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Latvia Signs Artemis Accords as 62nd Nation, Expanding NASA's Lunar Coalition

Latvia's Minister for Education and Science Dace Melbarde signed the Artemis Accords at NASA Headquarters on Monday, bringing the U.S.-led framework for peaceful space exploration to 62 signatories across six continents.

ScienceApr 20

Vercel Confirms Security Incident: Attackers Entered Through Compromised Context.ai OAuth App

Vercel disclosed that attackers accessed internal systems and non-sensitive environment variables after compromising a third-party AI tool used by an employee. The company has engaged Mandiant, notified law enforcement, and contacted an affected subset of customers.

ScienceApr 19

Blue Origin Lands a New Glenn Booster for the Second Time, But the Upper Stage Leaves AST's Satellite in the Wrong Orbit

The first reuse of a New Glenn first stage succeeded on NG-3's Sunday morning launch from Cape Canaveral, making Blue Origin only the second company to re-fly an orbital-class booster. AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 7 satellite separated and powered on but was placed in what Blue Origin called an "off-nominal orbit."

ScienceApr 18

Tesla Expands Unsupervised Robotaxi Service to Dallas and Houston

Tesla announced on April 18 that its unsupervised Robotaxi service is now operating in Dallas and Houston, bringing the total to three US cities after Austin's launch in mid-2025. The initial Dallas service covers eight neighborhoods; Houston is limited to two.

ScienceApr 18

Ground-Based Spectrograph Finds Tentative CO₂ Signal in the Atmosphere of Sub-Neptune GJ 1214 b

A team led by L. Nortmann (University of Göttingen) reports a tentative detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of the sub-Neptune exoplanet GJ 1214 b, using the CRIRES+ spectrograph on ESO's Very Large Telescope. The cross-correlation signal, at S/N ≈ 3.6 across eight transits, is the first molecular feature seen in GJ 1214 b from the ground and corroborates earlier JWST atmospheric hints.

ScienceApr 18

Carfentanil Deaths Jumped Sevenfold Between 2023 and 2024, CDC Reports

A CDC MMWR analysis documented a sevenfold increase in US overdose deaths involving carfentanil — a synthetic opioid 100 times more potent than fentanyl — from 29 in the first half of 2023 to 238 in the first half of 2024. DEA labs tested more carfentanil-adulterated material in 2024 than in the three previous years combined.

ScienceApr 18

NASA Picks Voyager for Seventh Private Astronaut Mission to the ISS

NASA and Voyager Technologies signed an order for the seventh private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, named VOYG-1 and targeted to launch no earlier than 2028 from Florida. It is Voyager's first private-astronaut selection and the third provider after Axiom Space and Vast.

ScienceApr 15

NASA's SPHEREx Maps 'Interstellar Glaciers' Spanning 600 Light-Years in the Milky Way

NASA's newest space telescope has produced the first large-scale map of interstellar ice in the Cygnus X star-forming region, revealing vast frozen complexes of water, carbon dioxide, and carbon monoxide that could seed future solar systems with the raw materials for life.

ScienceApr 13

NASA cargo ship arrives at space station carrying quantum research module and stem cell experiments

Northrop Grumman's Cygnus XL delivered 11,000 pounds of experiments to the ISS on April 13, including hardware to advance quantum computing, grow therapeutic stem cells in microgravity, and improve space weather forecasting.

PowerApr 11

Education Secretary McMahon Makes AI a Formal Grant-Selection Priority Across Department Discretionary Programs

A 33-page final rule scheduled for Monday publication establishes "Advancing Artificial Intelligence in Education" as a Secretary's Supplemental Priority for every discretionary grant the Department of Education runs. Grant competitions can now designate AI literacy or AI-integration work as an absolute, competitive-preference, or invitational priority — steering federal education dollars toward AI training, tools, and teacher-prep programs.

PowerApr 11

EPA Proposes to Rescind the 2024 Coal Ash Rule's CCRMU Provisions, Exempt Dewatering Structures, and Drop the 12,400-Ton Beneficial-Use Threshold

A 189-page proposed rule scheduled for Monday publication walks back most of the 2024 Legacy CCR rule and multiple pieces of the 2015 Coal Combustion Residuals framework. EPA's own estimate of annualized cost savings to the utility industry is $174-$194 million at a 3% discount rate, rising to $232-$262 million at 7%. The rulemaking is explicitly framed as an Executive Order 14192 deregulation action.

PowerApr 11

EPA Pushes the PFAS TSCA 8(a)(7) Reporting Start From April 13 to January 31, 2027 — Third Delay to the Rule

A 40 CFR Part 705 final rule scheduled for Monday publication shifts the start of the PFAS manufacturer and importer reporting period out by roughly nine months. Reporting covers everyone who manufactured or imported PFAS since January 1, 2011, and the rule was slated to go live this coming Monday before EPA delayed it.