On April 6th, 2026 with 52 comments
Artemis II has broken the Apollo 13 record for the farthest distance humans have ever traveled from Earth. NASA reports: The Artemis II crew of NASA...
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On April 6th, 2026 with 75 comments
NASA's Artemis astronauts are now entering "the lunar sphere of influence," reports NBC News, "meaning the pull of the moon's gravity will become stronger than...
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On April 5th, 2026 with 48 comments
Plants, toads, and mushrooms "can all produce psychedelic substances," writes ScienceAlert.
"And now their powers have been combined in one plant."
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On April 4th, 2026 with 131 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: When it comes to large language model-powered tools, there are generally two broad categories of users....
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On April 4th, 2026 with 80 comments
The Artemis II crew has passed 100,000 miles from Earth and is now on a "free-return" path around the moon after a successful "translunar" injection burn....
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On April 3rd, 2026 with 122 comments
Longtime Slashdot reader fahrbot-bot writes: CU Boulder researchers are reporting that they have discovered an appetite-suppressing compound in python blood...
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On April 2nd, 2026 with 136 comments
Even on NASA's Artemis II mission around the moon, astronauts apparently still have to deal with broken Microsoft Outlook. One of the crew members, Reid...
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On April 1st, 2026 with 183 comments
NASA's Artemis II mission has launched four astronauts around the moon and back, marking humanity's first crewed lunar voyage in 53 years and the first test...
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On April 1st, 2026 with 162 comments
MIT Technology Review discovered that startup R3 Bio has pitched an ethically and scientifically explosive long-term vision beyond its public work on...
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On March 31st, 2026 with 41 comments
Researchers at the University of Waterloo say a new "quadratic quantum gravity" framework could explain the universe's rapid early expansion without adding...
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On March 31st, 2026 with 50 comments
Researchers found that common nitrile and latex lab gloves can shed stearate particles that closely resemble microplastics, potentially "increasing the risk of...
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On March 29th, 2026 with 16 comments
How powerful is Jupiter's lightning? Thick clouds cover the view, notes Science magazine. But using an instrument on NASA's Juno spacecraft (orbiting Jupiter...
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On March 28th, 2026 with 27 comments
In a new 4,000-word article, CNN tells the story of a retired appellate paralegal and grandmother in her early 70s who was treated for depression with ...
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On March 28th, 2026 with 22 comments
After decades of studying, this week NASA announced "a major step forward in bringing nuclear power and propulsion from the lab to space."
NASA will launch the...
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On March 28th, 2026 with 29 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader Qbertino writes: ... but the CERN Project "Antimatter in motion" just did it. For the first time in history researchers at CERN have...
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On March 28th, 2026 with 55 comments
UK startup Pulsar Fusion says it has achieved the first plasma ignition inside a nuclear fusion rocket engine prototype -- a huge step for space travel that...
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On March 27th, 2026 with 30 comments
CERN has confirmed it will host an expanded version of Open Research Europe, the EU-backed fee-free open access publishing platform that works to "keep...
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On March 26th, 2026 with 69 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Physics World: Researchers at the CERN particle-physics lab have successfully transported antiprotons in a lorry...
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On March 25th, 2026 with 27 comments
alternative_right shares a report from Phys.org: Astronomers have an answer for a long-running mystery in astrophysics: why is the growth of supermassive black...
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On March 25th, 2026 with 73 comments
NASA is reportedly halting work on the lunar Gateway in favor of a more direct push to build a lunar base. The new plan would cost tens of billions over the...
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On March 22nd, 2026 with 45 comments
"It is the talk of the town today — the loud boom, the flash of light in the sky experienced by a lot of folks across the Houston area this afternoon,"...
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On March 21st, 2026 with 24 comments
"Juicier steaks could soon be served up after barley was given the go-ahead to become Britain's first gene-edited crop," reports the Telegraph:
In an effort to...
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On March 21st, 2026 with 31 comments
China's orbital outpost Tiangong was completed in 2022 and is hosting up to three astronauts at a time, reports CNN.
But meanwhile U.S. lawmakers are now...
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On March 21st, 2026 with 16 comments
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope unexpectedly captured a rare, early-stage breakup of comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) just days after it first began disintegrating....
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On March 18th, 2026 with 92 comments
sciencehabit shares a report from Science.org: In The Martian, fictional astronaut Mark Watney survives the wasteland of Mars by growing potatoes in lunar soil...
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On March 17th, 2026 with 32 comments
Samples from the asteroid Ryugu contain all five nucleobases -- the key building blocks of DNA and RNA. "This strengthens the idea that asteroids may have...
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On March 14th, 2026 with 49 comments
Last June Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller said in a statement that Texans "have a God-given right to know what's on their plate, and for millions of...
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On March 13th, 2026 with 67 comments
BrianFagioli shares a report from NERDS.xyz: Cloud storage company Backblaze has partnered with StorageReview to make a massive dataset containing 314 trillion...
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On March 11th, 2026 with 66 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: In a paper, published last month in the journal The Anatomical Record, researchers offered a novel...
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On March 11th, 2026 with 39 comments
Van Allen Probe A, a 1,300-pound (600 kg) NASA satellite launched in 2012 to study Earth's radiation belts, is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere this...
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