Your Fault: London Finally Confirms Release Date as Intense Trailer Lands
Prime Video announced that the second English‑language adaptation of Mercedes Ron’s Culpables trilogy, "Your Fault: London," will debut worldwide on June 17, 2024. The sequel reunites Matthew Broome and Asha Banks as Nick and Noah while introducing four new characters, expanding the series’ romantic‑drama arc. Filmed back‑to‑back with the forthcoming "Our Fault: London," the release follows the strong performance of the first installment, "My Fault: London," which remains available on the platform. An intense trailer highlights the couple’s looming relationship challenges as Noah heads to Oxford and Nick faces work pressures.
Your Brain Can Learn Things When You’re Unconscious
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine discovered that human hippocampal neurons can learn and process language while patients are under propofol anesthesia. Using Neuropixels probes, they showed neurons improve detection of oddball tones within ten minutes and respond to grammatical...
Billy Idol Set For American Music Awards’ Lifetime Achievement Honor
Billy Idol, newly announced as a 2026 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 52nd American Music Awards. The ceremony, hosted by Queen Latifah, airs live from Las Vegas on May 25 via CBS and...
Alix Higgins Turns Australian Fashion Week Into an Intimate Studio for Resort 2027
Sydney designer Alix Higgins unveiled his Resort 2027 collection at Australian Fashion Week, converting the China Heights Gallery into an immersive studio space. The show, his fifth at the event, featured collaborative prints with artist Daniel Faust, recycled fabrics and...
Touch Girl Apple Blossom
Touch Girl Apple Blossom, an Austin‑based indie pop quartet, debuted its first album "Graceful" in 2026. The record mixes jangly C86‑era twee with a punchy punk undercurrent, highlighted by Olivia Garner’s airy vocals and John Morales’s distorted guitars. The band...
MoMA PS1 Launches $0 ‘Greater New York’ Survey, Showcasing 53 Artists Through August 2026
MoMA PS1 opened its sixth ‘Greater New York’ survey on April 16, 2026, presenting 53 artists across media. Curated by Ruba Katrib and Connie Butler, the show offers a five‑year pulse check on the city’s art world amid rising rents...
Henry Parker – The Dark Peak
Yorkshire guitarist Henry Parker released his self‑produced album The Dark Peak on May 1, 2026. The record captures eighteen minutes of solo acoustic guitar recorded on the Peak District moors, interwoven with ambient wildlife sounds. The CD/LP adds a bonus track, extending...
Princeton's Yiyun Li Wins 2026 Pulitzer for Memoir "Things in Nature Merely Grow"
Princeton University professor Yiyun Li was awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir for her book *Things in Nature Merely Grow*. The memoir, a stark account of losing two sons to suicide, also earned a Time 100 honor and multiple...
Soltera & Sonido Sex, “Soltera Y Su Sonido Sexual”
Los Angeles duo Soltera & Sonido Sex released their debut album *Soltera y Su Sonido Sexual*, a 9‑track blend of punk, techno and drum‑and‑bass that foregrounds queer and Latine perspectives. The record, issued through their Casa/Teca collective, revisits earlier songs and adds high‑profile collaborations with...
How Distressing Material Shapes Investigator Well-Being
The podcast spotlights Dr. Fazeelat Duran’s first longitudinal study of secondary investigators and analysts in UK law enforcement, tracking their mental health from onboarding through 18 months. While participants reported little distress at six months, the study documented sharp rises...
'Setting the Standard': Okla. City Diverts over 6,000 Mental Health 911 Calls in First Year of Program
Tulsa’s 911 call center partnered with Family & Children’s Services’ COPES program, diverting over 6,600 mental‑health calls in its first year. About 90% of those calls were resolved entirely by a rotating team of five clinicians. The initiative saved roughly...
$64 Million Worth of Rolls-Royce One-Offs Arrive in London: Boat Tail, Droptail, Goldfinger Phantom
Three ultra‑exclusive Rolls‑Royce one‑offs – the $30 million Droptail, the $28 million Boat Tail and the $6 million Goldfinger Phantom – were photographed cruising down London’s The Mall, representing a combined $64 million in new‑car sales. The Droptail draws on the 1912 Silver Ghost...
