Jeff Goldblume

Scientists In Germany Released The GlobalBuildingAtlas, The Most Detailed 3D Map Of Earth’s ~2.75B Buildings At 3×3m Resolution, Surpassing The Earlier ~1.7B Map. It Improves Coverage In Underserved Regions, Aiding Urban Planning, Climate & Disaster Research; Adds A “Building Volume Per Capita” Metric, & Is Openly Available Under CC BY 4.0.

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Lee Soon-jae, South Korea’s Beloved ‘TV Dad,’ Died At 91. With Over 70+ Yrs & 140 Roles Across Stage, Film, & TV, He Was The Nation’s Oldest Active Actor & Oldest KBS Award Winner. Known For What On Earth Is Love & High Kick! He Was Also A Professor, Actors’ Union Leader, Lawmaker, & Cultural Icon Honored With The Prestigious Eungwan Order.

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Domen Škofic Made History As The First To Climb A Plane Mid-Flight. At 2500m Above Aigen, Austria, He Scaled A Very Hard (8a-Grade) Climb Route Bolted To A Modified Red Bull Let L-13 Blanik Glider. Starting At The Cockpit, He Climbed A Figure-Eight Path Across Both Wings & Fuselage In -10°C & 100km/h Winds, Redefining Climbing & Aerial Sport.

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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Scientists Using JWST Detected The Strongest Signs Of Life Outside Our Solar System On Exoplanet K2-18b, Detecting High Levels Of Dimethyl Sulfide And Disulfide 1000sX Higher Than Earth’s. These Compounds, Made By Earth’s Marine Phytoplankton, Suggest K2-18b Could Be A Hycean World Teeming With Life, But More Data Is Needed To Confirm Life.

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The Closest Transiting, Temperate, And Potentially Habitable Earth-Size Exoplanet, Gliese 12b, Has Been Discovered. It’s 40 LY Away In Pisces, Orbits A Red Dwarf In 12.8 Days, And Has A Surface Temperature Of 107°f. Found By NASA’s TESS, Its Atmosphere Will Be Analyzed By The James Webb Telescope, But Human Visitation Is Impractical.

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Scientists, For The First Time, Observed A Star, Wasp-12, Swallow A Gas Giant Planet Like Jupiter In Aquila Constellation 10-15k Yrs Ago, Emitting Bursts Of Light & Dust In Cold Infrared Energy. Experts Say Earth May Suffer The Same Fate In 5 Byrs As Our Sun Turns Into A Red Giant. The Star-Gulping Data Could Help Find Similar Events.

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Dr. June Huh, A South Korean And High School Dropout Turned College Professor, Was Awarded The Fields Medal, The Highest Honor In Mathematics For His Work In The Field Of Geometric Combinatorics. The Award Could Be Referred To As The “Nobel Prize In Mathematics. Huh, Age 39, Is The 9Th Field Medal Recipient From The Princeton Faculty.

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Researchers Using The Ultrasensitive Borexino Detector From The World’s Largest Underground Lab In Italy, For The First Time, Detected Neutrinos With Tell-Tale Energy Of The Main Reaction Used To Fuse Hydrogen To Helium, CNO Fusion, In The Sun And Stars. This Find Is A Step Closer To Understanding The Sun’s Core And Heavy Stars Formation.

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Researchers May Have Identified 24 Super Habitable Exoplanets Than Earth. These Exoplanets Were Identified, From A Database Of More Than 4000 Exoplanets, By Considering Their Habitable Properties, And Their Host Suns. Unfortunately, These Exoplanets Are Inaccessible for Further Qualitative Studies As They Are Too Far Away, > 100 LY.

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