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NewsSchoolboy Q Announces New Album Blue LipsThe Top Dawg Entertainment rapper is looking to release his Crash Talk follow-up on March 1By Matthew StraussFebruary 1, 2024FacebookXSchoolboy Q, photo by Bethany VargasFacebookXSchoolboy Q is on his way back. The Top Dawg Entertainment rapper has shared the tracklist for his new album, Blue Lips, and indicated that it will arrive on March 1. See the tracklist trailer below.Schoolboy Q has been relatively quiet since releasing his fifth studio album, Crash Talk, in April 2019. Prominently, he was on “Pac-Man,” with Gorillaz, in 2020, and “Gang Signs,” with Freddie Gibbs, in 2021. He…

In this courtroom sketch, former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as his attorney Alina Habba delivers closing arguments during E. Jean Carroll’s second civil trial in which Carroll accused Trump of raping her decades ago, at Manhattan Federal Court in New York City on Jan. 26, 2024.Jane Rosenberg | ReutersA verdict in the New York civil business fraud trial of former President Donald Trump — which had been anticipated Wednesday — is now expected to arrive in early to mid-February, a court spokesman said.That new timeline for the written decision by Judge Arthur Engoron is still a “rough estimate”…

ORLANDO, Fla. — More than 40 members of Congress from California have asked the White House to reverse cuts NASA has imposed on the Mars Sample Return (MSR) program, warning of job losses and a “decade of lost science.” The Feb. 1 letter to Shalanda Young, director of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, marks an escalation of an earlier request by many of the same members in November to NASA Administrator Bill Nelson to undo a slowdown in spending in MSR prompted by uncertainty in fiscal year 2024 appropriations. The letter was led by Reps. Judy Chu…

Launching rockets into space with atomic bombs is a crazy idea that was thankfully discarded many decades ago. But as Richard Corfield discovers, the potential of using the energy from nuclear-powered engines to drive space travel is back on NASA’s agenda Going nuclear America’s DRACO rocket will use the heat from a fission reactor to propel it into space. (Courtesy: Lockheed Martin) In 1914 H G Wells published The World Set Free, a novel based on the notion that radium might one day power spaceships. Wells, who was familiar with the work of physicists such as Ernest Rutherford, knew that…

Data scientist and artificial-intelligence researcher Azadeh Keivani talks to Tushna Commissariat about her journey from astronomy to healthcare, co-founding an educational non-profit organization and her work in outreach Interdisciplinary achiever Azadeh Keivani turned her sights from astrophysics to data science in healthcare, while also founding an educational non-profit organization. (Courtesy: Ashkan Balouchi) Astrophysicist turned data scientist Azadeh Keivani has had an unusual career journey. From an early interest in astronomy as a high school student in Iran, she moved to the US to complete a PhD and postdoc in cosmic rays and particle astrophysics, and now develops machine-learning techniques across healthcare,…

Tushna Commissariat and Sarah Tesh outline what’s on offer in Physics World Careers 2024 – your comprehensive, free-to-read, 106-page guide that has all the help you’ll need to fuel your career in physics Countless options Some physicists will go into academia, but others will join commerce and industry, bringing cutting-edge, physics-based technology to consumers. Others will become engineers, patent officers or teachers. Or they might find themselves working in the worlds of IT, finance or publishing. From green energy to data science, there is a world of opportunity out there. (Courtesy: Shutterstock/theromb) Making decisions about your career can be an exciting process,…

MIT geologists have found that tectonic activity gives rise to smectite, a type of clay that can sequester a surprising amount of organic carbon within its microscopic folds (shown here), over millions of years. (Courtesy: Anthony Priestas, Boston University) Geologists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the US have discovered a connection between two important theories of Earth’s long-term climate history. The first is that exposure of fast-weathering rocks called ophiolites correlates with the climate getting colder. The second is that as mountains erode into the sea, carbon becomes buried under the water. Both phenomena can cause large-scale…

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and proton beam therapy are two powerful techniques of medical physics. The former gives us real-time images of internal structures of the body, and the latter can deliver a high dose of radiation to a tumour while reducing the damage to surrounding healthy tissue. In this episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast, the medical physicist Aswin Hoffmann talks about a research initiative in Germany that is combining the two techniques to achieve high-precision radiation therapy. The work is being done at the Center for Innovation in Radiation Oncology (OncoRay) in Dresden and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf.…