Track Premiere: Fimbul Winter – “Crowned In Ash”
Swedish supergroup Fimbul Winter, featuring three former Amon Amarth members, has dropped the single “Crowned In Ash,” the follow‑up to their 2025 debut EP *What Once Was*. The track showcases aggressive melodic death metal with soaring leads, thunderous drums, and Clint Williams’...
Track Premiere: Getting Cosmic with The Conflux Collective’s “In the Wake of Saturn”
The Conflux Collective, a Montreal‑based supergroup of technical death‑metal veterans, announced the June 19 release of its debut full‑length, In the Wake of Saturn. The band unveiled the album’s lead single, “Reincarnation,” accompanied by a lyric‑visualizer video. Featuring guitarist Chase Fraser...
Half of Older Americans Are Unfulfilled. Their Doctors Can’t See It
A CenterWell study of more than 6,600 adults aged 62 and older found that 46% lack a basic sense of purpose, wholeness and connection—what researchers call fulfillment. Physical health accounted for only 14% of the fulfillment score, while purpose, optimism...
INTERVIEW: Basement On Biding Time, Handling Virality & New Album ‘WIRED’
British rock trio Basement has broken an eight‑year silence with their new album “WIRED,” a record that blends their classic sound with fresh grit and tenderness. Vocalist Andrew Fisher describes a creative process rooted in honest collaboration, deliberately shunning trend‑chasing...
Solar‑Powered Skydweller Drone Sets Jumbo‑Jet Wingspan Record Before Water Ditching Crash
Skydweller Aero’s solar‑powered Skydweller drone flew for eight days and 14 minutes, eclipsing all previous drone and crewed aircraft records, before a controlled water ditching off the coast of Mexico caused it to sink. The loss underscores both the promise...
Microplastics May Be an Even Bigger Problem Than We Thought
New research highlighted by the Washington Post links microplastics to climate warming, adding a global dimension to 3D‑printing waste. Desktop and industrial printers generate a variety of plastic scraps—failed prints, support structures, purge towers, and resin residues—that eventually become microplastics....
IP Bay Launches Studio to Adapt Japanese Literature for Western Screens at Cannes
Yasuo Matsuo, Jun Matsuo and Frankie Seratch have unveiled IP Bay, a new global studio focused on adapting Japanese literary properties for Western screens. The venture made its market debut at the Cannes Film Market, where Japan is the 2026...
Flexible Carbon Nanotube Transistors Hit 152 GHz fT, Paving Way for 6G Wearables
A research team unveiled flexible radio‑frequency transistors built from aligned carbon nanotube arrays that achieve a peak extrinsic current‑gain cutoff (fT) of 152 GHz and a power‑gain cutoff (fmax) of 102 GHz, while consuming under 200 mW per millimeter. The breakthrough, enabled by...
The Hidden Scheduling Discipline Behind Top CEOs
Top CEOs protect calendar whitespace with six disciplined tactics, treating unbooked time as a strategic asset rather than a scheduling flaw. Harvard Business Review research links 30% unstructured time to higher innovation output, prompting leaders like Satya Nadella and Laura...
KPop Demon Hunters Set to Tour Arenas Globally
AEG Presents and Netflix announced the KPop Demon Hunters World Tour, bringing the hit Netflix film to arena stages worldwide. The movie, the platform’s most‑watched release, and its soundtrack, which topped the Billboard 200 and earned a Grammy, have generated...
Perfect Spacewalk Glove Fit Requires Custom Modeling, Trimmed Nails
Testing the fit of spacewalking gloves. My hands are in a low-pressure chamber, to see if the gloves will bulge too much during a spacewalk. I was lucky - when @nasa was making the new gloves, my hands were used...
