Jason in the Morning

Scientists implanted living muscle into mice that contracts on its own — and the rest of the body appeared to benefit.

Plus, a shingles vaccine may be doing something unexpected for cardiovascular health, and a catastrophic glacier collapse shows how something that moves inches at a time can unleash destruction in minutes.

Three stories. About ten minutes. Now you know what actually happened.

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Humans just made a new 62-foot crater on the Moon — and new research suggests some Earth microbes could survive lunar conditions.

Plus, dozens of scientific studies may have relied on an antibody measuring the wrong protein, and cheap drones are forcing militaries to rethink the economics of air defense.

Three stories. About ten minutes. Now you know what actually happened.

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Doctors took mitochondria from a woman’s own leg-muscle cells and injected them into her eyes, testing a remarkable idea: if the machinery inside a damaged cell stops working, could medicine simply give it replacement parts?

Today on Jason in the Morning: the first human experiment using transplanted mitochondria to help severely damaged retinal cells, why a rapidly growing Ebola outbreak in Congo is especially difficult to fight, and what the remarkably healthy eyes of century-old Greenland sharks may teach scientists about aging.

Three stories. About ten minutes. Now you know what actually happened.

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A college student spotted malicious code hiding inside an open-source software update. Then other developers appeared and started telling him he was wrong.

Except they weren’t developers. They weren’t even people.

Today on Jason in the Morning: what happened when an autonomous AI safety experiment went off the rails, why artificial intelligence is beginning to break the business model behind India’s $315 billion technology industry, and how a drug-resistant fungus called Candida auris is becoming an increasingly serious challenge inside American healthcare facilities.

Three stories. About ten minutes. Now you know what actually happened.

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Today on Jason in the Morning: an experimental personalized mRNA cancer vaccine clears a major Phase 3 milestone, humanoid robots are getting closer to the point where the question isn’t “What can they do?” but “Can they actually hold down a job?” — and some trees can unexpectedly make urban air pollution worse.

How can doctors turn mutations inside a tumor into instructions for the immune system? Why are engineers building robots shaped like humans? And how can planting the wrong tree in the wrong place help create ground-level ozone?

Three stories. About ten minutes. Now you know what actually happened.

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Today on Jason in the Morning: the Lindsay Clancy trial forces a difficult question about postpartum psychosis and criminal responsibility, China lands an orbital-class rocket booster vertically, and satellite images show a reef being transformed into roughly six kilometers of new land in the disputed South China Sea.

What does the law actually mean when severe mental illness collides with criminal responsibility? Why does landing a rocket matter less than being able to fly it again? And how can building an island change the military balance of an entire region?

Three stories. About ten minutes. Now you know what actually happened.

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What does “empty” space actually contain? How can astronomers discover a galaxy that disappeared nearly 12 billion years ago? And why are Chinese oil tankers avoiding two narrow stretches of water that help keep the global economy moving?

Today on Jason in the Morning: magnetars give scientists a laboratory we could never build on Earth, ancient stars reveal the remains of a galaxy the Milky Way swallowed, and trouble at the Strait of Hormuz shows just how fragile the world’s energy routes can be.

Three stories. About ten minutes. Now you know what actually happened.

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China launched a missile from beneath the Pacific. Microsoft is cutting Xbox jobs as the subscription-gaming dream gets harder to defend. And a cholesterol test called apoB may reveal heart risk that LDL misses.

Three headlines that seem unrelated...

An AI helps uncover a massive concert ticket vulnerability. Jersey Mike's IPO opens the books on one of America's favorite sandwich chains. And scientists explain why releasing one pet goldfish can transform an entire lake.

Today's episode looks beyond the headlines to reveal the real stories—and why they matter.

Sources: Wired, Forbes, ScienceDaily

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What happens when artificial intelligence stops answering questions and starts making decisions?

Today, Robinhood outlines a future where AI agents help manage your investments, a little-known European company builds an $18 billion empire by buying internet brands everyone else abandoned, and one of the world’s most advanced humanoid robots forces us to ask whether technology should ever replace human connection.

Three stories. One question: How much of our lives are we willing to hand over to AI?

Sources: CNBC, Forbes, Reuters, TechRadar

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