Ripples in space: LISA will consist of three identical satellites placed in an equilateral triangle in space, with each side of the triangle being 2.5 million kilometers – more than six times the distance between the Earth and the Moon (courtesy: EADS Astrium). The European Space Agency (ESA) has formally approved the start of construction for its space-based gravitational-wave mission. Work on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will begin in January 2025 once an industry partner has been chosen to build the craft. LISA, which is estimated to cost €1.5bn, is expected to launch in 2035 and operate for…

Big-science facilities are often associated with fundamental research. You might picture scientists hunting for elementary particles, or searching to understand the nature of dark matter. But some facilities – especially high-energy physics labs – are also turning their focus to practical applications of quantum physics. The opportunities for science, industry and society are vast. That’s the theme of a new special issue of Physics World called �Big Science, Quantum Advantage”. Free-to-access now, the issue profiles some of the latest developments in Europe, the US and China. Watch this short video to discover more.

Growing up, I often thought of my mother as a collector of people. She collected people the way other people collect things. So it was never just us five—my parents and their three girls. Instead, people appeared, staying for various periods and disappearing: the live-in helpers; teens and young women my mother helped through some difficulty or family crisis; boarders who lived in our home and attended a neighborhood high school or community college; the gardener’s children who spent weekends and summer holidays with us and who my sisters and I helped with reading and math, much the same way…

The first page of Hisham Matar’s latest novel is so emotionally perplexing, so masterfully crafted that I promptly screenshot and sent it to several reader friends. My Friends begins with the end. Two old friends are parting ways, and we are left wondering about the weight on their chests, all the unsaid. Khaled, the narrator, is a young Libyan who moves to the U.K. to attend college, but taking part in anti-Qaddafi protests in London dramatically alters the course of his life. Fellow student Mustafa and older writer Hosam, both also Libyans, become companions in his forced exile. The narrative…

Around 15 years ago my friend Erik interrupted me while I was talking about my workday to say, “Stop being boring.” He was always a bit brash and maybe my feelings were a little hurt, but it became lore, a story I told about him. With time and distance, I can see that he was right. I have historically conceived of myself as my job. For years I was a property manager, and after work I would talk about tenants and owners and vendors, describing phone calls and apartments in detail to friends over drinks. Then I was a graduate…

Her Baby Is a Stranger She Doesn’t Want to Know Mario Giannone Share article The Box Where Baby Slept by Mario Giannone Mirna caught Piss Pants hanging around her car when she returned from the superstore. His pants were soaked as usual, but it was hard to tell if the stains were old or from a more recent incident. For as long as Mirna had been living out of her car in the parking lot of the abandoned Spring River Shopping Center, Piss Pants had been sneaking over to wave at Mirna’s baby. The baby wailed at the strange man.…

In January 2020, Bookshop.org was created as an online retail alternative to Amazon. Since then, the platform has raised more than $29 million for local bookstores. The books we feature on the site link directly to Bookshop, with 10% of the profit from each sale going to support our mission as a literary nonprofit.  In celebration of Bookshop’s 4th anniversary, we’ve decided to look back at the 10 most purchased books on our website. The books that our readers bought are a diverse mix, spanning countries such as Chile, India, and Ireland and genres including graphic novels, political histories, and…

Every five weeks or so, I look over at her and whine, “I think I wanna go on T.” Usually, we’re in the car; I’m driving. Sometimes we’re walking out of the grocery store. Occasionally she finds me in the bathroom, stuck in front of the sink, squinting at my chin. A year ago, this announcement would make her tense up: her shoulders might have jumped half an inch toward her ears and the trace of blue in her neck would spasm like a fish quivering under a thin sheet of ice. Then I had top surgery. After ferrying me…

In the U.S., immigrant and citizen migrant farm laborers work behind the scenes every day to ensure the planting, harvest, and shipment of the food and other agricultural products we rely on. Their work is an essential part of our daily lives—breakfast, lunch, and dinner—but their voices don’t usually get a seat at our tables.  We had the great honor of co-editing a portfolio of writing and art from twenty-seven contributors with roots in the farmworker community. It was recently published in print and online in The Common magazine, and a celebration with farmworker readers was held at Skylight Books…

Be a Woman, Be Yourself, Be Miserable B Back at his place, he showed me pictures of his ex-girlfriend, and I talked to him about Lars. Back home, I just lay in my room alone and masturbated, content with my mediocrity. Bad metaphor, humans as machines. Bah. Bakery in Berlin. Basically it’s a crazy year, that’s what Claire said, this is going to be a crazy year. Be a pro, Lemons said. Be a woman. Be an individual, he suggested. Be bald-faced and strange. Be calm. Be cautious with your money. Be clean and attractive. Be comfortable and assured and…