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Telescope livestream: Watch the moon pass in front of the Pleiades on April 19
Watch the crescent moon cross the blue-white stars of the Pleiades on April 19 from the comfort of your home.
Space
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Millions of Satellites, but Who's in Charge? It's a Wild West in Space
The primal human experience of gazing into an unblemished cosmos is vanishing, being replaced by a dense, industrial field of 15,000 orbiting satellites with plans for half a million more by 2040.
CNET
29 min read - Science
Crystals Have Captivated Humans for 780,000 Years—Turns Out Chimps Feel the Same Way
What would a chimpanzee do if you handed it a glittering quartz crystal? Apparently, the same thing many of us would—hold onto it, study it and refuse to let it go. A new study has found that chimpanzees are drawn to crystals in strikingly familiar ways, picking them out of piles of ordinary rocks, turning
Woman's World
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Canadian astronaut’s bon mots help heal wounds from French language row
Jeremy Hansen praised for speaking French in space after Air Canada chief’s linguistic snub exposed tensions and drew rebuke from PM
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Nancy Guthrie Update: Ex-FBI Agent Thinks Guthrie Family Should be 'Upset' Over DNA Evidence Reveal
Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie, remains missing nearly three months after she disappeared from her home in the Catalina Foothills of Tucson, AZ. Earlier this week news broke that a private Florida lab that works with the Pima County Sheriff’s Department ...
Men's Journal
469 2 min read - Science
Lyrid meteor shower 2026: See spring's first rain of 'shooting stars' peak in moonless skies
Expect bright fireballs during the Lyrid meteor shower, which will peak in moonless skies on April 22, 2026.
Live Science
2 min read - Science
Largest-ever 3D map of the universe shows 47 million galaxies, from the Milky Way to 'cosmic noon'
The largest 3D map of the universe, created based on data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument, shows 47 million galaxies in stunning detail.
Live Science
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What Christina Koch Said About Leaving Earth Is Hitting People Hard
NASA astronaut Christina Koch returned from the historic Artemis II lunar flyby mission with a wealth of new research for scientists to explore — and with a new perspective about life on Earth. The four-person Artemis II crew spent 10 days in space, traveling further away from Earth than any humans ...
272 2 min read - Science
Comet Tracker: Monday Brings Best Chance To See A Comet And Meteors
Comet Pan-STARRS, also known as comet C/2025 R3 (Pan-STARRS), just got closest to the sun and should still be visible from the Northern Hemisphere on Monday, April 20.
Forbes
3 min read - World
'Swanky little' Saxon belt strap end found in dig
The high status find has been discovered at a site that includes a cemetery and many industrial objects.
BBC
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Christina Koch Reveals What Really Happened on 'Pink Pony Club Morning'
Even 250,000 miles away from Earth, you can’t escape the reach of a viral pop anthem. NASA astronaut Christina Koch recently took to social media to reveal the "cruel" reality of what happened during one of the most anticipated wake-up calls of the Artemis II mission: "Pink Pony Club Morning." For ...
2 min read - Science
Moon phase today: What the Moon will look like on April 19
The Moon is reappearing.
Mashable
2 min read - Health
$3 million prize goes to duo whose research led to first sickle cell CRISPR therapy
Dr. Swee Lay Thein and Dr. Stuart Orkin won the $3 million Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for their work toward a functional cure for the deadly blood disorders sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia.
Live Science
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A lynx bathes its prey before eating it, a historic first captured on video
Researchers don't know the reason why they are engaging in this behavior.
The Cool Down
2 min read - Lifestyle
Master of chaos wins $3-million math prize for ‘blowing up’ equations
Frank Merle is used to confronting a messy world. A linear equation is something like y = 2x, which states that the value of y doubles whenever you double the value of x. A highly nonlinear system is defined by equations that can jump from zero to infinity almost out of nowhere.
Scientific American
6 min read - Science
This 17th-Century Novel Was The First To Predict Rocket Technology
Space travel may seem like a modern phenomenon, but the idea has been around for centuries. A famous author first wrote about the idea in a novel from 1657!
BGR
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Scientists Saw Blood in the Water and Feared the Worst—Then a Tiny Baby Whale Appeared
A team of researchers off the coast of Dominica had been studying sperm whales when something alarming caught their attention. Red clouds blooming beneath the surface. Massive whales gathered unusually close. Everything pointed to something terrible—until a tiny head broke through. What they witnessed on July 8, 2023, was one of the rarest events in
4 min read - Science
Scientists Are Testing a Gene Therapy That Could Reverse Cellular Aging in Humans
From billionaire-backed biotech to promising animal studies, this early trial will test whether partial reprogramming can safely reset aging cells in humans.
Complex
2 min read - Science
250-million-year-old fossil proves that mammal ancestors laid eggs
The little skeleton was curled so tightly it looked as if it had never really entered the world. For years, that mattered because paleontologists suspected they were looking at something unusual, a baby Lystrosaurus that may have died before hatching.
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Northern Lights Forecast: New York And More States Could See Aurora Tonight
A moderate geomagnetic storm could produce northern lights visible “as low as New York to Wisconsin to Washington state,” the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says.
Forbes
3 min read - US
Who are the missing or dead scientists with connections to government research?
Ten scientists who are missing or dead have connections to government research.
The Hill
4 min read - Technology
Mexico’s climate supercomputer could change forecasting
Mexico is building the Coatlicue supercomputer to deliver sharper weather forecasts and earlier storm warnings and support for artificial intelligence research.
Fox News
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Mysterious Collapse Reshaped Europe 5,000 Years Ago, Scientists Say
A perfect storm.
Science Alert
4 min read - Science
500 Years Later, Scientists Solve Leonardo da Vinci’s Human Heart Mystery
500 years later, scientists have solved Leonardo da Vinci's human heart mystery. He sketched intricate muscular structures half a millennium ago.
