Lerone Martin, a prominent scholar of Black religious history, leads the Martin Luther King Jr Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. His new book, Young King: The Making of Martin Luther King Jr, grew from “professional and personal” roots. Professionally, Martin “started coming across things that I had never seen before” about the civil…
M.I.A. has responded to being dropped from Kid Cudi’s tour, telling people not to “gas light my words” after accusations of “offensive remarks”. Yesterday (May 4), Cudi announced that he had dropped her from his ongoing Rebel Ragers Tour after being “flooded with messages from fans” who had complained of statements made by M.I.A. as his opening act at two early…
An investigation is underway after a United Airlines flight destined for Newark Liberty International Airport on Sunday struck a light pole while landing, damaging the pole and a tractor-trailer traveling along the New Jersey Turnpike, the authorities said. The unidentified driver of the tractor-trailer was taken to a hospital with minor injuries and has since…
The Moon’s monthly orbit around Earth is slightly elliptical rather than circular, which means its distance from us varies and so not all full Moons are the same. When this year’s Flower Moon becomes full it will be close to its maximum distance from Earth – a point known as apogee. That means this year’s…
Researchers at MIT have identified an unexpected effect in optical physics that could lead to a faster and more detailed way to image living tissue. Under specific conditions, what normally looks like a scattered and disordered laser signal can reorganize itself into a narrow, highly focused “pencil beam.” With this self-formed beam, the team produced…
Sierra Smith holds her son, Travis, whose deafness was successfully treated with gene therapy. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals hide caption toggle caption Regeneron Pharmaceuticals The Food and Drug Administration approved the first gene therapy to restore hearing for people who were born deaf. The decision, while only immediately affecting people born with a very rare form of…
There are fashion obsessives, and then there’s Jean-Denis Franoux. A longtime fashion professor at Studio Berçot and a designer himself from 1994 to 2001, Franoux began collecting perfume bottles as a child before getting hooked on clothes. As a fashion student in Paris in 1990, he spent his spare francs at the Puces, then became…
Two billion years after the cosmos banged into existence, a mysterious force known as dark energy began shoving space outward, causing the universe to balloon faster and faster and threatening to one day rip apart everything within it, from clusters of galaxies to particles inside atoms. Astronomers have taken on the behemoth task of figuring…
Shorouk Express The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US The loved ones of the two students killed in the shooting at Brown University on Saturday have…
Shorouk Express In this week’s Inside Spain, we look at why the Spanish government doesn’t want people to write the woman’s name “Charo” online, and how many drivers in Spain are questioning why they have to spend €50 on the new mandatory V-16 light. The Spanish Ministry of Equality has launched an initiative to try…
