas around 13,340 to 12,710 years ago”
“arrived at the orbiting lab aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in April 2001”
“Atlatls, on the other hand, were first discovered in Europe and date back to the Paleolithic era, around 20,000 to 30,000 years ago”
“second for Williams, who will be "spacewalk crewmember 1" and will wear a spacesuit with red stripes. It will be the fifth for Meir, who will be "spacewalk crewmember 2" and will wear a suit with no stripes”
“the oldest possible date for the appearance of the atlatl in the Americas was 9,996 years ago”
“spending seven hours”
“there’s a 3,000-year gap between the projected earliest use of the atlatl and Clovis people”
“total of 279 spacewalks”
“a statistical analysis using 66 radiocarbon dates for known atlatls”
“joined the team in 2010”
“The firm behind a $5.5 billion plan to integrate renewable energy projects into Australia’s power grid”
“published on Nov. 13, 2018”
“From 2023 to 2025, the volume of deepfakes online exploded, with roughly 900% annual growth as AI-driven image-generators improved.”
“After training was finished, the researchers had the participants go back to determining whether each face was AI-generated. This time around, the participants’ average accuracy had “nearly doubled,” with the highest-performing candidates …”
