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Science • Apr 13

Huge Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL cargo ship arrives at space station

The uncrewed Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL spacecraft, the S.S. Steven R. Nagel, arrived at the International Space Station on Monday (April 13), bringing with...

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Science • Apr 13

NASA Pulls Plug on Mars Mission, Leaving China to Chase Signs of Life

NASA's Mars Sample Return program has been canceled, leaving China poised to become the first to retrieve material and possibly signs of life from Mars.

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Science • Apr 13

Looking to Profit From the Artemis II Mission? Buy RocketLab and AeroVironment Stocks.

Artemis II has sparked fresh investor interest in space. Rocket Lab and AeroVironment emerge as solid next-gen stocks to buy in an evolving defense and...

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Science • Apr 13

This week saw humanity at its worst. Artemis II told the opposite story | Flynn Coleman

We send the voice of the dead across space as an act of continuity and care, while on Earth we tally the bodies. Which do we choose to become?

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Science • Apr 13

How Artemis 2 commander Reid Wiseman saved the mission's moon mascot: 'It's hard not to love this little guy. I can't let Rise out of my sight'

Rise joined the Artemis 2 crew as a mascot of the moon, bearing 5.6 million names. But the mascot quickly took on a new meaning.

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Science • Apr 13

Ultrasound creates light inside the body, opening a new path to targeted treatments

Light has an increasing number of applications in biology and medicine—it can be used to stimulate cell growth, manipulate neural signals, and treat some...

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Science • Apr 13

De novo formation of cis -regulatory contacts in the absence of NIPBL-driven chromatin loop extrusion

NIPBL promotes chromatin loop extrusion by the cohesin complex until it stalls at convergently oriented CTCF sites, forming structural loops.

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Science • Apr 13

82 NASA missions at risk under new proposal

Proposed NASA cuts would reduce NASA's workforce by thousands and cancel over 50 space missions.

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Science • Apr 13

NASA supercomputer made very worrying prediction for when the world will end

We have about five billion years until the Sun expands and swallows Earth, but life on the planet will not last that long.

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Science • Apr 13

In Arizona's desert, tiny ants turn into living hygienists, climbing inside bigger ants' mandibles and cleaning them

Ants are known for many things. They fight, bite and sometimes compete for every crumb. We can now possibly add cleaning services to that list, according to...

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Science • Apr 13

A Japanese Team Just Built a Telescope So Precise It Can Spot a 3.5 mm Object from 1 Kilometer Away

A team of Japanese scientists has developed a high-resolution X-ray telescope capable of detecting an object just 3.5 mm wide from a distance of one...

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Science • Apr 13

Californian Hybrid Honeybee Population Has Evolved Natural Defense against Varroa Mites: Study

In new research, scientists studied a hybrid honeybee population in Southern California, a genetic mix of Western European, Eastern European, Middle Eastern...

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Science • Apr 13

The best photos from NASA's first moon mission in more than 50 years

NASA's Artemis II mission, the first crewed flight around the moon in more than 50 years, has been a feast for the eyes. See the stunning images from the...

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Science • Apr 13

A tabletop ring of atoms brings the universe's doomsday vacuum collapse into the lab

Physicists in China have simulated the effect of "false vacuum decay": a phenomenon believed to play out constantly in the seemingly empty expanses of space...

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Science • Apr 13

Artemis 2 astronauts celebrate successful return to Earth photo of the day for April 13, 2026

Artemis 2's Victor Glover and Christina Koch are all smiles after splashdown.

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Science • Apr 13

NASA Sets the Record Straight on That ‘Missing Chunk’ of Artemis 2’s Heat Shield

NASA's Artemis 2 mission returned to Earth in a blaze of glory on Friday. During atmospheric reentry, the Orion capsule's heat shield protected the...

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Science • Apr 13

Powerful imaging pulls lost ocean life from 445-million-year-old stone and exposes a hidden extinction record

New technology has helped a team of scientists uncover more than 20 microscopic fossils, including a species previously unknown to science.

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Science • Apr 13

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket transits the sun during Florida launch

This video shot from Titusville, Florida, captures the moment the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket transits the sun during a recent launch to deliver supplies to the...

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Science • Apr 13

First Proba-3 science: surprisingly speedy solar wind

Since July 2025, the European Space Agency's pair of Proba-3 satellites has already created 57 artificial solar eclipses. So far, the mission has collected...

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Science • Apr 13

Scientists Just Recreated Hostile Mars Conditions in the Lab, and These Tiny Cells Refused to Die

Pushed to the limits with Mars-like conditions, a simple organism behaved in ways researchers didn't fully expect.

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