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Scientists discover mysterious “lonely” brain waves linked to memory loss
Scientists have uncovered a surprising link between Alzheimer’s-related protein buildup, disrupted brain waves during deep sleep, and fading memory. The findings suggest that hidden changes in how the brain processes memories overnight may contribute to age-related memory loss long before Alzheimer’s symptoms appear.
A clever molecular trick unlocks previously impossible properties in glass
Scientists have discovered how to reprogram the internal structure of glass using a special molecule that rearranges chemical bonds while lowering the melting temperature. The breakthrough could unlock entirely new glass materials with precisely controlled magnetic and optical properties, opening possibilities for advanced electronics, sensors, and other technologies.
Empowering frontline health workers to detect outbreaks earlier
To spot health threats quickly and respond before they spread, these workers need the skills to identify risks, understand local health challenges and work together effectively. To strengthen these skills, the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a series of trainings and simulation exercises in August 2026.
MLB lockout tracker: What CBA talks mean for Phillies baseball
From a proposed salary cap to free agency and playoff changes, follow every development before the current CBA expires Dec. 1.
Game Preview: Boston Bruins @ Pittsburgh Penguins 11/5/2026
Who: Boston Bruins (11-4-1, 23 points, 1st place Atlantic Division) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (5-8-2, 12 points, 7th place Metropolitan Division) When: 7:00 p.m. eastern How to Watch: Locally televised game on Sportsnet Pittsburgh and NESN, streaming for out of market at ESPN+ Pens’ Path Ahead: California awaits, the Pens head out west for the next three […]
Tampa Bay Buccaneers news: Bucs getting ready for Bears
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are battling against the Chicago Bears in Week 9’s edition of Sunday Night Football.
Phillies News: Dave Dombrowski, Cristopher Sánchez, Albert Pujols
Will we see some action soon?
2026 NFL Week 9: Hart’s Picks
Mile High Report’s Christopher Hart predicts the straight-up winners for every Week 9 matchup of the 2026 season.
Mary Means Business: Quirky Audacious Goods opening this month
For Shannon Voges-Haupt, her latest entrepreneurial venture might seem niche at first glance, but she promises there is a little something for everyone.
Cristiano Ronaldo confirms retirement from international soccer
After years of spending time and elevating the Portuguese national team, Cristiano Ronaldo is done with international soccer . Ronaldo was a part of the Portuguese team for almost 23 years and represented the squad in 6 FIFA World Cups (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022, and 2026). Amid his ongoing suspension and miscommunication with manager Jorge […] The post Cristiano Ronaldo confirms retirement from international soccer appeared first on ClutchPoints.
3 things I learned about caring for my mother with Alzheimer's
Karen Finocchio, whose mother showed signs of Alzheimer's at 54, reflects on the positive things she did and those she wish she'd done differently.
Accel Entertainment: The Chicago Green Light
Accel Entertainment remains a Buy with a $15–$16 price target, driven by strong earnings and the Chicago VGT rollout greenlight. Read more on ACEL stock here.
Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
Discord is moving its apps fully over to the Rust programming language.
Healthcare powers Democrats’ midterm rout: 4 takeaways
Voters sent a strong rebuke of the GOP health agenda on Tuesday night as Democrats took control of both chambers of Congress, rejecting Republicans who pushed sweeping healthcare cuts.
Fate/EXTRA Record characters trailer
Publisher Aniplex and developers Meteorise and TYPE-MOON have released a new trailer for Fate/EXTRA Record, introducing Lil’ Ronnie Faction characters Lil’ Ronnie and her Servant.
Award-winning Women in Natural Sciences program spins off from Academy of Natural Sciences and Drexel
The program led to a 100% high school graduation rate and more than 96% college attendance for Philadelphia students.
Interview: SU political science professor Grant Reeher talks Election Day aftermath
SYRACUSE., N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — After speaking with NewsChannel 9 just before the 2026 election, Syracuse University political science professor Grant Reeher talked about the impact of the results. Watch ...
Columbia County students explore health care careers
EVANS, Ga (WJBF)- More than 400 high school students are getting a closer look at what a future in health care could look like. The Columbia County school district is connecting students with local…
Unfinished business for Cantero as Pearson chases a Chilean double
Last Sunday in San Pedro de la Paz, five men came off the bike together and only 44 seconds separated them at the line. Seven days later, almost all of them…
ID@Xbox Deep Discounts Sale now live with over 800 indie game deals
The ID@Xbox Deep Discounts Sale is now up and running on the Microsoft Store, offering a bevy of big discounts across a bunch of indie games.
