As VA Looks Ahead to Dementia Needs, Study Finds Immune Cells Attack Alzheimer’s Plaques in Brain | Military.com

Certainly, plaque buildup is one of the big contributing factors to Alzheimer's.  So eliminating the plaque is important to the prevention of the disease. 

I'm intrigued by the notion that building up certain immune cells can help this to happen.  It's a fairly simple application, and theoretically inexpensive. I look forward to seeing how this turns out as they study it further. 

https://www.military.com/benefits/veterans-health-care/va-looks-ahead-dementia-needs-study-finds-immune-cells-attack-alzheimers-plaques-brain.html

Huawei launches another major battle over streaming against Disney

Hmmmm. Technology is ever evolving. Companies come up with solutions to problems and patent the methods they come up with. 

Other companies wind up creating something similar, and then get sued by the first company for infringement. And then it's up to a court to decide who owns what - and whether any money will need to change hands to satisfy the claim. 

It's a crazy world these days. And development happens so quickly. I don't know who's in the right here, but Disney has to defend themselves against infringement on their streaming platform. 

https://www.juve-patent.com/cases/huawei-launches-another-major-battle-over-streaming-against-disney/

African soccer confederation strips Senegal of Africa Cup title and declares Morocco the champion | AP News

This is so bizarre. Back in December, you had the AFCON soccer championship that pitted Senegal against Morocco. 

It was wild! I summarized a lot of what happened here:

Chaos at the AFCON 2025
https://youtu.be/e2YAcAJvmbw

But now - months later - FIFA is stripping Senegal of their win. If I understand the ruling correctly, it's because the coach sent the Senegal team to the locker room. So they essentially were ruled to have "abandoned the game" … of course he did this to reign in the chaos. The fans were out of control and the players were hot. He was trying to de-escalate the situation. 

And in my humble opinion, he was completely right. And coming back now to change the outcome is just stupid. 

https://apnews.com/article/afcon-morocco-senegal-overturned-ruling-deee4ed18e0f49b5836cf6c672df9193

And of course Senegal responded …

https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/sports/2026/3/18/senegal-govt-alleges-corruption-in-decision-to-hand-afcon-title-to-morocco

This 12-Year-Old Built a Nuclear Fusion Reactor at Home, A World First for His Age

This young lad got an interest in nuclear power when he was just 8 years old. And while building a nuclear reactor wasn't feasible for him, he did manage to get engaged with a project incubator program in Texas. 

And built a working fusion reactor! 

There's still some validation and testing required, and it remains to be seen if it could be viable at scale. 

But, wow. Curiosity got him a long way! 

And what have I done with my life?! 

https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/03/12-year-old-nuclear-fusion-reactor-home/

And meanwhile, in Britain, there’s a $266 (USD) retrofit of a coal power plant into a fusion reactor. Which is impressive in its own right. But definitely a little pricey. 

https://interestingengineering.com/energy/fusion-power-plant-coal-site-uk

The archaeological discovery of the century: a city resembling Atlantis has been found at the bottom of a lake

This is a pretty remarkable find… in very shallow water. An entire city appears to have been affected by an earthquake a century ago, and a lake rushed in to cover it. 

I'm constantly amazed at how little we really know about our own human history. 

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/the-archaeological-discovery-of-the-century-a-city-resembling-atlantis-has-been-found-at-the-bottom-of-a-lake/29143/

NASA just picked a new upper stage for its SLS moon rocket amid Artemis shakeup | Space

NASA made a big announcement about a change to the Artemis moon program, and after so many problems and delays, this was expected. 

There are several pieces to this announcement. The first is that they're going to away from the more intricate design that required several different types of rockets to be built, and they'll be focused on one type of rocket. 

Next, they're evolving the thinking on the lunar module. The design will be simplified and (if I understand it correctly), they'll be changing to a model more like the Apollo rockets lunar module, where they won't be landing the whole unit. 

And finally, the plan is to increase the frequency of launches to accelerate the program. 

Meanwhile, SpaceX and blue origin are also on the hunt to get to the moon and have some plans to build out solutions that may get us there sooner, too. 

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/artemis/nasa-selects-new-upper-stage-for-sls-moon-rocket-amid-artemis-shakeup

Astronomers Just Watched Two Planets Smashing Into Each Other 11,000 Light-Years Away

The basic story is that the astronomers got lucky in a way. They saw two planets at the right angle (relative to earth) at about one astronomical unit away pass near each other and then saw the spectrum emitted changed and a cloud of debris appears to have formed. 

https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/planetary-collision-gaia20ehk/