Zack Capparnick

Neutral Edison, A 31-Story, $133.3M Tower In Milwaukee, Will Be The World’s Tallest Mass Timber Building By 2027, Surpassing The Current Record-Holder 25-Story Ascent In WI. Built With CLT & Glulam, Which Can Replace Steel Or Concrete, It Allows Faster, Eco-Friendly Construction & Will Feature 350 Apartments, Retail, & Wellness Amenities.

Big Carl, The World’s Largest Crane (An SGC-250), Lifted A 245-Ton, 14m-High Dome With 900 Welds Onto Unit 2 At Hinkley Point C, UK’s First Nuclear Plant In 30 Years. The £26B Project In Somerset, Set To Open In 2031, Will Power 6M+ Homes With Zero-Carbon Energy. Big Carl Lifts Up To 5K Tons, Runs On 96 Wheels, 12 Engines, 52 (100T Each) Counterweights.

China Has Begun Building The World’s Largest Hydropower Dam On The Tibetan Plateau; Its Biggest Since The Three Gorges Dam. The $170B+ Project Will Generate 300B kWh/Yr, Fuel Economic Growth, & Likely Impact Millions Downstream In India And Bangladesh. Stocks Surged, But Environmental & Seismic Risks Remain. Completion Is Due In The 2030s.

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In A World First, Scientists 3D-Printed Microscopic Elephants, Barcodes, & Microlasers Inside Living Cells Using Two-Photon Polymerization & Photoresists That Harden With Focused Lasers. Some Cells Survived, Divided, And Passed The Structures To Daughter Cells. This Feat Enables DNA-Free Cell Tagging, Tracking, And Internal Customization.

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The Original Birkin Bag, Made In 1985 For Jane Birkin After Her In-Flight Mishap, Sold On 7/10/25 For €8.6M At Sotheby ’s Paris, Breaking Record For The World’s Most Expensive Handbag. Owned For 25 Yrs By Catherine Benier After A 1994 Charity Auction, It Dwarfs The Previous Record Holder: A $513K White Himalaya Niloticus Crocodile Kelly.

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NWA-16788, The Largest Mars Meteorite Found On Earth, Weighs 24.67 Kg—70% More Than 2021’s Taoudenni 002 (14.51 Kg, Mali). Discovered In Niger’s Sahara In Nov 2023 & Confirmed By The Shanghai Astronomy Museum, It Shows Little Weathering & Contains Maskelynite, Pyroxene, And Olivine. Sotheby’s Will Auction It On 7/16/25, With Bids Up To $4M.

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The World’s First Malaria Drug For Babies Under 4.5kg, Coartem Baby Or Riamet Baby In Some Countries, Has Been Approved By Swiss Authorities. Developed By Novartis & MMV, It Will Be Rolled Out In Africa Soon. In 2023, Malaria Caused ~597K Deaths—76% Were Kids Under 5. This Not-For-Profit Drug Closes A Critical Care Gap For Newborn Babies.

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For The First Time, Scientists In Scotland Beamed Light Through A Human Head Using Enhanced FNIRS By Boosting Laser Strength And Refining Photon Collection. Only 1 Of 8 Participants Showed Results, But It Proved A Breakthrough For Deeper, Affordable, & Portable Brain Scans—Potentially Revolutionizing Diagnosis For Strokes, Tumors, And More.

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A New Blood Type, Gwada Negative, Was Found In A 68-Year-Old Woman From Guadeloupe. First Detected In 2011 In Paris, It Was Identified In 2019 Via Gene Sequencing As A Rare Pigz Gene Mutation. She’s The Only Known Match. It’s The 48th Blood Group; Only 8 Are Common. Blood Types Are Based On Antigens—The First, ABO, Was Discovered In 1901.

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Shubhanshu Shukla Became The 1st Indian To Board The ISS Via Axiom-4, Which Launched On 6/26/25 With Astronauts From India, Poland & Hungary. Led By NASA Veteran Peggy Whitson, The 2-Wk Mission Includes 60 Experiments (7 By ISRO). Shukla Is India’s 2nd Man In Space, After Rakesh Sharma’s 1984 Soviet Mission. ISRO Paid $59M For His Seat & Training.