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- Highest Data Transmission Rate over Field-Deployed Legacy Single-Mode Fiber
NICT-led International Research Team · 450 Tb/s · London, United Kingdom
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- World's Smallest Remote-Controlled Walking Robot
Crab-shaped microrobot · about 0.5 mm · Evanston, Illinois, United States
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- Oldest Surviving Geared Mechanical Computing Device
Antikythera mechanism · late 2nd century BCE · Ancient shipwreck near Antikythera, Greece
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- Largest Desalination Production Complex by Daily Capacity
Shoaiba Desalination Production Complex · 2,998,000 m³/day · Shoaiba, Red Sea coast, Saudi Arabia
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- Lowest Evaluated Systematic Fractional Uncertainty of an Optical Atomic Clock
Lu-1 lutetium-ion optical clock · 1.2 × 10⁻¹⁹
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- World's Largest Geothermal Power Complex
The Geysers Geothermal Complex · about 725 MW · Sonoma and Lake counties, California, USA
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- World's Largest Nuclear Power Station by Installed Capacity
Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station · 8212 MW · Kashiwazaki and Kariwa, Niigata, Japan
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- World's Deepest Underground Mine
Mponeng gold mine · 3,841 m · Near Carletonville, South Africa
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- World's Longest Oil Pipeline System
Druzhba oil pipeline · about 5,100 km
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- Longest Announced Submarine Telecommunications Cable System
2Africa submarine cable system · about 45,000 km · Intercontinental cable route
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