2,959 source-backed science facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 16 of 30.
“According to Google's own estimates, processing a median-length text prompt with its AI assistant Gemini consumes around 0.24 watt-hours.”
“Scanning the cosmos since its launch in 2004, Swift has been sinking faster and faster...”
“during a lunar transit on May 29”
“Buildings and construction collectively account for 39 percent of global energy-related carbon emissions, according to the World Green Building Council—28 percent from operational energy use and 11 percent from materials and construction.”
“The estimated climate impact from this jet over a fortnight is roughly equivalent to those from 78 people on average over a whole year.”
“the basin’s fresh water—21% of the world’s surface supply—”
“In March 2026, OpenAI estimated that more than 900 million people use its AI chatbot, ChatGPT, every week, tallying billions of queries daily.”
“to raise its orbit from the current 224 miles to the desired 373 miles.”
“at 11:33 p.m. EDT on May 29 (0333 GMT on May 30) ... using a 12-inch telescope”
“the global building stock is expected to double.”
“The global average yearly greenhouse gas emissions for an individual is 6.56t CO2e, according to EU data.”
“sued after Racine, Wis., withheld public records on a data center’s water consumption for seven months”
“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.”
“The 1.6-ton gamma ray observatory must be above 185 miles for the rescue to work.”
“less then a second”
“It supports roughly 30 percent of U.S. groundwater irrigation and helps sustain about one-fifth of American agricultural production.”
“Fifa has committed to reducing emissions by 50% by 2030 and to reaching net-zero by 2040.”
“Fewer than one‑third of data centers currently track water usage”
“That's a significant uptick from an estimated 1.9 percent consumed in 2018, well before the mainstream surge of generative AI.”
“It's expected to reach that point of no return in October, according to the latest estimates.”
“whose 53-mile-wide (85 kilometer) impact site”
“In some locations, groundwater levels have fallen by more than 200 feet, far exceeding natural recharge rates.”
“A 2025 report from Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) estimated the overall carbon footprint of this World Cup could reach nine million tonnes of CO2e.”
“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.”
“Roughly the size of a small kitchen refrigerator with a 40-foot solar wingspan, Lift sports three arms...”
“orbit Earth at an altitude ranging between 217 and 280 miles (340 to 450 km)”
“in some subregions, water losses have been sustained for decades, with depletion rates reaching over 100,000 acre-feet per year and nearly 27 percent of stored water already gone in places.”
“During that time, they built six dams, one of which was the biggest in England, researchers at the University of Leeds said.”
“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…”
“Lift sports three arms with a reach of just over 3 feet.”
“currently crewed by the three taikonauts of the Shenzhou 23 mission”
“with recharge rates in parts of the Great Plains often less than an inch per year—far below the amount being taken for irrigation.”
“The charity is encouraging people to "fish for the facts" as part of its Trent30 Challenge, which is asking anglers to document their catches via an app over the next 12 months in the hope of finding 30 species rolling in its midst.”
“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”
“Each arm has two finger-like pinching grippers that resemble the hands of a Lego mini figure.”
“launched to the orbital station atop a 203-ft (62 m) Long March 2F rocket on May 24”
“This means lost water may take "centuries to millennia in some areas" to return.”
“According to the Canal and River Trust, the idea was proposed by author JW Martin in a 1906 book, external, and is mentioned by earlier poets.”
“using about 50 percent less energy than transformer-type models to process texts of around 8,000 words in length, Klambauer says.”
“It will take Katalyst's autonomous spacecraft, named Lift, about a month to rendezvous with Swift and catch it.”
“Anthony Wood joined Space.com in April 2025”
“The Ogallala Aquifer stretches beneath eight states—South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas—and remains one of the most important groundwater resources in North America.”
“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 …”
“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.”
“on May 29”
“recharge rates in parts of the Great Plains often less than an inch per year”
“Over the past eight years, NVIDIA GPUs have improved 45,000 [times] in energy efficiency for large language model workloads," he says.”
