Sophia Bush

Saturn Now Has 274 Moons, The Most In Our Solar System (SS), Surpassing Jupiter As The SS’s “Moon King.” Astronomers Using The Canada–France-Hawaii Telescope Discovered 128 Tiny (2-4 Km) Potato-Shaped Moons, Likely Fragments From Ancient Collisions. First Spotted In 2023, The 128 Moons Orbits Were Confirmed And Announced In 2025 By The IAU.

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El Capitan Is The World’s Fastest Supercomputer As Of Jan 2026, At Lawrence Livermore Lab In California, Run By The U.S. DOE. It Crunches ~1.8 Quintillion (18 Zeros) Calculations/Sec, Beating The Previous Champ, Frontier. This $600M Machine By HPE/AMD Mainly Simulates U.S Nuclear Weapons Safely, Plus Climate, Fusion Energy & A.I Research.

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Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s First Female PM Has Died At 80. She Was The World’s 2nd Elected Female Leader In A Mainly Muslim Nation, After Pakistan’s Benazir Bhutto. Out Of Power Since 2006, Khaleda Remained Influential As Her BNP Party Heads Into The Feb 2026 Elections, As A Leading Contender, With Son Tarique Rahman Emerging As A P.M Candidate.

Manjula Sood (80, 1945–2025), The U.K’s First Female Asian Lord Mayor Of Leicester In 2008, Died On 12/24/25. She Moved From India In 1970; Taught Primary School From 1973; Became The City’s First Female Hindu Councillor In 1996; And Received An MBE And Honorary Doctorate. Tributes Hail Her As A Pioneer For Diversity, Women, And Leadership.

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U.S. Quantinuum’s Helios, A 98-Qubit Trapped-Ion System, Is The Most Accurate & Powerful Commercial Quantum Computer Launched In 11/2025. By Creating 48 Super-Reliable Logical Qubits, It Beats Supercomputers At Complex Tasks. Accessible Via Cloud Or On-Site With Python-Based Guppy, It Enables Breakthroughs In Superconductors, Drugs, & A.I.

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U.S Scientists Created The Fastest Hepatitis C (HCV) Test By Adapting The DASH Rapid PCR System From COVID-19. Using Untreated Blood, It Gives Results In 15 Mins, Up To 75% Faster Than Prior Tests, & Showed 100% Agreement With Lab PCR, Enabling Same-Day Diagnosis & Treatment To Meet WHO’s 2030 Elimination Goal For The ~50M People Affected.

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Baby KJ Muldoon, The World’s First Patient To Receive Personalized CRISPR Therapy At The U.S.’s Oldest Children’s Hospital In Philadelphia, Has Taken His First Steps. CRISPR Edited His Gene To Prevent Deadly Ammonia Buildup From An Ultra-Rare Condition. Now 16 Months Old & Thriving At Home, He’s Preparing For His First Christmas With Family.

Chinese Scientists Made The World‑First Stable 2D Sheets From Non‑layered Metals (Tin, Bismuth, Lead, Indium, Gallium), Unlike 1‑Atom Graphene Sheet From Layered Graphite. Just 1–3 Atoms Thick & 200K× Thinner Than Hair, They Used “vdW Squeezing,” Pressing Metal Melt Btw MoS₂ Layers. The 2D Metals Could Transform Quantum Tech & Electronics.

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U.S Scientists Created EVO 2, The First Open-Source A.I Trained On 9.3T DNA Letters From 128K+ Species (Some Extinct). Using Stripedhyena 2, It Reads 1M Letters At Once To Write DNA/RNA/Proteins. It Detects BRCA1 Cancer Mutations With 90% Accuracy, & Can Design Whole Bacterial Genomes Or CRISPR Systems. A Game Changer For Research/Drug Development.

Olivier Rioux, 19, A 7’9″ Canadian Center For The Florida Gators, Became The World’s Tallest Player To Ever Dunk In College Basketball History In A 102–61 Win Over Saint Francis. The 2021 Guinness World Record Tallest Teen Is Taller Than The Current NBA Tallest Victor Wembanyama (7’4″) & NBA’s Tallest Ever, Manute Bol & Gheorghe Muresan (7’7″).