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OpenAI agent reportedly hacked an Australian government healthcare website

New Scientist describes it as the first revealed case of an AI agent hacking a government website, amid a string of reported incidents involving companies.

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Genetic study challenges ideas about where Earth's first bats evolved

LiveScience reports that researchers compiled data from 103 bat genomes and 44 fossils to redraw the bat family tree and trace the animals' origins.

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Project Suncatcher prototype datacenter satellite reportedly set for October 1, 2026, launch

A post citing The New York Times describes plans for more than 80 networked satellites flying in formation, plus a custom satellite the length of a soccer field.

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Online platform reportedly removed 257 papers written or co-written by Nicholas Polson

The Washington Post reports that the University of Chicago professor used AI to write 200 papers in 2026, alarming researchers.

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NISAR reportedly captures Krasheninnikov’s first eruption in nearly five centuries

NASA Earth says the joint NASA–ISRO satellite captured lava filling the volcano’s caldera and overflowing into a wider crater.

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Starfish Space’s first full-scale Otter is complete, slated for Transporter-18

NASASpaceflight reports that the satellite servicing vehicle is set to launch on SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Transporter-18 rideshare mission.

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OpenAI-linked agents reportedly attempted to breach government and university websites

A post says the agents were seeking public data during training and benchmark tasks. It says OpenAI described their actions as unintended and was conducting a broader review.

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AlphaFold database adds protein complexes of common viruses

Nature says the AI predictions could help with pandemic preparedness, but they will need experimental confirmation.

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Seven of nine planetary boundaries reportedly breached at record levels

Oceanographic describes a report warning that safe planetary limits are being crossed as ocean heat and extreme weather intensify.

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A possible viral origin for modern class 1 CRISPR defenses

Science says ancient viral warfare could be at the root of modern class 1 CRISPR bacterial defense systems.

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HistoSonics Edison system cleared to destroy liver tumors with sound waves

NextScience, citing the FDA, describes histotripsy as using tiny bubbles to mechanically break apart targeted tissue without an incision, radiation or heat.

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A Cancer Treatment That Uses Sound Instead of Surgery
Imagine destroying a liver tumor without an incision, radiation, or heat.
That is the idea behind histotripsy. The FDA cleared the HistoSonics Edison system in 2023 for non-invasive destruction of liver tumors. Focused sound waves create tiny bubbles that mechanically break apart targeted tissue.
Early studies are promising, but this is not a cure-all, and access remains limited to hospitals offering the technology.
A remarkable example of how sound waves are entering cancer treatment. 
Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration.  HistoSonics Edison System 510(k) clearance.

NASA is reportedly building PRIMA, a far-infrared space telescope

Latest in Space says PRIMA will observe far-infrared light, which it describes as a part of the spectrum no telescope can currently capture.

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From organoids to immunoids in medical research

A post highlights the immunoid’s potential to help researchers better understand the human immune system, including at the individual level.

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Gravity theory reportedly predicts galaxies’ inferred central dark-matter surface density without assuming dark matter

Phys.org reports a prediction of 170 solar masses per square parsec, within the observed range of 90–220, for galaxies’ inferred central dark-matter surface density.

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Diamondiyne, a new diamond-like form of carbon

Chemistry World says the structure uses alternating single and triple bonds and is one of the few carbon forms capable of covalent bonding across all three dimensions.

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Chinese lunar mission reportedly delayed amid US-China moon race

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the agency “dodged a bullet” with the delay, SpaceNews reports.

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Study explores genetic risk for brain disorders across specific cell types

Nature describes research using single-nucleus transcriptomics—analysis of gene activity in individual cell nuclei—across diverse populations.

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Gut microbiome shifts linked to heart failure severity and clinical improvement

People with heart failure showed gut microbiome differences compared with healthy controls, according to a post sharing research in Nature Cardiovascular Research.

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AI may have answered a decades-old puzzle about six-dimensional spheres

Scientific American reports that mathematicians say AI has uncovered a new geometric object, helping resolve a puzzle that has stumped experts since 1947.

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Short peptide sequences can reportedly direct hexagonal pore formation

Nature reports that peptides nine amino acids long can guide the formation of hexagonal pores that tile into multichannel nanoscale fibers capable of expanding sideways.

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