Colt Samuel

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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The Tarkhan Dress, Found Near Tarkhan, South Of Cairo In 1913 & Identified In 1977 At The V&A Museum In London, Is The World’s Oldest Known Complex-Tailored Woven Garment. Made Of Linen & Carbon-Dated To 3482–3102 B.C., It Was Likely Worn By An Elite Woman Before Burial. It Showcases Early Egyptian Textile Skills & Is Now Displayed At UCL.

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Wildtype’s Salmon (WS) Is The First Lab-Grown Seafood & 4th Cultivated Meat That’s FDA-Approved, Confirming Its Safety. Unlike Other Lab Meats, Requiring USDA Approval, WS Is FDA-Regulated Only. Made From A Single Coho Salmon Cell To Fight Overfishing, It’s Served At Kann In Portland, OR. WS Is Ethical, But Faces Envr. & Consumer Concerns.

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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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ESA’s Solar Orbiter, Launched In 2/20, Studies The Sun’s Atmosphere, Cycle, Wind, & Poles. In 3/25, It Took The World’s First Clear Image Of The Sun’s South Pole Using Venus Gravity Assists. By 2029, It’ll Reach 33° Tilt For Better Polar Views, Potentially Unlocking Solar Cycle & Space Weather Secrets. North Pole Images Are Expected In Oct 2025.

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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New Simulations Show The Milky Way And Andromeda Collision Is Unlikely Soon—Only A 2% Chance In 5B Yrs. Despite Moving At 62 mi/s, A Full Merger May Take 8–10B Yrs. Close Passes Are More Likely. Added Variables Like The Large Magellanic Cloud Altered Earlier Predictions. But The Earth May Be Gone By The Time Of Merger, Consumed By The Sun.

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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.

Scientists Used JWST To Create The Largest-Ever Universe Map, Showing ~800k Galaxies (G) Stretching Across 13 Byrs Of Cosmic History. JWST Spent 255 Hrs Scanning The COSMOS (C) Field, A Clear Patch Of Sky 3× The Moon’s Size, Revealing 10× + G Than Expected & Hidden Supermassive Blackholes. The Map Is Public Via The C Interactive Map Viewer.

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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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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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