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Saudi Arabia Is Building Trojena, The World’s First Vertical Ski Village In A Desert, Part Of The $500b Neom City. It Features 36 Km Of Slopes, Year-Round Skiing With Artificial Snow, And Will Host The 2029 Asian Winter Games. Aimed At Boosting Tourism And The Economy, It Includes Sustainable Energy, Water Recovery, And Faces Environmental Concerns.

US Startup; Radiant, Raised $225M For Kaleidos, The World’s First Mass-Producible 1MW Nuclear Microreactor. It’s Helium Gas-Cooled With Passive Safety, No Water Needed. Replaces Diesel, & Deployable By Air/Land/Sea. Targets Remote, Disaster, & Military Use. Testing In 2026 At Idaho Lab With DOE-Backed HALEU Fuel. 50 Units/Yr Prod. By 2028.

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Swiss Scientists Created The World’s First Living, Edible, Biodegradable Plastic-Like Material From Split-Gill Mushrooms. Called Living Fiber Dispersions (LFD), It Retains Biological Functions, Improves Material Stability Over Time, And Can Be Used In, E.G., Compostable Bags, Batteries, & Food—An Eco-Friendly, Nature-Inspired Breakthrough.

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Engineers In The US Developed The World’s First Hydrogen System To Store, Fuel, & Cool Future Jets, Using Cryogenic Liquid Hydrogen For All Three. Designed For 100-Seat Hybrid-Electric Planes, It’s Pump-Free, Relying On Tank Pressure & Vents To Cut Weight, Heat, & Mech Failure Risk. Backed By NASA, It May Transform Zero-Emission Flight.

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China Hosted The World’s First Robot Martial Arts Tournament In Hangzhou On 5/25/25. Featuring Human-Operated Unitree G1 Bots Trained In Kickboxing, Matches Had 3 (2 Mins) Rounds. Kicks Scored 3 Points, Punches 1. Falls Lost 5 Or 10 Points If Unable To Stand In 8 Secs. Despite AI Fears, Clumsy Bots Made The Event More Comedic Than Threatening.

UMa3/U1, 20 Ly Wide With ~60 Stars And 16 Solar Masses, May Be The Smallest Dark-Matter Galaxy Or An 11B-Yr-Old Star Cluster; Dynamics Suggest The Latter, Pending Future Data. Meanwhile, Andromeda XXXV, 3M Ly From Earth, & A Satellite Of Andromeda Galaxy, Is Confirmed As The Smallest Known Dwarf Galaxy, Defying Early-Universe Destruction.

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The Sundaland Fossil Site, Once A Rich Savannah In Indonesia’s Madura Strait, Is The World’s First Underwater Hominin Fossil Site. It Includes A 140k-Year-Old Homo Erectus Skull & 6,000+ Animal Fossils, Revealing Hunting, & Tool Use, Reshaping Human Migration Theories In SE Asia. The Site Was Home To Elephants, Stegodons, Bovids, Deer, Etc

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Scientists In UK Hit 301 Tbps, The Fastest Fiber-Optic Internet Speed (FFOIS) Using E-Band—1.2M× Home Broadband Speed—By Stabilizing E-Band With Optical Amplifiers & Gain Equalizers. That’s 1,800 4K Movies/Sec On Existing Cables. In 11/23, The World’s FFOIS Ever Recorded, 22.9 Pb/S, Was Achieved By Sending Multiple Bands (S, C, L) At Once.

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In China’s World’s First Human/Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon, 21 Robots Ran With Humans. The Human Winner Finished In 1:02 Hr, While Tiangong Ultra, Developed By Beijing Innovation Center Of Humanoid Robotics, Led The Robots At 2:40 Hr. Despite Battery Issues, 6 Robots Finished. Some Robots Had Batteries Swapped Or Were Replaced Mid-Race.

Astronomers Found A New Dwarf Planet, 2017 OF201, With The Longest Known Solar System Orbit —25k Yrs Long & Spanning 45–1,600 AU From The Sun. It’s 435 Miles Wide & Was Spotted In A 7-Year Blanco (Chile) & Hawaii Telescope Archived Images. Its Extreme Path May Be Shaped By Neptune Or The Milky Way, But It Doesn’t Support Planet 9 Theories.

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