From “Smart” Healing Gel to Alpha Centauri’s New Planet: Science Breakthroughs You Can’t Miss (Aug 8–9, 2025)
In preclinical tests on diabetic mice, a single application of a hydrogel-based “smart” wound dressing achieved 90% wound closure in 12 days by silencing thrombospondin-1 with microRNA-loaded extracellular vesicles. The James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI directly imaged a gas-giant planet roughly the mass of Saturn orbiting Alpha Centauri A at about 2 AU, about 4 light-years from Earth. If confirmed, this would be the closest exoplanet ever directly imaged to Earth. As of August 7, 2025, NOAA forecast a 50% above-normal 2025 Atlantic hurricane season with 13–18 named storms and 5–9 hurricanes by November. France’s southern wildfires became the largest