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US ISM Services PMI drops to 49.4 in April vs. 52.0 expected

US ISM Services PMI dropped into the contraction territory below 50 in April. US Dollar Index stays in negative territory below 105.00. Business activity in the US service sector contracted in April, with the ISM Services PMI edging lower to 49.4 from 51.4. in March. This reading came in below the market expectation of 52.0.  Other details

Astronomers Discover 454 New Asteroids in Main Belt

Science & Nature A set of 632 main-belt asteroids (178 previously known and 454 unknown objects) has been identified in the archival images from...

Astronomers Observe Result of Violent Stellar Merger

Science & Nature Astronomers have observed a binary massive star called HD 148937 and found that one member of the system is magnetic and...

Astronomers Detect Unusual Radio Pulses from Nearby Magnetar

Science & Nature Astronomers using CSIRO’s Parkes radio telescope (Murriyang) have detected unusual radio signals from XTE J1810-197, a radio magnetar (ultra-magnetic neutron star)...

Astronomers Detect Rainbow-Like ‘Glory’ in Atmosphere of WASP-76b

Science & Nature Astronomers have detected signs of the rainbow-like ‘glory effect’ in the atmosphere of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-76b. The post Astronomers Detect Rainbow-Like...

Astronomers Discover Faintest Known Milky Way Satellite

Science & Nature Ursa Major III/UNIONS 1 (UMa3/U1 for short) is the least luminous and lowest-mass Milky Way satellite ever discovered, and possibly one...

Astronomers Find Two Ancient Substructures in Inner Milky Way

Science & Nature Dubbed Shakti and Shiva, the newly-identified structures are between 12 and billion years old -- so ancient they likely formed before...

Astronomers Find Underachieving Quasar in Distant Galaxy Cluster

Science & Nature Astronomers have found that H1821+643 -- the nearest quasar hosted by a galaxy cluster, at a distance of about 3.4 billion...

Solar Astronomers Detect Aurora-Like Radio Emission above Sunspot

Science & Nature Astronomers using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array have observed long-lasting aurora-like radio bursts above a sunspot. The post Solar Astronomers...

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US ISM Services PMI drops to 49.4 in April vs. 52.0 expected

US ISM Services PMI dropped into the contraction territory below 50 in April. US Dollar Index stays in negative territory below 105.00. Business activity in the US service sector contracted in April, with the ISM Services PMI edging lower to 49.4 from 51.4. in March. This reading came in below the market expectation of 52.0.  Other details

Hospital plans receive boost after Houchen re-elected

Proposals for a new hospital in County Durham could move forward after Ben Houchen was re-elected as Tees Valley mayor. Conservative politician Houchen secured his third term in the post after running on a platform including a pledge to replace the University Hospital of North Tees. Houchen has pledged to hold a public consultation on

£1bn hospital ‘highly unlikely’ to be built by deadline

A north-east London hospital the government promised would be built by 2030 is set to miss the deadline, a project boss has admitted. It is now “highly unlikely” construction will start on the new Whipps Cross Hospital before 2025 and finish before the end of the decade as previously expected, redevelopment director Alastair Finney told