Long Beach, California, United State--Haven-1, developed by the American company Vast, a single-module station designed to launch in May 2026 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and will support up to four astronauts for short-duration missions, sets the world record for the World’s First Private Space Station.

West Orange, New Jersey, United States--The Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange, New Jersey includes his laboratory complex and Glenmont Estate and houses over 300,000 artifacts and 5 million documents, setting the world record for the World's largest collection of Edison inventions.

Zurich, Switzerland--The new tool called MetaGraph, developed by scientists at ETH Zurich, allows rapid searches across vast genetic databases by compressing and indexing genetic data, setting the world record for the World's first genetic search engine, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Washington, D.C., United States--The Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair allows thousands of students from 80 countries to compete for millions in awards and scholarships by presenting their research in various STEM fields, setting the world record for the World's largest high school STEM competition.

Washington, D.C., United States--The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., encompassing over 157 million items, 21 museums, 21 libraries, 14 education and research centers, the National Zoological Park, sets the world record for the World’s Largest Museum Complex, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Hyderabad, India--In a major leap for Indian agriculture, scientists at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) have developed ICPV 25444, a pigeon pea variety that is both extremely heat-tolerant and photo- and thermo-insensitive; this variety matures in just 125 days and thrives even in extreme summer temperatures reaching 45°C, setting the world record for being the World’s First Heat-resilient Pigeon Pea, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Washington, DC, United States--America’s nuclear reactor fleet consists of 54 power plants, each of which has one to four operating units; in 2024, U.S. utilities operated 94 nuclear reactors with a total net generating capacity of nearly 97 gigawatts (GW), setting the world record for the World’s Largest Nuclear Power Plant Fleet, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia--The Seha Virtual Hospital currently offers its remote healthcare services to over 200 hospitals, specializing in rare and complex medical case and has a capacity of 400,000 patients annually; this enables patients to receive comprehensive medical care in their local areas, eliminating the need for long-distance travel and significantly improving access to quality healthcare across the Kingdom, while setting the world record for being the World’s Largest Virtual Hospital, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Bucharest, Romania--The Grigore Antipa National Museum of Natural History in Bucharest, Romania, has a collection of over 2 million specimens in 132 impressive collections, some of them world-class treasures; emerging as an absolute novelty in 1907, biological dioramas were part of Antipa's innovations and have been well preserved unchanged since 1908, setting the world record for being the World's Oldest Animal Dioramas on Display, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Movile Cave, Constanța County, Romania--The Movile Cave, a cave near Mangalia, Constanța County, Romania is notable for its unique groundwater ecosystem abundant in hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide, but low in oxygen; the cave is known to contain 57 animal species, among them a water scorpion (Nepa anophthalma), which sets the world record for being the World's Only Known Cave-adapted Water Scorpion, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Cerro Pachon, Elqui Province, Chile--The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, formerly known as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST), located on the El Peñón peak of Cerro Pachón, in northern Chile, house the Simonyi Survey Telescope, a wide-field reflecting telescope with an 8.4-meter primary mirror that will photograph the entire available sky every few nights; images will be recorded by a 3.2-gigapixel charge-coupled device imaging (CCD) camera, which sets the world record for being the World’s Largest Digital Camera, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Memphis, Tennessee, United States--Jackson Oswalt, from Memphis, Tennessee, successfully made a nuclear fusion reactor in his family's spare room aged just 12 with parts he got online in his family playroom, setting the world record for being the World's youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Armonk, New York, United States--IBM Research is the research and development division for IBM, an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Armonk, New York, with operations in over 170 countries; it has twelve labs on six continents, setting the world record for being the World's Largest Industrial Research Organization, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Los Angeles, California, United States--Independence Day (also promoted as ID4), a 1996 American science fiction action film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Emmerich and the film's producer Dean Devlin, stars an ensemble cast of Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum, Mary McDonnell, Judd Hirsch, Margaret Colin, Randy Quaid, Robert Loggia, and Vivica A. Fox; it emerged as a major commercial success at the box-office, grossing over $817.4 million worldwide on a production budget of $75 million and became the highest-grossing film of the year and the second-highest-grossing film ever at the time, setting the world record for the Highest grossing alien-invasion movie, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Targu Mures, Romania--Bianca Maria Oană, student in the twelfth grade at the National College of Saint Sava in Bucharest, Romania, majoring in Natural Sciences, graduated from the paramedic course in Targu Mures, becoming the World's Youngest Certified Female Paramedic, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Redmond, Washington, United States--The tech giant Microsoft constructed the world's quietest room; known as the anechoic chamber, it is located in the company's headquarters in Redmond, Washington, US; ultra-sensitive tests performed presented the average background noise reading of -20.35 decibels, which is the world record for the World's Quietest Room, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Green Bank, West Virginia, United States--The Green Bank Telescope (GBT), part of the national Radio Astronomy Observatory site at Green Bank, West Virginia, is 60% taller than the Statue of Liberty with 16 million pounds; the 110-by-100-metre (360-by-330-foot) off-axis radio telescope stes the world record for being the World’s Largest Fully Steerable Radio Telescope, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Richmond, Virginia, United States--The 29-ton Tarn granite globe Mary Morton Parsons Earth-Moon Sculpture (better known as the Grand Kugel) at the Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond, USA, is a solid granite ball almost 9 feet in diameter which sets the world record for being the World’s Largest Floating-ball Sculpture (world’s largest kugel), according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.

Stansbury Park, Utah, United States--The Mike Clements 1.8 Meter (70 inch) telescope has a new home in Utah at the Stansbury Park Observatory Complex (SPOC) the Salt Lake Astronomical Society’s Observatory; using a 70-inch wide large military mirror from a spy satellite that he bought by chance online, Clements built the World's Largest Amateur Telescope, according to the WORLD RECORD ACADEMY.