Meet Zhou Qunfei: Once she worked in a glass factory, now she runs a $26 billion company and sits alongside Elon Musk and Tim Cook at China’s state dinner

Zhou Qunfei has one of the most remarkable self-made success stories in the global technology industry. Born into poverty in rural China, she left school as a teenager and worked in factories grinding watch glass to support her family. Decades later, she became the founder of Lens Technology, a company now valued at roughly $26 […]

This abandoned Soviet ghost town sits frozen at the edge of the Arctic | World News

This abandoned Soviet ghost town sits frozen at the edge of the Arctic (AI-generated) An abandoned town, largely unchanged from decades ago, sits at the far northern edge of Svalbard, beyond reliable phone signal or internet access. Pyramiden lies deep inside the High Arctic, once a working mining settlement and now a destination for a […]

The world’s largest and deepest gravity hole sits in the Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean holds the lowest gravity anomaly on Earth, a vast and subtle depression in the planet’s gravitational field located south of Sri Lanka. Known as the Indian Ocean geoid low, it causes sea level in the region to sit more than 100 metres lower than the global average, even though the ocean surface […]