The Tennessee Vols are reportedly 'trending' for a coveted transfer guard who is visiting Knoxville  A to Z Sports

Trending Auburn: The latest trends in Tigers' recruiting  On3

5 Trending Spring Pedicure Colors to Try, From Milky Pink to Vanilla Chrome  instyle.com

New Netflix thriller is now trending worldwide despite being branded "aggressively stupid"  Digital Spy

Ana De Armas' Latest R-Rated Thriller Deserves Its Streaming Success (#2 Trending In The U.S.)  ScreenRant

1. DaVinci Resolve adds new photo editing tools to take on Lightroom and Photoshop  The Verge
2. DaVinci Resolve 21 Hits Adobe Where It Hurts  Y.M.Cinema Magazine
3. DaVinci Resolve 21 is Now a Lightroom Alternative: RAW Editing, Tethering, Masking, and More  PetaPixel
4. Blackmagic Design releases DaVinci Resolve 21.0 in beta  CG Channel
5. Blackmagic's DaVinci Resolve 21 takes on Adobe Lightroom with a new Photo page  Engadget

1. Google will begin punishing sites for back button hijacking in June  Ars Technica
2. Google will punish sites that hijack your back button  Mashable
3. Google Search tackles sites that try to stop you from leaving when you hit the back button  Engadget
4. New Google Spam Policy Targets Back Button Hijacking  Search Engine Journal
5. Google Search to classify ‘back button hijacking’ as spam  9to5Google

1. GoPro's Mission 1 offers 8K 60p video and interchangeable lenses  Engadget
2. GoPro Launches MISSION 1 Action Cinema Cameras With 8K and 50MP 1″ Sensor  Y.M.Cinema Magazine
3. GoPro unveils cinematic 8K camera series Mission 1  Mashable
4. An Iconic Adventure Camera Brand Launches Its Most Significant Upgrade in 20 Years  Gear Patrol
5. GoPro goes bigger and pro-er with support for Micro Four Thirds lenses  The Verge

1. ‘Google app for desktop’ launches on Windows  9to5Google
2. The Google app for desktop is now available for Windows users around the world.  blog.google
3. Google’s Spotlight-like desktop search bar for Windows is available for everyone  The Verge
4. You can now get Google’s AI search on Windows without ever opening a browser  XDA
5. Breaking Live News Updates: Google launches Google app for desktop for Windows users worldwide  The Economic Times

1. Max Hodak’s Science Corp. is preparing to place its first sensor in a human brain  TechCrunch
2. Science Corp prepares first human brain sensor placement with Yale neurosurgeon  The Next Web
3. Science Corp. Readies First Human Brain Sensor Implant  The Tech Buzz
4. Science Corp’s Revolutionary Brain Sensor: Max Hodak’s Biohybrid Breakthrough Nears Human Trials  Binance
5. Science Corporation recruits Yale neurosurgeon to lead US human trials of biohybrid brain computer interface  mezha.net

Since it began in 1958, NASA has been charged by law with spreading the word about its work to the widest extent practicable. From typewritten press releases to analog photos and film, the agency has effectively moved into social media and other online communications. NASA’s broad reach across digital platforms has been recognized by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS), with 7 nominations across multiple categories for the academy’s 30th annual Webby Awards.

Public Voting Opportunities

Voting for the Webby People’s Voice Awards—chosen by the public—is open now through Thursday, April 16. Voting links for each category are listed below.

30th Annual Webby Award Nominees

AI, Immersive & Games

Hearing Hubble
NASA Goddard
Immersive Content: Science & Education

Social

NASA’s Webb Telescope and the Universe: Using social media to connect us all 
NASA Goddard
Social Campaigns: Education & Science

Nerdy Words 
NASA Marshall
Social Video Short Form: Education & Science

NASA Astronauts Posts from Space 
NASA 
General Social: Education & Science 

Video & Film

Cosmic Dawn (NASA+ Original Documentary)
NASA
General Video and Film: Documentary: Longform

Podcasts 

Houston We Have a Podcast: Artemis II: The Mission
NASA Johnson
Individual Episodes: Science & Education

NASA’s Curious Universe: The Earth Series 
NASA
Limited-Series & Specials: Health, Science, & Education

About the Webby Awards

Established in 1996 during the web’s infancy, The Webbys is presented by the IADAS—a 3000+ member judging body. The Academy is comprised of Executive Members—leading Internet experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries, and creative celebrities—and associate members who are former Webby winners, nominees and other internet professionals.

The Webby Awards presents two honors in every category—the Webby Award and the Webby People’s Voice Award. Members of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (IADAS) select the nominees for both awards in each category, as well as the winners of the Webby Awards. In the spirit of the open web, the Webby People’s Voice is chosen by the voting public, and garners millions of votes from all over the world.

2025-2026 Dream with Us Winners

Congratulation to our 2025-2026 Dream with Us Design Challenge Winners! We are pleased to share this year’s winning projects: 

Middle School

1st Place: Scout Farm

(Varenya D., Aashritha P., and Alvitha P., NJ)

2nd Place: AgriTech

(Charlotte W. and Richard F., CA)

3rd Place: AgriDrone

(Hasini B. and Kanishka A, TX and CA)

High School

1st Place: SkySeekers

(Monta Vista High School and Foothill High School, CA)

Team SkySeekers Engineering Notebook

2nd Place: AeroForge

(Adrian Wilcox High School, CA)

Team AeroForge Engineering Notebook

3rd Place: Flight Fusion Team

(Eastern Technical High School, Damascus High School, Dulaney High School, and Thomas Wooten High School, MD)

Team Flight Fusion Engineering Notebook

Dream with Us

NASA astronaut Christina Koch, Artemis II mission specialist, hugs the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha, Saturday, April 11, 2026. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, on Friday, April 10.

