2,654 source-backed science facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 18 of 27.
“Launched into low Earth orbit in 2024 by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in collaboration with the European Space Agency”
“has not built a reservoir since 1992”
“In Manchester, Burnham laid out a target for the northern city to become carbon neutral by 2038.”
“Einstein Probe orbits Earth every 96 minutes and can scan almost the entire night sky about every five hours.”
“Earlier this month, the U.K. government announced its seventh carbon budget, which included a new target to cut emissions by around 87% of 1990 levels by 2040.”
“The first flare lasted about two minutes. Roughly 200 seconds later, the probe detected a second flare lasting just over 4 minutes.”
“As mayor of greater Manchester, Burnham set a target for the city to become carbon neutral by 2038”
“On March 5, 2024, the probe captured one such event, called an X-ray transient, from a celestial object scientists named EP240305a.”
“The question is, how can you shift just 26 million homes over to heat pumps?”
“300,000-year-old relative”
“Every skeleton known from the species is female.”
“Since 2013, Berger has headed the Rising Star project, which discovered nearly two dozen skeletons”
“studied 20 teeth from H. naledi skeletons”
“half of the 20 individuals we studied”
“found in one Neanderthal male”
“Proteomic analysis of four P. robustus skeletons in 2025”
“lived in South Africa around 1 million to 2 million years ago”
“Pleistocene (2.58 million years ago to 11,700 years ago)”
“published Wednesday (June 24) in the journal Cell”
“300,000-year-old”
“in 2025, they advanced the controversial claim that H. naledi buried their dead”
“20 teeth”
“half of the 20 individuals”
“published Tuesday (June 23) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B”
“analyzed codas recorded over almost 20 years”
“Sperm whales entered the Mediterranean via the Strait of Gibraltar about 20,000 years ago”
“identified by their use of a single coda 90% of the time”
“5,291 codas recorded between 2003 and 2021”
“there were four instances of eastern whales using the western dialect”
“It's probably happening on the scale of hundreds and thousands of years, because sperm whales can live into their 60s and 70s. And this study is looking over 19 years of data”
“Maybe if we could leave them for another 10,000 years”
“Hersh, T. A., Alexiadou, P., Brotons, J. M., Cerdà, M., Pirotta, E., Frantzis, A., & Rendell, L. (2026). Dialect variation in Mediterranean sperm whales shows evidence of cultural evolution in an isolated population. Proceedings of the Roy…”
“Chris Simms is a freelance journalist who previously worked at New Scientist for more than 10 years”
“in 2018 was shortlisted for Best Newcomer at the Association of British Science Writers awards”
“Sperm whales entered the Mediterranean via the Strait of Gibraltar about 20,000 years ago, and they have spread throughout the area.”
“But the analysis by Hersh's team of 5,291 codas recorded between 2003 and 2021 revealed that sperm whales living in the eastern Mediterranean around the Hellenic Trench, off Greece, have a slightly different dialect from that used by anima…”
“and that's just a snapshot of one animal's life”
“where there is a unique population of a few thousand sperm whales”
“The thinking was that all the sperm whales in the Mediterranean belonged to the same clan, identified by their use of a single coda 90% of the time.”
“The findings, published Tuesday (June 23) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, are providing a rare insight into the process of different dialects emerging among non-human species.”
“It's probably happening on the scale of hundreds and thousands of years, because sperm whales can live into their 60s and 70s. And this study is looking over 19 years of data, and that's just a snapshot of one animal's life”
“The western sperm whales religiously stick to their dialect, but there were four instances of eastern whales using the western dialect”
“eight years ago, he had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder.”
“For the prior three years, he had been managing the condition with lithium.”
“He was taking a prescribed dosage of 800 milligrams per day”
“the level of lithium in the patient's blood was 1.28 milliequivalents per liter (mEq/L).”
“Safe levels of lithium are between 0.6 and 1.2 mEq/L; any higher than that can cause a condition called lithium toxicity, which can be fatal if untreated.”
“prior to the onset of his symptoms, the levels of lithium in his blood were between 0.4 and 0.9 mEq/L.”
“At a follow-up visit one year later, the man was still taking valproate and his symptoms of fatigue and taste changes had not returned.”
“Changes in a patient's sense of taste while taking lithium have been recorded in just a handful of reports dating to the 1970s and 1980s.”
“more than 60 million stars”
“26 cumulative hours in March 2025, across nine pointings”
“no earlier than Aug. 30”
“During the last 20 years, almost 300 exoplanets have been discovered using this technique”
“This image from Euclid includes 51 known planetary systems”
“more than 20 days”
“In 24 hours, Euclid has already captured the stars involved in all the future microlensing events that the Roman space telescope will detect”
“In the new observations, shared Wednesday (June 24), the Euclid space telescope imaged the center of the Milky Way in extraordinary detail, showing off more than 60 million stars crowded in the galaxy's center.”
