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Catalonia, Spain, Campaigns As The Region With The Best Gastronomy In The World, Uniting 100+ Chefs. It Boasts 62 Restaurants With A Total Of 77 Michelin Stars, And 3 Are Ranked Among The World’s Best. Named The 2025 World Region Of Gastronomy By IGCAT, It Fuses Culinary Excellence With Tourism, Innovation, And A Thriving Agri-Food Sector.

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Carnegie Mellon Has Developed The World’s First Noninvasive Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) To Control A Robotic Hand Using Thought Alone. EEG Captures Brain Signals, And Deep Learning Decodes Them In Real Time For Precise, Multi-Finger Control. Surgery-Free & Adaptable, It’s A Major Breakthrough In Assistive Tech & Human-Machine Interaction.

The $1.2B New Harbor Bridge Connects Corpus Christi To North Beach And Is Now The Tallest Point In South Texas (538 Ft Above MSL) & The Longest U.S. Cable-Stayed Bridge (1,661 Ft). It Enhances Port Access, Reduces Traffic, & Boosts Economic Growth. The Southbound Lanes Opened On 6/28/25; The Northbound Lanes Are Set To Open In Early July.

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Shubhanshu Shukla Became The 1st Indian To Board The ISS Via Axiom-4, Which Launched On 6/26/25 With Astronauts From India, Poland & Hungary. Led By NASA Veteran Peggy Whitson, The 2-Wk Mission Includes 60 Experiments (7 By ISRO). Shukla Is India’s 2nd Man In Space, After Rakesh Sharma’s 1984 Soviet Mission. ISRO Paid $59M For His Seat & Training.

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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The Louvre, The World’s Most-Visited Museum, Shut Down As Staff Protested Overcrowding, Mass Tourism, And Understaffing, Stranding Thousands Of Visitors. Despite President Macron’s “Louvre New Renaissance” Plan, Workers Demand Urgent Action. Past Closures Include During War, COVID, & Strikes (2019 & 2013). Reopening May Happen On 6/18/25.

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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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