Relaying what matters next.
The Relay is a new media project dedicated to covering slightly futuristic domains such as artificial intelligence, space exploration, longevity science, crypto and blockchain, advanced biology, and defense technologies. Our mission is to capture the signals of tomorrow and relay them forward with clarity, depth, and context.
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A New Floor for Exoplanet Imaging: JWST Spots a Cold Saturn
Announced on June 25, 2025, JWST’s MIRI coronagraph revealed a likely Saturn-mass companion in TWA 7’s disk, potentially Webb’s first directly imaged planet. The result lowers the mass floor for space-based direct imaging and sets up a wave of discoveries through 2028.
The Muscle Turn: 2025’s Sarcopenia Race and the GLP-1 Gap
2025 turned muscle into medicine. As GLP-1 weight loss reshapes cardiometabolic care, lean mass is at risk. Here is how PGE2 repair, anti-inflammatory strategies, and growth-release agents could close the sarcopenia gap using endpoints that regulators trust.
Solana ETF Decision Day: The rails that could reshape crypto
The SEC’s new generic listing standards rewired today’s Solana ETF timeline. Here is what approval or denial actually means for capital, staking, liquidity, and what to watch on day one.
Agents on Your Face: Meta’s Ray‑Ban Display and Neural Band
Meta just moved AI agents from your phone to your periphery. Ray-Ban Display smart glasses and the Neural Band turn micro-prompts and subtle gestures into real-world actions you can confirm in a glance.
Farside rocks rewrite the Moon’s heat and water map
Peer‑reviewed results from Chang’e 6 are rewriting assumptions: the lunar farside runs cooler and carries fewer volatiles, with a drier mantle. Here is how that should reshape south pole sites, ISRU bets, and mission priorities through 2027.
Methane Showdown: U.S. Rollback vs Europe’s Clean-Gas Rules
Washington is moving to unwind the methane fee and pare back federal reporting just as Europe locks in strict 2027 import rules. With MethaneSAT lost in July, U.S. LNG and oil now need measurement and verification that can withstand customs‑level scrutiny.
S&P’s Digital Markets 50 ushers in crypto’s index age
S&P’s hybrid benchmark of 15 tokens and 35 crypto-linked stocks debuted October 7, 2025. With Dinari planning a tokenized wrapper, advisors get a defensible reference and DeFi gets diversified collateral. Here is what changes, and what could go wrong.
Reasoning Shock: Test-time Compute Is Rewriting Agents
2025 flipped agent design from brittle scaffolds to models that think, budget, and verify at inference time. Here is how test-time compute, open distillations, and edge acceleration are reshaping costs, architecture, and what you can ship in 90 days.
Lp(a) Goes Mainstream: A Single Shot That Lasts a Year
A March 2025 NEJM trial reported that a single lepodisiran injection cut lipoprotein(a) by about 94 percent for most of a year. With pelacarsen outcomes now expected in early 2026, Lp(a) is shifting from genetic liability to actionable target.
Microreactors Move First: DoD’s 2025 Breakthrough, 2028 Race
This summer and fall, the Army’s Janus launch, the Air Force’s Eielson pilot, and Project Pele core fabrication pushed microreactors from concept to calendar. Here is how mobile, HALEU‑fueled power could reshape contested logistics by 2028.
Blue Ghost Made the Moon Commercial and Taught It to Navigate
Firefly’s Blue Ghost touched down on March 2, 2025, ran for more than 14 days, and enabled the first lunar GNSS fix hours later. When NASA expanded its data purchase on September 22, 2025, the signal was unmistakable: the Moon’s next phase is commercial, autonomous, and moving fast.
Carbon pipelines rerouted as states reshape Corn Belt CCS
State decisions in 2025 reshaped Midwestern CO2 pipeline routes and storage plans. Iowa stayed the trunkline anchor, South Dakota shifted to voluntary easements only, and finance now leans on bankable 45Q while 45Z value settles in.
Parker at Solar Maximum: 2025 Sun Dives Make Weather Now
As Solar Cycle 25 peaks in late 2025, Parker Solar Probe is flying inside the Sun’s corona and capturing the earliest signatures of flares, CMEs, and particle storms. Here is how those in-corona measurements can tighten arrival-time forecasts, safeguard Artemis crews, and fortify power grids.
Figure 03 and the Moment Humanoid Agents Enter the Home
Figure’s third-generation humanoid pairs a Helix vision-language-action brain with a safety-first, home-ready body and a factory plan built to scale. If fleet learning and BotQ deliver, the agentic appliance era may arrive sooner than expected.
CME goes crypto native with 24/7 access and SOL XRP options
A top U.S. derivatives venue is moving to always‑on crypto trading and has launched options on Solana and XRP. Here is how continuous, regulated derivatives can tighten weekend spreads, deepen liquidity, and reshape basis and volatility markets.
Standoff Strike 2.0: JASSM‑XR and the $150k Missile Wave
JASSM-XR is nearing flight test while sub-$200k cruise missiles move from concept to production. The U.S. is shifting to range plus mass: diamond-cut precision for hard targets, backed by affordable swarms for volume.
3I/ATLAS is changing comets. Time to change ours
Observations of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS revealed unexpected early water activity and a carbon dioxide dominated coma. Here is why that changes our assumptions about planet formation and how to build an always on response before the next visitor arrives.
Enhanced Geothermal Goes Big: Cape Station’s 500 MW Moment
Fervo Energy has upsized Cape Station in Utah to 500 megawatts with real offtakes, named equipment, and first power set for 2026. Here is why engineered geothermal just moved into the firm, bankable core of the Western grid.
















