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Health

Your heart beats about 100,000 times every single day

Every person walking, sleeping, or sitting still right now depends on a muscle that contracts roughly 100,000 times before the next sunrise. That number, drawn from a normal resting heart rate of 60 to 100 beats per minute, is not a fixed biological constant but an approximation shaped by fitness, age, sleep quality, and physical […]

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Lightning superheats the air around it to roughly five times the surface temperature of the Sun

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Sunlight takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth

By BeckhamLangford

About 90% of Earth’s active volcanoes lie hidden beneath the oceans

By BeckhamLangford

The Sun burns through about 4 million tons of its own mass every second

By BeckhamLangford

China’s open DeepSeek V4 now scores within a fraction of a point of Claude on a key coding test, at roughly a tenth of the price

By Dorian Maddox

A US Nimitz-class carrier runs on two nuclear reactors and can sail more than 20 years without refueling

By Everett Sloane

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Health

Your heart beats about 100,000 times every single day

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Lightning superheats the air around it to roughly five times the surface temperature of the Sun

By BeckhamLangford

Astronomy

Sunlight takes about 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth

By BeckhamLangford

Science

About 90% of Earth’s active volcanoes lie hidden beneath the oceans

By BeckhamLangford

Cybersecurity

CISA added a maximum-severity flaw in a popular Magento store-cache plugin to its must-patch list after attackers began hijacking online shops

By Cassian Holt

Cybersecurity

Hackers are exploiting a maximum-severity bug in a WordPress form plugin on thousands of sites, running their own code with no login required

By Cassian Holt

Space Systems

Europe’s Hera spacecraft is closing in on asteroid Didymos for a November arrival to inspect the crater NASA’s DART probe blasted into its moon

By Cassian Holt

Naval

A submarine stays hidden mostly by running quieter than the ocean noise around it

By Kade Winslow

Naval

Kim Jong Un boarded North Korea’s new 5,000-ton destroyer Kang Kon for sea trials and ordered the navy to start building a 10,000-ton warship next

By Kade Winslow

Aviation

China’s J-36 stealth fighter team unveiled a carrier-landing system designed to set the heavy jet down in waves up to six meters high

By Kade Winslow

AI

China’s open DeepSeek V4 now scores within a fraction of a point of Claude on a key coding test, at roughly a tenth of the price

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Apple opens WWDC Monday with a rebuilt Siri powered by a Google AI model it licensed for about $1 billion a year, in Tim Cook’s final keynote

By Dorian Maddox

AI

Apple is expected to add satellite messaging to Maps and smarter AI search to Wallet and Safari when iOS 27 debuts at WWDC

By Dorian Maddox

AI

General AI now performs at or above human-expert level on standardized tests in many fields

By Dorian Maddox

Electric Vehicles

Slate opens orders June 24 for its bare-bones electric pickup, a no-frills truck targeting 150 miles on the standard battery and 240 on the bigger one

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

The plug-in Ram 1500 REV pairs a 92-kWh battery with a V6 generator to target 690 miles of range, 145 of them all-electric

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

An electric car turns roughly 90% of its battery energy into motion, while a gas engine wastes most as heat

By Rowan Calder

Cars

The average car sits parked about 95% of the time it is owned

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Volvo unveiled new electric trucks rated for up to 700 kilometers on a charge, pushing battery range into long-haul territory

By Rowan Calder

Aircraft

A United regional jet diverted to Midland after an in-flight problem, landing safely

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

GM is recalling 1,191 Silverado EV and Sierra EV trucks over a stability-control warning fault

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Ford is recalling its 2026 E-Transit electric vans over battery packs that could arc and ignite

By Rowan Calder

Watercraft

If the mystery Chinese submarine runs on diesel, it would be the largest conventional sub afloat anywhere on Earth

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Uber is sinking up to $1.25 billion into Rivian to put 50,000 self-driving R2s on the road, with the first 10,000 headed to San Francisco and Miami

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

Gatik became the first company in North America running fully driverless trucks at scale, completing 60,000 commercial deliveries with no human aboard

By Rowan Calder

SUV’s

Nuro just won a California permit to run driverless Lucid Gravity SUVs with no safety driver, clearing the way for Uber robotaxis in Waymo’s home city this year

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Tesla logged five fresh robotaxi collisions across December and January, pushing its driverless Austin fleet to 14 incidents since the service launched

By Rowan Calder

Trucks

Aurora Innovation validated a 1,000-mile driverless lane from Fort Worth to Phoenix, a haul longer than a single human trucker can legally drive in a day

By Rowan Calder

Watercraft

Louisiana boatbuilder Metal Shark debuted Frenzy, a low-cost amphibious robotic boat that hauls payloads on its own with no crew

By Rowan Calder

Electric Vehicles

Electric cars are getting major range jumps for 2026, with the Lucid Gravity hitting 450 miles and the Rivian R1S reaching 410 on a charge

By Rowan Calder

Nuclear

A US Nimitz-class carrier runs on two nuclear reactors and can sail more than 20 years without refueling

By Everett Sloane

Energy Transition

Solar and wind now generate electricity more cheaply than new coal plants across most of the world

By Everett Sloane

Power and Grids

High-voltage power lines move electricity long distances by raising voltage and cutting current

By Everett Sloane

Extreme Weather

Forecasters warn of severe storms with large hail and a few tornadoes across the northern High Plains on Tuesday as a trough sweeps in

By Everett Sloane