Beth Laster

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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A 43kyr-Old Granite Pebble From Central Spain May Be Europe’s Oldest Portable Art & The Earliest Known Abstraction Of A Human Face. This Depiction May Have Emerged When A Neanderthal (ND) Marked The Rock With A Red Color Resembling A Nose & Left The World’s Oldest Complete Fingerprint, Suggesting ND‘s Symbolic Thinking & Artistic Abilities.

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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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Denmark Will Have Europe’s Highest Retirement Age, 70 By 2040, For Those Born After 12/31/70. The Current Age Is 67, Rising Every 5 Yrs, Since 2006, Based On Life Expectancy. Critics, Citing A Strong Economy & Manual Labor Impact, Call It Unfair. Protests, Backed By Trade Unions, Have Erupted. PM Frederiksen Suggests Rethinking Auto-Hikes.

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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).