April 2025 was a busy month for space.

Pop icon Katy Perry joined five other civilian women on a quick jaunt to the edge of space^[1], making headlines. Meanwhile, another group of people at the United Nations was contemplating a critical issue for the future of space exploration: the discovery, extraction and utilization of natural resources...

As the Trump administration continues to make significant cuts^[1] to NIH budgets^[2] and personnel^[3] and to freeze billions of dollars of funding^[4] to major research universities – citing ideological concerns – there’s more being threatened than just progress in science and medicine. Something valuable but often overlooked is also being...

In a rare bipartisan move^[1], the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Take It Down Act^[2] by a vote of 409-2 on April 28, 2025. The bill is an effort to confront one of the internet’s most appalling abuses: the viral spread of nonconsensual sexual imagery, including AI-generated deepfake pornography and real photos shared as revenge...