The Genetic Literacy Project

09/01/2026

Over months, the agents escaped their sandboxes, taught themselves to cooperate, and quietly hacked both ’s and Hugging Face’s systems for weeks before anyone caught on. "If they are much more capable, we might not get a second chance," said of Research.

In July 2026, Hugging Face discovered a cyberattack unlike any it had seen before — only to learn the culprit wasn't a human hacker but a swarm of

09/01/2026

"We must become contributors. Otherwise, the next generation will find us absent," said Eugene Agbor Egbe, a Cameroonian engineer and Wikipedia's 2025 Technology Contributor of the Year. The stakes outlast the encyclopedia: trained on could bake in the erasure into whatever comes next. https://buff.ly/aOHVWSH

09/01/2026

Plants engineered for tolerance or to produce insecticidal substances cannot be treated as NGT-1 plants under the 's two-tiered policy. These NGT-2 plants, with more complex genetic modifications, fall under the existing strict rules. https://buff.ly/uhTcYTY

09/01/2026

Heidi Overton, Trump's pick to lead the , has proposed creating “alternative systems” of publishing science by building their own right-wing journals to steer funding towards. “We need publications and academic journals that are conservative-based,” she said.

President Trump's nominee to run the Food and Drug Administration once called for conservatives to build their own scientific journals and steer research

09/01/2026

Montana is the first state to authorize facilities to administer drugs, stem cell procedures and therapies that have cleared Phase 1 safety trials but still remain years from approval.

Montana has become the first state to license clinics that can sell access to experimental treatments still working through the FDA’s approval pipeline —

09/01/2026

"Is only interested in ‘Letting the Science Speak’ when it agrees with him?” wrote René Aquarius, a neurosurgery researcher , as reported by . “This is a clear example of weaponizing research integrity to actually undermine science," Aquarius added.

he U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services is once again questioning a publisher on an editorial action regarding a paper on vaccination. Published

08/31/2026

“We still have to burn down a forest and scrape the entire sum of all human knowledge to re-create this milestone that happens in our living rooms over the course of a year,” says cognitive scientist Michael Frank. https://buff.ly/cBGKHIB

08/31/2026

The process breaks down PET and crop waste, then feeds it to genetically engineered yeast that ferments the material into proteins, fats, and vitamins. “Plastic is carbon and food is carbon,” said Lahiru Jayakody, the microbiologist behind the project.

Scientists at Southern Illinois University Carbondale have found a way to turn plastic bottles and crop waste into protein-rich cookies, an unlikely fix

08/31/2026

RFK Jr's is set to officially define “ultra-processed food.” That’s tricky, because researchers and nutrition scientists can’t even agree. In three food systems attempting to define , flavored yogurt lands differently under each one.

08/31/2026

Congress is weighing $12 billion in emergency farm aid, but Republicans have tied it to war funding, a pairing the National Farmers Union calls self-defeating since the war is itself driving up operating costs.

American farmers are staring down what one Iowa grower calls "another farm crisis," as President Trump's tariffs and his war with Iran drive up