2,959 source-backed science facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 7 of 30.
“Our technology could replace millions of small disposable batteries with a much cleaner source of energy.”
“This super-Earth gets about 90% of the radiation from its host star as Earth gets from its sun, so it's right in the sweet spot. [...] completing a full year in merely 21.5 days.”
“Worldwide, the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that the data center sector consumes 560 billion liters of water per year today, and projections suggest this figure could soar over the coming years, reaching as much as 1,2 trill…”
“the poll conducted for the non-project Ocean Conservancy in collaboration with Edge Research, found public awareness of microplastics and its impacts has jumped by 32% since 2023.”
“The average number of heat waves in the U.S. has doubled since the 1980s.”
“We only recycle 13% at the moment, so that's fundamentally not good enough”
“The observatory, which is the size of a large car, was launched in 2004”
“Crypto companies have already contributed $189 million to influencing the 2026 midterms, giving the industry an enormous pool of money to reward allies and punish critics.”
“An international team has described a 125-million-year-old 'pregnant' shellfish with preserved soft tissues, including its little babies. It preserved different stages of development within the gills including embryo-like cells and more de…”
“25 light-years sounds like a long way, but the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years across, so in that respect it's our next-door neighbour.”
“Nearly nine in 10 of those surveyed said they are concerned about the impacts of microplastics”
“From June 1 through July 5, temperatures at weather stations across New England recorded their highest temperatures on record or just below their highest, he said.”
“We've lost something like 85% of our oyster reefs worldwide, and over 99% in Australia”
“When it was first launched it sat in an orbit at 373 miles (600 km) and has now lowered to around 220 miles (360 km)”
“Public Citizen’s analysis of Federal Election Commission disclosures found that crypto companies supplied 37% of the $517 million in reported corporate election spending for the cycle.”
“The creature studied herein, Margaritifera valdensis, is distantly related to the freshwater pearl mussels, which encompass up to 1,000 living species.”
“Earth remains the sole planet in the universe where life has been confirmed, despite astronomers having discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets to date.”
“Nearly three quarters (71%) said plastic pollution is an urgent threat to the ocean”
“More than 20 years ago, the state of Oklahoma sued 14 major poultry companies, arguing that waste from their birds was harming a scenic watershed.”
“That equates to thousands of square kilometres of oyster reef scraped from the sea floor within a few decades of European settlement”
“They had less than a year to launch their mission before Swift fell below the altitude of 186 miles (300 km) where a rescue becomes impossible”
“Ripple was the crypto sector’s largest identified contributor, spending $49.6 million.”
“It belongs to a huge group of double-shelled molluscs, comprising more than 40,000 fossil and 50,000 extant species, including the very famous clams, oysters, scallops and mussels.”
“If you scale the Earth down to the size of an apple, its atmosphere would be about as thick as the skin of the apple.”
“more than four in five Americans polled supported requiring washing machine to include a filter for microplastic fibers.”
“It was a place where scuba divers loved to go because they could see 15, 20, 30 feet underwater because the lake was so clear. / But that's not the case anymore.”
“Over the following two to three months, LINK will fire its small thrusters and gently haul the pair back uphill, from around 220 miles (360 km) towards Swift's old home 373 miles (600 km) above the Earth”
“Fairshake received $82.6 million from crypto companies, while the Trump-aligned MAGA Inc. received $56.2 million.”
“The research also elucidates the origin of a dark, mysterious 'molluskite' material first described nearly 200 years ago by British palaeontologist Gideon Mantell in the 19th century. 'We found that this material is actually made up of fos…”
“And four in five supported requiring plastic manufacturers and producers to pay for waste management and recycling.”
“the flow of water to the Aral Sea was reduced by ninety percent with disasterous results”
“In 2022, Swift captured this image of a gamma-ray burst from a massive star dying two billion light-years from Earth”
“Fairshake and its affiliate, Protect Progress, poured more than $4 million into the race to target Green...”
“The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has successfully conducted the first ground test of the solid motor for its Sub-Orbital Launch Vehicle for Experiments (SOLVE), a new test platform being developed to support the Gaganyaan huma…”
“For example, up to 18 million microfibers are released from a single load of laundry.”
“the sea is thirty miles away and the town of Mujnak (Moy-NAHK) is plagued by both massive unemployment and serious health problems brought on by the Aral's demise”
“When it was first launched it sat in an orbit at 373 miles (600 km) and has now lowered to around 220 miles (360 km), with most of that descent in the past two years.”
