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For the first time in more than half a century, humans are flying toward the moon.
At 6:35 p.m. Eastern on April 1, NASA’s Artemis II launched from the Kennedy Space…
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NASA’s Artemis II mission launches four astronauts to the moon
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Florida—For the first time in nearly 54 years, humans are on their way to the moon.
At 6:35 P.M. EDT, NASA’s Artemis II mission blasted off from Kennedy Space Center. It’s the second flight in the agency’s…
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Anthropologist traces split between Homo sapiens and Neanderthals — Harvard Gazette
The triumph of Homo sapiens over Neanderthals, a huge step in human evolution, was not the clearcut event that paleontologists have long believed.
More likely, it was the result of continued interactions — and even some interbreeding —…
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NASA’s Artemis preparing to launch for historic moon flyby – The Washington Post
- NASA’s Artemis preparing to launch for historic moon flyby The Washington Post
- Who Made the Artemis II Rocket and Space Capsule? The New York Times
- LIVE: Artemis II Launch Day Updates NASA (.gov)
- The weather conditions needed for Artemis II to…
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The Artemis Moon base project is legally dubious
With NASA planning to launch four astronauts on Wednesday on its Artemis II mission, the race to return to the Moon is back on. The current mission will see astronauts aboard the Orion capsule travel around the Moon before returning to Earth in…
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Scientists Engineered a Plant to Produce 5 Different Psychedelics at Once : ScienceAlert
What do plants, toads, and mushrooms have in common? They can all produce psychedelic substances – and now their powers have been combined in one plant, like a trippier Captain Planet.
In a wild first, scientists have taken the genes these…
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Humans Might Struggle to Make Babies in Space. Sperm Gets Disoriented in Microgravity, a New Study Suggests – Smithsonian Magazine
- Humans Might Struggle to Make Babies in Space. Sperm Gets Disoriented in Microgravity, a New Study Suggests Smithsonian Magazine
- Outer space conditions hamper sperm’s ability to navigate toward an egg Reuters
- Simulated microgravity alters sperm…
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Astronauts can face ‘nearly lethal doses’ of solar radiation — so why launch Artemis II during the sun’s peak of activity? Space scientist Patricia Reiff explains.
Artemis II’s astronauts are about to take off for a record-breaking flight around the moon, giving NASA a rare opportunity to study how deep spaceflight affects the human body.
After leaving Earth’s protective magnetic field, the four-person…
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Secrets of color vision could hold clues to treating nearsightedness
April 1, 2026
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A curious secret of color vision revealed by scientists
Knowing how your eye optimizes vision could have big implications for the progression of nearsightedness
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What the Meta and Google verdict means for social media design
A Los Angeles jury has delivered a verdict in the first bellwether social-media-addiction case to go to trial. On March 25 jurors found Meta and Google negligent in designing Instagram and YouTube and in failing to warn users about their risks….
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