Harper Lee

EctoLife Is The First Artificial Womb (AW) Concept Facility, Which, In Theory, Could Grow About 30,000 Babies Per Year. Parents Can Engineer Their Embryos Before They Are Implanted In The AW. The Facility Is Said To Be A Solution For Countries With Depleting Populations, For Infertile Couples, Or For Women That Have Lost Their Wombs.

A Houston Resident, Tanya Herbert, Has Broken The Guinness World Records For Having The World’s Largest Feet On A Living Female. She Broke The Record, Currently Held By Julie Felton From The UK, With Her Right Foot Measuring 13.03 in And Her Left 12.79 in. Herbert, Who Is 6 ft. 9 in Tall, Typically Wears A US Women’s Size 18 Or A US Men’s Size 16-17.

Anna May Wong, Dubbed Hollywood’s First Asian American Movie Star, Is The First Asian American Featured On US Quarters. Wong, Who Died In 1961, Had A Career Spanning 60 Films, And Earned A Star On The Hollywood Walk Of Fame In 1960. Wong Is Featured On The 5th Coin, Released In 2022, Which Celebrates Female Trailblazers In American History.

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Saudi Arabia Plans To Build The World’s Biggest Structure—2 Mirrored Buildings That Are ~488 m High And Running Parallel For 120 Km Across Coastal And Desert Terrain. The Buildings, Est. At A Trillion Dollars And Part Of The Smart City Project Called Neom, Will House ~5 Mil People. And Be Connected By Walkways And Underground Trains.

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The First Mission To Return Samples From Another Planet Will Land On Earth In 2033. The Plan Is To Send A Lander Carrying 2 Sample Recovery Helicopters. The Perseverance Rover Will Then Transport The Samples To The Lander. But If The Rover Can’t Transport The Samples, Then The 2 Helicopters Will Be Tasked With Retrieving The Samples.

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Dr. June Huh, A South Korean And High School Dropout Turned College Professor, Was Awarded The Fields Medal, The Highest Honor In Mathematics For His Work In The Field Of Geometric Combinatorics. The Award Could Be Referred To As The “Nobel Prize In Mathematics. Huh, Age 39, Is The 9Th Field Medal Recipient From The Princeton Faculty.

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Mellody Hobson Will Be The First Black Woman To Be A Part Owner Of An NFL Team, When The Ownership Group, In Which She Is A Member, Takes Over The Denver Broncos In A $4.65 B Deal. Hobson, Age 53, A Co-CEO Of The $17.8 B Ariel Investments, Married To Star Wars Creator, George Lucas, Sits On Many Boards Like Starbucks And Estée Lauder.

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NASA‘s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), For The First Time In History, Has Appointed A Woman As Its Head. Dr. Laurie Leshin, Who Is Also The Vice President Of Caltech, Is A Distinguished Geochemist And Space Scientist. Dr. Leshin, An Advocate For Gender Equality In STEM, Wants To Make JPL An All-Inclusive Environment For Great Minds.

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Researchers, For The First Time, Discovered Microplastic In Freshly Fallen Snow In Antarctica. Scientists Found From Each Of The 19 Sampled Sites, An Avg. Of 29 Plastic Particles Per Litre Of Melted Snow. And Identified 13 Different Plastic Types–With The Most Common Plastic Being PET Plastic—Used Mostly In, E.g., Soft-Drink Bottles.

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Angel Alvarado, Age 19 And From A Colombia, Has Set A New Guinness World Records For The Fastest Time In Solving 3 Rubik Cubes While Juggling Them At The Same Time. The New Record, Set At ~4 Minutes 31 Seconds, Beats His Previous Record By 20 Seconds. Angel Alvarado Attributed His Victory To 9 Months Of Practice.