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In A World First, Scientists Have Made Soft, Transparent Contact Lenses With Upconversion Nanoparticles That Convert Non-Visible Near-Infrared Light Into Visible Colors. Unlike Night Vision Goggles, They Need No Power. Though Not Full Thermal Vision Like Snakes Have, The Tech May Aid Color Blindness, Secret Messages, And Extend Human Sight.

Finland’s Polar Night Energy Has Built The World’s Largest Sand Battery In Pornainen—A 100 MWh Thermal System Using Crushed Soapstone/Sand To Store Excess Renewable Energy As Heat. It Cuts Heating Emissions By 70%, Saves ~160 Tons Of CO₂/yr, & Helps Stabilize The Energy Grid Via The Heat Storage/Release, Supporting Finland’s 2035 Carbon-Neutral Goal.

DARPA Set A World Record By Wirelessly Sending 800+ Watts Of Energy Over 8.6 Km Via Laser In A 30-Sec Burst—Achieving 20% Usable Power At The Receiving End. Though Low, It’s Impressive For Long-Range Energy Beaming. The Breakthrough Could Power Drones, Aid Disaster Zones, Battlefield Operations, And Even Popped Popcorn, Like In Real Genius.

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Chinese Scientists Developed LICOMK++, The World’s Most Advanced Ocean Simulator With 0.6-Mile Resolution, Enabling Unprecedented Modeling At This Scale. It Simulates, E.G., Eddies, Heat Transport, & Ocean–Climate Interactions, Improving Forecasts For, E.G., Typhoons & Marine Heatwaves. LICOMK++ Has Earned Top Global Supercomputing Awards.

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U.S. Researchers Have Built The World’s First 2D Material-Based CMOS Computer Using Molybdenum Disulfide (N-Type) And Tungsten Diselenide (P-Type) Transistors, Eliminating Silicon. It Performs Simple Logic Operations At Low Power And Voltage. Though Slower Than Silicon CMOS, It Proves Scalability & Opens A New Path For Future Electronics.

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Canada-Based Xanadu Has Built The World’s First On-Chip Error-Resistant Photonic Qubit (GKP States)— Key For Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing. Xanadu System, Aurora, With 35 Chips And 13 Km Of Fiber Optics Runs At Room Temp And Scales To Millions Of Qubits. Reducing Optical Loss Is Now Key, As Photon Loss Prevents Reliable Error Correction.

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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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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Bombardier’s Global 8000, Marketed As The Longest-Range Purpose-Built Business Jet, Completed Its First Test & Targets A 2025 Delivery. Replacing The 7500, It Hits Mach 0.94, Ranges 8,000 nm, & Briefly Reached Mach 1.105, Making It The Fastest Civilian Aircraft Since Concorde. Competes With G800 (8,200 nm) & Dassault Falcon 10x (7,500 nm).

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A Team In Korea Made Clean Solar Hydrogen Fuel Using The Smallest Inorganic Semiconductor—A 26-Atom Cadmium Selenide (CdSe)₁₃ Quantum Nanocluster (NC). These Unstable NCs, Via A Method, Self-Arrange & Bond Into A Stable 3D Structure. Cobalt Ions Were Added To Boost Conductivity. This Breakthrough Could Aid Clean Energy & Quantum Science.

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China‘s PLA Will Deploy The Jiu Tian, The World’s Largest UAV Mothership, By Late 6/25. With A 4,500-Mile Range, 15 Km Altitude, And Capacity To Launch 100 Drones, It Supports ISR, EW, Combat, Border Security, And Disaster Relief. US Drones Excel In High-Altitude Recon (RQ-4 Global Hawk), LoE Strike (MQ-9 Reaper), & Stealth (RQ-170 Sentinel).

The U.S. Set A World Record With Its Most Powerful Laser Ever, Zeus, A 2 PW Laser—100× Brighter Than Global Power Use—Funded By NSF ($16m). It Doubles Hercules’ Power (300 TW), Fires Pulses Lasting 25 Quintillionths Of A Second, & Will Soon Hit 3 PW, Advancing Quantum, Plasma, & Cosmic Research. The UK’s Vulcan 20-20 Aims To Surpass All.

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Scientists In The USA Created The Most Electrically Conductive Organic Molecule Made Of C, S, N. It Conducts Electrons Without Energy Loss, Is Cheaper Than Silicon (Si), & May Replace Si In Chips, As Si-Based Devices Reach Size Limits—Allowing Smaller, Faster, Energy-Efficient, & Scalable Computing, & Use In Nanoelectronics & Quantum Tech.

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US Venus Aerospace Tested The World’s 1st RDRE, Hitting Mach 6 From Runways At Spaceport America, NM. Developed Since 1980s, Yet Unflown Until Now. RDREs Use Detonation For More Power/Less Fuel, Scalable For Defense/Commercial Use—LA–Tokyo In Under 2 Hrs! Pairs With Ramjet For Sustained Hypersonic Flight. Rivals: Hermeus, Castelion, Kratos.

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A S. Korean Team Developed The World’s First Eco-Friendly Silver Plating Method For Acidic Envs. Using Phosphorus Compounds Instead Of Toxic Cyanide. Cyanide Works Only In Alkaline Settings, Where It Dissolves Photoresists. Other Non-Cyanide Methods Need Additives. This New Method Needs None, Ensures Smooth Plating, And Aids Green Tech Use.

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Chinese Researchers Built The World’s Tiniest Chip, RV32-WUJI, Using Molybdenum Disulfide, A 2D Material Just 3 Atoms Thick, With 5,931 Transistors On RISC-V Architecture For Custom Designs. They Also Created The World’s Fastest Transistor, 40% Faster & 10% More Efficient Than Silicon, Using A Bismuth-Based GAAFET Design For Better Performance.

In A World-First, UPNA Scientists Created Interactive 3D Holograms Using Elastic Diffusers, Enabling Safe Touch. Unlike Existing Solutions By Voxon Photonics & Brightvox Inc., Users Can Now Grab And Manipulate Floating Images Like A 3D Cube Or Skull. The High-Speed Diffuser (2,880 Images/Sec) Creates 3D Visuals, Ideal For Education And Museums.

Researchers Built A Record-Cold, Autonomous Quantum Fridge That Cools Qubits To 22 mK—10k Times Colder Than Room Temp—Vital For Error-Free Quantum Computing. It Uses 3 Qubits To Transfer Heat From The Target To A Cold Env., Surpassing Traditional Dilution Refrigerators. This Innovation Could Unlock Quantum Computers’ Full Potential.

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