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Technology
Australia's Coal Plant Getting an 8,600 MWh Battery
Origin Energy is expanding the battery built beside Australia's biggest coal station into what would be the largest grid battery in the country.
Science
2 Olive Ridley Turtles Nest in California, a First
Warm water likely drew two tropical sea turtles far north of their usual range, producing the first documented sea turtle nests ever recorded on the U.S. West Coast.
News
School Kids Help Blanding's Turtles Go From 55 to 300
A two-decade classroom headstart program at a Massachusetts wildlife refuge has grown one endangered turtle population more than fivefold.
Technology
Caltech Chip Redirects Light in 74 Femtoseconds
Caltech engineers built a nanoscale silicon surface that redirects one beam of light using another in just 74 femtoseconds — about the time light crosses a human hair.
Human Achievements
30,034 Employees Walk 300M Steps for a Record
Deutsche Bank staff in 50 countries logged over 300 million steps in 24 hours, setting a Guinness World Record and triggering a €500,000 children's charity donation.
Science
529 Elephants Caught Using Tanzania's New Corridor
Camera traps recorded 529 elephants crossing Tanzania's first protected wildlife corridor in 15 months, after 368 local farmers made way for the 14-km passage.
News
African Parks Rewilds 745 Rhinos in 4 Countries
African Parks has translocated 745 southern white rhinos into 19 protected areas across Rwanda, the DRC, Uganda, and South Africa, with 89 calves already born.
Technology
Giant Atoms Set 3 Records for Quantum Computers
University of Stuttgart physicists trapped supersized Rydberg atoms at room temperature, breaking three world records without costly cooling.
Human Achievements
95% Bike Parts: Ben Hogan's Free Prosthetic Legs
Michigan prosthetist Ben Hogan builds working legs almost entirely from recycled bicycles and gives the design away free to amputees worldwide.
News
Jaguar Filmed Crossing Guatemala-Honduras Corridor
A rare camera-trap photo of a male jaguar confirms the Bi-National Corridor still lets the big cats move freely between Guatemala and Honduras.
Science
11,000 Giant Wētā Released as NZ Insect Recovers
New Zealand's wētāpunga, the world's heaviest insect, has moved from "endangered" to "recovering" after a 15-year captive breeding effort.
Human Achievements
Runner Smashes 8th World Record by 28 Minutes
Guinness set him a target of 2 hours 15 minutes for the fastest half marathon dressed as a referee — Leeds runner Matthew Akpan finished in 1:47, his eighth world record in six years.
Technology
Rice-Sized Chip Delivers 20x Clearer Signal for 6G
Northrop Grumman's new FORTITUDE chip crams the job of dozens of components onto one grain-of-rice-sized piece of gallium nitride, built to make satellites, GPS, and 6G more reliable.
Science
Divers Hand-Plant Kelp to Regrow Tasmania's Forests
After losing most of its underwater forests since the 1940s, Tasmania is training live-in diver interns to hand-plant giant kelp spores back onto the reef.
News
Canada Ratifies Ocean Treaty, Pledges $82M to Protect It
Canada joined nearly 100 nations in ratifying the Global Ocean Treaty and committed $82 million to monitoring, clearing the way for the first high-seas sanctuaries.
Technology
LONGi Solar Cell Hits Record 28.29% Efficiency
The Chinese manufacturer broke its own silicon solar cell record for the third time this year, verified independently by a German research institute.
News
California's Unsheltered Homelessness Drops Most in 15 Years
Preliminary 2025 counts show unsheltered homelessness fell roughly 9% statewide, even as the crisis kept growing nationally.
Human Achievements
20,000 Romanians Build 3.1-Mile Table for Sick Kids
Bucharest's 5,055-meter "Uniting Table" broke a Guinness World Record and is raising money for Romania's first children's psychiatric hospital.
Science
2 New Sea Spider Species Found in Canada's Salish Sea
UBC researchers found two sea spiders never recorded in the region in over a century — one grooms itself, the other hosts an ecosystem of parasites.
Science
Great Lakes Piping Plovers Fledge Record 184 Chicks
Down to just 12 pairs in 1990, the endangered Great Lakes piping plover population fledged a record 184 chicks in 2026, thanks to zoos, volunteers, and decades of beach restoration.
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Zimbabwe Hits Zero Rhino Poaching, 1,406 Rhinos
Once devastated by poaching, Zimbabwe reported zero rhinos killed in 2026 and now counts 1,406 black and white rhinos, according to the International Rhino Foundation's annual global report.
Technology
Kyoto Physicists Crack 25-Year Quantum Puzzle
Researchers in Japan have found a way to measure a second major type of quantum entanglement for the first time, closing a 25-year gap and opening a new path toward practical quantum teleportation.
Science
90 Chicks Push Kākāpō Population to Record 325
New Zealand's flightless kākāpō just had its biggest breeding season in decades, adding 90 chicks and pushing the critically endangered parrot past 300 birds for the first time in 75 years.