Seeing Blue During Schirmacher’s Summer Melt Season science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... A network of meltwater lakes and drainage channels made an Antarctic ice shelf known for its blue ice areas even bluer.

Peculiar Elliptical Galaxy Centaurus A apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26033... This is particularly unusual as Cen A's older stars and oval shape are characteristic of a giant elliptical galaxy, a galaxy type typically low in dark dust.

SUNGRAZING COMET UPDATE: Sungrazing Comet MAPS (C/2026 A1) is getting very close to the sun. On April 4th it will skim just 160,000 km (0.23 solar radii) above the sun's surface--a true death dive. The event will be invisible from Earth, but cometary.org/@qicheng/sta... spaceweather.com

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Weather Canada Alerts 🍁 The Atlantics, Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec & Saskatchewan weather.gc.ca

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#OTD in 1936, Danish seismologist Inge Lehmann wrote a famous letter to a colleague outlining her theory that seismic waves (P-waves) recorded from distant earthquakes indicated Earth had a solid inner core. Her discovery fundamentally changed our understanding of the Earth's interior. #WomenInSTEM

Arctic sea ice hits lowest winter level as unprecedented heat hits smashes records all over Earth apnews.com/article/arct...

Meet the Artemis crew in NASA’s first astronaut mission to the moon in more than a half-century www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFyl... apnews.com/article/nasa...

Sri Lanka unveils a rare purple star sapphire claimed to be the biggest of its kind apnews.com/article/sri-...

One of the largest salt mines in the world exists under Lake Erie apnews.com/article/clev...

The sea beneath Arctic and Antarctic ice holds many secrets. These scientists dive deep to find out. apnews.com/article/clim...

He suddenly couldn’t speak in space. NASA astronaut says his medical scare remains a mystery. apnews.com/article/nasa... Four-time space flier Mike Fincke

#NASASpaceflight 🚀 "Gateway is cancelled? Not at Starbase" 🛰️ SpaceX Starbase www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDrE... As NASA prepares to launch Artemis II around the Moon in days, Starbase reinstalled its iconic "Gateway to Mars" sign at Pad 2, pointing toward humanity's multiplanetary future.

#StarTalk 🛸 The StarTalk Team Has More Questions for Neil 🛰️ Burning Question Pt. 4 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSu6... Neil deGrasse Tyson and cohost’s Chuck Nice and Gary O’Reilly tackle more questions from inside the StarTalk team.

A Message from Earth apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26032... The featured message was broadcast from Earth towards the globular star cluster M13 in 1974. During the dedication of an upgrade to the Arecibo Observatory - a string of 1's and 0's representing the diagram was sent.

LONG DURATION SOLAR FLARE: Sunspot 4405 erupted on March 28th, producing a very long duration solar flare. The explosion lasted more than 7 hours, shown here in a time-lapse movie from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory spaceweather.com/images2026/2... spaceweather.com

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‘Best college tradition anywhere’ news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... Smurf-blue hair, chain-mail suits, vuvuzelas, and bagpipes abound as students flood Yard for annual raucous rite of Housing Day

Think different — for 50 years news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor... Management, branding, marketing, history scholars trace all ways Apple changed industries, our relationship to tech — and to each other

MIT hackathon tackles real-world challenges in Ukraine news.mit.edu/2026/mit-hac... Build for Ukraine 2.0 united students, researchers, and Ukrainian collaborators to prototype solutions shaped by wartime conditions.

#NASASpaceflight 🚀 Artemis II 5 Days Away… and NASA Just Changed Everything 🚀 This Week In Spaceflight www.youtube.com/watch?v=waHZ... Roadmap for the future — including a permanent Moon base, nuclear-powered spacecraft, and a new approach to science and commercial space stations.

Artemis II Crew’s Suits www.nasa.gov/image-articl... The Orion Crew Survival System suits that Commander Reid Wiseman, Pilot Victor Glover, and Mission Specialist Christina Koch from NASA, and Mission Specialist Jeremy Hansen from the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) will wear

Satellite Spots a Spawn science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-... The activity of herring around Vancouver Island in British Columbia brightened coastal waters enough to be detectable from space.

HAPPY 30TH, COMET HYAKUTAKE: One of the biggest surprises in modern astronomy happened 30 years ago. On Jan. 30, 1996, Japanese amateur astronomer Yuji Hyakutake spotted a faint fuzzball through binoculars spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload... spaceweather.com

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Happy 95th, Captain

View of Denali today flying from Fairbanks to Anchorage—pretty impressive!

IAEA warns Chernobyl shelter compromised The IAEA warned the protective shelter over Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant no longer effectively contained radiation after a Russian drone attack in February and urged urgent comprehensive repairs. With replies by 🎓Jussi T. Eronen +7 more scholars.

🤯 24 NEW deep-sea species?! That's like discovering a new dog breed... 24 times over. AND a whole new SUPERFAMILY of life? The ocean continues to amaze.

#StarTalk 🌙 What Would Happen if the Moon Were 20 Times Closer? www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f8D... What would happen if the moon got closer to Earth? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice explain Roche Limits, the formation of the moon, and how Roche Lobes power binary star systems.

#NASASpaceflight 🌙 The Truth About the “Moon Race” www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8C0... With NASA’s Artemis program targeting a return to the Moon and China developing its own crewed lunar missions, it’s easy to frame this as Cold War 2.0. But when you look closer, the reality is far more complicated.

“Near-misses” in particle accelerators can illuminate new physics, study finds news.mit.edu/2026/near-mi... Physicists discovered new properties of the strong force by analyzing what happens when light-speed particles skim by each other.

MIT engineers design proteins by their motion, not just their shape news.mit.edu/2026/mit-eng... An AI model generates novel proteins based on how they vibrate and move, opening new possibilities for dynamic biomaterials and adaptive therapeutics.

Seeing sounds news.mit.edu/2026/seeing-... Mariano Salcedo, a master’s student in the new Music Technology and Computation Graduate Program, is designing an AI to visualize and express music and other sounds.

TU Delft: two breakthroughs in climate and energy awarded www.tudelft.nl/en/2026/tu-d... Caroline van Calcar examined the interplay between the melting of the ice sheet and the deformation and rebound of the Earth’s crust and mantle, while Pierfrancesco Ombrini won for his research on LFP batteries

Seashell saviours – Trinity team finds discarded oyster shells can clean polluted water by removing "rare earths" www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

Implantable islet cells could control diabetes without insulin injections news.mit.edu/2026/implant... The cells can survive in the body for at least three months, producing enough insulin to control blood sugar levels, research shows.

Earlier detection, better outcomes: Irish researchers target rising bowel cancer rates with new blood test www.tcd.ie/news_events/...

Study reveals why some cancer therapies don’t work for all patients news.mit.edu/2026/study-r... A backup survival pathway can help tumor cells resist certain lung cancer and other drugs. Combining therapies may offer a solution.

CERN director-general awarded honorary doctorate from University College Dublin www.irishpost.com/news/cern-di... Dr Fabriola Gianotti