“Fairshake’s political network spent $5.5 million (an astronomical sum typically reserved for high-stakes Senate races) to boost Democratic state delegate Adrian Boafo in his primary bid for Representative Steny Hoyer’s open House seat.”
“before sending actual human beings, we have to do 3 uncrewed missions”
“Dr. Brandon said washing machine filters are a proven solution to this problem, capturing up to 90% of microfibers from each load of laundry”
“Dr. Friedman says manned mission to Mars could occur within the next 15 year”
“What the Katalyst team has accomplished in just eight months is extraordinary. The team designed, built, tested, and integrated a robotic spacecraft capable of performing one of the most ambitious commercial servicing missions ever attempt…”
“A sequence of 10 parachutes will then deploy to slow the module ahead of its splashdown in the sea.”
“Studies have also found that more than one-third of all microplastics in the ocean come from synthetic textiles like clothing.”
“Since 1974 he's worked on NASA's Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) satellite”
“The LINK spacecraft, which Lee's team came up with, is a three-armed robot, about the size of a fridge, bristling with cameras and guidance systems and driven by small thrusters... Over the following two to three months, LINK will fire its…”
“The vehicle's solid stage is derived from the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) strap-on motor but has been modified to meet Gaganyaan mission requirements. The changes include a slow burn-rate propellant, a straight nozzle and a secon…”
“Between 1945 and 1974, 16 of the 30 U.S. winners of the Nobel Prize in physics were immigrants, according to NFAP.”
“In 1992 he announced that he and a team of researchers had detected the biggest, oldest objects ever observed in the universe”
“The rescue mission, launched on Friday, has never been attempted before, and Dr Simeon Barber, a space scientist, has said it is 'high risk'. 'But Nasa obviously thinks it's worth a go. And the science community is hopeful about this becau…”
“MXDFz4. 4 is surprisingly small. Astronomers estimate that it covers an area roughly 100 times smaller than the Milky Way. Yet it is producing stars at an extraordinary pace of around 10 times faster than our galaxy.”
“Immigrants have been awarded 40% of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000, according to an analysis by the National Foundation for American Policy.”
“On Thursday, Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said nearly 7,000 fires had broken out since the start of the summer season, with about 8,700 hectares burned so far.”
“The light began its journey only about 250 million years after the end of the Epoch of Reionization.”
“In simulations of the powerful May 2024 geomagnetic storm, six spacecraft released a barium-like gas for 14 hours. The model showed major reductions in storm intensity. The intensity of a major geomagnetic storm could be reduced by 50% or …”
“Météo-France has issued red alerts for Friday and Saturday for forest fires in the southern part of the country, warning that weather conditions meant the risk of an outbreak was 'very high' compared to summer norms.”
“The signal was found in October 2025 while Ilias Goovaerts of the Space Telescope Science Institute, was preparing an unrelated funding proposal. He checked a deep Hubble image to see whether anyone had searched for this kind of signal bef…”
“In the May 2024 simulation, the spacecraft released about 384 tons of gas. Including tanks and spacecraft buses, the full payload would total more than 436 tons in geosynchronous orbit.”
“Climate change is driving up temperatures around the world - but particularly in Europe. It is the fastest warming continent, heating up twice as fast as the global average, according to the Copernicus climate service.”
“By 2023, the Biohuts had attracted 431 fish and 1,951 invertebrates, including young cyprinids, perch, and the invasive tubenose goby, suggesting the structures were functioning as both shelter and nursery habitat.”
“Heading for Earth are multiple coronal mass ejections, clouds of magnetic fields and charged particles from the sun that stream into space at up to 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers) per second.”
“It led to a fourfold increase in adult gannet deaths, resulting in a 26% decrease in the size of Bass Rock's colony and a 38% fall at Grassholm.”
“As reported in the journal Sustainability in 2021, a group of scientists studying the Bomhofsplas floating solar power station did not find any proof that the construction had a negative impact on water quality. At the same time, the resea…”
“A series of direct+glancing blows beginning on July 3rd could spark G2 to G3-class geomagnetic storms over the 4th of July holiday weekend,”
“the study warned that the colonies would not fully recover from the impact until 2041 at the earliest.”
