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Thermonuclear fusion in a reactor successfully sustained for more than one minute for the first time — 30 April 2026 (LINK)

Arts at CERN and Nobel Prize Museum announce the Collide Stockholm international residency award recipient Emilija Škarnulytė of Lithuania and two Honorary Mentions — 28 April 2026 (LINK)

— In autumn 2026, Škarnulytė will spend one month at CERN followed by one month at the Nobel Prize Museum to develop a new artwork with the support of the curatorial teams of both institutions. At CERN, she will begin her project Memory of the Unseen. Her practice is rooted in the exploration of infrastructures that mediate between the visible and the invisible, the human and the post-human, the present and deep time. In dialogue with scientists at CERN, she will engage with event reconstruction, decay signatures, detector sensitivity and the temporal behaviour of experimental data, focusing on what she describes as “thresholds”.

Jupiter technically does not orbit the sun. A lot of time, neither does Earth — 28 April 2026 (LINK)

Chinese scientists have developed a revolutionary "battery" that can generate electricity from coal without any carbon dioxide emissions. — 26 April 2026 (LINK)

Scientists discover plants "scream" — we just couldn't hear them until now — 26 April 2026 (LINK)

For every generation, vaccines work and they have saved over 150 million lives: WHO. World Immunization Week runs from 24 to 30 April — 24 April 2026 (LINK)

Petroloegas: Scientists discover that airborne microplastics come much more from land than from the ocean (more than 20x) and reveal a massive error in previous models — 24 April 2026 (LINK)

Natural molecule could provide Ozempic, Wegovy alternative — 24 April 2026 (LINK)

UCSF: How to starve cancer: cut off the nutrients that help tumors grow — 2026 Byers Award Lecture in Basic Science on April 16 — 24 April 2026 (LINK)

Millionaire big game hunter/conservationist trampled to death by elephants — 24 April 2026 (LINK)

Swiss parliamentary committee supports the lifting of a ban on the construction of new power plants — 21 April 2026 (LINK)

At least 10 people tied to sensitive US research have died or disappeared in recent years, sparking federal investigation — 21 April 2026 (LINK)

— CNN: they include: A nuclear physicist and MIT professor fatally shot outside his Massachusetts residence. A retired Air Force general missing from his New Mexico home. An aerospace engineer who disappeared during a hike in Los Angeles.

Researchers at the University of Lausanne (Unil) have uncovered a new biological mechanism that exposes a critical vulnerability in tumor cells when they are deprived of vitamin B7 — 20 April 2026 (LINK)

— Science Daily: "Without biotin, cancer cells lose that flexibility and stop growing. Mutations in a cancer-linked gene can make this vulnerability even stronger, offering a promising new target for therapy."

UK moves to ban smoking for everyone born after 2008. Only the king's signature remains for it to become law — 20 April 2026 (LINK)

— DW: Only one other country, the Maldives, currently has a similar "generational smoking ban" in place. The very first country to do so, New Zealand, swiftly overturned the law following a change in government in 2023.

'Oscar of science' awarded to US team behind gene therapy that restores lost vision — 19 April 2026 (LINK)

Artemis 2's heat shield seems to have aced its trial by fire — 17 April 2026 (LINK)

— Astronauts: "We leaned under and looked at the bottom of that thing, and for four humans just looking at the heat shield, it looked wonderful to us."

Swiss greenhouse-gas emissions down by 27% since 1990 — 17 April 2026 (LINK)

— The steepest decline has come from buildings, where emissions are down by 47% over the period, largely reflecting the rapid spread of heat pumps. Industry has also cut emissions substantially, to 8.9m tonnes—around a third below 1990 levels. For the first time, Switzerland has included negative emissions in its official inventory, albeit on a tiny scale—just 705 tonnes of CO2. Switzerland appears to be the first country to include negative emissions under the Paris Agreement.

Scientists revived a 24,000-year-old animal frozen in Siberia. The rotifer woke up and started reproducing — 16 April 2026 (LINK)

— Indian Defence Review: This finding pushes the known limits of cryptobiosis, a state in which organisms suspend metabolism to survive extreme environments. While similar behaviour has been observed in single-celled organisms and some simple animals, this case stands out because rotifers possess more complex internal structures, including digestive systems.

NASA selects Voyager for seventh private mission to ISS, targeted to launch no earlier than 2028 from Florida: first selection for a private astronaut mission to the orbiting laboratory — 15 April 2026 (LINK)

— The mission, named VOYG-1, is expected to spend as many as 14 days aboard the space station. A specific launch date will depend on overall spacecraft traffic at the orbital outpost and other planning considerations. Voyager will submit four proposed crew members to NASA and its international partners for review. Once approved and confirmed, they will train with NASA, international partners, and the launch provider for their flight. The company will purchase mission services from NASA, including crew consumables, cargo delivery, storage, and other in-orbit resources for daily use. NASA will purchase the capability to return scientific samples that must remain cold during transit back to Earth.

