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Earth saw its hottest day on record this week – twice. According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service data, Sunday claimed the top spot for highest global average temperature since the records began in 1940, only to be broken again on Monday.

NASA and NOAA have confirmed that July 2023 was the hottest month in recorded history, which goes back about a century and a half. The finding follows a worrying trend that has a decent chance of setting 2023 as the hottest year on record.

German physicists have recorded the coldest temperature ever – 38 trillionths of a degree above absolute zero. The experiment involved dropping quantum gas and switching a magnetic field on and off to bring its atoms to an almost complete standstill.

July 2019 has been found to be the hottest month ever recorded, which won’t surprise anybody who sweated through the heat wave this summer. This continues a long-running upwards trend, with the first six months of the year tied for second hottest and sea ice at an all-time low at both poles.

​The wild waters off to the south of New Zealand have played host to record-breaking swell, with a buoy moored in the Southern Ocean picking up the largest wave ever recorded in the Southern Hemisphere.​

A helium-filled shell with a wind turbine in the middle, the Buoyant Air Turbine from Altaeros has already been tested to 500 feet off the ground in 45 mph winds. Now it's set to break the world record for the highest wind turbine in history.

The Sutter's Hill asteroid that exploded above California in April this year was the fastest on record according to new analysis.

Northwestern University researchers have broken a world record in the creation of two new synthetic materials which have the greatest amount of surface areas reported to date.

Recordings made by Alexander Graham Bell and his colleagues at the Volta Laboratory Association have been heard for the first time in living memory.

Astronomers have pushed the Hubble Space Telescope to the very limit of its technical ability and believe that they have discovered the oldest and furthest ancient galaxy ever seen.

Scientists have delivered a world record one megajoule of laser energy to a target demonstrating the conditions required to achieve fusion ignition.