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Washington, United States (AFP) April 11, 2026
With Artemis II successfully completing its historic lunar mission on Friday, NASA is banking on billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk for the next step: landing astronauts on the Moon. The Apollo program - which sent the first and only humans to the Moon's surface between 1969 and 1972 - was designed so that only two astro...

Oakland, United States (AFP) May 4, 2026
Following high-profile testimony from billionaire Elon Musk last week, one of OpenAI's co-founders will testify Monday in the California lawsuit brought by the world's richest man against the creators of ChatGPT. Musk is seeking to force his rivals in artificial intelligence (AI) development to revert to a non-profit foundation. ...

Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 01, 2026
Fruit flies subjected to gravitational forces many times stronger than Earth's pull not only survived but mated, reproduced, and eventually returned to normal behavior, according to new research from the University of California, Riverside published in the Journal of Experimental Biology. The study, led by neuroscience doctoral student S...