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The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way. Before we get to the show, I just want to call out the limited series we're releasing this week called The Normals. You might have actually seen the episode of The Normals drop into your feed on Tuesday. This was something that our team here at Science worked on. There are two more episodes to come. I hope you'll give it a listen.

It was an amazing series to get to work on, and it's a fascinating dive into the history of

normal human subjects and research. Okay. On with the show. This is the science podcast for

April 9th, 2026. I'm Sarah Cresby.

First up, freelance science journalist Hannah Richter is here to discuss NASA's plans

to send a nuclear-powered spacecraft to Mars in under three years.

Not having launched a fission reactor to space in over 60 years,

NASA faces many technical and bureaucratic hurdles to make the deadline.

Next on the show, researcher Aaron Sandal discusses what looks like, a chimpanzee civil war.

The unprecedented violent split occurred in a large chimp colony that has been tracked by researchers

for decades. Now they're asking, what can the lethal division of a chimp community

teach us about human conflict?

We're recording this as the Artemis II mission is doing its historic lunar flyby.

Like right now, it's out there by the moon, about to curve around it, taking its crew the furthest

ever from Earth.

There's no landing on the moon this time.

This mission, though, has been pitched as a

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