🇬🇧 United Kingdom
First AI-Generated Feature Film Selected by Major Festival Premieres at Tribeca
A film about Iran's protest movement has become the first fully AI-generated feature ever selected by a major
🏆 Breakthroughs
Breakthroughs
Historic firsts, records, public milestones, and leaps people will remember for years.
🇺🇸 United States
First Private US Nuclear Reactor in 40 Years Goes Critical
A small nuclear reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee has become the first privately developed reactor in the United
🇨🇳 China
China builds world's first superfast quantum memory chip
A team of Chinese scientists has built the world's first superfast quantum memory chip, a device that stores q
🇨🇳 China
China unveils a flying boat that skims water and air
A new vehicle in China looks like a boat, flies like a plane, and hovers just above the water. It is not scien
🇹🇼 Taiwan
Tiny Sesame Sea Slug Found in Taiwan, First New Genus Species in 30 Years
A sea slug no bigger than a sesame seed has turned up in the waters off Taiwan, and it is the first new specie
🌍 Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan Wins UN Security Council Seat for First Time
Kyrgyzstan has never held a seat on the United Nations Security Council. That changed this week when the Centr
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
Hong Kong astronaut lifts off as city maps its aerospace future
Hong Kong has its first astronaut, and the city is already planning what comes next. At the Global Prosperity
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Lucian Freud Portrait He Denied Painting Is Proven Authentic
A portrait that Lucian Freud spent years insisting was not his own work has been proven authentic and will go
🇱🇦 Laos
Fourth group of men freed from flooded cave in Laos rescue
Rescuers in Laos pulled four more men out of a flooded cave on Saturday, bringing the total number of survivor
🇱🇦 Laos
Divers rescue first villager trapped in flooded Laos cave for a week
For more than a week, five villagers in Laos were trapped inside a flooded cave with no way out. Now, divers h
🇨🇳 China
Chinese astronauts land at former top secret nuclear missile test site
Three Chinese astronauts have returned to Earth at a site that was once a top secret nuclear missile testing g
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
England's Cerne Abbas Giant Gets First Major Chalk Makeover in Centuries
The Cerne Abbas Giant, the ancient chalk figure carved into a hillside in Dorset, England, is getting its firs
🌍 Botswana
Botswana First Nation to Reach Gold Tier for Ending HIV Transmission to Babies
Botswana has become the first country in the world to reach Gold Tier status for eliminating mother-to-child t
🇺🇸 United States
NASA’s X-59 Jet Aims to Break Sound Barrier Without the Sonic Boom
NASA’s X-59 experimental aircraft is about to do something no civilian jet has done before: fly faster than so
