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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.
Science
Perovskite Solar Cells Hit 98% Efficiency After 1,200 Hours of Heat Stress
Rice University engineers cracked the longstanding "yellow phase" durability problem, pushing perovskite photovoltaics one major step closer to mass commercial use.
News
Krithi Karanth Becomes First Indian Named Nat Geo Explorer of the Year
The wildlife scientist's work has reached 7,000 villages, 100,000 people, and 72,000 schoolchildren — and just earned her conservation's most coveted title.
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.
Human Achievements
Kiwi Birds Visit New Zealand Parliament for First Time After 250-Bird Wellington Comeback
A citizen-led campaign has now released 250 kiwi into hills around Wellington — and to mark the milestone, wild kiwi were welcomed inside Parliament for the first time in history.
News
Four Endangered Mountain Bongos Return to Kenya From European Zoos
Four critically endangered mountain bongos arrived safely at Mount Kenya Wildlife Conservancy this week — fresh "founders of new genetic lines" for one of Africa's rarest antelopes.
Technology
New Device Detects 'Forever Chemicals' in Water in Minutes, Not Days
A Boise State and Pearlhill Technologies device spots PFAS in water samples on the spot at trace levels — slashing testing time and cost compared with lab analysis.
Science
Scientists Turn Plastic Trash Into Clean Hydrogen Fuel Using Sunlight
A new study from the University of Adelaide maps a sunlight-driven path to convert plastic waste into hydrogen and high-value chemicals — tackling pollution and clean energy in one step.
Technology
Cambridge Spin-Out Raises $10M to Replace Refrigerant Gas With Solid-State Cooling
Barocal's new technology cools without climate-warming gases and targets a $450 billion HVAC market — including the data centers driving demand to triple by 2050.
News
UNESCO Sites Now Shelter a Third of the World's Tigers and Pandas
A new UNESCO report finds that wildlife populations have stayed stable inside designated sites even as global numbers crashed by nearly three-quarters since 1970.
Human Achievements
Shakira Draws 2 Million Fans to Copacabana in Record Free Concert
The free Todo Mundo No Rio show on May 2 ranks among the largest concerts ever staged, drove an estimated $800 million in local spending, and opened with a 1,500-drone spectacle.
Science
Oxford Achieves First-Ever 'Quadsqueezing' Quantum Breakthrough
Using a single trapped ion, Oxford physicists demonstrated a fourth-order quantum effect that was once thought too fragile to observe — opening a new toolkit for sensing, simulation, and computing.
Human Achievements
7-Year-Old Swims 29 km Across Palk Strait, Sets World Record
Ranchi schoolboy Ishank Singh covered the 29-km stretch from Sri Lanka to India in under 10 hours, becoming the youngest and fastest person ever to swim the Palk Strait.
News
Six Grassroots Conservationists Win 2026 'Green Oscars'
From Himalayan salamanders to Galápagos petrels, the 2026 Whitley Awards handed £420,000 to six grassroots leaders quietly turning the tide for endangered wildlife.
Technology
Tufts AI Cuts Energy Use 100x by Reasoning Like a Human
Tufts engineers built a robot brain that combines neural networks with old-school symbolic reasoning, slashing energy use by up to 100x while improving accuracy on real-world tasks.
Science
Scientists Teleport a Photon Between Quantum Dots Across 270 Meters
A European team transferred a photon's quantum state between two independent quantum dots over a 270-metre free-space link, clearing a major hurdle on the road to a quantum internet.
News
Goldman Environmental Prize 2026 Honors Six Grassroots Heroes
From a UK villager who beat Big Oil in court to a Nigerian biologist who rediscovered a "lost" bat, this year's Green Oscars celebrate six women who reshaped the planet's defenses.
Science
Graphene Oxide Kills Drug-Resistant Superbugs but Spares Human Cells
KAIST scientists pinned down the molecular trick that lets ultra-thin graphene sheets shred bacterial membranes while leaving our own cells untouched — a long-sought lead in the fight against antibiotic resistance.
Technology
Germany Just Turned Its Old Coal Mines Into Europe's Biggest Lake Landscape
After 60 years of flooding, the final lake in Germany's 14,000-hectare Lusatian Lakeland opens for swimming this month — turning brown-coal craters into a watery network nearly the size of Lake Como.
Human Achievements
Tropical Rainforests Bounce Back 90% in Just 30 Years, Ecuador Study Finds
A new analysis of 8,500 species shows abandoned rainforest plots can recover almost all of their original biodiversity within a single human generation — far faster than scientists thought possible.