Federal agencies warned that Russian state actors are exploiting weak routers worldwide; officials urge immediate hardening steps for critical infrastructure.

UH will end science operations at the UKIRT telescope on Sept. 15, 2026, and begin a formal decommissioning and restoration process on Maunakea. The move follows planning steps laid out in UH’s master plan.

The FBI's Honolulu office issued a FLASH warning that TeamPCP has trojanized developer tools to steal cloud tokens, SSH keys and Kubernetes secrets.

USGS is relocating HVO to a new 60,000‑sq‑ft research hub at UH Hilo on about 6.8 acres, consolidating labs and monitoring after the 2018 Kīlauea damage. Funding comes from 2019 disaster relief appropriations.

A new NIH-backed AI data center at the UH Cancer Center will develop more representative medical datasets to improve care across Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. Local leaders say the compact lab could unlock major research dollars for Honolulu.

UH Mānoa researchers published the first live, in‑situ footage of goblin sharks, documenting Central Pacific sightings that extend the species’ depth and range.

UH Hilo is a core partner in NOAA’s new CIFARM initiative, which brings a $13.5M initial investment to expand sustainable aquaculture and pilot farms in Hilo.

UH Cancer Center researcher Michele Carbone won the 2026 Szent‑Györgyi Prize for work linking inherited BAP1 mutations to mesothelioma and spurring life‑saving interventions.

Hawaii Isotope Technology has opened a $20M cyclotron lab in Kailua that will make PET imaging drugs locally and add skilled scientific jobs.

UH researchers helped lead a team that identified blood‑based RNA markers for inflammatory breast cancer, pointing to less invasive diagnosis and monitoring. The study appears in Science Advances.

Hawaiian Telcom says Maui is now fully fiber‑enabled as part of a $1.7B statewide build that aims to make Hawai‘i the first fully fiber‑enabled state by year‑end.

Monthly DNA records from Station ALOHA show seasonal niche partitioning in more than 60% of ocean microbes, a pattern that persists down to deep sea and helps sustain food webs.

Using Keck Planet Finder on Maunakea, UH astronomers fixed the age of HR 7672 and turned its brown dwarf into a high‑precision benchmark for cooling models.