After splashdown, the astronauts were met by a combined NASA and U.S. military team that assisted them out of the spacecraft in open water and transported them via helicopter to the USS John P. Murtha for initial medical checkouts. On April 11, the astronauts returned to the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston for a news conference.

Artemis II is the first crewed mission in the program. Lessons learned from this test flight will inform our return to the lunar surface and future missions to Mars. Learn more about the cadence for upcoming Artemis missions.

Image credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Every month, NASA Earth Observatory features a puzzling satellite image. The April 2026 puzzler appears above. 

Your Challenge
Identify the location shown in this satellite image. Share what clues you see, where you think it is, and what makes this place interesting or unique to you.

How to Answer
Submit your response using this form and select “Puzzler Answer” as the topic. Please include your preferred name or alias.

You can keep it simple and just guess the location. Want to impress us? Tell us which satellite and instrument captured the image, which spectral bands were used, or point out a subtle detail about the geology or history of the area. If something catches your eye, or if this is your home or means something to you, we’d love to hear about it.

The Prize
We can’t offer prize money or a trip to space to see Earth like satellites and astronauts do. But we can offer something almost as rewarding: puzzler bragging rights.

About a week after the challenge, we’ll post the answer at the top of this page, along with a link to an Earth Observatory Image of the Day story that explains the image in more detail. We’ll recognize the first person who correctly guesses the location, and we may also highlight readers who share especially thoughtful or interesting answers. By submitting a response, you acknowledge that your comments may be edited, excerpted, and published on this page.

Until then, zoom in, look closely, and enjoy the challenge. See you at the reveal!

No matter how far humanity aims to travel or how ambitious the mission, nutrition will play a key role for the crew members on distant worlds. Before planning long-term stays on the Moon, Mars, and beyond, humans must learn to grow and care for plants and other sources of nutrition like algae to keep the explorers taking part in these adventures fed.

To solve this problem, NASA and its partners are conducting research aboard the International Space Station to better understand how the space environment affects nutrition-relevant organisms. Several investigations aboard Northrop Grumman’s 24th commercial resupply mission for NASA support efforts to maintain crew diets as humanity ventures deeper into the cosmos.

Studying plant-microbe interactions

Certain plants have bacteria in their roots that can take nitrogen from the air and convert it into a form of food that plants can use for growth. NASA’s Veg-06 studies alfalfa (Medicago sativa), a model organism, to determine how the plant interacts with this bacterium in space. This study also examines the effects of reduced lignin, which reinforces cell walls and helps plants to grow upright against gravity. In microgravity, plants may not need lignin, and reduced levels could allow plant parts to be more easily recycled, facilitating the growth of future plant generations.

Improved algae cultivation

Other forms of nutrition that could support crew health include spirulina (Arthorospira), a type of algae high in protein, B vitamins, and antioxidants. Spirulina also has an added benefit of converting carbon dioxide into oxygen, helping replenish a crew’s air supply. While spirulina is typically grown in water tanks, a JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) experiment called Space Surface Spirulina is testing a method to grow the algae on a thin-film surface. This method allows more efficient production of this high-protein food while conserving water and producing fresh oxygen aboard spacecraft.

Seed studies for better spaceflight plants

The ESA (European Space Agency) investigation Seed Vigour exposes seeds from several plant species to spaceflight conditions aboard the space station to determine if seed growth is affected. The research builds on a 2015 study in which arugula seeds spent six months in orbit. After returning to Earth, the seeds were distributed to schools in the United Kingdom for further study. The data contributed to a 2020 publication which found that the space-flown arugula seeds took longer to sprout and demonstrated signs of partial aging, but spaceflight did not compromise seed survival or seedling development.

This new study, flying aboard the resupply mission aims to determine whether these findings apply to other plant species and could help researchers find better ways to protect crop seeds during long-duration space missions.

The Tomatosphere 9 investigation by the CSA (Canadian Space Agency) is exposing 1.8 million tomato seeds to microgravity conditions aboard the orbiting laboratory to give students an opportunity to study how the space environment affects plant growth. After the seeds return to Earth, they will be distributed to schools across the United States and Canada, where students can plant them alongside ground controls in a blind study to compare results.

Together, these studies aboard space station deepen researchers’ understanding of nutrition in space and inform ways to better grow and maintain food sources that will keep crews healthy on future missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

Dozens of WordPress plug-ins were allegedly hijacked to push malware after they were sold to a new corporate owner.

In an interview at the Semafor World Economy summit this week, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark explained why the company was still engaged with the U.S. government while simultaneously suing them.

Waymo's commercial service will eventually follow testing if the U.K. government approves.

Until now, the only way to avoid seeing ads was by paying for a YouTube Premium subscription.

The device could help address multiple neurological conditions if it proves successful. One early use could be delivering gentle electrical stimulation to damaged brain or spinal cord cells to encourage healing.