The NASA Artemis II mission is scheduled for liftoff at 6:24 p.m. EDT (3:54 a.m.) on Thursday (April 2, 2026). If the lift-off is successful, the giant rocket will send humans to near the moon for the first time in more than half a century. In so doing, it will make an important milestone for...
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April 1, 2026April 1, 2026Science & Tech
NASA Artemis II Launch LIVE: Launch team begins liquid hydrogen replenish for the Space Launch System rocket core stage
The NASA Artemis II mission is scheduled for liftoff at 6:24 p.m. EDT (3:54 a.m.) on Thursday (April 2, 2026). If the lift-off is successful, the giant rocket will send humans to near the moon for the first time in more than half a century. In so doing, it will make an important milestone for...
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April 1, 2026April 1, 2026Science & Tech
NASA Artemis II Launch LIVE: Liquid hydrogen chilldown begins for interim cryogenic propulsion stage
The NASA Artemis II mission is scheduled for liftoff at 6:24 p.m. EDT (3:54 a.m.) on Thursday (April 2, 2026). If the lift-off is successful, the giant rocket will send humans to near the moon for the first time in more than half a century. In so doing, it will make an important milestone for...
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April 1, 2026April 1, 2026Science & Tech
NASA Artemis II Launch LIVE: NASA begins fuelling the rocket
The NASA Artemis II mission is scheduled for liftoff at 6:24 p.m. EDT (3:54 a.m.) on Thursday (April 2, 2026). If the lift-off is successful, the giant rocket will send humans to near the moon for the first time in more than half a century. In so doing, it will make an important milestone for...
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April 1, 2026April 1, 2026Environment, Science & Tech
The rare whale species in the way of Trump’s oil drilling plan
One of the world’s rarest whales lives in the Gulf of Mexico, where the Trump administration wants to expand oil and gas drilling that scientists fear could push the giant mammal to extinction. Endangered Rice’s whales live their entire lives in the gulf, where they’re vulnerable to vessel strikes, noise pollution, oil spills, and climate...
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April 1, 2026April 1, 2026Science & Tech
‘I’m really proud’: Ed Dwight — first Black astronaut candidate reflects on historic Moon mission
In the 1960s Ed Dwight was the first Black astronaut candidate — but he never got his chance to go to the Moon. He said he’s now living out that once-denied dream vicariously through Victor Glover, who is set to make history on the Artemis 2 Moon mission that could take off as soon as...
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April 1, 2026April 1, 2026Science & Tech
Early screen use stunts vital social, sensory growth of kids, experts warn
Be it our phones, tablets or our laptops — everyday, we interact with various digital devices designed to make our lives easier. Especially since the pandemic, even children have been exposed to this electric world at a very young age. Earlier, parents would desperately brandish toys to distract crying children, now they tamp down tantrums...
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April 1, 2026April 1, 2026Health, Science & Tech
What the study of the mutant gene behind aggressive adult leukaemia can offer for treatment
Certain kinds of mutations in gene TP53, which encodes the p53 tumour suppressor protein, often dubbed the ‘guardian of the genome’, could perhaps be making acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) one of the hardest cancers to treat, new research has found. The study, led by Caner Saygin, assistant professor at the University of Chicago Medicine, was recently...
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April 1, 2026April 1, 2026Science & Tech
‘I’m really proud’: Victor Glover — first Black astronaut candidate reflects on historic Moon mission
In the 1960s Ed Dwight was the first Black astronaut candidate — but he never got his chance to go to the Moon. He said he’s now living out that once-denied dream vicariously through Victor Glover, who is set to make history on the Artemis 2 Moon mission that could take off as soon as...
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April 1, 2026April 1, 2026Science & Tech
Bacteria produce a torque that can drive microscopic machines
Escherichia coli bacteria are the workhorse of microbiology labs. These bacteria move through fluids by spinning their flagella — a clump of tails driven by a molecular motor in the cell walls. Because the flagella spin one way, the body spins the other to keep it from tumbling as it moves forward. For decades, physicists...
