Michael van Gerwen has dismissed claims of a brewing rivalry with Luke Littler while describing the 17-year-old’s performance in last week’s Premier League as ‘lousy’. Littler was comfortably beaten by Van Gerwen in the Birmingham final, with the Dutchman putting an end to his hopes of winning three straight Premier League nights. The two players … Read more
More than a dozen members of the Kennedy family will endorse President Joe Biden for a second term Thursday, passing over family member Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Biden campaign announced. The Kennedy family has stepped up its involvement in the Biden campaign, working to lift Biden’s odds as Democrats worry that Robert F. Kennedy … Read more
TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel was mere moments away from an airstrike on April 1 that killed several senior Iranian commanders at Iran’s embassy complex in Syria when it told the United States what was about to happen. Israel’s closest ally had just been caught off guard. Aides quickly alerted Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s … Read more
ATLANTA — For years, Loretta Green has voted at her Southwest Atlanta precinct wearing the same custom T-shirt emblazoned with a photo of her first voter registration card, dated to 1960. The front of it reads: “This is why I vote.” Since gaining the legal right, Green, 88, has participated in every possible election. This … Read more
The Philadelphia 76ers are heading to the NBA playoffs. While it wasn’t the prettiest win in franchise history, Philadelphia played host to the Miami Heat on Wednesday night and overcame a 13-point deficit in the second half to pick up a 105-104 win in the 7-8 game of the Eastern Conference Play-In Tournament. Now, the … Read more
As a matter of engineering, there is nothing left to say of the historic touchdown of the Intuitive Machines spacecraft Odysseus on the lunar surface earlier this year—the first-ever commercial moon landing that could be called a success. As a matter of the humanities, however, the conversation has only just begun. Among the items of … Read more
The Milky Way has a big newfound black hole, and it lurks close to Earth! This sleeping giant was discovered with the European space telescope Gaia, which tracks the motion of billions of stars in our galaxy. Stellar-mass black holes are created when a large star runs out of fuel and collapses. The new discovery … Read more
April 17, 2024 4 min read This eight-legged probe would scour Mars’s underground lava tubes for places where explorers might camp—or for signs of past life By Lauren Leffer Field testing the ReachBot in a lava tube in the Mojave Desert. BDML Stanford University A robot designed in the spiderlike image of a “daddy longlegs” … Read more
April 17, 2024 3 min read At least 2.1 million cases of dengue fever have been reported in North and South America, and this year 1,800 people have died from the mosquito-borne disease By Francisco “A.J.” Camacho & E&E News A worker fumigates a house against the Aedes aegypti mosquito to prevent the spread of … Read more
The seven-time world champion shocked the motorsport world when his move to Ferrari was announced at the beginning of February, but a couple of months later, the decision to leave Mercedes appears to be an inspired one. Hamilton’s current team have endured a miserable start to the 2024 campaign, picking up just 34 points from … Read more