Astronauts on SpaceX's Fram2 mission have taken the first diagnostic X-rays in space, a milestone that gives space medicine a second imaging option beyond ultrasound and could help future crews diagnose injuries in orbit. While that frontier expands, astronomers directly confirmed four previously hidden white dwarf stars in nearby binary systems, all within 65 light-years of Earth, including the ninth closest known white dwarf to the Sun. Back on Earth, new research challenges our reputation as super-predators, showing how hunting, trapping, and fishing reshape animal behavior across entire landscapes. Meanwhile, scientists at University College London finally uncovered why some frog populations rebound after being devastated by a deadly fungal disease, offering hope for amphibian conservation. And a colorful pet gecko unusually prone to cancer could become a powerful new tool for studying how tumors form and spread. In archaeology, a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy from Oxyrhynchus yielded a papyrus containing a passage from Homer's Iliad, the first such discovery inside a mummy. Separately, crystals collected by early human relatives as far back as 780,000 years ago suggest deliberate collection of unusual stones, a behavior that chimpanzees also exhibit, hinting at a deep evolutionary root for our fascination with crystals.