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• Sebuah tim internasional yang melibatkan para peneliti University of Wisconsin–Madison mengukur kekuatan pancaran partikel yang dilontarkan dari sebuah lubang hitam di sistem Cygnus. • Pengukuran pertama sejenisnya ini mengonfirmasi prediksi yang dibuat oleh para astronom UW-Madison satu dekade lalu. • Temuan ini memvalidasi teori-teori lama tentang mekanika pancaran lubang hitam, memajukan pemahaman astrofisika.

Keputusan tersebut memberi wewenang kepada pembuat peta di negara bagian Republikan untuk memecah distrik menjadi beberapa bagian dan melenyapkan suara pemilih hingga tidak berarti. Voting Rights Act adalah sebuah pakta perdamaian politik yang ditulis dengan darah John Lewis. Keputusan Callais v Landry oleh Mahkamah Agung AS, yang mengesampingkan sebagian besar bagian 2 dari Voting Rights Act, menghapus darah tersebut dari sejarah, bersama dengan darah ribuan warga Amerika lainnya yang melawan supremasi kulit putih segregasionis di tempat makan, stasiun bus, dan pengadilan demi kesetaraan politik. Baca selengkapnya...

• Anggota legislatif yang mewakili dua distrik kongres kulit hitam di Alabama, yang kini berisiko kehilangan kursi mereka setelah Mahkamah Agung secara efektif melumpuhkan Voting Rights Act, menyatakan bahwa keputusan tersebut membuat AS “mundur”. • Putusan 6-3 dalam kasus Louisiana v Callais pada hari Rabu melemahkan ketentuan utama dari Voting Rights Act, membuka pintu bagi Partai Republik untuk menghapuskan distrik kongres mayoritas-minoritas di seluruh wilayah selatan, dan perwakilan Terri Sewell serta Shomari Figures kini berada dalam posisi terancam.

Exclusive: Cambridge research finds socioenvironmental stressors may influence body’s ability to function healthily in pregnancyStress from racism and deprivation could explain why black women are more likely to die during childbirth, a study has found.Researchers reviewed 44 existing studies that examined three physiological pathways associated with worse pregnancy outcomes: oxidative stress, inflammation, and uteroplacental vascular resistance, and found black women had higher levels of the three metrics. Continue reading...

Though solar was initially blamed for loss of power, renewables have helped to insulate Spain from gas price rises caused by war in Middle EastOne year ago today, all of Spain, and much of Portugal, suffered through a blackout of unprecedented scale and duration. In mere seconds, a cascading sequence of events burst through the grid and created Europe’s first “system black” event in recent memory.Traffic signals failed, mobile networks stopped working entirely, petrol stations could not pump fuel and supermarkets couldn’t process payments. Madrid’s metro came to a halt and people had to be pulled out of carriages. “People were stunned because this had never happened in Spain,” Carlos Condori, a 19-year-old construction sector worker, told AFP at the time. “There’s no [phone] coverage, I can’t call my family, my parents, nothing: I can’t even go to work.” Continue reading...

Actions expected to exceed 3,000 as unions and groups expand protests inspired by Minnesota ICE crackdownLabor unions, democratic organizations and community groups are organizing an economic blackout this year to commemorate May Day, International Workers Day, inspired by the economic blackout in Minnesota during the massive ICE operation in the state.May Day Strong events are being planned across the US, with organizers calling for “no school, no work, no shopping”, in protest of government policies they say put billionaires’ needs above those of workers. Continue reading...

• Nvidia launched Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs on April 25, 2026, at GTC US, delivering 20 petaflops FP4 performance for training models up to 10 trillion parameters. • New chips feature 4.5TB HBM4 memory and NVLink 6 interconnect, reducing training costs by 40% for hyperscalers like Microsoft Azure. • Announcement bolsters Nvidia's 92% AI accelerator market dominance amid US export controls on China sales.

Relatives of London pupils and German villagers mark anniversary of ‘English misfortune’ that Nazis turned into propaganda coupOn 17 April 1936, the bells of St Laurentius church in the Black Forest rang out to guide to safety a group of London schoolboys trapped in deep snow on a mountain hike gone very wrong. Ninety years on to the day, as the bells sounded again, there was hardly a dry eye in the congregation of British relatives and German villagers remembering the night that had brought together their parents and grandparents.The people of Hofsgrund risked their lives heading out with sledges and lanterns in the deadly weather to rescue the party of 27 and their teacher after two boys, fumbling though fog and frozen to the bone, had reached a farmhouse and told its startled inhabitants there were many more of them strewn over the Schauinsland mountain.The Daily Sketch from 20 and 29 April 1936 Continue reading...