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NASA’s moon mission day one: a toilet mishap and spacecraft maneuvers
The first day of the Artemis II mission saw the crew enter Earth orbit and prepare for their journey around the moon

April 2, 2026
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NASA’s moon mission day one: a toilet mishap and spacecraft maneuvers
The first day of the Artemis II mission saw the crew enter Earth orbit and prepare for their journey around the moon

April’s full “Pink Moon” dazzled stargazers with a glorious display of moonlight on April 1, mere hours before NASA’s Artemis 2 mission launched 4 astronauts on a 10-day journey to the far side of the moon.
The April full moon is also known as…

It was about 65 minutes after liftoff, the Integrity spacecraft 800 miles above the Indian Ocean and moving at about 16,000 miles per hour, when the historic words were spoken: “Integrity, Houston, toilet is powered.”
It was a spaceflight…

The Artemis 2 astronauts are on their way to the moon, and you can track them every step of the way.
NASA’s Artemis 2 mission launched April 1 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending four astronauts on a 10-day trip around the moon in an…

WASHINGTON (AP) – Scientists created virtual replicas of patients’ diseased hearts so precise that blocking a dangerous irregular heartbeat in these digital “twins” showed doctors how to better treat the real thing.
One of the first

April 2, 2026
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Black women have worse IVF outcomes. New science helps explain why
A new study helps narrow down the reasons why Black people undergoing infertility treatment have fewer live births

Architectural constraints in today’s most popular artificial intelligence (AI) tools may limit how much more intelligent they can get, new research suggests.
A study published Feb. 5 on the preprint arXiv server argues that modern large language…

AI chatbots can act as a “cognitive crutch” that reduces our ability to retain information, a new study suggests.
The research was conducted by AI expert André Barcaui of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, who ran an experiment with…

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NASA successfully launched Artemis 2 on April 1, at 6:35 EDT (1035 GMT) and you can catch a view of the spacecraft…

Scientists have cured type 1 diabetes in mice, without long-term immune suppression.
In type 1 diabetes, the immune system attacks insulin-producing cells, and replacing them with transplanted cells from donors has historically required people…