54% in diabetes remission, and a Mars rock over 4 billion years old

Among those receiving usual care, 4% did 4. Everyone enrolled was 18 to 45, had obesity, and was not using insulin. The results were presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes meeting and published in The Lancet Regional Health Americas 4. Remission here has a strict meaning: blood sugar falls below the diagnostic threshold and stays there without glucose-lowering drugs. The researchers are explicit that this does not necessarily mean a permanent cure 4.

The sorting has a gap, though: some children whose tumors lack the fusion still develop fatal cancers, and nobody could say why 9. Researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Cambridge, Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London compared tumor samples from 16 children: four whose fusion-negative cancers proved fatal, four with fusion-positive tumors, and eight fusion-negative children who survived. They found hidden populations of highly aggressive cancer cells inside tumors that had been classed as less threatening 9. The work appeared in Cancer Research.

A team at the University of Trento in Italy built the strangeness in. University students meditated, then moved through virtual reality scenes where objects broke the laws of physics and settings switched abruptly, running a reality check each time 13. Afterward they wrote in a dream diary every morning. They reported lucid dreams four times more often than a group that did reality checks without the meditation or VR 13. Another comparison group practiced in realistic VR rather than dream-like scenes. Participants who had no memory of a lucid dream in the past three years developed the skill after twice-weekly sessions for one month. The study was published Sept. 28 in Frontiers in Psychology 13.

It is only the third genuinely ancient Martian meteorite known, after Allan Hills 84001 and Black Beauty. The three main classes of Martian meteorites are all 2.4 billion years old or younger 156. Eight stones weighing just under 800 grams in total were bought through the desert meteorite trade by a private collector, who sent a piece to the University of New Mexico. Oxygen isotopes matched Mars, and at first the rock was filed as a common, young shergottite until Carl Agee noticed oddities 156. Unlike Black Beauty, which is a mix of soil and small fragments, Teghaza 001 is a single, intact igneous rock made mostly of feldspar 156.

The proposal describes pigs as "highly sentient and intelligent animals" capable of pain and fear. The UK slaughters more than 10 million pigs a year, and according to Compassion in World Farming, CO2 stunning rose from 52% of them in 2013 to 90% in 2025 196. About a year ago the independent Animal Welfare Committee found "significant" evidence that CO2 causes avoidable pain, respiratory distress and fear, and recommended ending the practice within five years at most 196.

Over 24 months of monitoring, the gardens recorded pollinator species rising from 18 to 46, a 155% increase, and bee visits up nearly 200%, according to Action For Nature, which named her third at its 2026 International Young Eco-Hero Awards 214. The idea came partly from watching her younger autistic brother and noticing how few outdoor spaces suit neurodivergent children. The gardens use layers of native plants and chemical-free cultivation, with structured pathways, non-thorny touch-safe plants and bee- and butterfly-watching zones 214.

Over 2019 to 2040, the range is roughly 23,214 to 46,428 extra transplants, producing about 147,410 to 294,819 life-years gained 130. The system it targets was clumsy. A 2024 interview quoted in the post says organs were 15 times more likely to be lost or damaged in transit than an airline suitcase, and 17% of kidneys were offered to at least one patient who had already died 130. Many organ procurement organizations now GPS-track kidney transfers 130.