Compass Box ends Hedonism series
Scotch whisky maker Compass Box has announced that the 2026 edition of Hedonism will be the final release in the annual series.
Vail Resorts facing a proxy fight over its board, business strategy
Oasis Management, which owns 10% of the resort operator’s stock, is calling for a strategic shift, saying “Vail Resorts has gone downhill”.
Entertainment venue InteractX now open in Cedar Park
The business features 11 challenge rooms and over 45 games that combine physical activity, technology, teamwork and friendly competition, a company representative said in a news release.
What State Street Health Care SPDR (XLV) Bought: Eli Lilly Leads on Nov. 3
The fund added $330.3 million in net purchases, lifting all 60 of its positions with no sells.
As she debuts on Broadway, Kailey Boyle praises Madison theater scene
Boyle, a Middleton High School grad, makes her debut in “Wanted” on Broadway this fall. The show opens officially Nov. 8 in New York.
Palm Beach County 'Best of Season' arts and culture preview
From Broadway hits to classical concerts, here are the top arts and entertainment events coming to Palm Beach.
Woods Hole research ship heads to Lake Superior to hunt neutrinos
The R/V Neil Armstrong is making its first Great Lakes voyage, carrying Cape Cod science into fresh water for an experiment probing the universe.
Tennessee judge extends block on immigration checks in HIV/AIDS program
A Nashville judge continued to block the Tennessee Department of Health from demanding proof of citizenship from HIV-positive individuals.
Chiefs Wire Podcast Interview Series: Tennessee Titans HC Robert Saleh
Chiefs Wire Podcast Interview Series: @EdEastonJr chats with Tennessee Titans head coach Robert Saleh
Economic Development Director Announces Quarterly “Rochester Business Exchange” to Connect Business Owners with Local Government, Other Resources
Rochester Economic Development Director Michael Scala is pleased to announce “Rochester Business Exchange,” an informal discussion connecting municipal officials and staff, developers, and business owners and managers to share information, exchange ideas, discuss local issues, and strengthen relationships within Rochester’s business community. The purpose of the meetings is to share updates related to municipal government,...
The Bulletin welcomes 2026 editorial fellows
The Bulletin proudly welcomes its largest editorial fellow class yet. Fellows work closely with Bulletin editors to produce cutting-edge journalism focused on nuclear risk, climate change, disruptive technologies, or biosecurity. As part of a Bulletin initiative focused on uplifting the next generation of experts, our Editorial Fellows Program is possible because of readers and supporters alike.
How Big Pharma Shapes Medical Science, Influences Doctors, and Undermines Patient Care
This week, Mad in America explores three new articles around pharmaceutical industry corruption. The first examines industry’s hidden influence over Three new studies expose the pharmaceutical industry's hidden influence over medical research, the use of ghostwritten academic papers to advance commercial interests, and the normalization of industry influence among future physicians.
Vida Y Salud-Health Systems & Hampton Regional Medical Center Settle Data Breach Lawsuits
Settlements have been agreed to resolve class action data breach lawsuits against Vida Y Salud-Health Systems & Hampton Regional Medical Center. Vida Settlements have been agreed to resolve class action data breach lawsuits against Vida Y Salud-Health Systems & Hampton Regional Medical Center.
How to nominate for Business Insider's Rising Stars of Venture Capital
We're searching for venture capitalists finding the next big thing and those winning the right to invest in proven winners.
Dems inherit Texas colleges remade by GOP in conservative push
Universities were a political target of Texas Republicans. As Gina Hinojosa and other Democrats prepare for office, here’s a look at the turning point facing college campuses.
How Ron Nirenberg prepared to become Bexar County Judge
While Ron Nirenberg's job may be different, his approach will be the same. The former mayor will lean on collaboration in his new role.
LA film students are eager to pick up Hollywood's pieces
Mergers, layoffs, AI and runaway production have shaken Hollywood. Film students at USC, UCLA and LMU explain why they're pursuing the industry anyway.
'Passing Strange' premieres in L.A. at Pasadena Playhouse
'Passing Strange,' a 20-year-old rock musical about a striving musician in downtown L.A. has gone to Broadway and been filmed by Spike Lee — but it has never been produced in SoCal. A highly anticipated revival at Pasadena Playhouse is changing that.
