Mark Noble

Vegetarians have 13% lower cancer risk and vegans 23% lower cancer risk than meat-eaters, new meta-analysis finds.

Nothing’s stopping this guy from finishing that plate 😂

🌵 Drought Report Updated Today: 🗓️ Thu Apr 23 IT IS GETTING WORSE 🔥 The wildfires and disaster declared in Georgia to Florida should be a wake up call all along the East coast. Here in The Mid Atlantic... 📏 💦 Baltimore at BWI has been in deficit of normal precipitation -4.69" For This Year To Date -21.60 Since Jan 1 2024 Breakdown: 2024: -8.0" 2025: -8.9" Jan 2026: -0.21" Feb 2026: -1.17" Mar 2026: -1.88" Apr 2026 (through the 9th): -1.43" 🌧️ We have rain forecast between Friday to Sunday. Totals may be close to 0.50" locally. This may make the ground damp briefly, but we need a complete pattern change soon or the longer days and higher sun angle will be evaporating more than we gain in small events.

Happy Draft Day to all who celebrate.

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

The United States needs to deploy advanced reactors, and we need to do it FAST.

Absolute massive US airforce airlift ongoing to the Middle East today. Really screaming confidence in negotiations with Iran...

Another video of the Super Delta over Pensacola Beach today with U.S. Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds.

The U.S. Navy Blue Angels and Air Force Thunderbirds flying a Super Delta over Pensacola Beach today 🇺🇸🔥 you don’t see this every day ✈️💙

Since making his debut with the Capitals on Oct. 5, 2005, Alex Ovechkin has played in 95.4% of the Capitals games. He's only missed 76 games in his 21-year career 😳

The US president is praising Allah and Iran is defending the Pope, welcome to 2026

Beekeeper Billy Mullenax removes the bees from the Smithsonian Renwick Gallery and plans to relocate them to a safe location in Maryland. He counted 16 layers of honeycomb and estimated about 50,000 bees.

The nicest weather in the USA today will occur around Baltimore, MD

I am super geeking out over these new Artemis photos. The “Earthrise” is crazy. Flat earthers are in shambles.

EARTHSET. April 6, 2026. Humanity, from the other side. First photo from the far side of the Moon. Captured from Orion as Earth dips beyond the lunar horizon. Photo: NASA

Say what you want about the war in Iran… But I absolutely LOVE that our military refuses to ever leave a man behind. You cannot watch American troops bring one of their own home and tell me this country has nothing left to be proud of. Absolutely badass in every way.

BREAKING: Details of special forces rescue operation to save American Pilot deep into Iranian territory: -Downed airmen after being shot down lands near Talkhuncheh and immediately actives emergency GPS, proceeds to hike 24 hours 5miles up a 2000 metre mountain to evade capture where he remains hidden for 12 hours. -US special forces locate him and realise Iranian convoys are closing in and begin to engage said convoys with large AirPower, meanwhile US special forces MH-6 helicopters and C-130s are disputed, and land 10 km south east of him to build a makeshift airfield. -Soon after this several MH-6s successfully fly to the top of the mountain and pick him up under small arms fire, and reach the makeshift airfield. Classically two C-130js meant to evacuate Delta and injured airmen get stuck in the mud. -US airforce begins massive suppression campaign on nearby Iranian units, whilst special forces team hunker down for three hours eventually being saved by three AFSOC Dash 8 aircraft meanwhile blowing up remaining C-13Ojs and MH6s aircraft to avoid capture. Incredible.

‼️🇺🇸 U.S. forces launched a high risk rescue deep inside Iran and everything was against them. Elite operators including SEAL Team Six, waves of fighter jets, helicopters, and full intel power were thrown into what officials call one of the most complex special ops missions ever. The downed airman survived over 24 hours on the run, climbing a 7000 ft ridgeline while Iranian forces closed in. U.S. aircraft struck convoys and blasted anything getting too close. Special Forces moved in fast, firing to hold the line but avoiding a direct clash. Then came the twist. Two extraction planes got stranded inside Iran. Commanders made the call. New aircraft rushed in. All personnel were pulled out. The stranded planes were destroyed on the ground. Mission complete. Against the odds.

Christina Koch was a firefighter at the South Pole at -111°F before she ever applied to be an astronaut. That was maybe the fourth most interesting line on her resume. She grew up in North Carolina, got three degrees from NC State, and her first real job was building deep-space instruments at NASA. Then she left for Antarctica. Spent three and a half years bouncing between the Arctic and Antarctic as a research scientist, including a full winter at the South Pole base. That means going months without sunlight or fresh food, with a crew of about 50 people and no way out until flights resume. While she was down there, she also joined the glacier search-and-rescue team. After coming back, she went to Johns Hopkins and built instruments for two NASA missions (one of them is still orbiting Jupiter right now). She figured out how to start a tiny vacuum pump that NASA designed for a future Mars rover. Johns Hopkins nominated it for their Invention of the Year in 2009. Then she went back to the field. More time in Antarctica and a stretch up in Greenland. A government research station in northern Alaska, near the top of the world. Then she ran another one in American Samoa, near the equator. In 2013, NASA selected her from 6,300 applicants. Eight people got in. Her first space mission was supposed to be a normal rotation on the International Space Station, but NASA extended it. She ended up staying 328 straight days and orbiting Earth 5,248 times, covering about 139 million miles (roughly 291 round trips to the Moon). Up there, she ran over 210 experiments, including tests of cancer drugs in zero gravity and 3D printers that can build structures close to human tissue. Six spacewalks, 42 hours floating outside the station. She learned Russian for the training. She flies supersonic jets. Right now, Koch is on Artemis II, heading for a flyby behind the far side of the Moon. The crew launched on April 1 and is on track to travel about 252,000 miles from Earth, which would break the all-time human distance record of 248,655 miles set by Apollo 13 in 1970. That record has stood for 56 years, and it was set during a disaster that nearly killed the crew. Fred Haise, one of the Apollo 13 astronauts, is 92 now. He told Koch: "I heard you're going to break our record." Nobody had left Earth's neighborhood since December 1972. Koch and her three crewmates are the first in 53 years, and they are coming home at about 25,000 mph. That is faster than any crewed spacecraft has ever come back through the atmosphere.

Tonight's aurora was pretty extraordinary. Here is a real-time video showing the rapid motion and vivid colors. All I could do while watching this was smile and laugh.. it's a pretty unique feeling seeing the sky move like this. Good night!