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Humpback Whale Travels 15,100 km — A New Migration World Record
A single whale, photographed 22 years apart in Brazil and Australia, has set the longest documented humpback journey in history — a 15,100 km swim across two oceans.
Technology
NASA's New Space Chip Is 500× Faster Than Today's
The palm-sized HPSC processor could let future spacecraft think for themselves during deep-space missions to the Moon and Mars.
News
Vietnam's Rarest Monkey Triples Its Numbers in Two Decades
A new census reveals 160 Tonkin snub-nosed monkeys now live in Vietnam's Khau Ca forest — more than three times the number counted in 2002.
Human Achievements
UK Bricklayer Charlie Collison Sets Guinness Record: 1,065 Bricks in One Hour
At a college show near Leamington, the trade's self-styled "fastest in the UK" made it official — 1,065 bricks laid in 60 minutes, smashing the previous Guinness mark.
Technology
Shanghai Robot Lifts 5,000 kg, Doubles the Guinness Load Record
Shanghai Chaifu's CR5000-3700 industrial robot hoisted over 5,000 kilograms in Jinshan district, setting a new Guinness World Record and more than doubling the 2016 mark.
Science
Scientists Find 'Holy Grail' Genes That Could Help Humans Regrow Limbs
A new PNAS study comparing axolotls, zebrafish and mice identified shared "SP genes" that drive regeneration — pointing toward future therapies that could restore lost human tissue.
Human Achievements
South Africa Restores 13,000 Acres of Habitat for Critically Endangered Frog
A decade-long IUCN-led campaign cleared invasive pines from the Klein Swartberg mountains, bringing the global home of the rough moss frog back to life.
Technology
AlphaFold Spin-Off Raises $2.1B to Hunt Drugs With AI
Isomorphic Labs, the DeepMind offshoot built around Nobel Prize–winning AlphaFold, just landed one of the biggest funding rounds in AI biotech to scale its drug pipeline.
Science
Physicists Crack 25-Year Quantum Puzzle With New W-State Detector
A Japanese team built the first single-shot measurement for the elusive W state, solving a problem that had stumped quantum optics labs since the late 1990s.
News
Nigerian School Smashes World Speech Record With 480-Hour Marathon
A Lagos academy held the floor non-stop for 20 days, crushing a 2018 record by nearly four times and putting Nigerian oratory in the Guinness book.
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Bend, Oregon Opens Its Largest Library Ever After a Decade of Planning
The new 100,000-square-foot Central Library in Bend, Oregon opened to the public on May 11 with a makerspace, coffee bar, expanded children's area, and the largest collection in Deschutes County.
Human Achievements
Aruban Strongman Pulls a 21,737-Pound Bus With His Neck
Egmond Molina towed a nearly 10-ton bus more than 65 feet using only a rope around his neck, claiming his 10th Guinness World Records title in the process.
Technology
All-Perovskite Solar Cells Crack 30% Efficiency for the First Time
Chinese researchers have built the first all-perovskite tandem solar cell to surpass 30% certified efficiency, a milestone that pushes the cheap, flexible technology past long-time leader silicon.
Technology
Stanford's Fingertip-Sized Chip Boosts Light 100x With Tiny Power Draw
A new Stanford optical amplifier the size of a fingertip can intensify light signals 100-fold on a few hundred milliwatts — small enough to run on a battery and fit inside a smartphone.
Human Achievements
Georgia Seniors Set Guinness World Record for Largest Core Fitness Lesson
Hundreds of seniors from Clayton County and metro Atlanta officially broke the Guinness World Record for the Largest Core Fitness Lesson at the county's Mayfest 2026 health and wellness celebration.
Science
JWST Just Read the Surface of a Distant Planet for the First Time
Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to directly characterize the rocky surface of LHS 3844 b — a tidally locked super-Earth 49 light-years away — confirming it is a barren, atmosphere-free world.
Technology
World's First E-Bike With Semi-Solid-State Battery Just Launched
Ride1Up's new Revv1 EVO is the first production e-bike to ship with a semi-solid-state battery, promising higher energy density, better cold-weather performance and improved safety over standard lithium cells.
Human Achievements
14 Divers Stack 22 Metres Tall Underwater for New Guinness Record
A team of 14 scuba divers held a 22.3-metre vertical human tower underwater off India's Andaman Islands for three minutes — more than doubling the Guinness target and setting a new world record.
Technology
CATL Unveils EV Battery That Charges in 6 Minutes for 1,500 km
The world's largest battery maker has revealed a third-generation Shenxing pack that adds 1,500 kilometers of range in roughly the time it takes to fill a gas tank.
Science
Astronomers Find 27 New "Tatooine" Planets Orbiting Two Suns
A new survey announced on Star Wars Day more than doubles the known count of planets orbiting two stars at once — jumping the catalog from 18 to 45.
News
Wild Donkeys Return to Eastern Mongolia After 65 Years
After more than six decades of absence, the endangered Asiatic wild ass — known locally as khulan — has re-established a population in eastern Mongolia's sweeping steppe.
Technology
New 25-Nanometer Memory Chip Gets More Efficient as It Shrinks
Researchers at Science Tokyo built a hafnium-oxide memory device that overturns a 50-year-old assumption — one that has constrained chip design for decades.
Human Achievements
16-Year-Old Zhao Yicheng Sets Speed Climbing World Record at 4.58 Seconds
In his very first senior international start, the Chinese teenager scaled a 15-meter wall faster than anyone in history — and dropped Sam Watson's record in the process.