Zack Capparnick

Scientists Converted A Blood Type A Kidney To Universal Type O Using Enzymes FpGalactosaminidase & FpGalNAc deacetylase, And Then Transplanted It Into A Brain-Dead Patient. Unlike Prior Lungs & Kidney Conversions, This Is The First Human Implantation. It Worked For 2 Days Before Rejection. This Feat Could Slash The 2–4 Yrs Type O Wait Time.

UK Scientists Led The Trial Of AMT-130, The First Gene Therapy Tested In Humans For Huntington’s. Developed By uniQure, It Reduces Toxic Huntingtin Protein. In A 3-Year, 29-Person Study, High-Dose Patients Saw 75% Slower Progression. Results Were Measured Via Motor/Cognitive Tests And Spinal Fluid Markers. FDA Filing Is Expected Early 2026.

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Twin Brothers Ian & Stuart Paton, 64, From Hampshire, UK, Set Two Guinness World Records With A 1,278kg Pumpkin Measuring 6.4m+ In Circumference, Making It The World’s Heaviest & Largest Pumpkin. Grown Locally & Watered With 130 Gallons Daily, It Surpassed Travis Gienger’s 1,247kg, 6.1m Record, Swelling From Golf Ball To Giant In 130 Days.

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Dame Sarah Mullally, 63, Becomes The First-Ever Woman Archbishop Of Canterbury In 1,400 Years, Leading 85M Anglicans Worldwide. A Former UK‘s Youngest Chief Nurse At 37 & Bishop Of London, She Replaces Justin Welby Amid Abuse Scandal Fallout. Her Appointment Sparks Debate On Women’s Roles In The Church & Challenges On LGBTQ Inclusion & Racism.

Domen Škofic Made History As The First To Climb A Plane Mid-Flight. At 2500m Above Aigen, Austria, He Scaled A Very Hard (8a-Grade) Climb Route Bolted To A Modified Red Bull Let L-13 Blanik Glider. Starting At The Cockpit, He Climbed A Figure-Eight Path Across Both Wings & Fuselage In -10°C & 100km/h Winds, Redefining Climbing & Aerial Sport.

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.

NASA’s Artemis II Launches In Feb 2026. 4 Astronauts, Led By Reid Wiseman, Will Orbit The Moon 10 Days In Integrity (No Landing; Only Testing Systems & Crew). This First Crewed Mission In 50 Yrs Includes Christina Koch (First Woman), Victor Glover (First Black Astronaut), & Jeremy Hansen (First Non-American), Advancing Goals For Moon Bases/Mars.