“The image was taken in 26 cumulative hours in March 2025, across nine pointings of the telescope's visible-light camera toward the galaxy's center, also called the galactic bulge.”
“after that observatory launches aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than Aug. 30.”
“During the last 20 years, almost 300 exoplanets have been discovered using this technique, all with ground-based telescopes and all towards the centre of our galaxy,”
“This image from Euclid includes 51 known planetary systems — and it will assist in studying many more that will be found,”
“Euclid's observing window was too short to find a microlensing event, which requires more than 20 days of examining one star to watch for a planet's orbit and associated changes in the star's light.”
“In 24 hours, Euclid has already captured the stars involved in all the future microlensing events that the Roman space telescope will detect, but before the stars and planets involved have aligned,”
“Earth's oldest known impact crater formed when a meteorite slammed into what is now Australia about 3 billion years ago — 470 million years later than scientists previously claimed, a new study suggests.”
“It remains a record-breaking structure, beating the world's next-oldest known meteorite impact crater — the Yarrabubba impact structure, also in Western Australia — by roughly 800 million years.”
“In a study published last year, Kirkland and his colleagues said they had "unequivocal evidence" that the North Pole Dome crater was 3.47 billion years old, based on an analysis of cone-shaped chunks of rock known as "shatter cones" that f…”
“However, a study published four months later in the journal Science Advances called the other team's results "inaccurate," arguing that the impact occurred no earlier than 2.7 billion years ago.”
“The researchers analyzed two samples of shatter-cone-bearing rocks, as well as a shocked quartz vein — a sheet-like deposit that typically forms when superhot, mineral-rich water circulates in the cracks between shocked rocks.”
“The new age places the North Pole Dome structure as Earth's oldest known impact crater and the only recognised example from the Archean eon [4 billion to 2.5 billion years ago], a time when the planet's earliest continents were forming.”
“an infusion of C+P was safe in an early trial including 32 human stroke patients, causing no notable side effects.”
“published June 17 in the journal Science Translational Medicine.”
“accounting for over 85% of cases”
“C+P infusion did not reduce the degree of brain damage seen 72 hours after treatment”
“nor did it affect the participants' ability to perform daily activities without assistance after 90 days”
“The June 8 conditions in the western Pacific were similar to those that occurred 1997 during a particularly strong El Niño, according to a statement from NASA.”
“2026 has seen fewer Kelvin waves so far than 1997, but this year’s El Niño is still ramping up.”
“For now, it looks like it's going to be a big one — more so than I would have said last week — but we still need more observations to know what's going to happen,”
“published March 5 in The Astrophysical Journal”
“These stars account for three out of four stars in our galaxy”
“Gajjar, V., & Brown, G. C. (2026). Exo–IPM scattering as a hidden gatekeeper of narrowband technosignatures. The Astrophysical Journal, 999(2), 210.”
“Mariner IV, which flew by Mars in the 1960s”
“the Viking probes, which launched in 1977”
“Together, they have moved 21 cubic miles (88 cubic kilometers) of water more than 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometers) since they began operating, according to the Chinese government — more than double the maximum amount of water held in Lake Me…”
“The eastern route has operated since 2013”
“The central route, which goes from Danjiangkou to Beijing and Tianjin, began flowing the following year”
“to the megacity Tianjin, which has a population of 15 million people.”
“China must support nearly 20% of the world's population with just 6% of its freshwater reserves.”
“Northern China has nearly half of the country's population and more than half of its agriculture but just one-fifth of the country's freshwater reserves.”
“Tibet, in the west, has 4.8 million cubic feet (136,800 cubic meters) of water per person”
“Tianjin, in the Northeast, has just 3,990 cubic feet (113 cubic m) per person.”
“The United Nations considers less than 1,000 cubic m (35,000 cubic feet) of fresh water available per person water scarcity and less than 500 cubic meters (18,000 cubic feet) per person as "absolute water scarcity."”
“The average in the U.S. is 314,300 cubic feet (8,900 cubic m).”
“the eastern route, which stretches 715 miles (1,150 km) from the Yangtze River to eventually reach Tianjin”
“transfers around 4 cubic miles (15 cubic km) of water per year.”
“This water needs to travel 213 feet (65 m) uphill”
“channel around 3 cubic miles (13 cubic km) of water 790 miles (1,270 km) from Danjiangkou Reservoir”
“required 350,000 people to be relocated as a result.”
“around 70% of Beijing's water comes from the route”
“won't start operations until at least 2050”
