Science and Technology
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01 / Computing and AI 2.2 exaflops Fastest supercomputer LineShine, National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen · Shenzhen, China See record ↗ -
02 / Physics and Chemistry 5,500 billion K Hottest temperature created by humans ALICE collaboration, Large Hadron Collider · CERN, Geneva, Switzerland See record ↗ -
03 / Physics and Chemistry 522 million K Highest ion temperature in a fusion reactor JT-60U · Naka, Ibaraki, Japan See record ↗ -
04 / Physics and Chemistry 300 billion rpm Fastest spinning human-made object Purdue University team led by Tongcang Li · Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States See record ↗ -
05 / Physics and Chemistry 4.13 x Highest fusion target gain National Ignition Facility · National Ignition Facility, Livermore, California, United States See record ↗ -
06 / Physics and Chemistry 100.75 T Strongest non-destructive pulsed magnetic field National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Los Alamos · Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States See record ↗ -
07 / Physics and Chemistry 0 lb Heaviest object placed in quantum superposition Yiwen Chu's team, ETH Zurich · ETH Zurich, Switzerland See record ↗ -
08 / Physics and Chemistry 0.16 mg/cm³ Lightest solid material Graphene aerogel produced by Gao Chao's research team at Zhejiang University · Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China See record ↗ -
09 / Physics and Chemistry 10.2 PW Most powerful laser by peak power ELI-NP High Power Laser System, developed by Thales and operated with IFIN-HH · Măgurele, Romania See record ↗ -
10 / Physics and Chemistry 69.26 MJ Most fusion energy released in a single pulse Joint European Torus (JET) · Culham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom See record ↗ -
11 / Physics and Chemistry 320 EeV Highest-energy cosmic ray detected Oh-My-God particle · Dugway Proving Ground, Utah, United States See record ↗ -
12 / Physics and Chemistry 1 billion m³ Largest neutrino detector IceCube Neutrino Observatory · South Pole, Antarctica See record ↗ -
13 / Physics and Chemistry 247 s Shortest time interval measured Reinhard Dörner's team (Goethe University Frankfurt, with DESY and the Fritz Haber Institute) · PETRA III synchrotron, Hamburg, Germany See record ↗ -
14 / Physics and Chemistry 0 in Thinnest material Graphene (Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov) · University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom See record ↗ -
15 / Physics and Chemistry 747.5 miles Longest distance for quantum entanglement Jian-Wei Pan's team using the Micius (QUESS) satellite · Between Delingha and Lijiang ground stations, China See record ↗ -
16 / Physics and Chemistry 16.6 miles Largest particle accelerator Large Hadron Collider (LHC) · CERN, on the France-Switzerland border near Geneva, Switzerland See record ↗ -
17 / Physics and Chemistry 151 K Highest-temperature superconductor at ambient pressure Pressure-quenched Hg1223 (mercury-barium-calcium copper oxide), developed by researchers at the University of Houston and the Texas Center for Superconductivity · University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States See record ↗ -
18 / Robots and Engineering 10,183 drones Largest aerial display of a mythical creature formed by drones Sky Elements Drone Shows and Damoda America See record ↗ -
19 / Robots and Engineering 71,207 launches Most drones launched in a single week Sky Elements Drone Shows and Damoda America See record ↗ -
20 / Internet and Computing 58.2 million likes Most-liked YouTube video MrBeast See record ↗ -
21 / Internet and Computing 7.8 billion downloads Most-downloaded app of all time WhatsApp See record ↗ -
22 / Internet and Computing 80.1 million likes Most-liked TikTok video Leah Halton (@looooooooch), for “Summer 😊” / “Summer😊#Inverted” See record ↗ -
23 / Internet and Computing 686 million followers Most-followed account on Instagram Instagram (@instagram) See record ↗ -
24 / Internet and Computing 207 million followers Most-followed page on Facebook Netflix · United States See record ↗ -
25 / Computing and AI 780,000 GPUs Largest AI training supercomputer by GPU count xAI Colossus · Memphis, Tennessee, United States See record ↗ -
26 / Internet and Computing 21.9 million followers Most-followed Twitch channel Kai Cenat (KaiCenat) · United States See record ↗ -
