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Demonstrators danced to Public Enemy’s “Fight the Power” and marchers chanted Ludacris’ “Move b—-, get out the way” to officers during recent protests. That hip-hop should emerge as the soundtrack to the current unrest is no surprise – rappers have been drawing our attention to police brutality for decades. As Tyina Steptoe of University of Arizona writes, the rich history of protest in Black American music stretches back to the beginning of
the blues.
In other news, could there really be life on Pluto? NASA’s recent New Horizons mission has unveiled that Pluto is in fact a fascinating world. A new study suggests it has had a warm interior ever since it formed, and may still have a liquid, internal ocean under its icy crust that may be able to support life. So could we find living creatures beneath the thick ice crusts of these remote worlds? We certainly can’t rule it out.
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Rapper YG, center in white, at a June 7 protest over the death of George Floyd.
AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez
Tyina Steptoe, University of Arizona
Rap songs from Public Enemy and Ludacris have been heard at marches over the killing of George Floyd. But the history of Black American music as a form of protest dates back to the 19th century.
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Pluto, with its basin Sputnik Planitia on the right.
NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Alex Parker
David Rothery, The Open University
Pluto began hot inside, study of its surface fractures suggests
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Science + Technology
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Robin Beck, University of Salford; Julien Louys, Griffith University; Mike Archer, UNSW; Philippa Brewer, Natural History Museum
The extinct _Mukupirna_ - which translates to 'big bones' - is estimated to have been more than four times larger than any living wombat.
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Hemant Khanna, University of Massachusetts Medical School
Strategies to cure various types of blindness are looking more plausible after a series of recent breakthroughs using gene editing and gene therapy.
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COVID19
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Melissa Hawkins, American University
People are turning to quarantine bubbles as a way to see friends and family while limiting the risk from the coronavirus. Research shows that this can work, but it's not easy to be in a quaranteam.
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Monica Gandhi, University of California, San Francisco
There is a lot of confusion and concern around asymptomatic spread of SARS-C0V-2. An infectious disease expert explains how many people are asymptomatic and how they can spread the virus.
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David C Gaze, University of Westminster
There is a relationship between vitamin D and COVID-19, but taking too many supplements can be toxic.
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Olga Perski, UCL; David Simons, Royal Veterinary College
Balancing the benefits and harms of face-mask wearing.
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