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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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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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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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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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Chinese Scientists Discovered A New Bacterium Strain, Niallia Tiangongensis, Aboard The Tiangong Space Station. It Adapts To Extreme Space Conditions, Combats Oxidative Stress, & May Turn Waste Into Resources. Studying Such Microbes Could Enhance Astronaut Health, Spacecraft Safety, & Innovations In Medicine, Agriculture, & Sustainability.

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Scientists Set A Record By Sending Quantum Data (QD) Over 254 Km Of Reg. Telecom Fiber, Proving That Quantum Internet Can Work Without Extreme Cooling. A Team Also Transmitted QD 30.2 Km Alongside 400 Gbps Internet Traffic With No Interference, Showing It Could Run On Current Networks For Ultra-Secure, Faster, & Future-Ready Communication.

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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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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Found The Largest Organic Molecules On Mars To Date—Decane, Undecane, And Dodecane—In Cumberland Rock. These Fatty Acids May Hint At Ancient Life Or Natural Processes. Found In Gale Crater, Once Lake-Filled, The Discovery Boosts Hopes Of Finding More Complex Signs Of Life And Supports Returning Samples To Earth For Deeper Study.

US Scientists Say They’ve Found A New Color—“Olo,” A Vivid Blue-Green—By Firing Laser Pulses Into 1 Eye Of 5 People, All With Normal Color Vision, Stimulating Only M Cone Cells (Green) Out Of The Eye’s 3 Types: S (Blue), M (Green), And L (Red). This Rare Activation Created A Color Unseen In Nature, Possibly Aiding Color Blindness Research.

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In A First, But Controversial Breakthrough, Scientists Generated Electricity From Earth’s Rotation Using A Weak Manganese-Zinc Ferrite Conductor Aligned Perpendicular To Earth’s Rotation & Magnetic Field. The Device Produced 17 µV—Sparking Skepticism. Further Research And Scaling Aim To Explore Its Potential For Renewable Energy Innovation.

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Prototaxites, Earth’s First Dry-Land Giants From 443-359 Myrs Ago, Stood 26 ft Tall. Once Thought To Be Fungi, Research Now Shows They’re Unrelated To Any Known Life, With Tube Structures, Lignin Traits, And Heterotrophic Behavior. Found In Scotland‘s Rhynie Chert (1843), They Hint At An Extinct Eukaryote Lineage, Perhaps A New Kingdom.

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For The First Time Ever, Scientists Used A 56-Qubit Quantum Computer To Generate Truly Random Numbers, A Feat Impossible For Regular Computers. Supercomputers Verified The Numbers Against Strict Randomness Standards. This Breakthrough Boosts Online Security And Enables Real-World Quantum Applications In Finance, Manufacturing, And Beyond.

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Scientists In France Have Discovered The World’s Largest Hydrogen Deposit In Folschviller, Lorraine, Containing 46 M Tons Of Natural Hydrogen, Valued At $92 Trillion. This Find Could Revolutionize The Clean Energy Sector By Providing A Low-Cost, Carbon-Free Hydrogen Source, Termed “White Hydrogen,” Reducing Dependency On Fossil Fuels.

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Researchers, For The First Time, Turned Light Into A State That Is Both Solid And Liquid, Called A “Supersolid.” This Feat Was Achieved Using A Special Semiconductor–Aluminum Gallium Arsenide, Instead Of Ultracold Atoms. This Discovery May Advance Quantum Tech And Deepen Our Understanding Of Matter’s Strange Behaviors In The Quantum Realm.

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For The First Time Since 1922, When King Tutankhamun’s Tomb Was Found, Archaeologists Have Now Identified A Pharaoh‘s Tomb, Thutmose II, Near Luxor. Discovered In 2022 And Confirmed In 2024-25 Via Inscriptions, The Largely Empty Tomb, Due To Flooding, Sparks Debate About Its Royal Claim. Thutmose II’s Mummy, Found In 1881, Rests In MNEC Museum.

Scientists Discovered The Hadal Snailfish, Earth’s Deepest-Living Vertebrate, Thriving Over 36k Ft Deep In The Mariana Trench. Their Survival Ability In Extremely Harsh Conditions Aids In Exploring Extraterrestrial Life Possibilities & Emphasizes Responsible Practices During Deep-Sea Resource Extraction To Protect These Fragile Ecosystems.

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The Denmark Strait Cataract, Beneath The Atlantic Between Iceland And Greenland, Is The World’s Largest Waterfall At 11,500ft—3x The Height Of Angel Falls. Formed In The Last Ice Age, It Cascades Slowly (1.6 Ft/Secs Compared To Niagara’s 100ft/Sec.) But Plays A Critical Role In Ocean Circulation, Connecting To The Global Thermohaline Loop.

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A Bronze Wall Gun From The 1539-1542 Coronado Expedition Was Found In 2020 In Arizona, Making It The Oldest Firearm Ever Found In The Continental US, And Probably The Oldest Cannon In North America. The Gun, 42 Inches Long And 40 Pounds, Was Likely Cast In Mexico Or The Caribbean And Was Abandoned After A Likely Attack. It Was Probably Never Fired.