Achieves

• The sequel to The Devil Wears Prada earned USD 233 million globally in its opening weekend, with USD 77 million from the US and Canada and USD 156.6 million internationally. • Michael Jackson biopic Michael took second place with USD 54 million in its second North American weekend, pushing its worldwide total to USD 423.9 million on 3,955 screens. • The film's success, driven largely by female audiences, marks Hollywood's second-biggest opening weekend of 2026, surpassing Project Hail Mary at USD 141 million.

• Google DeepMind released AlphaFold 4 on April 25, 2026, predicting protein structures with 98.5% accuracy, including dynamics for drug discovery. • Model simulates folding pathways in seconds for proteins up to 5,000 residues, licensed to 200 US biotech firms. • Advances could accelerate FDA approvals for 50+ new therapies, valued at $100 billion market impact.

• Researchers have developed a compact CRISPR system capable of achieving up to 90% efficiency in targeted in-body gene editing applications. • The breakthrough addresses previous limitations of CRISPR technology, enabling more precise genetic modifications for therapeutic purposes. • This advancement could significantly improve treatment options for genetic disorders and certain cancers by allowing safer, more effective gene therapy interventions.

• NASA's Artemis II mission surpassed the Apollo 13 record on April 6, 2026, at 1:57 p.m. EDT, reaching beyond 248,655 miles (400,171 km) from Earth as the Orion capsule 'Integrity' looped around the moon's far side. • The mission will peak at 252,760 miles (406,777 km), breaking the prior record by 4,100 miles (6,600 km) during its six-hour lunar flyby, marking the first crewed deep-space mission since Apollo. • This milestone validates life-support systems, navigation, and thermal protection for humans, paving the way for sustained lunar presence under the US Artemis program.

• A new study in Big Earth Data introduces CA-MTransUNet, a Cloud-Aware Mixture-of-Experts Linear Transformer U-Net for forest burned area (FBA) detection using Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 optical data. • The model attains the highest mean Intersection-over-Union (mIoU) of 87.00% with an inference speed of 6.26 ms, outperforming benchmarks despite cloud contamination. • This breakthrough addresses computational complexity in segmentation models, enhancing post-fire environmental monitoring critical for climate studies.

• The United States saw a record amount of new clean power capacity come online in 2025, according to a report released today by the Environmental Defense Fund. • Despite the record deployment, the renewable energy sector faced significant headwinds including project delays and cancellations that threatened to slow progress. • The achievement underscores continued momentum in U.S. transition toward clean electricity despite policy uncertainties and regulatory challenges.