The Chaturbhuj Temple, built in the 9th century, stands within Gwalior Fort in Madhya Pradesh, India.
A stone inscription from circa 876 CE on the temple wall records a flower garden donation in Sanskrit, using the Nagari script.
The inscription contains the circular zero symbol (appearing in numbers like '270' and '50'), making it one of the oldest surviving physical examples of zero in its modern form.
Zero developed over centuries in ancient India and became fundamental to computing, engineering, mathematics, and space exploration.
Architect and inventor Buckminster Fuller delivered 42 hours of lectures in 1975 covering his major innovations: Dymaxion house/car, Wichita House, geodesic domes, and tensegrity structures
The Buckminster Fuller Institute published complete unedited transcripts beginning in 1997; full archive available online at archive.org
Lectures applied synergetic geometry to comprehensive problems: architecture, mathematics, economics, engineering, design, and industrial history
Transcripts created through volunteer effort, including word-for-word transcription from audiotapes by JoAnoe Ishimine and detailed outlines by Ed Applewhite
A feral cat nicknamed "Nine Lives" was shot on July 30 on New Zealand's Purerua peninsula after evading trappers for three years
The cat killed approximately 30 pāteke (brown teal ducks)—equivalent to 1% of the species' population—plus kiwi chicks and native geckos
A conservation project had introduced pāteke to restore the species, but the cat killed about 15 in each of two separate release attempts in 2023 and 2024
The cat was nearly impossible to trap because it appeared unpredictably at various times; teams finally caught it after noticing it visited a quarry three nights in a row
The cat's body will be taxidermied to educate the public about feral cats' devastating impact on New Zealand's native wildlife
Lego Icons released a model of the Hubble Space Telescope configured to reflect its state after the fifth NASA servicing mission in 2009
Model features removable panels showing internal instruments (STIS, COS, ACS, NICMOS) plus three gyroscopes, five guidance sensors, communications antennas, and solar array wings
Display stand includes printed images of three famous Hubble observations: Eagle Nebula, Whirlpool Galaxy, and Butterfly Nebula
Includes minifigure astronaut wearing an accurate extravehicular mobility unit (EMU) spacesuit used during the actual servicing missions
Designers included unlabeled details beyond the instructions to accurately represent Hubble's scientific legacy and technical complexity
Austria's Wieselburg recorded 40.3°C (104.5°F) in July 2026, just 0.2°C short of the all-time 2003 record amid Europe's record-breaking summer heat
Typhoon Dolphin rapidly intensified from tropical storm to category 5 in 36 hours, fueled by exceptionally warm 30°C sea temperatures and an unusually compact structure with 52-mile hurricane-force wind radius
Storm weakened to category 3 with 125mph sustained winds; forecast to make landfall in Okinawa as category 1-2, though 80-100mph winds and storm surge remain threats
Link satellite lost attitude control and communications while pursuing NASA's $500M Swift gamma-ray observatory, roughly 200 miles above Earth
Two of three reaction wheels failed and cold gas thrusters malfunctioned; power supply, xenon thrusters, and robotic servicing hardware remain operational
This is NASA's first commercial satellite servicing contract; Katalyst must complete the rescue within months before Swift's orbit decays too low
Ground team at Denver control center using plasma engines (designed for orbit-raising) to gradually arrest the satellite's multi-axis spin