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Construction Has Started On Ethiopia’s Bishoftu Intl Airport, A $12.5B Project ~40km From Addis Ababa. It Will Be Africa’s Biggest Aviation Project & Hub Of Africa’s Largest Airline (EAL). Phase 1 Opens 2030 With 60M Pax/Year; Final Capacity 110M, Rivaling Dubai & Heathrow. EAL Funds 30%; AfDB Pledges $500M & Leads An $8.7B Investment Drive.

NASA & ESA Confirmed The First Discovery Of Cloud-9, A Giant Starless Gas Cloud And Failed Galaxy. First Detected By The FAST Telescope In 2023 & Confirmed By Hubble In Jan 2026, It Contains Only Hydrogen Held By A Dark Matter Halo. Located 14M Ly Away Near Messier 94, It Is A Rare Early-Universe Relic Showing Why Some Galaxies Never Form.

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Astronomers Discovered The Most Distant Supernova Ever Observed, Exploding When The Universe Was Only ~730 Myrs Old (Z≈7.3). First Detected Via A Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 250314A By The SVOM Satellite On 3/14/25, It Was Later Confirmed By JWST, Shedding Light On How Early Massive Stars Formed And Died. Findings Were Announced In December 2025.

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On 12/24/25, ISRO‘s LVM3 Launched The U.S-Built Bluebird Block-2 (Weighs ~6.1T), The Heaviest Satellite From Indian Soil, Into Low Earth Orbit (LEO). It Has A ~2,400 ft² Antenna (The Largest Commercial Communications Array In LEO) For Global 4G/5G Direct-To-Phone Broadband In Remote Areas Without Towers. ISS Remains The Heaviest Overall Satellite (~450T).

Saturn Now Has 274 Moons, The Most In Our Solar System (SS), Surpassing Jupiter As The SS’s “Moon King.” Astronomers Using The Canada–France-Hawaii Telescope Discovered 128 Tiny (2-4 Km) Potato-Shaped Moons, Likely Fragments From Ancient Collisions. First Spotted In 2023, The 128 Moons Orbits Were Confirmed And Announced In 2025 By The IAU.

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El Capitan Is The World’s Fastest Supercomputer As Of Jan 2026, At Lawrence Livermore Lab In California, Run By The U.S. DOE. It Crunches ~1.8 Quintillion (18 Zeros) Calculations/Sec, Beating The Previous Champ, Frontier. This $600M Machine By HPE/AMD Mainly Simulates U.S Nuclear Weapons Safely, Plus Climate, Fusion Energy & A.I Research.

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Scientists Discovered The World’s First Natural Fiber-Optic Cables In Heart Cockle Shells. Aragonite Tube Bundles And Microlenses In The Shell Focus Sunlight To Symbiotic Algae That Feed The Clam, While Blocking UV. Unlike Man-Made Fibers, No Coatings Are Needed To Trap Light. The Clam May Inspire Cheaper Optics, UV Protection, & Adv Tech.

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U.K Scientists Found The Oldest Known Lepidosaur (Lizard Relative) In Devon, England. The Palm-Sized Agriodontosaurus Helsbypetrae Lived ~242 Myr Ago In The Middle Triassic. Synchrotron CT Scans Revealed An Insect-Eating Predator With Large Triangular Blade-Like Teeth And Unique Skull Features, Extending The Lepidosaur Record By 3–7 Myrs.

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U.S. Quantinuum’s Helios, A 98-Qubit Trapped-Ion System, Is The Most Accurate & Powerful Commercial Quantum Computer Launched In 11/2025. By Creating 48 Super-Reliable Logical Qubits, It Beats Supercomputers At Complex Tasks. Accessible Via Cloud Or On-Site With Python-Based Guppy, It Enables Breakthroughs In Superconductors, Drugs, & A.I.

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In A First, Researchers In Norway Filmed The Full Process Of Wild Orca Birth. Drone Footage Showed Mostly Female & Juvenile Pod Members Lifting A Limp Newborn For ~15 Mins To Help It Breathe Until It Swam. The Calf Had Fetal Folds & A Floppy Fin. Led By Mother NKW-591, The Pod Showed Midwife-Like Care, Revealing Rare Natural Orca Behavior.