When did UK underground rap get so Christian?
From UK Ug figurehead YT to rising singer-songwriter svn4vr, some of the UK underground’s hottest names are placing Christianity at their centre of their music
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The Transit Museum honors a NYC icon, Ayoung Kim goes stargazing at MoMA PS1, a puppy persona performance, and more to plan your week in New York.
Jan 13, 2026
How “new work” will actually take shape in the age of AI
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang issued a warning to the world’s workers in May 2025: “You’re not going to lose your job to an AI, you’re going to lose it to someone who uses AI.” I bet he’s right. The future ...
Jan 13, 2026
The politics of Silicon Valley may be shifting again
In 1999, during the last Burning Man of the last century, I returned to my camp on the edge of the playa after a long night out socializing to find a brand-new tent set up next to my dusty old one. Wh...
Jan 13, 2026
Our intuitions about consciousness may be deeply wrong
We tend to trust our intuitions about consciousness because they feel immediate and personal, but feeling convinced is not the same as being right. Annaka Harris explores what happens when science sto...
Jan 13, 2026
Huge ice dome in Greenland vanished 7,000 years ago — melting at temperatures we're racing toward today
Scientists drilled to the bottom of Greenland's 1,600-foot deep Prudhoe Dome and found it disappeared in the early Holocene, when temperatures were close to what we're predicted to reach by the end of...
Jan 07, 2026
Science history: Sophie Germain, first woman to win France's prestigious 'Grand Mathematics Prize' is snubbed when tickets to award ceremony are 'lost in the mail' — Jan. 9, 1816
Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France's most prestigious prizes, yet she declined to attend the award ceremony because the committee members didn't respect he...
Jan 09, 2026
Giant sunspot that triggered recent solar 'superstorm' shot out nearly 1,000 flares and a secret X-rated explosion, record-breaking study reveals
The massive sunspot that sparked an "extreme" geomagnetic storm in May 2024 unleashed hundreds of other dangerous solar flares, including a hidden X-class outburst, a new paper reveals. The study sets...
Jan 09, 2026
China's 'artificial sun' reactor shatters major fusion limit — a step closer to near-limitless clean energy
China's EAST nuclear fusion reactor has successfully kept plasma stable at extreme densities, passing a major fusion milestone and potentially bringing humanity closer to wielding near-limitless clean...
Jan 09, 2026
Astronomers may have already spotted the 'Great Comet of 2026' — and it could soon be visible to the naked eye
Recently discovered Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS) will make its closest approach to the sun and Earth in late April and could potentially be visible to the naked eye. It may end up being the brightest c...
Jan 12, 2026
Parkfield, San Andreas, and the quest for a 'crystal ball' for predicting earthquakes before they happen
A small town in California was hit by earthquakes once every 22 years for over a century, setting the stage for a major seismic experiment in the 1980s and 90s. But the quake ended up being 11 years l...
Jan 13, 2026
Mega-iceberg A23a, formerly the world's largest, turns into bright 'blue mush' as it finally dies after 40 years at sea
New satellite photos reveal that one of the world's largest and longest-lived icebergs, A23a, has developed vibrant blue striations on its surface. The striking snaps hint that the "megaberg" will soo...
Jan 13, 2026
'I'm disabled!' Woman screams as masked ICE agents pull her through car window
A woman who was reportedly attempting to drive to a doctor's appointment was pulled out of her vehicle by ICE agents and taken into custody during a disturbing incident captured on video Tuesday in Mi...
Jan 13, 2026
'Barbaric': Outrage after ICE agents drag screaming woman out of car window
The internet responded with outrage after a woman who was reportedly trying to drive to a doctor's appointment was pulled out of her vehicle by ICE agents and dragged into custody during a disturbing ...
Jan 13, 2026
Trump EPA sparks outrage after plan drops dollar value on lives saved by pollution rules
A Trump administration official lashed out Monday after leaked emails revealed the EPA plans to abandon its decades-old practice of assigning a dollar value to lives saved by pollution regulations — w...
Jan 13, 2026
Trump gives middle finger to worker shouting 'pedophile protector'
President Donald Trump gave the middle finger Tuesday to a worker screaming "pedophile protector" during a tour at a Detroit factory. Trump was touring a Ford F-150 plant in the Motor City just before...
Jan 13, 2026
Video catches Eric Adams after he allegedly threatens to punch woman 'in the face'
Former New York City Mayor Eric Adams reportedly threatened to punch a woman in the face on a flight.In a Reddit post on Tuesday, a witness said that Adams had reacted when the woman booed him on a fl...
Jan 13, 2026
Shocking shift as plurality of voters now want ICE abolished
President Donald Trump got a massive danger sign in a new poll released this week: for the first time, more voters support abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement than oppose doing so.This come...
Jan 13, 2026
‘That’s their problem’: Trump threatens Greenland's leader after vow to stay with Denmark
President Donald Trump threatened yet another foreign leader on Tuesday during a press gaggle at Joint Base Andrews after returning to Washington, D.C. from a brief trip to Detroit. Earlier in the day...
Jan 13, 2026
'He is thirsting': Trump's niece reveals what's driving her uncle's 'desperate' moves
President Donald Trump's niece revealed on Tuesday what is driving her uncle's recent spate of "desperate moves."Mary Trump, an author and psychologist, argued in a new Substack essay that the preside...
Jan 13, 2026