by News Feed Editor | Apr 30, 2026 | Science
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty ImagesArtemis 2 enchanted the world in the beginning of April, when its crew of four astronauts flew a 10-day mission around the moon and...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 30, 2026 | Science
When scientist J. Craig Venter and his team announced in 2010 that they had created the first cell controlled by a fully synthetic genome, it marked a turning point in how scientists think about life.For the first time, DNA – the molecule that carries the instructions...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 30, 2026 | Science
Sky-gazers will be in for a treat this month with two full moons gracing the sky.The first, which has the nickname the flower moon, will peak at 1:23 p.m. ET Friday. However, it will appear full Thursday night, Friday and Saturday, according to EarthSky.It will rise...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 30, 2026 | Science
J. Craig Venter, one of the lead scientists in sequencing the human genome and a pioneer of modern genomics, died on Wednesday, his research institute announced.He was 79.The J. Craig Venter Institute said in a statement on Wednesday that he died in San Diego after...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 30, 2026 | Science
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.NASA’s Orion spacecraft for the agency’s Artemis 2 mission arrives at the Kennedy Space Center Multi Payload Processing Facility in Florida on Tuesday, April...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 30, 2026 | Science
Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from Homer’s “Iliad” stuck to its abdomen, in a first-of-its-kind discovery.While other mummies in the area have been found with sealed packages containing papyri...
