Mary Joe

The Tarkhan Dress, Found Near Tarkhan, South Of Cairo In 1913 & Identified In 1977 At The V&A Museum In London, Is The World’s Oldest Known Complex-Tailored Woven Garment. Made Of Linen & Carbon-Dated To 3482–3102 B.C., It Was Likely Worn By An Elite Woman Before Burial. It Showcases Early Egyptian Textile Skills & Is Now Displayed At UCL.

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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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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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China Hosted The World’s First Robot Martial Arts Tournament In Hangzhou On 5/25/25. Featuring Human-Operated Unitree G1 Bots Trained In Kickboxing, Matches Had 3 (2 Mins) Rounds. Kicks Scored 3 Points, Punches 1. Falls Lost 5 Or 10 Points If Unable To Stand In 8 Secs. Despite AI Fears, Clumsy Bots Made The Event More Comedic Than Threatening.

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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In China’s World’s First Human/Humanoid Robot Half-Marathon, 21 Robots Ran With Humans. The Human Winner Finished In 1:02 Hr, While Tiangong Ultra, Developed By Beijing Innovation Center Of Humanoid Robotics, Led The Robots At 2:40 Hr. Despite Battery Issues, 6 Robots Finished. Some Robots Had Batteries Swapped Or Were Replaced Mid-Race.

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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