This spring, TASCHEN releases 'Ai Weiwei. Updated Edition,' with a new decade's work included. Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article A Newly Updated
A familiar scene returned to Khartoum as men gathered in the streets of the war-scarred Sudanese capital to break their fast on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. It was here that fighting first erupted in April 2023 between the army and the paramilitary Rapid
A list of all the media (movies, books, TV shows, plays, etc.) consumed by Steven Soderbergh in 2025 .
For the first time, an international team of astronomers have mapped the vertical structure of Uranus's upper atmosphere, uncovering how temperature and charged particles vary with height across the planet. Using Webb's NIRSpec instrument, the team observed Uranus for nearly a
The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Tuesday proposed a new rule barring undocumented immigrants from living in subsidized properties, attempting to eliminate mixed-status households. The proposed rule would require every household resident to provide proof
Strong social networking plays an important role in human relationships. New research on female red deer shows that those bonds are also crucial for their reproductive success and survival. The study, which looked at more than 40 years of data for free-ranging adult female red
The company says it has addressed the issue and it "did not provide anyone access to information they weren't already authorised to see".
The Epic Games Store has a selection of free games for a limited time that changes every every week.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) said sweeps of improvised homeless encampments in the city will restart, according to The Associated Press. Mamdani paused former Mayor Eric Adams’s previous policy on encampment sweeps shortly after his inauguration, according to the AP,
Boeing is moving its defense and space business headquarters from Virginia to St. Louis, Mo., a move the company touted as a way to be closer to teammates. Boeing has more than 18,000 employees in the St. Louis area, where they manufacture military aircraft, munitions and
A group of eight Democratic U.S. senators sent a letter to David Ellison, chairman and CEO of Paramount Skydance, asking that he “preserve all records related to the proposed Paramount-Warner Bros. Discovery transaction” — and demanding answers about how his company has
A federal arts panel appointed by President Trump signed off on Trump's plan to construct a new 90,000-square-foot ballroom on the East Wing of the White House, according to The Associated Press. Six of the seven members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (CFA) gave final
Trump ally Sen. Pete Ricketts is supporting his wife, Susanne Shore, in her run as a Democrat for the University of Nebraska Board of Regents.
The developers of upcoming management tycoon PC game Transport Fever 3 want to avoid any possible negative association from generative AI
That the universe is expanding has been known for almost a hundred years now, but how fast? The exact rate of that expansion remains hotly debated, even challenging the standard model of cosmology. A research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Ludwig
Ming-Na Wen, Jennifer Beals and Hubert Smielecki have been cast as Greek gods in Season 3 of “Percy Jackson and the Olympians.” Wen will guest star as Hera, who is described as “queen of Olympus, and wife to Zeus. She is the goddess of marriage and family so the infidelity of
The president appears to be tying the future of vital infrastructure, a public good, to the promotion of his name.
Where’d you get that frog? The post The Dark Side of the Illicit Pet Frog Trade appeared first on Nautilus .
Audra McDonald and Joy Reid are among the 2026 New York Women in Film & Television Muse Award honorees. Dedicated to celebrating women in film, television, music, and media, the awards ceremony will be held on March 20 at Cipriani 42nd St. in New York City. A Tony, Emmy, and
West Virginia in a new lawsuit is accusing Apple of knowingly permitting its iCloud platform to be used to store and distribute child sexual abuse material. The state’s attorney general, John McCuskey, filed the complaint in the Circuit Court of Mason County on Thursday,
David Fincher's 1999 cult classic movie Fight Club is returning to theaters for one night only, ahead of the film's upcoming 4K Blu-ray release
DNA is the blueprint of life. Genes encode proteins and serve as the body's basic components. However, building a functioning organism also requires precise instructions about when, where, and how much those components should be produced.
The U.S. military leader overseeing operations and forces in Latin America met with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez in Caracas on Wednesday, as the Trump administration continues to forge ties with the Venezuelan government after the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
"When this loser Springsteen comes back home to his own City of Ruins in his head, he’ll realize his Glory Days are behind him," spokesperson Steven Cheung insisted
Also, we find out why Woody is back despite the end of Toy Story 4
This article, first published by Pacific Forum, is republished with permission. China’s response to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s November 7, 2025, remarks to the Diet that a “survival-threatening situation” for Japan could arise in a “Taiwan contingency” has largely been
Unlike King Charles I, who was arrested in 1647, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor will not be executed. But his legal woes and ties to Jeffrey Epstein threaten to damage the royal family.
[Nile Post] The formal launch of Live54+ marks a significant development in the maturation of Africa's creative industries from culturally influential but structurally fragmented enterprises into a consolidated, investment-grade platform.
A research team at the IPK Leibniz Institute has developed a method that enables the detailed observation of female meiosis—the process by which germ cells are formed—in the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana. The FeM-ID (Female Meiotic cell IDentification) method overcomes a
Last November, Rostam teased a new era. His new album American Stories, the follow-up to 2021’s Changephobia, is coming out sometime this year. But before he’s moving forward, he’s looking back. Today the former Vampire Weekend member officially shared the original version of
Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts (Neb.) has endorsed his wife, Susanne Shore, who’s campaigning for a seat on the University of Nebraska Board of Regents as a Democrat. The couple has traditionally dueled over which party’s candidate should rise to state leadership and both have
The Brattle theater is playing what they call the Ultimate Double Feature : “we play the first movie up until the point when the characters enter a cinema to watch a different film”, then play the entirety of that 2nd film, then finish up the 1st film.
The first meeting of Trump’s new "Board of Peace" took place on Thursday, bringing together some two dozen allies from across the world in Washington.
Many physicists are searching for a triplet superconductor. Indeed, we could all do with one, although we may not know it yet—or understand why. Triplet superconductors could be the key to achieving the most energy-efficient technology in the future.
World of Warcraft's controversial restriction of combat mods can't be understood without new talents and content from next expansion, say developers
12:30 Report is The Hill's midday newsletter. Subscribe here. Happy Thursday! It’s remarkable how warm 43 degrees and cloudy can feel after the frigid winter we’ve had. Think the groundhog wants to have a change of heart over this year’s prediction? In today's issue:
They survived Russian imprisonment, torture and sexual violence. In "Traces", seven Ukrainian women tell their story - and transform pain into strength. A documentary about war crimes, dignity and the fight for justice.
Excellent in many regards, but it's got some stiff competition to worry about.
