2,654 source-backed science facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 8 of 27.
“This blueprint offers several serious ideas for how to rein in these harmful practices, promote more responsible technology, and better protect kids online.”
“In 2024, astronomers found a giant, almost perfect ring of galaxies, some 1.3 billion light-years in diameter.”
“A £400million commitment by Ed Miliband to help support the rainforest has been shelved after Rachel Reeves voiced "optics concerns".”
“Rocket Lab has inked a landmark $8 billion deal to acquire long-time satellite communications giant Iridium.”
“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…”
“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”
“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…”
“the school has spent $500,000 on two Ameca robots”
“The signal was picked up in light that has traveled for 6.9 billion years to reach us.”
“The fund aims to create a $125billion (£94.7billion) forest conservation fund using a mix of public funding and private money.”
“at $54 per share, equating to an $8 billion deal.”
“Researchers also recovered more than 70 columns of text from a second scroll, PHerc. 172.”
“the proposal from Exchange for Change is to launch with 100 suitable machines around the country”
“gave Joe Biden’s absurdly ambitious $1.7 trillion climate proposal an F-minus grade”
“this review puts the price at between $100,000 and $500,000, depending on configuration”
“Cosmologists calculate the current theoretical size limit of structures to be 1.2 billion light-years, yet both of these structures are much larger – the Giant Arc is almost three times bigger and the Big Ring's circumference is comparable…”
“to more than 2.5 million customers.”
“Part of PHerc. 1667 was physically opened in the 1980s, but overlapping layers obscured the writing so badly that the scroll was given a readability score of zero, Federica Nicolardi, a papyrologist at the University of Naples Federico II,…”
“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”
“Ivory Soap environmentalism that rejects 99.44 percent pure as a sellout to Big Oil”
“we plan to have Ameca onsite until Fall 2026”
“BAOs are all a fixed size of around 1 billion light-years in diameter.”
“the company went bankrupt in 1999.”
“In a separate discovery, researchers identified a new book title within scroll PHerc. 139. The end of the scroll references Philodemus' eighth book of 'On Gods.' While this treatise had previously been known to exist, the new discovery rev…”
“A few extra degrees of warmth by 2100 doesn’t sound so horrific, especially to people who will not be alive in 2100.”
“On average, the US Public Education system spends about $16,500 per student in a given year”
“It's the second giant structure discovered by Lopez and her colleagues. The first, called the Giant Arc, is actually in the same part of the sky, at the same distance away. When the arc's discovery was announced in 2021...”
“through the $3 billion Iridium NEXT campaign, launching 75 replacement satellites aboard SpaceX rockets between 2017 and 2019.”
“The breakthrough comes from the Vesuvius Challenge, an international research effort to digitally read the scrolls that were preserved when Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried by ash and pumice in A.D. 79.”
“California’s spending is a little higher, at an average of $21,600”
“From current cosmological theories we didn't think structures on this scale were possible, We could expect maybe one exceedingly large structure in all our observable Universe.”
“within 16 hours and 42 minutes of receiving notice from USSF's Space Systems Command”
“Nearly 2,000 years ago, Mount Vesuvius buried a vast collection of scrolls in ash and scorched them into solid black lumps.”
“the District of Columbia has the highest per-student figure at $37,300”
“The discovery, led by astronomer Alexia Lopez of the University of Central Lancashire, was presented at the 243rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society in 2024, and was published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics.”
“for three different science missions to launch in 2027.”
“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…”
“Idaho brings out the rear with $11,200”
“Neither of these two ultra-large structures is easy to explain in our current understanding of the universe,”
“announced today (June 29).”
“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.”
“That means you could fund 23 kids’ education for a year with the $500,000 spent on these robots”
“The first, called the Giant Arc, is actually in the same part of the sky, at the same distance away.”
“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 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.”
“Markiplier’s Iron Lung hit the number two spot on its opening weekend, finishing behind Sam Raimi’s Send Help but ahead of the Melania Trump documentary.”
“after a man in his 20s used a massage gun on and around his eyes”
“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 …”
“More than 600 Herculaneum scrolls remain unopened.”
“his $50 million box-office success”
“doing it weekly for around three months, with each 'treatment' taking several minutes”
“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.”
“He has nearly 39 million subscribers on the platform”
“multiple tears in his retinas and serious bruising (commotio retinae) in both eyes”
“Spielberg was then brought in as a potential director in 1995, and the two cinematic geniuses collaborated for years to map out the story.”
“Fifteen minutes of new footage is being added to the hit horror film starting on July 3.”
“The retina in his right eye had also detached from the eye wall”
“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…”
“'Iron Lung', independently funded by the Youtuber, narrowly lost the box office number 1 spot to 'Send Help'.”
“This is the first case of retinal dialysis with multiple bilateral retinal tears in the literature associated with percussive massage gun use.”
“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…”
“the film cost $170 million to make, $120 million to market, and has a break-even point of about $300 million”
“he sought medical help just 6 days after noticing his symptoms”
“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.”
“The film’s $68 million opening weekend globally”
“Yunnan hospitals get dozens of these cases each year.”
“The master wouldn’t revisit the genre again for ten years until 2018’s 'Ready Player One.'”
“it’ll end up making about $200 million by the end of its run”
“University of Utah mycologists Colin Domnauer and Bryn Dentinger sequenced the genomes of 53 mushroom samples from across the wider Lanmaoa genus.”
“Watch A.I. Artificial Intelligence on Hulu:Hulu with Ads: $11.99/month or $119.99/yearPremium (No Ads): $18.99/month”
“could lose almost $100 million”
“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.”
“Jeff lives in beautiful Bend, Oregon amid the ponderosa pines, classic muscle cars, a crypt of collector horror comics, and two loyal English Setters.”
“the studio also grossed over $4 billion from its movies in 2025”
“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.”
“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.”
“Milly Alcock and Jason Momoa star in DC's latest film, in theaters on June 26”
“including four that haven't been identified before, two of which the researchers specifically named here: Lanmaoa fallax and Lanmaoa carbonilivor.”
“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.'”
“While Supergirl didn’t meet our box office expectations, it’s just one component of a broader, long-term strategy at DC Studios that we remain confident in”
“The research has been published in Mycologia.”
“roughly 6.5-hour spacewalk”
“that long-term strategy continues later this summer with Lanterns on HBO Max”
“starting at about 8:35 a.m. EDT (1235 GMT).”
“Clayface in theaters in October”
“next summer with James Gunn’s upcoming Superman sequel, Man of Tomorrow, which is now filming”
“reduce blur and shakiness by up to 50% with software”
“Meta now offers up to 3K video”
“the first signs of ozone depletion actually appeared as early as 1957.”
“It took another 30 years for scientists to develop the atmospheric monitoring capabilities that led them to discover the hole.”
“By 1984, the ozone layer over Halley was only two-thirds as thick as it had been in earlier decades.”
“over the past 76 years, finding that the earliest sign of ozone depletion would have been detectable over the tropics by 1957.”
“carbon tetrachloride use was banned from consumer products in the 1970s due to health concerns, then further restricted by the Montreal Protocol in 1990.”
“about 90% of Earth’s fresh water ice may not be on solid ground after all.”
“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”
“Earlier this year, the company committed $50 billion to the AI lab”
“Amazon put $4 billion into Anthropic’s coffers as OpenAI was in bed with Microsoft”
“last month when Anthropic released its Fable 5 AI model”
“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.”
“It’s incorrect that changes from our expanded collaboration will increase our costs.”