Scientists now think they know how Egypt’s Great Pyramid was built by moving 2.3 million stones without modern machines: internal ramps system — 15 April 2026 (LINK)

NASA sets its sights on Artemis III following astronauts' historic moon flyby — 12 April 2026 (LINK)

— In a mission recently added to the docket for next year, Artemis III's yet-to-be-named astronauts will practice docking their Orion capsule with a lunar lander or two in orbit around Earth. Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin are racing to have their company's lander ready first.

'Human minds shouldn't have to go through' this: Artemis II crew recalls unreal moment when Earth disappeared — 12 April 2026 (LINK)

Archaeologists recover 1000 Roman objects from Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland: found at the end of November 2024, the discovery was kept secret to avoid looting — 12 April 2026 (LINK)

Artemis II NASA : With Earth in view from Orion's windows, the astronauts are packing up and reflecting on their lunar journey. — 9 April 2026 (LINK)

Experiments refute dark matter claim — 6 April 2026 (LINK)

NASA's Artemis II crew eclipses record for farthest human spaceflight previously set by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970: 400,00km — 6 April 2026 (LINK)

— At its farthest point, crew inside the Orion spacecraft will have traveled about 252,756 miles (406,752 km), before looping back.

'Absolutely spectacular': Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon: photo includes the Orientale Basin, which is the first time humans have seen the entire lunar feature — (LINK) ground.news: 39 media reports — 5 April 2026 (LINK)

Trump tells Artemis II crew he saved Nasa despite trying to slash agency's budget — 6 April 2026 (LINK)

Irish Star: Artemis II astronauts left gutted after serious Chappell Roan blunder — 5 April 2026 (LINK)

— The song cut out barely a minute in. PS: the Artemis II crew faced a second bathroom issue on the 10-day trip with a 'frozen urine' problem — potentially triggered by the "freezing of the vent lines", NASA stated. Until the capsule's restroom is repaired, Mission Control has directed the astronauts to use additional backup urine collection bags.

Your thumb has its own pulse, and other interesting facts about arteries — 4 April 2026 (LINK)

Technion Israel Institute of Technology physicists found something that can move faster than light: the darkness inside it — 3 April 2026 (LINK)

— They're known as phase singularities or optical vortices. This does not break relativity, which states that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. That's because the vortices carry no mass, energy, or information, and their motion is based on the evolving geometry of the wave pattern rather than any physical motion through space. "This breakthrough provides us with a powerful technological tool: the ability to map the motion of delicate nanoscale phenomena in materials, revealed through a new method (electron interferometry) that enhances image sharpness."

Scientists finally discover location of male G-spot and it's not where previously thought — 3 April 2026 (LINK)

NASA: Artemis II Flight Day 2: Orion completes TLI burn, sending the crew out of Earth orbit and on a trajectory toward the Moon — 2 April 2026 (LINK)

Artemis II toilet's fixed, but astronauts now have Microsoft Outlook problem — 2 April 2026 (LINK)

— The so-called "lunar loo" malfunctioned as soon as Artemis II reached orbit Wednesday evening, but Mission Control helped astronaut Christina Koch adjust the plumbing to fix the problem. Astronauts reported problems with two versions of Microsoft Outlook on their personal computer, an older version and a new one, with both giving them errors.

World's oldest known tortoise, Jonathan, 193, still alive despite reports of death using fake account of vet — 2 April 2026 (LINK)

Your vision can predict dementia 12 years before a diagnosis, study suggests — 2 April 2026 (LINK)

NASA successfully launches Artemis II, first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years on a 10-day test flight: The crew of three Americans and one Canadian carried a plush toy named Rise bearing the names of more than 5.6 million people who joined the mission vicariously — (LINK) ground.news: 264 media reports — 1 April 2026 (LINK)

— Around 4,700 miles (7,500 km) beyond the Moon's far side, the Orion spacecraft will fly, setting a new distance record for a human crew during the so-called lunar flyby. Teams spent two years training for the 685,000-mile (1m km) journey.

Powerful psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT —— colloquially known as "Bufo" or the God molecule — feels like a 'total fusion With God' — 2 April 2026 (LINK)

— Popular Mechanics: The substance comes from a species of toad called the Bufo alvarius, which is native to the Sonoran Desert in the southwestern United States. Some psychonauts would lick the toad's back where the venomous secretion glands lie. However, extraction methods have become more advanced, and now people have learned to milk the venom out of the glands, refining the hallucinogen into a smokable powder for more potent results, making it several times stronger than its more popular psychedelic cousin, DMT.