Forbidden Fruit 2026 Is Sold Out - Here's the Full Festival Lineup, New Acts and Night Info
Forbidden Fruit 2026, Dublin’s flagship electronic music festival, sold out ahead of the May 30‑31 bank‑holiday weekend at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. The 14‑year‑old event unveiled a packed lineup featuring headliners Kaytranada, Kettala, Nia Archives and Joy Crookes, alongside new...
Teaching Kids to Quit When It's Wrong, Not Hard
Say it with me: It's ok to allow my child to quit something that they genuinely hate. That's not me raising a quitter. It's teaching them the difference between hard and wrong for them.
Stop Overlooking This Vitamin When It Comes To Muscle Health
New research from Cornell and the University of Alabama at Birmingham shows that vitamin B12 deficiency impairs muscle mitochondria, reducing energy output by roughly 25% in mice. Deficient animals also exhibited a tenfold increase in mitochondrial DNA errors, while weekly...
Building Rhea's Factory: How AI-Designed Enzymes Could Finally Solve Plastic Recycling
Rhea's Factory, a startup founded by molecular biologist Arzu Sandıkçı and ex‑Google product manager Mert Topcu, is leveraging AI‑driven protein language models to engineer enzymes that can break common plastics back to their original monomers. Their platform evolved from a...
May 14, 1973: Skylab Launches
On May 14, 1973, NASA launched Skylab, the United States' first space station, weighing 170,000 lb, the heaviest payload ever sent to orbit. Within a minute, the micrometeoroid/thermal shield ripped away, damaging both solar arrays and causing temperature spikes. After an 11‑day delay...
Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Painter and Activist, 1942–2026
Renowned painter and civil‑rights activist Mary Lovelace O’Neal died at 84. A Howard University alum and Columbia MFA graduate, she pioneered the lamp‑black abstract series and later incorporated color inspired by California and Morocco. In 1985 she became the first...
The Weird, Wild Story of Humanity’s Obsession with Gold
A newly released book maps humanity’s centuries‑long fascination with gold, tracing its role from ancient temples to modern portfolios. It highlights a vivid anecdote from Lloyd Blankfein, who as a rookie trader in the 1980s bought a kilogram of the...
Life Share Wild Grasses Single
Life’s newest single, “Wild Grasses,” marks a stylistic shift for the post‑punk outfit, marrying an acoustic‑ballad intro with synth‑laden, thumping drums. The track showcases stretched, stomping vocals and a bobbing bass that give it an off‑kilter, dynamic feel. It serves...
Two UMG Partnerships Focus on Mental Health for Musicians
Universal Music Group announced two new mental‑health partnerships. It will work with Amber Health to provide counseling and related services to its North American artists, songwriters, and UMG staff. UMG also became a founding member of Project Healthy Minds' workforce...
Hot
I wrote about a phenomenon in literary adaptations that I refer to as hot-washing. lithub.com/hollywood-ne...
Calorie Restriction: Largest Non‑Genetic Lifespan Boost Discovered
In the 1930s, Clive McCay at Cornell University discovered what would later turn out to be the largest non-genetic lifespan extension ever seen in animals. McCay noticed that rats stayed healthier and lived significantly longer when they were fed less food...
Why Triathletes Need to Spend 70-85% of Training Minutes in Zone 2
Triathletes are advised to spend roughly 70‑85% of their weekly training minutes in Zone 2, the intensity just below the first lactate threshold (LT1). This low‑to‑moderate effort maximizes aerobic metabolism, prompting mitochondrial growth and more efficient ATP production. By strengthening the...
This Petite Chelsea Apartment Is Packed With Personality
New York designer William Cullum turned his 450‑square‑foot Chelsea studio into a vibrant, history‑laden residence after purchasing the 1938 Emery Roth building in 2021. He commissioned a custom mural and incorporated gold‑tile accents, personal symbols, and rare antiques to celebrate...
Molecules Emerge as a New Kind of Building Block for Quantum Computers
NVision Quantum Technologies announced a $55 million Series B round and published a preprint showing optical control of quantum information in a single carbene molecule. The researchers demonstrated that the molecule’s electron spin remains coherent for over 2 milliseconds at 4 kelvins and emits...
