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Bureau: Tokyo
Four astronauts approach the Moon at 110,000 mph, and tomorrow their flyby shares the calendar with Trump's Iran deadline -- the species' reach and its oldest instincts on the same day.
The USDA announced a reorganization that shutters three-quarters of Forest Service research facilities across 31 states, including stations that study wildfire risk, drought, and climate adaptation.
Anthropic acquired Coefficient Bio in an all-stock deal that values each employee at $40 million, signaling where frontier AI labs think the next serious money lives.
The Kreutz sungrazer comet C/2026 A1, discovered by French amateurs in January, disintegrated during its perihelion pass on April 4 -- too close, too small, too fragile.