Physicists sank a telescope 1.5 miles under the sea to put Einstein's relativity to the test
A half-built neutrino telescope on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea searched for cracks in one of physics' most basic invariances. It came up empty, but its limits rival those of detectors many times its size.
Schools Crack Down on Energy Drinks as Health Experts Sound the Alarm
High caffeine intake is linked to anxiety and energy crashes later in the day that can interfere with learning.
Healthcare powers Democrats’ midterm rout: 4 takeaways
Voters sent a strong rebuke of the GOP health agenda on Tuesday night as Democrats took control of both chambers of Congress, rejecting Republicans who pushed sweeping healthcare cuts. Here are f…
Parcel Health’s CEO wanted zero plastic. Growing a sustainable business meant changing course.
Melinda Su-En Lee traces her path from a Malaysian recycling center to building an award-winning startup in Pittsburgh
Just how hard is the rest of the Steelers’ schedule?
The second half of Pittsburgh’s schedule might not be as hard as you think.
What the Democratic landslide means for GOP booster Elon Musk and his businesses
Tesla, SpaceX and X CEO Elon Musk reportedly spent close to $450 million backing Republican candidates. His companies could have challenging times ahead.
Pilot explains landing at one of the world's most challenging airports
Landing at the tiny Caribbean airstrip is bumpy and intense, but I love the thrill. Here's what passengers don't see during the extreme approach.
Kim Kardashian Notes ‘Irony’ of Undergoing Endoscopy at UCLA Health Center, Which She and Her Sisters Funded in Their Dad’s Honor
Kim Kardashian discusses the irony of receiving an endoscopy at the UCLA esophageal health center she and her sisters funded after their dad Robert died of esophageal cancer.
Democrats' big challenge on health care costs
Voters won't wait until the next election cycle for things to get cheaper.
Alchemy Theatre presents 'Guys and Dolls' for three weekends
HUNTINGTON — With an array of great songs written by composer Frank Loesser and a book written by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows, the rollicking musical “Guys and Dolls” debuted
Burn the boats! Why a 500-year-old myth became a rallying cry for sports teams
“Motivation isn't just about how much you want something,” a professor wrote. “It's also about whether you believe you have other options.”
ProBerco Earns First Place in Non-Business Category at the 2026 King Frost Parade
ProBerco is proud to announce that its float, themed "It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown," was awarded First Place in the Non-Business Category at the 2026 King Frost Parade in Hamburg.
Black-owned businesses impact in Charlotte ‘undeniable.’ New event aims to celebrate it
Marketplace ‘Black on the Block’ arrives to spotlight Charlotte entrepreneurs at Bojangles Coliseum.
Annie Andrews' Senate upset shakes up South Carolina politics
Annie Andrews' victory over Darline Graham in the U.S. Senate race was a history-making, nationally significant upset. What it means for SC politics.
Rankings Nebraska's final four opponents of the season
Nebraska dropped its third straight game of the season. Now, the Huskers enter November at 5-3 and are in for a rough stretch.
Peoria brunch business looks to add alcohol to its menu
A Peoria brunch business has taken the first step toward adding alcohol to its menu.
Is there a Thursday Night Football game tonight? NFL Week 9 schedule
Predictions, how to watch for this weekend's NJSIAA football playoffs
The fate of 29 South Jersey football teams will be determined this weekend as the NJSIAA playoff continue. Here are our pick and how to watch
Triumphal Arch Set to Win Final Approval Despite Court Challenges
President Trump’s 250-foot arch project is expected to win approval on Thursday from a federal planning board. Court action and Democrats’ upcoming control of Congress could halt the plans.
Tiny Chihuahuas Hold a Big Surprise: A Sliver of Coyote DNA
The breed is descended from indigenous canines, which may have been intentionally mixed with wild coyotes long before Europeans arrived in the Americas.
Michigan State basketball vs Toledo time, TV channel and streaming
Michigan State basketball hosts Toledo in a non-conference game on Thursday, Nov. 5, with the game available to stream on Peacock.
Scores, updates for Delaware high school girls volleyball playoffs
Check back with Delaware Online/The News Journal each day throughout the state tournaments for updated schedules, scores, photos and highlight videos.