Popular Mechanics
3 min read - Science
Archaeologists Found a 500-Year-Old Compass—Turns Out It May Have Belonged to Copernicus
Researchers discovered a 500-year-old compass in a hidden chamber in Frombork, Poland, possibly used by Copernicus, shedding light on his astronomical work.
Popular Mechanics
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- Lifestyle
Archaeologists Found a Skeleton Wearing an Amulet That May Change the History of Christianity
Archaeologists discovered a silver amulet containing an 18-line text showing the oldest known devotion to Christianity north of the Alps.
Popular Mechanics
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Undergraduate students built a cavity detector to search for axion dark matter
Dark matter is supposed to be everywhere, threaded through the Milky Way and outnumbering ordinary matter by a wide margin. Yet after decades of effort, nobody has caught it directly.
The Brighter Side of News
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Torpedo-shaped robots diving deep into ocean help solve mystery of Antarctica's sea ice
"What we witnessed was basically this very violent release of all that pent up heat from below."
The Cool Down
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You Are Not Prepared to Learn the Size of Neanderthal Infants
If only peewee football existed back then.
Futurism
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Monica Reza Is a Missing Scientist: The Strange Circumstances of Her Disappearance
Monica Reza is a brilliant scientist with ties to NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab Project who disappeared without a trace while hiking in California. She is also known as Monica Jacinto. “Fellow-Materials Science and Engineering at Aerojet Rocketdyne,” her LinkedIn page describes her. Reza's name is on ...
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700-year-old mummy from Bolivia contains earliest confirmed evidence of strep throat bacteria in the Americas
A DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed that the bacterium that causes scarlet fever and strep throat was present in the Americas prior to European colonization.
Live Science
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Hawaiian forest birds are stealing each other’s twigs
Kleptoparasitism is a risky crime sweeping the islands' forests.
Popular Science
3 min read - Science
Animal personality traits influence survival in wild ravens
A new study reveals how ravens' behavior impacts their survival. Risk-prone birds face higher mortality due to human activities, while cautious ones thrive.
The Jerusalem Post
2 min read - US
Global lemon, lime supply expected to drop by 700k tons due to erratic weather
Lemons and limes are just two crops that have been affected by increasingly volatile weather patterns around the world.
The Cool Down
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Meet The Bird That Kills Cobras With A Kick To The Face — A Biologist Explains
Not all birds of prey hunt from the sky. This bird reveals how an extreme environment is all it takes to reshape anatomy, behavior and survival itself.
Forbes
6 min read - US
The Lyrid meteor shower is visible now and peaking soon. Here's how to spot it
This year’s Lyrid meteor shower is getting a boost thanks to a dim crescent moon. Skywatchers could see 10 to 20 shooting stars per hour soar across the spring sky, according to NASA, when the fiery display peaks Tuesday night into Wednesday morning. The show will be visible across the globe, but views will be best in the Northern Hemisphere.
AP
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Scientists Discover a Strange Arachnid Trapped in Amber 35 Million Years Ago
We've never seen these here before.
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‘Dancing jets’ from black hole reveal their immense power
The jets do not move in a straight, obedient line. Around Cygnus X-1, a black hole and a massive supergiant star circle each other every 5.
The Brighter Side of News
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NASA’s Mars Rover Comes Across Formation That Looks Like the Scales of a Massive Cosmic Reptile
What can this strange landscape tell us about Mars' mysterious past?
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This Week in Science: Osteoarthritis Injections, Whale 'Speech', And Much More!
Our weekly science news roundup.
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Renowned physicist alarmed by 'unheard of' number of scientists dying or vanishing now on White House's radar
Multiple scientists linked to UFO research, nuclear labs and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory have mysteriously vanished or died in recent years.
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Earth gets brighter every year but progression is volatile, study finds
Covid, light pollution regulations and faltering global economy affect location and intensity of brightness
3 min read - Science
Science news this week: Physicists witness faster-than-light darkness pinpricks, humans are still evolving, and some polar bears are getting fatter than ever
April 18, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend
Live Science
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Physicists Have a Major Problem With the Universe
Two steps forward, one step back.
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Christina Koch Says She's Recovering From Major Physical Change After Artemis II
Christina Koch and the rest of the four-person Artemis II crew returned to Earth this past Friday, splashing down off the coast of San Diego after their historic 10-day lunar flyby mission. Now, Koch is getting readjusted to life on Earth. On Friday, Koch posted a video of herself going through ...
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Evidence of human sacrifice, interbreeding found at ancient Korean burial complex
Additionally, researchers found genetic confirmation that entire families had been sacrificed together as part of sunjang, the ritualistic sacrifice of servants to be buried alongside their superiors DNA taken from human remains found within a 1,600-year-old burial complex in southeastern Korea reveals that ancient Korean society largely practiced interbreeding and ritual human sacrifice, according to a new study published in Science Advances. The Imdang-Joyeong burial site in Gyeongsan City is
The Jerusalem Post
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Final Chance To See Comet Pan-STARRS At Its Brightest This Sunday — When To Look
Comet Pan-STARRS, also known as comet C/2025 R3 (Pan-STARRS), will get closest to the sun on Sunday, April 19 — and should reach its brightest. Here's how to see it.
Forbes
4 min read - Science
Artemis II Moon mission lifts children's ambitions
Seeing Artemis has made space careers a reality for children, says a woman who promotes STEM jobs.
BBC
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On this day: Brain region for speech found
On April 18, 1861, Paul Broca conducted an autopsy on a speechless patient named "Tan," and discovered the seat of language.
Live Science
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'Ancient' freshened water found under ocean floor
Scientists from the University of Leicester joined the international research expedition.
BBC
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