2,654 source-backed science facts - each attributed to a named person and a number, linked to the original source. Page 9 of 27.
“Coverage will begin at 7:00 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT).”
“The result, the researchers concluded, was the new 20-million estimate for the number of insect species that call Earth home.”
“The company recently raised $200 in seed funding, bringing its total valuation to $1 billion.”
“Eight days of continuous sewage discharge recorded”
“90% of prescriptions are [from] outpatient clinics, not hospitals”
“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…”
“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 …”
“Funding was provided by VC firms Andreessen Horowitz and Kleiner Perkins, as well as by Nvidia.”
“Sewage dumped illegally in Windermere over 3 years”
“Japan ranked dead last in the appropriateness of antibiotic choices for kids under 5”
“The spare joint was already on board the ISS, which has been continuously occupied by rotating astronaut crews since November 2000.”
“A total of 54,000 species were detected among the 1.6 million insects.”
“Based in downtown San Francisco, it currently has a technical staff of around twenty researchers.”
“Japanese doctors prescribed antibiotics with the lowest risk of resistance only 35% of the time”
“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.”
“That method yielded an estimate of 2,400 Microgastrinae species in the ACG and a whopping 333,000 insect species overall.”
“Its website features several job postings with starting salaries of up to $500,000.”
“Each tip would be small, amounting to about $5 per claim at today's exchange rate”
“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.”
“including trees—with 1,500 species in the ACG compared to 73,000 across the planet”
“Two of Mirendil’s cofounders, Behnam Neyshabur and Harsh Mehta, previously worked at Anthropic; they left the company in January.”
“Okubo estimates earn roughly $90,000 to $100,000 a year”
“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…”
“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…”
“In 2021, resistant bacterial infections directly caused 1.14 million deaths worldwide and contributed to another 3.57 million deaths”
“The duo performed an EVA together this past March, spending seven hours prepping the orbiting lab for a new solar array.”
“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.”
“People over 65 make up about 30% of Japan's population”
“Astronauts have performed a total of 279 spacewalks outside the ISS to date.”
““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…”
“Looking at Japan's overall antibiotic use, "90% of prescriptions are [from] outpatient clinics, not hospitals," Okubo told me.”
“NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will fix the International Space Station's Canadarm2 during a spacewalk today (June 30)”
“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 …”
“When compared against 35 other high-income countries in 2015, Japan ranked dead last in the appropriateness of antibiotic choices for kids under 5.”
“Chris Williams and Jessica Meir will perform a roughly 6.5-hour spacewalk outside the International Space Station (ISS) today”
“Silo season three debuts on July 3. It then continues with new episodes each Friday, leading to the finale on September 4.”
“The 2015 cross-country comparison found that Japanese doctors prescribed antibiotics with the lowest risk of resistance only 35% of the time, meaning most antibiotic prescriptions were for broader-spectrum drugs.”
“starting at about 8:35 a.m. EDT (1235 GMT)”
“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…”
“Each tip would be small, amounting to about $5 per claim at today's exchange rate, but could translate to thousands of extra dollars of annual income for individual clinics.”
“Coverage will begin at 7:00 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT)”
“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 …”
“That's no small matter for Japanese pediatricians, who Okubo estimates earn roughly $90,000 to $100,000 a year.”
“Williams and Meir will replace a 200-pound (90-kilogram) wrist joint”
“At minimum, they estimate, there are likely somewhere between 14 and 20 million insect species in the world.”
“This incentive program, rolled out in 2018, has proved a success...”
“during normal Canadarm2 operations on May 27 after the arm drew elevated motor current and did not move as expected,”
“Scientists have certainly tried, though, with the most recent estimates hovering around 6 million or so.”
“In 2021, resistant bacterial infections directly caused 1.14 million deaths worldwide and contributed to another 3.57 million deaths.”
“NASA officials wrote in a June 22 spacewalk preview”
“Within these traps, they identified over 50,000 insect species.”
“People over 65 make up about 30% of Japan's population.”
“since November 2000”
“From there, they estimated the total number of insect species in the ACG, nearly 333,000.”
“after more than 25 years of continuous operations, as the system was designed with replaceable components and planned maintenance in mind,”
“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 …”
“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”
“...and wasps collected from rearing roughly 1,500 species of caterpillars, their insect hosts.”
“arrived at the orbiting lab aboard the space shuttle Endeavour in April 2001”
“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.”
“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”
“Clovis culture, who occupied the Americas around 13,340 to 12,710 years ago”
“spending seven hours”
“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”
“total of 279 spacewalks”
“the oldest possible date for the appearance of the atlatl in the Americas was 9,996 years ago”
“joined the team in 2010”
“there’s a 3,000-year gap between the projected earliest use of the atlatl and Clovis people”
“published on Nov. 13, 2018”
“a statistical analysis using 66 radiocarbon dates for known atlatls”
“The firm behind a $5.5 billion plan to integrate renewable energy projects into Australia’s power grid”
“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 …”
“In the first phase of the study, the researchers showed a series of faces (some belonging to real humans and others AI-generated) to 45 participants and asked them to determine whether it was AI-generated.”
“Then, instead of telling participants to look out for these six qualities, the researchers trained them via six training blocks, each consisting of 96 tasks.”
“In a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers from Australian National University claim...”
“Specifically, the researchers claim it is best to focus on these six key characteristics: symmetry, proportionality, attractiveness, expressiveness, distinctiveness, and memorability.”
“The Busy Bar, first announced in April 2025, will go on sale July 14, according to The Verge, with the first 3,000 units available at a discounted price.”
“A third device, a “network multitool” called Flipper One, was revealed to be in the works last month and will reportedly be made available to pre-order via Kickstarter later this year—though the price of RAM may prove to be a limiting fact…”
“The good news is that the Meta Fury cost $80 less than ones with a Ray-Ban logo. At $299, these are the cheapest AI glasses you can buy from Meta”
“They have the same 12-megapixel camera with up to 3K video capture”
“they have the same fairly long 8-hour battery life”
“you can adjust the tips into three different sizes—small, medium, and large”
“that pair is pricier at $399”
“the decision to shed Ray-Ban branding was about lowering prices and creating more options for consumers”
“The Meta Fury are part of several styles of AI glasses released by Meta in June”
“With more than three billion users, the race is now on to claim your preferred WhatsApp username.”
“Meta’s end-to-end encrypted messaging platform announced today that it is letting people reserve usernames ahead of the feature’s launch later this year.”
“it was only late last year that Google started allowing people to change their Gmail addresses without having to open a new account from scratch.”
“Before then, some users were stuck with embarrassing or dated addresses they had come up with more than 20 years ago.”
“Social media companies can face double the fines if they fail to comply.”
“The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Monday that geofence warrants count as a “search” under the Fourth Amendment”
“in 2019”
“150-meter radius of the credit union from 30 minutes before to 30 minutes after the time of the robbery”
“two hours on each side of the robbery”
“one of three people who were fully identified by the geofencing warrant”
“ten minutes before the robbery”
“about $100,000 of cash”
“12 years in prison”
“in a 2018 decision”
