Zhang Wei

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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Bombardier’s Global 8000, Marketed As The Longest-Range Purpose-Built Business Jet, Completed Its First Test & Targets A 2025 Delivery. Replacing The 7500, It Hits Mach 0.94, Ranges 8,000 nm, & Briefly Reached Mach 1.105, Making It The Fastest Civilian Aircraft Since Concorde. Competes With G800 (8,200 nm) & Dassault Falcon 10x (7,500 nm).

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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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China‘s PLA Will Deploy The Jiu Tian, The World’s Largest UAV Mothership, By Late 6/25. With A 4,500-Mile Range, 15 Km Altitude, And Capacity To Launch 100 Drones, It Supports ISR, EW, Combat, Border Security, And Disaster Relief. US Drones Excel In High-Altitude Recon (RQ-4 Global Hawk), LoE Strike (MQ-9 Reaper), & Stealth (RQ-170 Sentinel).

The U.S. Set A World Record With Its Most Powerful Laser Ever, Zeus, A 2 PW Laser—100× Brighter Than Global Power Use—Funded By NSF ($16m). It Doubles Hercules’ Power (300 TW), Fires Pulses Lasting 25 Quintillionths Of A Second, & Will Soon Hit 3 PW, Advancing Quantum, Plasma, & Cosmic Research. The UK’s Vulcan 20-20 Aims To Surpass All.

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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 In The USA Created The Most Electrically Conductive Organic Molecule Made Of C, S, N. It Conducts Electrons Without Energy Loss, Is Cheaper Than Silicon (Si), & May Replace Si In Chips, As Si-Based Devices Reach Size Limits—Allowing Smaller, Faster, Energy-Efficient, & Scalable Computing, & Use In Nanoelectronics & Quantum Tech.

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US Venus Aerospace Tested The World’s 1st RDRE, Hitting Mach 6 From Runways At Spaceport America, NM. Developed Since 1980s, Yet Unflown Until Now. RDREs Use Detonation For More Power/Less Fuel, Scalable For Defense/Commercial Use—LA–Tokyo In Under 2 Hrs! Pairs With Ramjet For Sustained Hypersonic Flight. Rivals: Hermeus, Castelion, Kratos.

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