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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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Drilling reportedly underway at boat-shaped mound near Mount Ararat

A user links the 515-foot mound in Turkey to Noah's Ark and claims a drill bit shattered on what researchers think is petrified wood.

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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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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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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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NIH launches Linked Discoveries, an experimental tool accessible through PubMed

NIH says the tool is intended to help scientists see how individual research findings relate to the larger body of biomedical evidence.

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Claude reportedly helps find a CRISPR-like system whose function remains unknown

The Economic Times, citing Anthropic, reports that Claude helped researchers identify ARTs in bacterial DNA. The system has repeated DNA sequences resembling CRISPR, but scientists are still studying what it does.

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NASA chief concerned China may deny access to parts of Moon’s south pole

Ars Technica reports that NASA’s chief is concerned China may deny access to parts of the lunar south pole.

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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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APOE4-linked changes in brain blood vessels and a potential way to reverse them

A Cell study reports that APOE4 drives a cell transition that promotes blood-vessel scarring and amyloid buildup. Blocking TGF-β reversed that remodeling, the study reports.

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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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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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How ceratopsians may have fought

A user highlights a study exploring possible combat behavior in ceratopsians.

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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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Nanotherapy may reduce fibrosis and improve cancer immunotherapy response

A paper in Science describes senescence-directed nanotherapy that it says reduces fibrosis and overcomes immune exclusion in cancer.

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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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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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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.
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