260 million tons of plastic waste
Much of the 260 million tons of plastic the world uses every year winds up in the oceans, threatening marine life. Indeed, a mass of floating trash, called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,2 , has been observed in the northern part of the ocean.
Middle Eastern Stone Age Tools Mark Earlier Date for Human Migration out of Africa
Early modern humans might have crossed a shallow sea from Africa to a verdant Arabian Peninsula more than 125,000 years ago.
Most distant object
Astronomers have pushed NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to its limits by finding what is likely to be the most distant object ever seen in the universe. The object’s light traveled 13.2 billion years to reach Hubble, roughly 150 million years longer than the previous record holder. The age of the universe is approximately 13.7 billion years.