17 year old Belgian-British Mack Rutherford has become the younger person ever to fly around the world solo! Congratulations Mack, and all those whom you inspire! https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/teen-pilot-sets-age-record-solo-flight-world-rcna44616
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First step in Quantum Internet achieved
by editorby editorA new quantum entanglement record was broken by physicists at the Ludwig Maximillian University. They have successfully quantum entangled two atoms that are 20 miles (33km) apart! The achievements paves…
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The U.S. Space Force’s mysterious X-37B space plane has been in orbit for 781 days, setting a new record! The mini space shuttle looking space craft conducts science experiments for…
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The USS Samuel Roberts, a U.S. Navy Destroyer Escort, which sank in the Phillippine Sea during Word War II battling the Japanese Imperial Navy has been found. The shipwreck is…
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Yes you can: Malik Sinegal became the youngest certified Boeing 777 pilot in the world at age 23! He also broke the ceiling as the youngest Black pilot in the…
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In another historic first, U.S. President-Elect Joe Biden has chosen General Lloyd Austin as the first Black Secretary of Defense nominee! General Austin has a long history of breaking barriers,…
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Talk about breaking the glass ceiling! The U.S. Navy has announced that it has chosen its first female commander of a nuclear powered U.S. Aircraft carrier! Amy Bauernschmidt will go…
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14.8 carat diamond sold for $26.6 million
by editorby editorAn extremely rare purple-pink Russian diamond was sold at auction in Switzerland for $26.6 million! The 14.8 carat diamond, the largest of its kind to ever be auctioned by luxury…
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Artifical Intelligence passes the Turing Test
by editorby editorA supercomputer designed by two Russian scientists has passed the Turing Test, a test to see if a conversation with a computer can fool humans, at the University of Reading…
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Poppy from Bournemouth, UK, has been recognized as the world’s oldest living cat at 24 years old, the equivalent of 114 human years! She has been inducted into the Guinness…
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High speed underwater train from China to U.S.
by editorby editorOne of four high speed international rail projects in the works, China is planning a 125 mile undersea tunnel that will connect Siberian Russia to Alaska. Passengers on the 220…
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The oldest man in the world is 111 and lives in New York, of all places. Who’d have thunk? What’s even more surprising is there are 60 women who are…