Report: Mets Hire A.J. Ellis To Major-League Coaching Staff
The New York Mets are hiring A.J. Ellis as their major-league strategy coordinator, The Athletic’s Will Sammon reported Wednesday. The club has not yet announced the move. Ellis becomes the latest addition to manager Andy Green’s coaching staff as the Mets continue preparing for the 2027 season. His arrival also reunites Green with a familiar …
Vance, DeSantis make quick moves after disastrous GOP midterms jumpstart 2028 race
The vice president’s seemingly straightforward path to succeeding President Donald Trump suddenly looks much murkier.
New estrogen research may change how scientists think about women’s aging brains
Scientists are assessing the potential benefits of hormone therapy for older women’s cognition.
New estrogen research may change how scientists think about women’s aging brains
Scientists are assessing the potential benefits of hormone therapy for older women’s cognition.
Trump Administration Delays Awards Slated To Improve Rural America’s Health
State leaders who scrambled to win and begin spending their first-year shares of Republicans’ five-year, $50 billion fund are in the dark about how much they’ll receive in the Rural Health Transformation Program’s second year after a federal office notified states that more time is needed to make allocations.
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Playhouse at McConnellstown has launched its “Raise the Roof” Capital Campaign to raise $30,000 for repairs to the theater’s roof and gutter system. Donations of any amount are being accepted
Many Americans have lost faith in science, but we can win them back
In July 2014, a man sick with Ebola flew from Liberia into Lagos, Nigeria, one of Africa’s largest and busiest cities. One imported case in a place like that could
New Oklahoma Children’s OU Health center to expand pediatric behavioral healthcare in state
Oklahoma’s first comprehensive pediatric behavioral health center integrated with a children’s hospital is expected to begin serving patients in December.
The U.S. spent 50 years trying to escape oil shocks. They still upend elections.
Even as the energy economy has changed radically, the politics of oil have not.
China proves a cut above with world-first precision laser experiment in space
Researchers use a device mounted on the outside the Tiangong space station to make millimetre-scale cuts.
Four evening games in winter
The next seven matchdays in the Bundesliga have been scheduled. Eintracht play four times at 18:30, while the second half of the season begins on a Sunday.The Bundesliga has confirmed the schedule for...
World of Warcraft: Forever is off to a great start with Blizzard's smoothest launch in memory
Aside from some transportation issues and some layering quirks, World of Warcraft: Forever's launch went off without a hitch.
Why Did Pfizer Stop Talking Up This Business?
For questions about this article or underlying research, email help@trefis.com.Pfizer (PFE) stock trades at 2.8 times sales, against 3.2 for the S&P 500. Even at that discount, shareholders need to understand exactly what they are buying, and the company's priorities have changed.
Brenda Lucas: Community news for Thursday, Nov. 5
Click for community news in the Huntington, West Virginia, and Tri-State area.
A tiny chunk of Australia seeded Southeast Asia's tropical forests 50 million years ago, plant fossils preserved in amber reveal
An analysis of plant fossils preserved in amber from Myanmar revealed that the West Burma Block, a chunk of crust that broke off of Australia, seeded Southeast Asia's lush tropical forests.
Nintendo Switch 2 Zelda 40th Anniversary Edition restock live — Target confirms online drop this week
Ocarina of Time launch day could bring Zelda Switch 2 restock
As more doctors consult chatbots, health systems can block them
As hundreds of thousands of doctors consult AI chatbots to make care decisions, health systems see new risks to patients' health data.
