Brian Cox once toured as a keyboardist in major rock and pop bands. Now he’s a particle physicist on a new world tour with a ...

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One of the best songs from one of the best metal albums of 2025. No Loss, No Love veered from savagely heavy, pick-scraped ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has made multiple observations of exoplanet WASP-121 b, also known as Tylos. The extreme temperature changes the massive 'hot Jupiter'-type planet may make it rain iron at ...

Other acts that were part of our Latin Artist on the Rise series this year were Beéle, Yailin La Más Viral, Bebeshito and, ...

We are cavemen piloting a spaceship, driven by ancient fears in a world of technology. One resolution could change everything ...

As Stranger Things Season 5 prepares to close the door on Hawkins (and Upside Down) for the final time, Volume 2 arrives with more than just high-stakes battles and emotional goodbyes.

The River City is nothing if not consistent. The world could be on fire, and that cool hip-hop collective you’ve heard of would still release four albums in a single year. Half the city could be ...

Z-A The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy Top 10 Games 2025 Oh hey, it’s been a while since we did one of these. Actually, before we get to my favorite games of 2025, here were my favorite games of ...

Not all time capsules live up to expectations. For Smithtown, Long Island’s 350th birthday in 2015, officials clad in ...

Billy Steele, Deputy Editor, Reviews I didn’t discover Bandsplain in 2025, but I definitely listened to it more than any ...

This is what the Defector staff listened to and enjoyed this year. From the Pyre, by The Last Dinner Party In a year where ...