The S&P 500 entered a bull market earlier this year when it reached a record high, but it hasn’t stopped there. The benchmark continued to hit new highs in the months that followed and now has finished the first half with a double-digit gain. Though stocks across industries have benefited from renewed optimism in the […]
AUSTIN (KXAN) — With temperatures in Austin projected to rise in the future, Austin city officials have sounded the importance of heat safety. Last Tuesday, the city did a presser regarding Heat Safety and much of the information provided was backed by research done by the UT-City Climate Co-Lab. The Co-lab is a partnership that […]
A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket was fueled for a second launch try Saturday to boost Boeing’s Starliner crew capsule into orbit on the oft-delayed crew capsule’s first piloted test flight, a voyage to the International Space Station. With NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams monitoring the ship’s automated ascent, the workhorse […]
The colossal sunspot group AR3664 responsible for the epic May 2024 solar storms and widespread auroras is back — well, almost. Yesterday (May 27), a powerful X-class solar flare erupted from the sun‘s southeastern limb, peaking around 3:08 a.m. EDT (0708 GMT). Solar flares are energetic eruptions of electromagnetic radiation from the sun’s surface that […]
JERUSALEM (AP) — Chaim Otmazgin had tended to dozens of shot, burned or mutilated bodies before he reached the home that would put him at the center of a global clash. Working in a kibbutz that was ravaged by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, Otmazgin — a volunteer commander with ZAKA, an Israeli search and rescue […]
(Bloomberg) — Asian stocks rose after China took steps to shore up its property market and US equities climbed to a fresh record on Friday thanks to resilient corporate earnings. Most Read from Bloomberg The MSCI AC Asia Pacific Index advanced for a seventh session, with gauges in China, Hong Kong, Australia, Japan all marching […]
Charles Barkley is inspired by students Calcea Johnson and Ne’Kiya Jackson who made history with their mathematics discovery. As previously reported by AFROTECH™, Johnson and Jackson attended St. Mary’s Academy, a Catholic school located in New Orleans, LA, and are responsible for finding a new way to solve the Pythagorean Theorem using trigonometry without circular […]
Almost everyone can recall “that one teacher” from their school days who was involved in some sort of scandal that everyone gossiped about. Recently, I asked the BuzzFeed Community to share their teacher drama stories that people still talk about years later. Here are the shocking, infuriating, and wild scandals they unfortunately witnessed. Note: This […]
A deadly heat wave in Gaza in April, which saw punishing temperatures worsen an already dire humanitarian crisis, was made hotter and more likely by the human-caused climate crisis, according to an analysis published Tuesday. Gaza was not alone. Several heat waves spanning a vast area of the Asian continent last month during the world’s hottest […]
Hainan, a Chinese island that’s geographically closer to Hanoi than Beijing, is known as the Hawaii of China due to its sandy beaches and temperate weather. But there’s another reason tourists from around China are flocking to Hainan these days: space. The city of Wenchang is home to a rocket launch center – and a […]
A Los Angeles resident, left, sets a banner on her home fence reading “Squatting is not the Answer,” across the street of a formerly vacant home that had been recently taken over by a group of homeless mothers in 2020. Four years later, a controversial TikTok has ignited the issue of squatting, and some lawmakers […]
A Los Angeles resident, left, sets a banner on her home fence reading “Squatting is not the Answer,” across the street of a formerly vacant home that had been recently taken over by a group of homeless mothers in 2020. Four years later, a controversial TikTok has ignited the issue of squatting, and some lawmakers […]