Month: April 2026

Follow latest updates, including how to watch the scheduled launch at 6.24pm ET, as four astronauts prepare to set off on a 10-day, 685,000-mile journey with millions watching There’s potentially alarming news from AccuWeather about a solar flare, which the forecasting service says could affect the Artemis mission. While not ...

The News GOFFSTOWN, N.H. — Rahm Emanuel took the stage at his first New Hampshire town hall, and the land acknowledgement began. “We also want to acknowledge that this land is part of the ancestral homeland of the Abenaki people and the Wabanaki Confederacy, whose connection to this place continues ...

David’s view The murals went up in Chicago, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Fort Lauderdale before Democrats finally took notice. In September, weeks after the fatal stabbing of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte light rail train, Elon Musk joined a crowdfunded campaign to paint murals of her ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa launched a nearly $200 billion investment drive aimed at accelerating economic recovery and industrialization in the face of growing worry over the impact of the Iran war on the continent’s biggest economy. For more than a decade, South Africa’s economy has barely grown, leaving it ...

War in the Middle East could cost Africa as much as 1.5 percentage points of growth this year, the African Development Bank said. A scenario in which the conflict stretched for six months would hurt the continent’s already fragile prospects and expose fiscal constraints on economies struggling to fund basic ...

A new AI-powered tool is helping track restitution work underway across Africa. Launched this week by pan-African research organization Open Restitution Africa, the platform helps to collate and narrativize the often-fragmented research and bureaucracy involved in the return of artifacts to Africa, many of which were stolen by Europeans during ...

Brutal past experience has taught us that a cost of living crisis doesn’t affect us all the same, because we don’t all go into it with the same income or wealth Perhaps the most celebrated writer on oil markets is Daniel Yergin. His work has won a Pulitzer and his ...

Within the lunar dirt is a type of helium so rare on Earth that a palm-sized container is estimated to be worth millions In the silent vacuum of space, five autonomous robots churn through the lunar surface, digging up a loose layer of rock and dust and leaving rows of ...

At 17, Cooper Lutkenhaus is the youngest world champion in track and field history – and potentially USA’s poster boy for LA28 Fire on the boards. Slack jaws off it. Last week, I was fortunate enough to be yards away from the 17-year-old American high school student Cooper Lutkenhaus when ...

🌘 Subscribe to 404 Media to get The Abstract, our newsletter about the most exciting and mind-boggling science news and studies of the week. Scientists have engineered tobacco plants to produce five psychedelic compounds that are normally found in a wide range of natural sources, including psilocybin mushrooms, ayahuasca, and ...