Thursday, March 12, 2026

NASA will host a news conference today after completing an Artemis II Flight Readiness Review, with the agency continuing work on the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft ahead of a potential lunar mission launch in April.^[1]

A European clinical trial found that the drug sulthiame significantly reduced breathing interruptions in people with moderate to severe sleep apnea, with patients on higher doses experiencing up to 47% fewer breathing pauses—potentially offering a pill-based alternative to CPAP machines.^[2]

A major international trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that dialysis patients who took four grams of daily fish oil supplements had a 43% lower risk of heart attack, stroke, or cardiac death compared to placebo.^[3]

A nearly complete fossil of a two-pound dinosaur called Alnashetri cerropoliciensis, discovered in Patagonia, reveals that alvarezsaurs became tiny before developing their specialized features, and suggests the animals appeared earlier than scientists previously believed.^[4]

The Hubble and Euclid space telescopes have captured new images of the Cat's Eye Nebula, revealing the complex structure of stellar death and a larger halo of gases that was blasted away from the star before the main nebula formed.^[5]

Scientists in China have uncovered a 125-million-year-old juvenile iguanodontian dinosaur with fossilized skin so detailed that individual cells are visible, revealing hollow, porcupine-like spikes never before documented in any dinosaur.^[6]

ESA's JUICE spacecraft has captured its first detailed images of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, revealing a glowing coma and sweeping tail as scientists prepare to analyze data from the observations at a meeting later this month.^[7]

In clinical trials, the investigational drug zorevunersen reduced seizures by up to 91% in children with Dravet syndrome, a severe genetic form of epilepsy, with researchers also reporting early evidence that the therapy may help ease cognitive and behavioral complications.^[8]

The European Union has confirmed a €90 billion loan to Ukraine, establishing itself as Kyiv's main source of support four years after Russia's full-scale invasion began.^[9]

Researchers have created a new method for mass-producing cancer-fighting immune cells, engineering early-stage stem cells from cord blood to generate enormous numbers of highly potent natural killer cells—with one stem cell capable of producing 14 million tumor-killing cells.^[10]