When papers become currency: a Chinese debate about trust in science
Last Saturday, 31 October, I went to the University of Hong Kong’s Beijing Centre for its Talent Forum. It was the fourth stop in the series this year, following events in Shanghai’s Zhangjiang, Shenzhen’s Qianhai, and on HKU’s main campus. The programme covered a remarkable distance in one afternoon. HKU’s Xiao-Jing Wang discussed computational neuroscience, intelligence, and the prefrontal cortex—before even delivering his inaugural public lecture to students back in Hong Kong. His colleague Bing Zhang took us from the Big Bang to artificial intelligence. Tsinghua’s Xue Lan asked how AI might reshape the institutional infrastructure underpinning higher education. There were lively panels featuring industry leaders from JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier—and Kaiser Y Kuo on the closing panel discussing innovation and international connections. I cannot pretend to have followed every detail of the brain models or the astrophysics. The talk that stayed with me was closer to something we have covered before: Zhou Zhonghe 周忠和 on papers, evaluation, and scientific trust. Zhou is a palaeontologist, an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences. He is also editor-in-chief of The Intellectual (知识分子), China’s leading science commentary platform. His subject was uncomfortable enough for a room full of successful academics: what happens when the system for recognising good science starts rewarding something else? Part of my interest came from our sister newsletter, The East is Read, which covered the controversy around “Geng Tongxue” in May. A PhD dropout from Beihang University, Geng has publicly challenged papers by prominent researchers through detailed online allegations of manipulated images and fabricated data. At Tongji University, an investigation into a challenged Nature paper found academic misconduct, and the dean of its life sciences school was removed. The affair brought doubts about academic integrity well beyond laboratories and university committees. How could someone outside the established hierarchy spot problems in papers that had passed through prestigious journals and institutions? And what, exactly, had all that prestige guaranteed? Zhou approached these questions through two essays published in July by The Intellectual: one by Wang Xiaodong, director of the National Institute of Biological Sciences, Beijing, and a response by Wang Liming, of Shanghai’s Shangsi Institute of Natural Sciences. Both began with the controversy over Geng. Their arguments deserve a wider audience, so I want to put parts of them alongside what Zhou said on Saturday. Wang Xiaodong’s starting point is evolution. A research system selects for the behaviour it rewards. Grants, jobs, journals, talent programmes, and prizes collectively determine which scientists prosper and which practices get passed down from advisors to students. “Whatever the system rewards is what it will evolve to produce,” he writes, citing the ancient Chinese saying: The King of Chu loved slender waists, and many in the palace starved to death. That is a more demanding diagnosis than saying there are dishonest people in science. Punishing a fraudster does not change the selective environment that made a particular kind of research profitable. His account also gives scientific success an awkward role in the story. As Zhou put it on Saturday, science became a victim of its own success. Once research became central to industry, national power, and economic growth, universities and laboratories expanded, and public money followed. That created an administrative need for rapid decisions: who should get the next grant, the next laboratory, the next appointment? The difficulty is that the true value of a discovery may take years or decades of testing and building to become clear. Resource allocation cannot wait that long. Publication counts, journal prestige, impact factors, and citations therefore become convenient ways to make an instant judgement. “The real problem is not that these indicators have no value,” Wang Xiaodong writes, “but that they are trying to answer a question that only time can answer.” Telling administrators simply to stop counting papers will never be enough. They still have budgets to distribute and appointments to make. Something has to replace the shortcut. Zhou described the consequences inside publishing. Papers acquire ever more requirements: a complete story, polished presentation, extensive datasets, and accessibility to readers beyond the immediate field. Individually, those demands sound reasonable. Together, he warned, they produce formulaic “eight-legged” papers 八股文 and rigid reviewing, while genuinely original or non-consensus work struggles to get past journal editors—some of whom wield immense gatekeeping power despite having limited laboratory experience themselves. Meanwhile, the demands for sprawling, “complete” narratives have fuelled a wider replication crisis. Wang Xiaodong uses a mahjong metaphor to describe the result: put the complex papers published by the exact same lab over several years side by side, and they often look like “Thirteen Orphans” (十三不靠)—every tile completely unrelated to the next, and none of them reproducible by outsiders. Zhou also spoke frankly as an editor who has trouble finding reviewers. Everyone wants someone else to review their work; qualified senior researchers have little time to return the favour. The labour is anonymous, unpaid, and brings almost no institutional recognition, so it increasingly gets passed down to postdocs and graduate students. And while anonymity protects reviewers from rank and personal favours, hyper-specialisation means an author’s most qualified reviewer is often a direct competitor, shielded from accountability. The protection and the problem coexist. Wang Liming takes the argument a step further. The decisive change, in his essay, is the instant conversion of academic honour into material resources. Once a paper can be cashed in for funding, a job, students, commercial investment, or even a company