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Technology
Cambridge Study: A Simple Squeeze Doubles EV Battery Life
Steady physical pressure on lithium-ion pouch cells could double an EV battery's useful lifespan — no new chemistry required, according to new University of Cambridge research.
Human Achievements
Unai Simón Sets Guinness Record for Longest World Cup Clean Sheet
Spain's goalkeeper Unai Simón has gone 519 minutes without conceding at the World Cup, breaking a 36-year-old record held by Italy's Walter Zenga.
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Egypt Sets Guinness Record With 15,000 Blood Donors in a Single Day
A nationwide campaign in Egypt registered more than 15,000 blood donors in just 12 hours, earning a Guinness World Record and boosting the country's strategic blood reserves.
Science
Scientists Discover a New Ladybird Species — On a Tree Outside Their Own Lab
Researchers combing 1,700 specimens across Japan turned up a previously unknown ladybird beetle — living, all along, on a pine tree beside their own university building in Fukuoka.
Technology
This New EV Charges From 10% to 80% in Under 6 Minutes
A new sedan from Geely's Lynk & Co brand can add 70 percent of its battery in the time it takes to buy coffee, thanks to a 900-volt architecture and a 492 kW average charging rate.
Human Achievements
Yas Waterworld Sets Guinness Record With 55 Waterslides — The Most Ever
The Abu Dhabi water park has officially been crowned home to the most waterslides in the world, edging out every other park with a lineup of 55 slides.
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Make That 451: New Baby Boosts World's Rarest Wombat Population
Trail cameras have spotted a new joey riding in its mother's pouch at an Australian nature refuge, giving one of the world's rarest mammals a small but meaningful bump in numbers.
Human Achievements
Aussie Climber Sets New Sea-to-Summit Everest Record in 50 Days
Brisbane mountaineer Oliver Foran cycled, kayaked and hiked from the Bay of Bengal to the summit of Everest in just 50 days — beating a 12-year record by more than two weeks.
Technology
Texas A&M's New Laser Tool Measures the Quantum Forces Behind Drugs
A Texas A&M team has built a laser-based technique called TRIP that can directly measure the faint quantum forces holding proteins and drugs together — a powerful new tool for the next generation of medicines.
Science
JWST Cracks the 'Pink Planet' Mystery: Salt Clouds 57 Light-Years Away
The James Webb Space Telescope has finally peered inside GJ 504b, a strange pink-hued world orbiting a sun-like star, and found something never confirmed before in such an object: skies laced with salt.
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U.S. Launches DNA Vault for Every Endangered Species in America
A new partnership between Colossal Biosciences and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will biobank cells, tissues and DNA from all 2,300+ Endangered Species Act-listed plants and animals.
Human Achievements
Skateboarder Crosses the U.S. Coast-to-Coast in 39 Days, Setting Record
Chad Caruso rolled 3,000+ miles from Venice Beach to Jacksonville on a skateboard in 39 days — averaging 72 miles a day — to claim the Guinness World Record for fastest solo skate across America.
Technology
New Solid Material Turns Ordinary Sunlight Into Higher-Energy UV Light
A Kyushu University team built a stable solid material that fuses two visible photons into one ultraviolet photon — a long-sought breakthrough that could power cleaner air purification and solar chemistry.
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Eastern Barred Bandicoots Return to Mainland Australia After 35 Years
Up to 100 once-extinct-in-the-wild bandicoots were released on Phillip Island — the largest reintroduction of the species in Australia's history, and a 35-year comeback.
Human Achievements
Kenyan Teacher Sets World Record With 45-Hour Nonstop Math Lesson
Menengai High School teacher Fenwick Cyril Maloba taught mathematics for 45 hours straight, smashing the previous Guinness World Record by more than 13 hours.
Technology
Monash Builds First Chip That Generates, Steers and Reads Light in One Device
A single Monash University chip can now generate, route and read information carried by light — solving a stubborn obstacle that has held back the field of valleytronics for years.
Science
JUNO Neutrino Detector Delivers Sharpest-Ever Measurement of Particle Oscillation
China's 20,000-ton Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory has cut the uncertainty on two key neutrino parameters by 1.6× — and it's only been collecting data for 59 days.
Human Achievements
966 Living Donors and Recipients Set Guinness Record in Denver
The 2026 Transplant Games of America gathered 966 living organ donors and recipients in one place, setting a Guinness World Record and a quietly powerful symbol of second chances.
Science
Duke and IonQ Link 3 Quantum Computers Over a Photonic Network
Researchers entangled three remote trapped-ion qubits across a photonic network, clearing a long-standing barrier on the path to modular quantum computers.
Science
World''s Largest Scorpion Identified From 415-Million-Year-Old Fossils
A meter-long predator with 16-cm pincers stalked Britain''s ancient floodplains, scientists at London''s Natural History Museum and the University of Manchester confirm.
Science
New 'Ballista' Spider Builds Spring-Loaded Trap to Catch Ants
Discovered in North Queensland's rainforests, the newly described spider weaves a catapult-like silk web that flings a single ant species into the air before reeling it in.
Human Achievements
Messi Becomes All-Time World Cup Goal King With 18 Goals
Lionel Messi scored twice against Austria to pass Miroslav Klose and stand alone as the men's World Cup all-time leading goalscorer with 18 goals.
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Lord Howe Island's Insects Bounce Back After Rats Gone
Researchers found total invertebrate abundance soared on Lord Howe Island after the 2019 rodent eradication — a textbook win for one of Australia's boldest conservation projects.