Ken Parth

Scientists In UK Hit 301 Tbps, The Fastest Fiber-Optic Internet Speed (FFOIS) Using E-Band—1.2M× Home Broadband Speed—By Stabilizing E-Band With Optical Amplifiers & Gain Equalizers. That’s 1,800 4K Movies/Sec On Existing Cables. In 11/23, The World’s FFOIS Ever Recorded, 22.9 Pb/S, Was Achieved By Sending Multiple Bands (S, C, L) At Once.

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A Team In Korea Made Clean Solar Hydrogen Fuel Using The Smallest Inorganic Semiconductor—A 26-Atom Cadmium Selenide (CdSe)₁₃ Quantum Nanocluster (NC). These Unstable NCs, Via A Method, Self-Arrange & Bond Into A Stable 3D Structure. Cobalt Ions Were Added To Boost Conductivity. This Breakthrough Could Aid Clean Energy & Quantum Science.

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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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In A World First, Texas-Based Colossal Biosciences Used Ancient DNA From Dire Wolf (DW) Fossils—Like A 13kyr-Old Tooth & 72kyr-Old Skull—Plus Gene Editing, Cloning, & Surrogate Dogs To Create 3 Hybrid DWs. Though Resembling The Extinct Species, Critics Cite Ethical, Ecological, & Financial Concerns. The Tech May Aid Endangered Species.

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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Australian Sprinter Gout Gout, 17, Ran The Year 2025 World’s Fastest 200m Time, 20.05s On 3/16/25, At The Queensland State Championships. In The Final, He Clocked 19.98s (Wind +3.6m/s), Becoming The First AustralianTo Break 20s Unofficially. He’s Only The 7th Under-20 To Achieve This In Any Wind. Usain Bolt Holds The World’s 200m Record At 19.19s (2009).

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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John Mcfall, 43, A Former Paralympian And Orthopedic Surgeon, Became The First Astronaut With A Disability To Receive Medical Clearance For Long-Duration Space Missions. After Passing All Exams, He’s Eligible For The ISS With The ESA. The Green Light Puts Him On A Waiting List, Not Guaranteed A Spot On A Mission, Marking A Major Cultural Shift.

The Fehmarnbelt Tunnel Will Surpass The Øresund Tunnel As The World’s Longest Immersed Tunnel. Spanning 18 km And 40m BSL Under The Baltic Sea, It Connects Germany And Denmark Using Precast Segments Instead Of Tunnel Boring Machines. Completing In 2029 At ~$7 Billion, It Will Reduce Travel Times, Boost Trade, & Showcase Environmental Care.

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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.

Norway’s £36bn Rogfast Tunnel, Opening In 2033, Will Be The World’s Longest & Deepest Road Tunnel At 16.8 Miles & 1,300 Feet Deep, Connecting Randaberg And Bokn. It Will Halve E39 Highway Travel Time From 21 To 11 Hrs, With A 35-Mins Drive Through The Tunnel. Currently, The 15-Mile Norway‘s Lærdal Tunnel Is The World’s Longest Road Tunnel.

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Russian Cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko And Nikolai Chub Set A Record-Breaking 374-Day Stay Aboard The ISS, Landing In Kazakhstan With American Astronaut Tracy Dyson. Kononenko Set A New Record For Longest Cumulative Space-Time At 1,111 Days. However, Valeri Polyakov Holds The Record For The Longest Unbroken Space Stay At 438 Days On Mir In 1994-95.

Researchers Have Completed An Autopsy On The First Complete Adult Wolf From The Late Pleistocene (44,000-Year-Old), Discovered In The Siberian Permafrost In 2021 By A River In Yakutia. The Autopsy Aims To Reveal The Wolf’s Diet, Ancient Viruses, And Microbiota, Aiding The Understanding Of Life And Microbial Communities During The Ice Age.

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Colorado’s Biofire Has Launched The First Biometric Smart Gun With Facial Recognition And Fingerprint Verification. The Gun Grip Has A Fingerprint Sensor, While The Back Has 3D Facial Recognition. When Held, A Green Light Turns On To Indicate The Firearm Recognizes The Holder. Pre-Orders Began In April 2023, Aiming To Improve Gun Safety.

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The Largest Known Star, UY Scuti, Discovered By German Astronomers In 1860, Is In The Milky Way Galaxy, ~9500 Ly From Earth. It’s 1700x The Radius Of Our Sun. Stars Like UY Scuti Are Rare Due To Their Shorter Lifespan (In Millions), Unlike Those That Last For Billions Of Years. The Smallest Star, EBLM J0555-57Ab, Is About Saturn’s Size.

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Researchers, For The First Time, Have Found A Unique Solar System With 3 Suns. 2 Of The Suns, With Combined Mass That’s 12X Our Sun’s Mass, Orbit Each Other In 24 Hrs, WhileThe 3rd Larger Sun (16X Our Sun’s Mass) Orbits The Other 2. More Study Is Needed To Find Out How The Stars Formed In The Solar System, HD 98800, Which Is 150 LY Away.

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Researchers, Via Genetic Study, Have Discovered The World’s Largest Clone. The Clone, A 4500 Yrs Old Massive Network Of Seaweed Called Posidonia Australis, Was Found In Australia. And Is Said To Cover More Than 77 mi² (200 km²). P. Australis Is Said To Be A Single Plant That Clones Itself, Unlike Some Seaweeds That Reproduce Sexually.

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Scientists Used The Estimated Ages Of 250,000 Stars, Known As Sub-Giants, In The Milky Way To Determine That Part Of Our Galaxy, Associated With The Thick Disk, Is 2 Byrs Older Than Earlier Thought. The Stars’ Ages Indicate That The First Phase Of Star Formation Started ~800 Myrs After The Big Bang But Accelerated 2 Billion Years Later.

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The US FDA Has Approved The First Eye Drop That Could Replace Reading Glasses For Folks 40 Years And Older, Who Experience Age-Related Blurry Near Vision. The Drug, Called Vuity, Which Activates In 15 Minutes, Is Said To Be Able To Provide Sharp Vision For 6 To 10 Hours To The ~128 Million Americans Affected By Blurred Near Vision.

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Barbados Will Become A Republic, On Nov. 30th, 2021 (55 Years Since Independence) After Swearing-In Its First Elected President, Sandra Mason. The Former Governor-General Will Replace Britain’s Queen Elizabeth As Head Of State (HOS). Several Countries, After Independence, Dropped The Queen As HOS, But Some Like Australia And Canada Didn’t.

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