27 / Internet and Computing 549,922 stars Most-starred repository on GitHub codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x · GitHub See record ↗ -
28 / Internet and Computing 101 million views Most-viewed YouTube video in 24 hours BTS, “Dynamite” Official MV · YouTube See record ↗ -
29 / Internet and Computing 24.2 million viewers Most concurrent viewers on a YouTube livestream CazéTV · YouTube; France vs Spain, 2026 FIFA World Cup semifinal See record ↗ -
30 / Computing and AI 430.2 Tbps Fastest data transmission over standard optical fiber NICT-led international team, including Aston University · UK / Japan See record ↗ -
31 / Robots and Engineering 8.64 s Fastest humanoid robot 100 m sprint Tiangong Ultra, developed by X-Humanoid · Beijing, China See record ↗ -
32 / Computing and AI $5.73 trillion Most valuable AI company NVIDIA · United States See record ↗ -
33 / Robots and Engineering 1,372 robots Most robots dancing simultaneously TIM S.p.A. · Rome, Italy See record ↗ -
34 / Internet and Computing 2.2 billion views Most-viewed TikTok video Zach King, for “Zach Kings Magic Broomstick” · United States See record ↗ -
35 / Computing and AI 1.2 billion users Most weekly users of an AI chatbot ChatGPT · Worldwide See record ↗ -
36 / Computing and AI 44 TB Highest-capacity hard drive Seagate Technology, with its Mozaic 4+ HAMR hard drive · Hyperscale data centers See record ↗ -
37 / Robots and Engineering 408.6 mph Fastest drone speed Luke Maximo Bell and Mike Bell, with the Peregreen V4 · Cape Town, South Africa See record ↗ -
38 / Robots and Engineering 0.103 s Fastest Rubik's Cube solve by a robot Matthew Patrohay, Junpei Ota, Aden Hurd, and Alex Berta, with the Purdubik's Cube robot · West Lafayette, Indiana, United States See record ↗ -
39 / Internet and Computing 90 minutes Fastest YouTube channel to 1 million subscribers Cristiano Ronaldo (UR Cristiano) See record ↗ -
40 / Internet and Computing 27,962 miles Longest undersea cable 2Africa consortium (Meta and partners) · Africa, Europe and Asia See record ↗ -
41 / Computing and AI 6,100 qubits Largest qubit array Caltech (Manuel Endres group) · Pasadena, USA See record ↗ -
42 / Physics and Chemistry 13.6 TeV Highest-energy particle collisions CERN Large Hadron Collider · Geneva, Switzerland/France border See record ↗ -
43 / Internet and Computing 94.8 billion visits Most-visited website Google.com See record ↗ -
44 / Robots and Engineering 26 MW Most powerful wind turbine Dongfang Electric · China See record ↗ -
45 / Physics and Chemistry 118 protons Heaviest element created Joint Institute for Nuclear Research and Lawrence Livermore (oganesson) See record ↗ -
46 / Physics and Chemistry 45.22 tesla Strongest steady magnetic field Steady High Magnetic Field Facility, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Hefei, China See record ↗ -
47 / Internet and Computing 402 million domain names Most domain name registrations Global domain name system (all TLDs) See record ↗ -
48 / Physics and Chemistry 22:17 (1,337 s) at about 50 million degree Longest fusion plasma duration CEA WEST tokamak · Cadarache, France See record ↗ -
49 / Robots and Engineering 486 cu ft Largest 3D-printed structure by volume Proto21 3D Printing and Myata Platinum Restaurant · Dubai, UAE See record ↗ -
50 / Computing and AI 4,000 billion transistors Largest chip by transistor count Cerebras Systems (WSE-3) · Sunnyvale, USA See record ↗ -
51 / Physics and Chemistry −459.7 °F Coldest temperature achieved in a lab University of Bremen / German research team · Bremen, Germany See record ↗ -
52 / Internet and Computing 75 million likes Most-liked Instagram post Lionel Messi, World Cup champions post (2022) See record ↗ -
53 / Internet and Computing 5 days Fastest app to 100 million users Threads (Meta) See record ↗ -
54 / Internet and Computing 163 million followers Most-followed person on TikTok Khaby Lame See record ↗ -
55 / Internet and Computing 520 million subscribers Most-subscribed YouTube channel MrBeast See record ↗ -
56 / Internet and Computing 242 million followers Most-followed account on X (Twitter) Elon Musk See record ↗ -
57 / Internet and Computing $70 million Most expensive domain name sale AI.com See record ↗ -
58 / Internet and Computing 26 billion records Largest data leak "Mother of All Breaches" compilation (2024) See record ↗ -
59 / Internet and Computing 680 million followers Most-followed person on Instagram Cristiano Ronaldo See record ↗
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