Nina Simone’s 650 sq ft childhood home in Tryon, North Carolina, has been restored after sitting vacant and severely decayed for more than 20 years. Bought for $95,000 in 2017, the three-room house underwent nearly $850,000 in rehabilitation. The restored home, which retains original features, is expected to open to the public in 2027. Source…

Representative Image (AI-generated) A robot has assembled a working tabletop laser cavity in less than 30 minutes, handling the precise alignment usually done manually. Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT’s) researchers have developed a reconfigurable robotic optics laboratory that can pick up and position mirrors, lenses and other components, fine-tune them with micron-scale precision and even…

PC: Guinness World Records At 17, British student Max Budgen created a hand-drawn flipbook with 1,300 pages, earning a place in Guinness World Records. The student from Petersfield, Hampshire, set the record for the most pages in a hand-drawn flipbook.According to Guinness World Records (2025), Max spent more than three weeks completing the project. He…