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Arm Unveils Its First In-House Chip in 35 Years, Signaling a New Era for AI Infrastructure
After nearly 36 years of exclusively licensing chip designs to others, Arm Holdings has unveiled the AGI CPU — its first production-ready processor — built for AI data center inference and developed in partnership with Meta.
Science
Common Vitamin B3 Found to Shut Down Key Genetic Driver of Fatty Liver Disease
Researchers have identified microRNA-93 as a central genetic driver of fatty liver disease and discovered that niacin — ordinary vitamin B3 — can effectively neutralize it, opening the door to a safe, widely available treatment for a condition affecting 30% of people worldwide.
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50,000 People Line Up for Free Tulips as San Francisco's Union Square Erupts in Color
An estimated 50,000 flower lovers descended on Union Square for San Francisco's annual Tulip Day, where 80,000 colorful tulips were given away for free in a stunning celebration of spring and community spirit.
Human Achievements
Dublin, Ohio, Shatters World Record With 1,050-Person Human Shamrock
More than 1,050 people donned bright green ponchos and formed a massive human shamrock at Riverside Crossing Park, unofficially smashing the previous Guinness World Record held by Dublin, Ireland.
Technology
Mushroom-Inspired Catalyst Converts Plastic Waste Into Vinegar Using Sunlight
Scientists at the University of Waterloo have developed a sunlight-powered system inspired by wood-rotting fungi that can transform common plastic waste directly into acetic acid — the key ingredient in vinegar and a valuable industrial chemical.
Science
Scientists Create First Lab-Grown Oesophagus That Can Swallow
Researchers at Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London have engineered the first lab-grown food pipe that successfully restores swallowing function — a breakthrough that could transform treatment for children born with life-threatening conditions.
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Chile Becomes First Country in the Americas to Eliminate Leprosy
The World Health Organization has officially verified Chile as the first country in the Americas — and second globally — to eliminate leprosy, marking over 30 years without a locally transmitted case.
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Simon Ehammer Shatters Heptathlon World Record With Stunning Performance in Toruń
Switzerland's Simon Ehammer scored 6,670 points at the World Indoor Championships in Toruń, Poland, breaking Ashton Eaton's 14-year-old heptathlon world record.
Technology
Scientists Used 7,000 GPUs to Simulate a Quantum Chip in Unprecedented Detail
Researchers at Berkeley Lab harnessed nearly 7,000 GPUs on the Perlmutter supercomputer to create the most detailed simulation of a quantum processor chip ever achieved.
Science
Webb Telescope Discovers a Bizarre 'Sulfur World' — A Brand-New Type of Exoplanet
Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an entirely new class of exoplanet: a sulfur-drenched world with a molten interior, just 35 light-years from Earth.
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Rhode Island's Revolution Wind Farm Comes Online, Powering 350,000 Homes
Revolution Wind, Rhode Island's first utility-scale offshore wind farm, has begun delivering clean energy to the New England grid — enough to power more than 350,000 homes across two states.
Human Achievements
Lamine Yamal Becomes Youngest Player to Score 10 Champions League Goals at Just 18
Barcelona's teenage sensation Lamine Yamal rewrote the record books once again, becoming the youngest player in Champions League history to reach double figures in Europe's elite competition.
Technology
Disney's Walking, Talking Olaf Robot Steals the Show at NVIDIA GTC 2026
A real-life Olaf from Frozen walked onstage alongside Jensen Huang at GTC 2026, previewing autonomous Disney theme park characters powered by open-source AI and physics simulation.
Science
Pink Rocks Lead Scientists to Hidden Granite Giant Beneath Antarctica
Mysterious pink boulders atop Antarctica's Hudson Mountains have revealed a massive 100-kilometer-wide granite formation buried beneath Pine Island Glacier, solving a decades-old geological puzzle.
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Finland Named World's Happiest Country for Record Ninth Consecutive Year
The 2026 World Happiness Report confirms Finland's historic nine-year streak at the top, while Costa Rica breaks into the top five for the first time ever.
Human Achievements
This 12-Year-Old Just Built a Nuclear Fusion Reactor in Texas — and May Break a World Record
Aiden MacMillan, a 12-year-old from Dallas, has achieved nuclear fusion with a homemade reactor — potentially making him the youngest person ever to accomplish the feat.
Technology
UK Surgeon Removes Cancer From Patient 1,500 Miles Away in World-First Remote Robotic Surgery
A London surgeon successfully performed a prostate cancer removal on a patient in Gibraltar using a robotic system and high-speed fiber optics — marking the UK's first long-distance robotic operation.
Science
Scientists Crack the 250-Year-Old Mystery of How Plants Make Quinine
Researchers have finally decoded the complete biosynthetic pathway that cinchona trees use to produce quinine, one of history's most important medicines — opening the door to lab-grown antimalarials.
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Beavers Return to Cornwall After 400 Years — and They're Already Building Dams
Four pairs of Eurasian beavers have been released into Cornwall's rivers for the first time in four centuries, and they're already reshaping the landscape to help prevent flooding.
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9,500 People Turn Mexico City's Zócalo Into the World's Largest Soccer Class
Thousands of Mexicans packed their capital's iconic central square for a 40-minute mass training session, shattering the previous Guinness record by nearly nine times ahead of the 2026 World Cup.
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Mondo Duplantis Soars to 15th Pole Vault World Record at 6.31 Meters
Swedish pole vaulter Armand "Mondo" Duplantis cleared 6.31 meters at the Mondo Classic in Uppsala, setting his 15th world record and continuing the most dominant run in the sport's history.
Technology
Sodium-Ion Batteries Hit the Road: The Cheaper, Safer Power Source Going Mainstream in 2026
Named one of MIT Technology Review's 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2026, sodium-ion batteries are moving from lab curiosity to mass production — with CATL and BYD leading the charge.
Science
CERN Discovers New 'Charmed' Particle, Expanding Our Map of the Universe's Building Blocks
Physicists at CERN's upgraded Large Hadron Collider have discovered the Xi-cc-plus, a rare heavy particle containing two charm quarks — only the second doubly charmed baryon ever observed.