FDA Approval for Gene Therapy: The Path From Trial to License
FDA approval for gene therapy runs through an IND, phased trials and a Biologics License Application. Here is each step, the expedited programs, and the…
Peter Kalafatis
October 2026 Night Sky: A Seven-Step Plan for the Rest of the Month
A practical plan for the second half of October 2026: Moon phases, Saturn, the Orionid meteor shower on a moonlit night, and how dark adaptation…
Artemis II Lunar Science Release: Data, Flashes, Findings
NASA released over 800 GB of Artemis II lunar data and a preliminary science report. Here is what the crew saw, what the report concludes,…
SPHEREx Reads 37 Brown Dwarfs From Hot L Types to Cold Y Types
NASA’s SPHEREx telescope recorded infrared spectra of 37 nearby brown dwarfs, revealing water, methane, CO and CO2 and exposing where atmosphere models still fail.
Antarctic Sea Ice Hits Its 2026 Maximum: Reading the Numbers
Antarctic sea ice likely peaked on 14 September 2026 at 17.59 million km2, the third-lowest maximum on record. Here is how agencies measured it and…
FDA Lab Developed Tests Rule: Where It Stands in October 2026
A Texas court vacated the FDA’s lab developed tests rule on March 31, 2025, and the agency removed its text that September. Here is the…
Webb Finds the Host of the Farthest Fast Radio Burst
Webb measured a redshift of 2.148 for FRB 20240304B, the most distant localized fast radio burst. Its tiny, young host galaxy argues against a neutron-star…
Rephrasing without replicating: transmission fidelity in language-model telephone chains
Do AI models play telephone better than people? Re-analysing about 51,000 hand-offs between language models: chat models almost never copy wording, but the gist survives…
Do LLMs Have World Models? What Othello-GPT Shows and What It Doesn’t
Othello-GPT showed a sequence model can learn and use a hidden board state. Later work found such internal maps are often incoherent. This article weighs…
How Does a DMCA Takedown Work? Notices, Counter-Notices and the 10-Day Clock
A DMCA takedown removes content on a copyright complaint; a counter-notice can restore it in 10 to 14 business days unless the owner sues. Steps,…