“If all goes well, Swift could be back in business by September, according to Lee.”
“at 11:33 p.m. EDT on May 29”
“The Ogallala Aquifer stretches beneath eight states—South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Texas”
“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.”
“Observations ceased in February.”
“(0333 GMT on May 30)”
“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 company's next-generation robotic rescuer, scheduled to fly next year, will tackle satellites as high as 22,300 miles up.”
“It is a challenge in less then a second to capture this event," Morales said.”
“nanoelectronics expert Tony Kenyon of University College London, whose team recently received $17 million from the UK government to develop neuromorphic computing.”
“Lee envisions hundreds of robots in orbit one day, not only fixing and hoisting satellites but also refueling them and building solar farms, data centers and other platforms.”
“53-mile-wide (85 kilometer)”
“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.”
“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.”
“altitude ranging between 217 and 280 miles (340 to 450 km)”
“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.”
“Only China has attempted a mission like the upcoming one, successfully boosting a satellite into a higher graveyard orbit four years ago.”
“the three taikonauts”
“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.”
“on May 24”
“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.”
“203-ft (62 m)”
“But according to the most recent estimates by the International Energy Agency, US data centers guzzled some 224 terawatt-hours of electricity in 2025”
“12-inch telescope”
“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”
“A Falcon 9 rocket topped with the 15,400-pound (7,000 kilograms) SXM-11 spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Sunday at 10:25 p.m. EDT (0225 GMT on June 29).”
“the newcomers are often 'hyperscale' and can use a gigawatt or more, or roughly a tenth of the electrical capacity of Los Angeles.”
“According to a SpaceX mission description, it was the 17th flight for this particular booster, which is designated B1085.”
“Without them, according to one 2025 estimate, US data centers could soon be releasing the equivalent of 24 to 44 megatons of CO2 annually”
“SXM-11 will now circularize its distant path around our planet and join SiriusXM's satellite-radio fleet, which currently consists of seven spacecraft.”
“the latter equivalent to the annual emissions of Norway.”
“SpaceX has now launched four of those spacecraft to date.”
“For every megawatt for which we install fossil fuel power,”
“SpaceX has launched 76 Falcon 9 missions so far in 2026.”
“One 2023 paper suggests that these early‑onset cancer diagnoses rose by 25% globally between 1990 and 2019”
“The vast majority of those flights — nearly 80% of them — have been dedicated to building out the company's Starlink broadband megaconstellation in low Earth orbit.”
“The new study, published June 22 in the journal Nature Medicine”
“The ISS previously did have an aquatic habitat until 2012, he said”
“analyzed data from more than 150,000 adults in the UK Biobank”
“less than 3 liters or 0.8 gallons”
“younger cohort had systemic aging levels about 0.23 standard deviations higher than the older cohort”
“roughly one-third of the way through NASA's technology readiness levels”
“People born between 1990 and 1999 had age gaps about 0.92 standard deviations higher than those born between 1965 and 1969”
“The prototype was demonstrated publicly April 8.”
“those in the highest group had a roughly 15% higher risk of early‑onset solid cancer than those in the lowest group”
“humans have been eating these creatures for 100,000 years”
“In almost 20,000 UK Biobank participants”
“The newly discovered galaxy, dubbed the RAD-Bow-And-Arrow Radio Galaxy (RAD-BAARG), sits roughly 2 billion light-years from Earth.”
“The enormous bow-like structure extends nearly 1.8 million light-years across.”
“According to the study, RAD-BAARG has a length of about 2.3 million light-years. That places it in the category of 'Giant Radio Galaxies', which are some of the largest standalone single structures in the universe.”
“RAD@home discovery of a bow-and-arrow radio galaxy tracing a ∼560 kpc bow-shock structure in a multihalo environment.”
“the researchers explained in a paper published June 22 in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.”
“First-light images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory reveal a 163,000-light-year stream of stars emanating from a nearby galaxy.”
