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• China processes around 90% of the world’s rare earths, but Sweden has just pulled an “ace up its sleeve” with 2.2 million tons of oxides in Per Geijer
• Toyota reigns supreme again in 2026 with a reliability score of 66, but the big surprise is who sneaks into the top five and breaks Japanese dominance
• Saudi Arabia’s “impossible cube” no longer exists. On January 28, 2026, they stopped the Mukaab, a 400-square-meter colossus that would have swallowed up 20 Empire State Buildings
• Sweden breaks with 50 years of pacifist tradition and sits down with France and the United Kingdom to discuss nuclear weapons amid growing geopolitical tensions in Europe
• These 12 common preservatives could increase the risk of cancer and type 2 diabetes
• A 12-year-old boy in Texas spends four years building a nuclear fusion device at home and manages to detect real neutrons
• Fifteen years after the 2011 disaster, Fukushima continues to deliver strange surprises. Japan has found active bacteria in highly radioactive water, and what is most disturbing is that they appear “normal,” as if nothing had happened
• A 566-year-old “matriarch” tree still stands in the Gwydir wetlands, and scientists say its trunk contains a climate record spanning five centuries
• Earthquakes could be behind the formation of giant gold nuggets