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A viral browser game celebrating Nigerian life just secured half a million dollars from investors in record time. The funding round closed in a single day and valued the startup at $10 million.
A thermal energy storage system in Australia is replacing natural gas in factories while helping stabilize the power grid. The technology stores renewable energy as heat up to 550°C, delivering clean steam around the clock at lower costs than fossil fuels.
France just slashed the cost of solar energy by a quarter, proving clean power keeps getting more affordable. The country awarded nearly a gigawatt of new solar projects at record-low prices.
The Netherlands just made a bold move toward cleaner air and lower energy bills for millions. Starting in 2029, every home replacing its heating system will switch to smart hybrid heat pumps that slash gas use by 65%.
Canada just launched a $2 billion program offering rebates up to $10,000 to help families switch to energy-efficient heat pumps, making home heating cheaper and cleaner. The streamlined program requires no energy audits and promises approval within 24 hours.
AI company Anthropic just launched a free service that helps open-source software projects find security vulnerabilities before hackers do. The OSS Scanner uses their most powerful AI models to spot potential bugs and alert developers at no cost.
Indiana Fever superstar Caitlin Clark is making it clear she wants teammate Kelsey Mitchell to stay with the team forever. The 30-year-old guard just wrapped a historic season and enters free agency as the franchise's top offseason priority.
A waterlily expert spotted an Instagram selfie from Colombia's rainforest and realized it showed a species unknown to science. After a dramatic jungle expedition, researchers confirmed the discovery of a giant waterlily so large it's visible from space.
On this day in 1909, baseball legend Ty Cobb stole home plate in Game 2 of the World Series by outsmarting the pitcher. His cunning baserunning helped define a career that saw him steal home 54 times, a record that still stands today.
When Microsoft employee Kunal Bahl got his H-1B visa rejection email in 2007, it felt crushing. That setback pushed him back to India, where he built Snapdeal into one of the country's biggest success stories.
Four athletes from three countries just set a world record by doing synchronized dumbbell push-ups at over 16,000 feet above sea level. They climbed Mexico's tallest mountain in freezing conditions to prove that fitness has no limits.
Meredith Whittaker, head of encrypted messaging app Signal, says the real danger of AI isn't machines turning against humanity. It's careless deployment causing real-world harm, from faulty intelligence to privacy threats.
A British quantum computing company just landed the largest Series A funding round in UK quantum history and chose Singapore for its first research center outside Europe. The $100 million investment signals growing global confidence that quantum computers will soon tackle problems regular computers can't solve.
A cutting-edge aircraft maintenance facility just opened in Singapore, bringing over 500 new jobs and game-changing robots that will transform how planes get serviced. The technology cuts inspection time in half while freeing workers for more skilled, higher-paying roles.
ST Engineering just opened a cutting-edge aircraft maintenance facility in Singapore that uses AI and robots to repair planes faster and better. The facility will create over 500 skilled jobs while helping airlines keep more planes safely in the sky.
After more than a decade of trying, the Salisbury High School girls golf team reclaimed their county championship by a single stroke. Senior Marlee Speir led the Hornets to victory with a tournament-winning performance that ended East Rowan's nine-year winning streak.
A newly discovered note reveals scientist Rosalind Franklin understood DNA's double helix structure before the men who won the Nobel Prize. The finding offers long-overdue recognition to a brilliant researcher whose contributions were overlooked for decades.
The James Webb Space Telescope spotted young star systems experiencing planet-forming crashes similar to the collision that created our Moon 4.5 billion years ago. These discoveries give scientists their first clear window into how rocky planets like Earth were born.