🍄 THE SPACE MUSHROOM EXPERIMENT COULD SAVE US ALL. Forget freeze-dried space food — astronauts are now farming mushrooms in orbit. SpaceX’s Fram2 mission is testing whether fungi can grow in zero gravity. If it works, this isn't just dinner on Mars. It’s the blueprint for feeding civilization, on Earth and beyond.
—> WHAT’S HAPPENING: Four astronauts are orbiting over Earth’s poles with Mission MushVroom, an experiment to grow oyster mushrooms in microgravity. These fungi don’t need soil, grow fast, recycle waste, and can even make their own vitamin D — a nutrient that’s hard to get in space.
—> WHY IT MATTERS IN SPACE: Oyster mushrooms could become a go-to space crop: they’re efficient, nutrient-dense, and full of umami (one of the few flavors that still hits in orbit). NASA’s also eyeing fungi for building materials, air purification, and waste recycling. If they fruit in zero-G? Game on.
—> WHY IT MATTERS ON EARTH: The bigger picture: if we can grow fresh food in space, we can grow it anywhere — deserts, disaster zones, refugee camps, war-torn cities. Tech born in orbit could help solve food insecurity on Earth, where arable land is disappearing and climate threats are rising.
Source: Space.com, Smithsonian
Candidly, I’ve never been a mushroom guy…
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FUTURES
📈 MARKET WINNING STREAK. Wall Street climbed again Thursday, powered by a Big Tech earnings boost:
🔵 S&P 500: +0.6% — 8-day streak, longest since August
🟢 Dow Jones: +83 pts / +0.2%
🟣 Nasdaq: +1.5% — AI-led surge
📊 WHY IT MATTERS: Microsoft (+7.6%) and Meta (+4.2%) crushed earnings, thanks to booming cloud and AI revenue. Their size gave the entire market a lift. Meta credited AI tools for fueling ad growth, while Microsoft saw a 13% revenue jump YOY.
💡 With profits rolling in stronger than expected, the S&P 500 is now just 9% away from reclaiming its all-time high.
Source: AP
CRYPTO
💸 BITCOIN HOVERS AT $96K AS FED CUT ODDS CLIMB. Bitcoin is testing the $95K ceiling again as markets bet the Fed will cut rates on June 18 — with odds now at 60%.
➡️ Why it matters: A slowing U.S. economy makes rate cuts more likely, weakening bonds and boosting demand for riskier assets like BTC.
➡️ Next stop? If BTC breaks $95K cleanly, $100K is in sight. But falling below $93K could drag it back toward $84K.
➡️ Big picture: Long-term holder cost basis is the key level to watch as macro forces shake the crypto market.
Source: Cointelegraph
HEALTHCARE
🧬 VR HEADSETS ARE NOW MEDICAL ESCAPE PODS. The hospital of the future won’t just have doctors — it’ll have portals. Patients are strapping into Apple Vision Pros and Meta Quests, swapping IV rooms for immersive worlds: chemo in Venice canals, dialysis in the Amazon rainforest.
—> THE SCI-FI PRESCRIPTION: Just 12 minutes in VR dropped heart rates by 6.6 BPM and eased patient stress and pain. Apps like Tripp guide users through surreal, meditative journeys — replacing dread with calm. No pills. No side effects. Just presence as medicine.
—> WHY IT MATTERS: This is more than distraction — it’s the rise of immersive care. With headsets cheaper and more portable than ever, hospitals are quietly deploying VR as the next-gen digital painkiller.
Welcome to the era of treatment through teleportation.
Source: Engadget
QUANTUM // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🛸 TOUCH THE FUTURE. FLOATING. 3D. TOUCHABLE. We just crossed into sci-fi.
—> WHAT JUST HAPPENED: Scientists have built a hologram you can actually touch. No gloves. No headset. Just pure mid-air magic. Think: Minority Report meets Blade Runner, only real — and coming soon to your school, your job, your city.
—> HOW IT WORKS: A supercharged sheet vibrates nearly 3,000 times a second, warping light to conjure 3D objects out of thin air. But here’s the wild part — the sheet is soft, so when you reach out to grab a floating cube… it moves with you.
—> WHY IT MATTERS This kills the screen. Forget tablets and glass rectangles — this is the first glimpse of a world where interfaces live in the air. Imagine designing buildings, exploring space, or learning surgery… with your hands in midair, no plastic between you and the moment.
—> THE TAKEAWAY: The next internet won’t live on screens. It’ll float in front of you. And you’ll touch it.
Source: Cosmos
ONE MORE THING
🪐 THE HIDDEN PLANET THAT MIGHT HAVE LIFE. For decades, astronomers have suspected a massive planet is lurking in the shadows beyond Neptune — pulling strings, bending orbits, and shaping our solar system from the dark. Now, they think they may have found it.
—> MEET PLANET NINE: It’s 10x the mass of Earth. Possibly bigger than Neptune. And so far out, it takes 10,000 years to orbit the Sun. It’s like a ghost planet — unseen, but powerful enough to warp the orbits of comets and dwarf planets.
—> A PLANET THAT COULD HARBOR LIFE: This isn’t just some icy space rock. Researchers say Planet Nine could hold heat from its formation, meaning it might have a subsurface ocean — the kind of place we look for microbial life. If that’s true, this would be the only known planet in our system that could host alien life — and we’ve never even seen it.
—> THE MOST POWERFUL PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM? It’s 700 times farther from the Sun than Earth. It’s dragging the outer solar system like a puppetmaster. And we’ve been blind to it… until now. A new telescope in Chile, the Vera Rubin Observatory, is set to come online this year — and it could confirm Planet Nine’s existence once and for all.
—> WHY YOU SHOULD CARE: If real, this would be the biggest discovery in modern astronomy — a new planet in our own backyard, possibly with life, that’s been manipulating the edges of the solar system all along. A reminder: we haven’t even mapped everything around our own Sun.
Source: Futurism, Space.com, UNILAD Tech
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Kev
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