“Based on the diameter of the fossilised vertebrae, the snake is estimated to be 42 to 45 feet long. It weighed approximately 1.25 tons and lived during the Palaeocene Epoch, a 10-million-year period immediately following the extinction of …”
“G1-G2 conditions are likely by 03-04 Jul due to the anticipated arrival of the 30 Jun CME associated with the X1.1 flare”
“The bird flu outbreak in 2022 dealt an unprecedented deadly blow to UK seabirds and these findings show that key gannet colonies on Bass Rock and Grassholm will be impacted for decades to come.”
“However, due to Titanoboa's size, the scientists were able to calculate the mean annual temperature at equatorial South America about 60 million years ago to be 91 degrees Fahrenheit, about 10 degrees warmer than today.”
“Geomagnetic activity likely to reach Active to G1/minor geomagnetic storm (Kp 4-5) with a chance of isolated G2 Moderate storm (Kp 6) intervals, and a slight chance of G3 Strong storm (Kp 7), if the CME is more impactful than anticipated”
“The $200m mission encountered many technical problems, from being hit by a solar flare to experiencing propulsion glitches. But each time an issue came up, the Japanese project team found an elegant solution to keep Hayabusa alive and brin…”
“A normal cumulus cloud, the kind you see floating around on a clear day, can easily cover a full cubic kilometre of sky. Even a small amount of water per cubic metre adds up over that much space, often reaching close to 500,000 kilograms.”
“A sustained southward Bz of −5 nT or stronger usually signals an imminent display of aurora.”
“The re-entry on Sunday, at 1351 GMT, produced a spectacular fireball in the Australian night sky.”
“As NASA explains, a cloud droplet usually measures around ten microns across, nowhere close to the size of an actual raindrop. [...] For a droplet this tiny, that speed comes out to a tiny fraction of a centimetre per second.”
“This was the capsule protected against the 3,000-degree heat generated in the fall by its carbon shield.”
“sometimes with real force, like the strong updrafts inside a thunderstorm that can push upward at several metres per second.”
“It was only when daylight came up on Monday, however, that a recovery team began to approach the 40cm-wide pod which was lying on the ground still attached to its parachute.”
“Once a droplet has grown from a few microns to about a millimetre wide, its volume has gone up by nearly a million times.”
“Engineers will be keen to see how well it stood up to the 12km/s descent.”
“The return was the culmination of a remarkable seven-year adventure, which saw Hayabusa visit asteroid Itokawa in 2005 and attempt to pluck dust from its surface before firing its engines for home.”
“It took about an hour to locate the capsule by helicopter, its position tracked by radar and a beacon that was transmitting from inside the canister.”
“Japanese, American and Australian scientists will open the canister in an ultra-clean, evacuated environment.”
“The 500m-long Itokawa has many boulders covering its surface The biggest is 50m wide; it is nicknamed 'Yoshinodai'”
“Observations revealed Itokawa's density to be extremely low Scientists say it is a pile of rubble that was produced in a collision Gravity would have collected the debris into the object we now see”
“Scientists hope the Itokawa samples will give them new insights into the make-up of asteroids and help them understand better the early history of the Solar System, which formed more than 4.5 billion years ago.”
“If that is confirmed, it would be the first time fragments of rock have been picked up off the surface of an asteroid and returned to Earth, and only the fourth extraterrestrial sample brought to our planet by a spacecraft. Those other mat…”
“And then scientists all over the world will be assigned very, very tiny amounts - just a few grains. Because the instruments we now have are so sophisticated, we only need a few grains to find out an awful lot of information.”
“has prepared around 200 balls with penny-sized holes for the mice to nest in.”
“The project is believed to be one of the biggest of its kind ever run in Leicestershire.”
“Fenland and West Norfolk councils have sent more than 1,000 warning letters about precautions during the tests.”
“In 1961 the canal was used for landfill but tipping stopped in the 1970s.”
“Families living along the five-mile line of the Wisbech canal are asked to wear gloves when gardening and to prevent children playing in the soil.”
“A £2.7m scheme to help protect land and businesses on the Humber estuary from flooding is progressing well, the Environment Agency has said.”
“Steel piles have been placed along a 900-metre section of Halton Marshes as part of the project, which started in September last year.”
“The scheme is expected to finish as planned in October.”
“The work is part of the Humber Estuary Flood Risk Management Strategy, which outlines the Environment Agency's flood risk management plan for the estuary for the next 25 years.”
“Intertrust, which specialises in finance and law, became the first to reach Environment Department- assessed criteria.”
“The criteria set by the Environment Department for 2010 has become stricter compared to previous years.”
“The results from thermal imaging of 10,000 houses will be analysed and published online.”
