{"id":900013,"date":"2026-04-18T13:18:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/science-news-this-week-physicists-witness-faster-than-light-darkness-pinpricks-humans-are-still-evolving-and-some-polar-bears-are-getting-fatter-than-ever\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:18:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:18:41","slug":"science-news-this-week-physicists-witness-faster-than-light-darkness-pinpricks-humans-are-still-evolving-and-some-polar-bears-are-getting-fatter-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/18\/science-news-this-week-physicists-witness-faster-than-light-darkness-pinpricks-humans-are-still-evolving-and-some-polar-bears-are-getting-fatter-than-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Science news this week: Physicists witness faster-than-light darkness pinpricks, humans are still evolving, and some polar bears are getting fatter than ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature April 18, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/science-news-this-week-physicists-witness-faster-than-light-darkness-pinpricks-humans-found-to-still-be-evolving-and-the-endanered-polar-bears-that-are-getting-fatter-than-ever\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>Michele Antes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#038; Nature April 18, 2026: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend&#8230;Read MoreMichele Antes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":900014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4586,3421,536],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-900013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physicists","8":"category-science","9":"category-science-nature"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}