First Trailer and Poster for Shark Thriller CHUM, Starring Alice Eve
The upcoming survival thriller *Chum* arrives in U.S. theaters on June 5, starring Alice Eve and directed by Jonathan Zuck. Co‑written with Joe Leone, the film follows a newlywed wedding party that becomes shark bait for a psychopathic fisherman. The story unfolds...
Paul Simon Live at the Royal Albert Hall – Classics Old and New, Stunningly Reimagined by a Band of Light-Touch...
Paul Simon, 84, continues his world tour with a 12‑piece ensemble at London’s Royal Albert Hall, delivering two full sets that blend new material from his 2023 album Seven Psalms with re‑imagined classics. Despite significant hearing loss in his left...
Notice Your Body’s Reaction to Late‑Night Phone Use
Do you reach for your phone in the middle of the night? And have you ever stopped to notice how it actually makes you feel? Mindfulness teacher Cara Lai has a simple practice: pay attention to how your body feels...
Senolytic ABT‑263 Cuts Lung Inflammation, Flu Severity in Aged Mice
Senolytic Treatment Reduces Acute and Chronic Lung Inflammation in an Aged Mouse Model of Influenza "Overall, ABT-263 therapy partially mitigates influenza severity in aged mice, primarily through dampening acute and chronic inflammation. Most of these effects were age-dependent, suggesting a role...
BeOne Wins Mantle Cell Lymphoma Approval, Opening New Therapy Class
The FDA granted accelerated approval to BeOne Medicines’ BCL2 inhibitor sonrotoclax, marketed as Beqalzi, for patients with relapsed or refractory mantle‑cell lymphoma who have failed at least two prior therapies, including a BTK inhibitor. The drug is the first BCL2...
Prioritize Leg Day Even After 25 Years Lifting
You nailed it. I've definitely skipped a lot of leg days in my career. I'll try to be better. And thanks for letting me know what a 44yo father of three should prioritize after 25 years of lifting. https://t.co/WA1QZGKlr4
Discussing Yu Su’s Groundbreaking Album ‘Foundry’
I had a fantastic time talking to Yu Su (@yuyuyvr) about her incredible new album Foundry, on Short Span https://t.co/okJ44mKCmk
EU Unveils $6.5B Global Health Resilience Initiative for Worldwide Security
The European Commission rolled out a Global Health Resilience Initiative, committing over €6 billion (about $6.5 billion) to reinforce health sovereignty in partner countries, streamline the multilateral health architecture and mobilise private capital for pandemic preparedness.
Honest Communication Grows Relationships, Even Through Mistakes
Dads, every relationship grows from honest communication—even through mistakes. Discover more real talk in the latest episode: https://t.co/I2VMsfZyYx #RealDadMoment
Chemo-Free Padcev‑Keytruda Shows Promise for Cis‑eligible Patients
$AZN Volga might have matched $MRK $PFE KN-905 in cis-ineligible patients, but here comes chemo-free Padcev + Keytruda in the cis-eligible setting. Via @ApexOnco -> https://t.co/KmwCfgZLBm
Sleep Tourism Booms as Travelers Prioritize Rest, $690B Market Grows
Travelers are flocking to sleep‑focused vacations, driving a $690 billion global market that analysts expect to add $400 billion by 2028. Hotels and wellness resorts are rolling out smart beds, blackout rooms and sleep‑coaching programs to meet demand.
New Review Dismisses Quantum Consciousness Claims, Fuels Spirituality Debate
Researchers Xun Ma and Aoping Wang of Xiamen University published a comprehensive review in Frontiers in Psychology that concludes no quantum‑based theory of consciousness has yet met the rigorous scientific standards required to explain subjective experience. The paper reignites the...
TESS Reanalysis Finds 10,091 New Exoplanet Candidates, Doubling Known Count
The T16 project’s machine‑learning overhaul of NASA’s TESS archive has identified 10,091 new exoplanet candidates, a haul that could more than double the catalog of confirmed worlds. The find reshapes target lists for upcoming telescopes and deepens statistical studies of...