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$7 billion in six months: how K-beauty outsold the United States to become the world's second-biggest beauty exporter
By Kiran Journals · Jul 16, 2026
Roman marine concrete can become stronger through interactions with seawater, helping explain why ancient harbour structures survived…
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A 1948 IBM computer with no memory at all, fed by punchcards and programmed by physically rewiring its panels, was still doing the…
Jul 15, 2026
Google’s Willow quantum chip completed a benchmark in under five minutes that Google estimates would take a leading supercomputer 10…
Jul 14, 2026
Methuselah is among the oldest confirmed living non-clonal trees, with rings dating to roughly 2833 BC
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In 1869, a young Swiss chemist named Friedrich Miescher started collecting pus-soaked bandages from a nearby surgical clinic, dissolved the…
Jul 11, 2026
The Roman Pantheon's unreinforced concrete dome has stood for nearly 1,900 years and remains the largest of its kind on Earth, partly…
Jul 11, 2026
A randomized trial by METR found that experienced developers completed real coding tasks 19% slower when allowed to use AI tools
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The Dalles spent 13 months fighting to keep Google’s water use secret
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Writing a single 100-word email with ChatGPT consumes approximately the volume of a standard bottle of water, the global infrastructure…
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Why a small cumulus cloud can contain about 500 tonnes of water
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