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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.
Technology
Google Launches Co-Scientist, an AI Research Partner for Real Labs
At I/O 2026, Google unveiled Gemini for Science and Co-Scientist — multi-agent AI tools built to help working researchers generate hypotheses, plan experiments, and accelerate breakthroughs.
Science
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.