Jenna Saiz

Alec Van Khajadourian, A 5-Year-Old Piano Prodigy From LA, Made History On 7/20/25 As One Of Carnegie Hall’s Youngest Performers—Widely Recognized As The Youngest Ever. Having Started Piano As A Toddler, Alec Fulfilled A Dream He’s Had Since Age Four, Stunning The Audience With Perfect Pitch And Poise As He Played Two Pieces. Impressive Kid!

Earth’s Spin Is Speeding Up, Possibly Making 8/5/25 1.25 ms Shorter. 7/5/24 Was The Shortest Day Ever, 1.66 ms Shorter. Scientists May Subtract A Second, A Historic First, To Align Atomic & Solar Time. The Speed Cause Is Unclear, But Melting Ice And Sea Rise May Play A Role. Tech Risks From A Negative Second Change Are Still Being Assessed.

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Neutral Edison, A 31-Story, $133.3M Tower In Milwaukee, Will Be The World’s Tallest Mass Timber Building By 2027, Surpassing The Current Record-Holder 25-Story Ascent In WI. Built With CLT & Glulam, Which Can Replace Steel Or Concrete, It Allows Faster, Eco-Friendly Construction & Will Feature 350 Apartments, Retail, & Wellness Amenities.

Archaeologists In Lin, Albania Found Europe’s Oldest Lakeside Settlement (6K–8K Yrs Old), 500 Yrs Older Than Alpine/ Mediterranean Sites. Preserved Under Lake Ohrid (Europe’s Oldest Lake), It Yielded Wooden Stilts, Bones, & Pottery. Tree-Ring & Radiocarbon Dating Reveal A Savvy Farming-Hunting Society That Helped Spread Agriculture Across Europe.

Big Carl, The World’s Largest Crane (An SGC-250), Lifted A 245-Ton, 14m-High Dome With 900 Welds Onto Unit 2 At Hinkley Point C, UK’s First Nuclear Plant In 30 Years. The £26B Project In Somerset, Set To Open In 2031, Will Power 6M+ Homes With Zero-Carbon Energy. Big Carl Lifts Up To 5K Tons, Runs On 96 Wheels, 12 Engines, 52 (100T Each) Counterweights.

China Has Begun Building The World’s Largest Hydropower Dam On The Tibetan Plateau; Its Biggest Since The Three Gorges Dam. The $170B+ Project Will Generate 300B kWh/Yr, Fuel Economic Growth, & Likely Impact Millions Downstream In India And Bangladesh. Stocks Surged, But Environmental & Seismic Risks Remain. Completion Is Due In The 2030s.

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In Nov 2023, Scientists Detected The Biggest Black Hole (BH) Merger Ever: Two BHs Of 103 And 137 Solar Masses (SM) Collided 10bn Ly Away, Spinning ~40K x Earth’s. The Resulting 265-SM BH, Detected Via Gravitational Waves, Breaks The Previous 140 SM Record And Challenges Current BH Formation Models, Suggesting Layered Mergers From Prior Collisions.

A 40,000-Year-Old Mammoth Tusk Found In Obłazowa Cave, Poland, May Be The Oldest Boomerang In Europe Or The World. Its Shape Matches Non-Returning Aboriginal Boomerangs Still In Use Today In Queensland For, E.G., Hunting, Digging, And Fighting. Carbon Dated To 42k–39k yrs Ago, Its Age And Design Highlight Early Homo Sapiens’ Ingenuity.

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Astronomers Have Observed The Earliest Stage Of A Solar System Forming Around HOPS-315, A Star Like Our Young Sun, 1,300 Ly Away. Using JWST & ALMA, They Saw SIO Gas Solidify Into Silicate, Forming Planet Seeds That Could Collide Into Full Planets. It’s A Cosmic First, Like Seeing A Baby After Only Studying Toddlers In Human Evolution.

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In A World First, Scientists 3D-Printed Microscopic Elephants, Barcodes, & Microlasers Inside Living Cells Using Two-Photon Polymerization & Photoresists That Harden With Focused Lasers. Some Cells Survived, Divided, And Passed The Structures To Daughter Cells. This Feat Enables DNA-Free Cell Tagging, Tracking, And Internal Customization.

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