🧬 AI BREAKTHROUGH COULD SAVE MEN’S LIVES FROM PROSTATE CANCER: A new AI test is changing the game in prostate cancer treatment — helping doctors know who should get a powerful drug that can nearly cut the risk of death in half.
👁️🗨️ WHAT THE AI SEES: The AI scans tumor images and finds hidden clues — stuff doctors can’t see on their own. It spots a biomarker that tells whether a man is likely to respond to the drug abiraterone. If the marker’s there, the drug works really well.
💊 SMARTER TREATMENT, FEWER SIDE EFFECTS: Not everyone needs abiraterone, and it can come with side effects. But with this test, doctors can give it only to the men who’ll benefit most—saving lives and avoiding over-treatment.
🚀 THE FUTURE OF MEDICINE: This is a major step toward personalized cancer care powered by AI. Faster answers. Better outcomes. And a new tool that helps doctors act before it’s too late.
Source: The Guardian | Medical Xpress | Daily Mail
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FUTURES
📉 STOCKS SLIP AS TARIFF TENSIONS RETURN: Wall Street closed lower Monday as trade jitters, rising oil prices, and global uncertainty weighed on markets.
—> 📊 THE NUMBERS: The S&P 500 rose 0.4% after erasing an early loss from the morning. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 35 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.7%.
—> ⚠️ WHAT’S DRIVING IT: Trump’s tariff battle is back in focus, crude oil rose 2% after OPEC+ supply plans rattled markets, and weak factory data out of the U.S. added to global slowdown concerns.
Source: AP
CRYPTO
🪙 NEW HAMPSHIRE NAMED MOST CRYPTO-FRIENDLY STATE: A new ranking from ASICKey crowns New Hampshire as the most welcoming state for crypto in America, thanks to its 0% capital gains tax, friendly regulation, and dense crypto business network — despite high electricity costs and minimal mining activity.
—> 🥇 WHO'S ON TOP?
New Hampshire – Tax haven, low red tape, high ATM & biz density
Wyoming – Top blockchain job market, low energy prices
Nevada, Texas, and Alaska round out the top five, all with no capital gains tax and sector-specific strengths
—> 📈 WHY IT MATTERS: The study shows how state tax codes and regulatory clarity drive adoption. States that embrace crypto are seeing more jobs, investment, and infrastructure — setting the stage for the next wave of blockchain growth.
Source: CoinDesk
SPACE
🪐 TIME TO TERRAFORM? SCIENTISTS SAY START NOW: A bold new study argues it's time to stop dreaming about terraforming Mars—and start doing it. With SpaceX’s Starship, synthetic biology, and climate engineering breakthroughs, researchers say the Red Planet could become humanity’s first planetary restoration project.
—> 🌱 FROM DEAD PLANET TO BASE CAMP: Mars was once habitable. Advocates say that makes terraforming an act of environmental restoration — not destruction. The long-term goal? Cities, water, oxygen, and a stepping stone for deeper space exploration.
—> 🔬 THE THREE-PHASE PLAN
Warm it up: Using solar sails or aerogel to raise the temperature and release trapped CO₂
Microbial life: Deploy engineered extremophiles to start oxygen production
Biosphere build-out: Slowly scale to plant life and breathable air for humans
—> ⚖️ THE ETHICAL DEBATE: Critics warn we risk destroying Martian history — and possibly ancient life — before fully understanding it. Supporters say Earth can’t be life’s only outpost. As one researcher put it: “Living planets are better than dead ones.”
Source: Space.com | ExtremeTech
QUANTUM // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🧠 TIKTOK IS PUSHING MENTAL HEALTH MISINFORMATION — AND IT’S COMING FROM BEIJING. More than half of TikTok’s most popular mental health advice videos contain misinformation, according to a Guardian investigation. And experts say the damage goes beyond bad advice—it’s reshaping how young people understand illness, identity, and reality itself.
—> ⚠️ THE NUMBERS: 52 out of the top 100 trending TikToks tagged #mentalhealthtips included misinformation, according to clinical psychologists and psychiatrists who reviewed the content. The videos pushed "quick-fix" cures for trauma, misused psychiatric terminology, and promoted unregulated supplements like magnesium glycinate and holy basil.
—> 💥 WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE: Think “heal your childhood trauma in one hour,” “eating oranges in the shower cures anxiety,” or mislabeling everyday emotions as symptoms of serious disorders like borderline personality disorder. Experts say these trends aren’t quirky—they're harmful.
—> 🇨🇳 WHO OWNS THIS PLATFORM? TikTok is owned by ByteDance, a Chinese company with close ties to the Chinese Communist Party. The same government that censors content at home and bans Western platforms like YouTube and Instagram is feeding the West a firehose of algorithm-driven mental health pseudoscience—marketed to teens.
Source: The Guardian, Times of India
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ONE MORE THING
🧠 STRESS MAY SILENTLY SABOTAGE YOUR BRAIN: New research says chronic stress isn’t just bad for your mood — it could seriously raise your risk of dementia.
—> ⚠️ THE LOOP: Stress disrupts sleep, drains energy, wrecks your diet, and kills your motivation to exercise — all of which compound cognitive decline. “It’s hard to overstate the impact,” say Penn State researchers.
—> 🧘♀️ FIGHT BACK: Small daily changes can make a big difference: move your body, eat decently, get some sleep, and take your mental health seriously. Don’t wait for a crisis — prevention is the play.
Source: NY Post
With gratitude,
Kev
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