🇮🇹 Italy
Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano named pilot for Artemis III mission
An Italian test pilot will take the controls of NASA's Orion spacecraft for the first time. ESA astronaut Luca
🏆 Breakthroughs
Breakthroughs
Historic firsts, records, public milestones, and leaps people will remember for years.
🇭🇰 Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s first astronaut prepares for space mission
Hong Kong, a city better known for its skyline and stock exchange, is about to send its first astronaut into s
🇨🇳 China
China shares first far side Moon samples with Russian scientists
For the first time in history, rock and dust from the far side of the Moon have left Chinese hands and entered
🇨🇳 China
China performs first combined pig liver and kidney transplant in human
A brain dead patient in China received a pig liver and a pig kidney at the same time, marking the first known
🇰🇪 Kenya
Kenyan Man Sues Parents for Forcing Him to Attend Church
A 27-year-old man in Kenya has taken his own parents to court, accusing them of forcing him to attend church s
🇨🇳 China
Cleaner who studied beside university students earns graduate school spot in China
A cleaner at a university in China spent a year studying on her own, sitting in on classes and using the libra
🇺🇸 United States
NASA’s X-59 Breaks Sound Barrier Without the Sonic Boom
NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time and did not produce t
🇬🇧 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
🇺🇸 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
