NEW ENGLAND METEOR UPDATE: the space rock had a diameter of about 3 ft before it broke up. According to NASA, it was traveling at 75,000mph & broke up approximately 40 miles above Earth. The energy released equivalent to 300 tons of TNT. The boom/shaking was heard in RI, MA & CT
Press Release: RIDOH Implements Monitoring System for Travelers from Ebola-Impacted Countries;
The risk to the general public in Rhode Island remains very low. Read the full press release here: https://t.co/nC3jEesbsf
What was that sound? We're hearing from so many people across Massachsuetts who heard a boom at approximately 2:11 p.m. --- This is all that we know so far: https://t.co/F12h1ppyTQ
Here is a statement from USGS concerning the sonic boom meteor related event in New England from Saturday 5/30/26 around 230 PM. See https://t.co/2dJSPyEKTM for info. #mawx#riwx#ctwx
Officials asked residents to avoid travel and be mindful of public safety teams closing off roads. Eversource said to call 911 if you see downed wires and stay far away.
A meteor exploded off the coast of Massachusetts, causing a loud boom to be heard throughout the state and as far as Rhode Island on Saturday.
According to preliminary reports submitted to the American Meteor Society, dozens of people across the Northeast reported seeing the fireball around 2 p.m. Saturday.
SKYWARN Self-Activation likely with Amateur Radio Call-Up Nets possible for strong to damaging wind potential in Central/Eastern Mass/Rhode Island, rain gauge reports and perhaps even non-accumulating wet snow in the highest elevations of interior SNE. See https://t.co/j5P7IcnvSc for info. #mawx #riwx #ctwx
“The natural disaster in our area is not hurricanes, or tornadoes, or earthquakes; it is Lyme disease,” says MIT associate professor and pioneer in genetic engineering Kevin Esvelt, describing the severity of the tick-borne illness in the Northeast. https://t.co/AanzUFbMEU
Cancer cells just got told to go back to being normal.
And they listened.
Scientists in South Korea pulled off something that sounds like science fiction.
Instead of killing cancer cells (the standard playbook for decades), they flipped them. Reprogrammed them. Sent them home.
Researchers at KAIST, led by Professor Kwang-Hyun Cho, built a digital twin of a cancer cell's gene network and went hunting for the exact moment a healthy cell tips over into becoming malignant.
That moment has a switch.
They found it.
By silencing three specific genes (MYB, HDAC2, and FOXA2), the team watched colon cancer cells slow down, lose their aggression, and start behaving like normal intestinal cells again.
No gene editing. No toxic chemo. No collateral damage to healthy tissue.
Just a quiet rewrite of the cell's fate.
They tested it in computer models, in lab dishes, and in mice. The mice given the reprogrammed cells grew far smaller tumors than those left untreated.
Traditional cancer treatment is a war. You bomb the bad guys and hope the good ones survive the blast.
This is something else entirely. It's reversal. It's persuasion at the cellular level.
The study was published in Advanced Science in December 2024, and a follow-up paper in February 2025 captured the molecular switch behind the whole thing.
The implications stretch far beyond colon cancer. If cells can be guided home, the entire definition of "treatment" starts to shift.
Cancer used to be a sentence. It's starting to look like a question with new answers.
Source: KAIST / Advanced Science (Professor Kwang-Hyun Cho et al., 2024–2025)
Owner of Pat's Italian, Greg Stevens, reflects on how the business started and why he's been able to sustain generous portions at reasonable prices for families. 🍝 https://t.co/kvyY0GF8q7
Salmonella Outbreak: 5 children age 2 and under sick, 2 hospitalized, in 4 states. All had contact with pet veiled chameleons. Reptiles can carry Salmonella germs that can make you sick. Take steps to keep yourself and your pet healthy. https://t.co/pwS3edMXUb
Here are rain gauge reports 1" or more from the Saturday 5/23/26-Sunday 5/24/26 rain event. Monitoring for additional rain gauge reports. More showers and even possible tstorms expected during Monday AM. #mawx#riwx#ctwx