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In A World First, US Scientists Created Fertilizable Human Eggs By Swapping A Donor Egg’s Nucleus With One From A Skin Cell, Using “Mitomeiosis” To Cut 46 Chromosomes To 23. 82 Eggs Formed; Some Reached Blastocysts But Weren’t Cultured Further For IVF. Many Embryos Were Abnormal. This Could Help Infertility and Gay Couples, But Trials Loom.

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Six Flags Over Texas (SFOT) Debuts “Tormenta Rampaging Run,” The World’s First Giga Dive Coaster, In 2026 For Its 65th Anniversary. At 309ft Tall, 87mph, & A 285ft 95° Drop, It Breaks 6 Records: Tallest, Fastest, Longest Dive Coaster; Tallest Loop (179ft); Highest Immelmann (218ft); & Steepest Drop. The Original SFOT Opened On Aug. 5, 1961

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Brazil’s Sandro Dias, 50, Shattered Two Guinness World Records In Porto Alegre With A 60 Meter Skateboard Drop, The Tallest Ever, From A Temporary Ramp Built Off The 22-Storey Caff Building. He Reached A Speed Of 103.8 Km/H In Just 8 Seconds, Setting The Fastest Skateboard Speed. The Red Bull Building Drop Stunt Took 13 Years Of Planning.

Bodhana Sivanandan, 10, From London, Is The Youngest Woman Intl. Chess Master & Youngest Female Prodigy To Beat A GM (Peter Wells) At The 2025 British Championship. She Won Best Female Player At The 2023 EU Blitz; Is England’s Youngest-Ever Intl.Sports Rep After Joining Women’s Team At 9 In 2024; Began Chess At 5 In Lockdown; & Aims To Be A GM.

UK Scientists, In A First, Found A Strong Link Between Thumb Length & Brain Size Across 94 Living & Fossil Primate Species. Longer Thumbs, Important For Gripping & Handling Objects, Are Tied To A Larger Neocortex, Which Controls Thinking & Senses. This Link Holds Without Humans, Showing Hands & Brains Co-Evolved Over Millions Of Years.

Paleontologists Found Zavacephale Rinpoche, The Oldest And Most Complete Dome-Headed Dinosaur (DHD), In Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, Jutting From A Cliff. At 108–115M Years Old, It’s 15M Years Older Than Prior DHDs. The Juvenile, 3.3ft Long & 12.9lbs, With A Full Skull & Limbs, Offer Rare Insight Into Pachycephalosaur (DHD) Growth & Evolution.

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Hunter-Gatherers In Asia Smoke-Dried Their Dead 12–14Kyrs Ago, Marking The Oldest Known Evidence Of Intentional Mummification, Predating Chile (~5050 BC) & Egypt (~3000 BC). 2017–2025 Study Of 54 Crouched Burials From 11 Sites Showed, Via Spectroscopy, Heat/Smoke Preservation, Suggesting Ritual Care Like Modern Papua New Guinea Practices.

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Argentina’s Kheiron Biotech Created The World’s First Genetically Edited (GE) Horses, Cloned From Champion Polo Pureza, Using CRISPR To Reduce Myostatin & Boost Muscle For Greater Power & Speed In Polo. Following Prometea, The First Cloned Horse Born In Italy In 2003, GE Horses Are Banned In Argentine Polo, Fueling Ethical & Breeding Debates.

Microbial DNA From 483 Mammoth Remains Revealed 6 Of The Oldest Host-Associated Microbes, Including Relatives Of Actinobacillus, Pasteurella, Streptococcus, & Erysipelothrix. An Erysipelothrix Genome From A 1.1M-Yr-Old Mammoth Represents The Oldest Host-Associated Microbial DNA Ever Sequenced, Providing Ice Age Diseases & Adaptations Clues.

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In A First, Researchers Found A Denisovan (DN) Gene, MUC19, In Humans Passed On Via Neanderthal (ND) DNA. DNs Interbred With NDs; Then NDs Later Interbred With Early Modern Humans, Passing The Gene To Early Americans. This Gene Transfer, Found In 1 In 3 Mexicans Today, May Have Helped Against Diseases As Humans Migrated Across The Americas.

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