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Britain's First "Furniture Orchard" Grows Chairs Straight From the Trees
A Derbyshire farm is harvesting finished chairs, lamps and mirror frames from living trees — Britain's first commercial "furniture orchard" and a quietly radical rethink of how we make the things we sit on.
Technology
Sodium-Ion Batteries Take Aim at Lithium With New Low-Cost EV Cells
A new generation of sodium-ion battery cells is matching lithium-iron-phosphate on key specs while using one of the most abundant elements on Earth — opening a cheaper, more resilient path to electric cars and grid storage.
Science
Critically Endangered Mountain Bongos Caught on Trail Cam in Kenya
Trail cameras have captured fresh footage of mountain bongos — one of the world's rarest forest antelopes — in a stretch of Kenyan highlands where they were feared extinct, a major win for a species reduced to fewer than 100 wild animals.
Science
JWST Solves Saturn's 20-Year Spin Mystery: It's the Aurora
James Webb Telescope data shows Saturn's shifting rotation rate isn't the planet — it's a self-sustaining cycle of auroras, winds, and electrical currents driving its upper atmosphere.
Human Achievements
30,000 Volunteers Plant 1 Million Trees in Chinese Desert After Viral Plea
A young agronomist's social media campaign drew 30,000 volunteers to Minqin County in China's arid Gansu Corridor — and turned a battle against desertification into a national movement.
Technology
Scientists Find 'On-Off Switch' for Superconductivity in Twisted Graphene
An Ohio State team can flip superconductivity on and off in twisted bilayer graphene by tuning its surroundings — a step toward the long-sought goal of room-temperature electronics with zero energy loss.
Science
Japanese Scientists Build Vitamin K That Helps the Brain Regrow Lost Neurons
Researchers in Japan engineered a vitamin K compound that triples the rate at which neural stem cells become working neurons, opening a possible path to regenerative therapies for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Human Achievements
Watch: German Plunger Pro Pops 60 Balloons in 30 Seconds for World Record
Serial record-breaker Andre Ortolf has set a Guinness World Record by popping 60 balloons in 30 seconds — using only a humble household plunger.
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Wild Horses Are Back: Mongolia's Takhi Now Top 1,000 in Their Homeland
Once extinct in the wild, Przewalski's horses now number more than 1,000 in Mongolia — half the global population — thanks to a 50-year reintroduction effort that began with just a dozen captive ancestors.
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New Zealand Parakeet Pair Produces 55 Chicks, 10% of Wild Population
Nacho and Trixie, a breeding pair of critically endangered orange-fronted parakeets at the Isaac Conservation and Wildlife Trust, have hatched 55 chicks in two years — a tenth of the entire species.
Human Achievements
Thai Skydiver Lands Atop World's Highest Volcano, Sets New Record
Thailand's Tanaboworn Sirikunakornkun, known as "Super Toom," parachuted onto Chile's Ojos del Salado at 5,442 meters — breaking the world record for highest-altitude skydive landing.
Human Achievements
Japanese Teen Wins $100K Top Prize at World's Biggest Science Fair
Hikaru Kuribayashi, 17, of Sapporo, Japan won the $100,000 top award at Regeneron ISEF 2026 for a simulation program that models the complex folding behavior of origami and mechanical linkages.
Technology
Finland Builds Sensor That Detects Energy Below a Zeptojoule
Researchers at Aalto University built a calorimeter that can detect energy pulses smaller than 0.83 zeptojoules — a milestone for quantum computing and the hunt for dark matter.
Science
100-Million-Year-Old Bug Found in Amber With Crab-Like Claws
Scientists at LMU Munich identified a brand-new fossil insect preserved in Myanmar amber with grasping pincers more like a crab's than anything seen in modern bugs — and named it after the K-pop group Stray Kids.
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Mexico City Paints Record-Breaking 200m² Mural for World Cup
Artists used brushes and acrylics to paint a football-themed mural in Mexico City spanning more than 200 square metres — earning a Guinness World Record ahead of the 2026 World Cup.
Human Achievements
254 Players Set Guinness Record for Largest Human Foosball Game
A rain-soaked field at Humber Polytechnic in Toronto turned into a giant tabletop game on May 23 as 254 players locked into bars and set the new world record.
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Namibia Locks In $63M for Africa's Largest Community Conservation Deal
A new agreement called Namibia for Life secures $63 million to protect 100 community conservancies and 280,000 people, the first Project Finance for Permanence deal in Africa.
Technology
OpenAI Model Cracks 80-Year-Old Erdős Math Problem
An OpenAI reasoning model disproved a long-standing conjecture by mathematician Paul Erdős, finding new dot arrangements that beat what humans believed was the best possible.
Science
Asthma Drug Montelukast May Fight Aggressive Cancers, Study Finds
Northwestern researchers found that a common asthma medication can switch off the molecule tumors use to evade the immune system, restoring response to immunotherapy in tough cancers.
Science
Solar Cells Just Hit 130% Efficiency — Breaking a Long-Standing Limit
Scientists in Japan and Germany used a molybdenum "spin-flip" emitter to harvest extra energy from sunlight through singlet fission, reaching a quantum yield of about 130% — past the long-standing Shockley-Queisser ceiling.
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11-Year-Old Sets World Record for 47 Splits in One Minute
South African schoolboy Chaz Wildon trained for eight months, then nailed 47 splits in 60 seconds in front of his classmates to claim the Guinness World Record — beating the previous male mark by one.
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Sri Lanka Builds the World's Longest Sensory Board — 60 Meters of Inclusion
Merak 2026, a 60-meter tactile artwork made from recycled ocean plastic, zips, and sequins, is now the world's longest sensory board — and a record-setting moment for autism awareness.
Human Achievements
Ohio Family Sends a Slinky Down 53 Stairs for a New World Record
Joe and Christelle Luchsinger and their 5-year-old son Axel are now in the Guinness World Records book for sending a Slinky down 53 stairs at an Ohio college stadium.