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What Elon Musk's trillion means in real terms

Catapulted by the market debut of his rocket company SpaceX, Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire

AAP · Jun 12

Several red flags emerge as SpaceX IPO hawks Elon Musk's Mars dream

SpaceX's bold Mars vision faces scientific doubts. Experts highlight engineering challenges and human biology unknowns. Colonizing Mars presents immense hurdles. Musk's ambitious timelines are questioned. The dream of a Mars colony remains a distant prospect. Investors are urged to consider the practical realities.

The Economic Times · Jun 12

Fungal highways are vast, yet hidden underground – new study

Beneath our feet lie some of the largest living organisms on Earth. Fungi are mostly invisible and largely overlooked, but they help sustain the ecosystems and food systems that we depend on every day.

The Conversation · Jun 12

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What Elon Musk's trillion would mean in real terms

Elon Musk is poised to become the world's first trillionaire. This unprecedented wealth accumulation follows the market debut of his company SpaceX. The article highlights the immense scale of a trillion dollars. It compares this sum to global economic indicators and everyday purchases. This development underscores a growing wealth gap.

The Economic Times · Jun 12

$1 trillion could buy millions of US homes. Here’s how to contextualize the mass wealth

This surge in extreme wealth occurs while more people worldwide struggle to pay everyday bills

The Independent UK · Jun 12

How Unreal Engine and Houdini power the VFX of Surviving Earth

Milk VFX visualised 450 million years of Earth’s lost worlds.

Creative Bloq · Jun 12

45 Times People Asked Dumb Science Questions And The Internet Delivered Perfect Answers

There’s a saying that you can’t trust anything you see on the internet. And while it sounds a bit dramatic, there’s a lot of truth to it. Whether it’s someone’s crazy and totally-not-made-up personal story or the comment section underneath a news article, you rarely know if you’re dealing with…

Bored Panda · Jun 12

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My quiet obsession with satellites — and how they're ruining everything

From ruined photos to vanishing darkness, satellites are transforming the night sky — and not always for the better.

Space · Jun 12

This $800 Flex-Fuel Motorcycle Might Be The Most Sensible Bike On Earth. Maybe

A street-legal flex-fuel motorcycle for less than an iPhone might make sense in more places than just India. But Hero's HF Deluxe Splendor has more than just an attractive price point.

RideApart · Jun 12

'Mexico, world capital of football': Papers react to World Cup debut

PRESS REVIEW – Friday, June 12: Papers discuss Mexico's "statement" World Cup win over South Africa and detail Raul Jimenez's triumph. Also: young women in New York choose to live with nuns to save on rent. Finally, for the first time, scientists have mapped the enormous scale of subterranean fungi…

France 24 · Jun 12

With an influx of convos about UFOs, it’s up for debate how aliens may fit in with religion

The Catholic Church has historically been open to the possibility of extraterrestrial life

The Independent UK · Jun 12

Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO: the capitalist space revolution begins

World’s biggest IPO: Elon Musk wants to raise $75bn for SpaceX, making him Earth’s first trillionaire, as Rainer Zitelmann explains in an opinion piece for Euronews how it came about and what happens next.

Euronews · Jun 12

Supergirl writer says the upcoming DCU movie is "completely different" from her DCEU Supergirl script: "Nothing carried over"

Ana Nogueira says "nothing" carried over from her unmade Sasha Calle Supergirl script to the new DCU movie

Total Film · Jun 12

Poetic line of the day from On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous: 'I miss you more than I remember you.' Life lessons on love, regret and memories that refuse to fade

Poetic line of the day: Ocean Vuong's novel On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous offers a profound insight into love, loss and memory. The line, "I miss you more than I remember you," beautifully captures how feelings can outlast fading memories. It reminds us to cherish the people and experiences in…

The Economic Times · Jun 12

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Space · Jun 12

SpaceX goes public with a mind-bogglingly historic IPO. The space industry may never be the same.

With the launch of SpaceX into the IPO frontier today, the space industry has its newest publicly traded juggernaut.

The Economic Times · Jun 12

Planetary Parade 2026 US Time: When and where to watch Mercury, Venus and Jupiter tonight, viewing tips and more

Planetary Parade 2026: Skywatchers across the US can witness a mini planetary parade today, June 12, as Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter align low above the western horizon shortly after sunset. This naked-eye astronomy event offers a rare celestial treat, with Venus and Jupiter being the brightest, and Mercury appearing lower…

MyLifeXP · Jun 12

What Made Goddess Lakshmi Leave Vaikuntha Forever?

When we think of Lord Vishnu and Goddess Lakshmi, we imagine the perfect divine couple eternally united in Vaikuntha, the heavenly abode beyond all sorrow. But what if we told you that there was a time when Goddess Lakshmi became so upset that she left Vaikuntha itself? What could have…

The Economic Times · Jun 12

This 'alien' blue planet rains molten glass and a year here is less than a weekend, scientists are stunned

Scientists are stunned by HD 189733b, a blue planet 63 light-years away, resembling Earth but far more hostile. Orbiting its star in just two days, it endures scorching temperatures, supersonic winds, and glass rain. Its striking blue color stems from silicate particles scattering light, not oceans. This 'hot Jupiter' offers…

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The Times of India · Jun 12

In 1812, a powerful earthquake made the Mississippi River flow backwards and created a lake that still exists today

Rivers are often treated as fixed features of the landscape. They bend, flood, and shift over long stretches of time, but they seem permanent enough that entire towns and economies are built around them. The Mississippi River, in particular, has long been regarded as one of North America's defining geographical…

The Conversation · Jun 12

Aliens might exist. But there are three reasons why they’re not visiting us

The United States government’s recent release of hundreds of previously classified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAPs) cases spanning the 1940s to the present, along with the new Steven Spielberg movie, Disclosure Day, about extraterrestrial life, has fuelled the idea that aliens are visiting Earth.

The Mary Sue · Jun 12

The Weirdest Dating Sim of the Year Lets You Romance Bugs Voiced by an ‘Attack on Titan’ Star

Today’s dating scene might bug plenty of people – literally. A Japanese pest control company has announced that they’ll be launching a dating simulator with a creepy, crawly twist: your boyfriend is a cockroach. Earth Corporation’s Gokigen Lovely Days is free to play, featuring the voice talents behind one of…

The Guardian - AU · Jun 11

Auckland sits near an active faultline, new research suggests, so what next for New Zealand’s biggest city?

The city is exempted from earthquake building rules due to its northerly location, but a study of the Mangatangi Fault has thrown that into question

The Independent UK · Jun 11

NASA’s head defends all-male crew for mission named after a Greek goddess

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the selected astronauts give ‘the mission the best chance of meeting its objectives’

LiveScience · Jun 11

Earth's underground fungal network is so massive, it would span 10% of the Milky Way, map reveals

The first global map of subterranean fungi networks reveals how massive its reach is worldwide.

The Guardian - UK · Jun 11

Subterranean fungi networks more than 100 quadrillion km in length, study finds

First ever global mapping of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi shows scale of hyphal systems that sustain plant life

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