valuation, scientists are alienated from their work: they must keep minting this “research currency” to keep their teams alive. He is careful not to romanticise the past. The old world of gentleman scientists—financially independent figures like Boyle and Darwin who needed nothing from external funders—was also a closed club that excluded people without inherited wealth, women, and much of humanity outside the West. Professional science allowed ordinary people, himself included, to become researchers. Nobody should want to undo that. The problem, in his account, is an exchange system that becomes too uniform and too difficult to correct. His most pointed Chinese example is the “hat” (帽子): the prestigious talent designation that brings continuing access to money, laboratory space, students, and institutional influence. “If papers are the circulating currency of the research system, then a ‘hat’ is a bond that pays interest over the long term,” he writes. A paper at least requires another round of peer review. A title in the Chinese context can lock in a judgement made years ago and turn it into permanent status rent, regardless of whether its holder is still doing good science. Here, official institutions hire, organise, and evaluate scientists. Unlike honours awarded by autonomous academic communities in the West, a Chinese “hat” blends non-scientist administrative power with state authority. Once granted, it turns a past judgement into permanent status rent that is nearly impossible to revoke—because taking a hat off would imply that official authority erred in putting it on. Both Wangs see China as experiencing, at compressed speed, pressures present across global science. Research expansion, rising investment, publication growth, and elaborate evaluation metrics arrived in China within two or three decades rather than two or three centuries. Zhou agreed with that international framing—noting that recent US White House science policy documents and the new president of the US National Academy of Sciences, a fellow palaeontologist who recently visited Zhou’s institute in Beijing, have raised strikingly similar warnings about consensus-bound peer review, short-term project grants, and the replication crisis. Still, Zhou emphasised that China’s traditional hierarchy, personal networks (guanxi), and the ethos that “a good scholar becomes an official” (学而优则仕) amplify those pressures at home. So what would change things? Here Zhou’s tone differed from the call for a revolution in scientific trust in Wang Xiaodong’s essay. As an evolutionary biologist, Zhou favoured patchwork repair (修修补补). Living systems survive through accumulated adjustments; dramatic mutations are usually fatal. Science cannot return to a small, slow-moving pastoral era, especially after the successive accelerations of professionalisation after the Second World War, the internet, and now artificial intelligence. But it can alter the local environment in which researchers work. He pointed to domestic experiments designed to support unconventional research and diversify funding, including Tencent’s New Cornerstone Investigator Program, the Xplorer Prize, and the Future Science Prize. He also mentioned participating in reviews for “major non-consensus projects” under the National Natural Science Foundation of China. One guiding principle he recalled was wonderfully direct: “Failure is allowed; corruption is not” (允许失败，不允许腐败). That distinction would mean quite a lot if taken seriously. An honest attempt that fails should not have to disguise itself as a success to survive an assessment. Wang Liming’s essay adds a sharp caveat to the optimism about new domestic funders. Multiple organisations do not automatically produce multiple ways of judging science. If the same pool of senior domestic scientists makes the decisions through the same two-round review procedures, it is still “fake diversity.” He argues for three distinct kinds of money: broad baseline funding governed by fair procedures; patient funding for questions that take ten years; and non-consensus funding based on individual taste, deliberately empowering a few genuine experts to make biased, contrarian bets on eccentric ideas that would inevitably be averaged out by a committee. Replacing one monopoly with another achieves little; a healthy ecosystem needs variance. Zhou’s proposals for publishing were similarly concrete: strip papers of their resource-allocation burden and return them to recording discoveries and establishing priority; separate dissemination from evaluation, as eLife and Peer Community In do; adopt more modular “micro-publications” and real-name endorsements; recognize the labour of editors and reviewers; and give replication work proper credit rather than treating it as an unpublishable dead end. AI makes every part of this debate more urgent—and Zhou wove it throughout his talk. In his own preparation, he used AI to survey the declining influence of academic monographs, noting how tools are already changing how scholars gather information. More fundamentally, he placed AI as the latest great acceleration in scientific history: just as the internet sped up the pace of research and tightened external resource pressures, AI is compressing the cycle again. In the essays Zhou cited, AI cuts both ways. Wang Xiaodong expects large language models to erase much of the English-writing disadvantage long faced by Chinese scientists, further swelling the flood of papers coming out of Chinese labs. Wang Liming sees AI accelerating both ends of the trust crisis: it lowers the cost of paper mills and fabricated images just as quickly as it lowers the cost of automated image forensics, data auditing, and code reproduction. “Whoever builds the verification layer wins,” Wang Liming writes. His proposed alternative to the static, packaged “story paper” is a continuously versioned “unit of discovery” containing a falsifiable claim, raw data, analysis code, experimental parameters, and an ongoing log of independent checks—where negative results and failed replications are recorded rather than buried. Zhou ended his keynote by bringing AI back to the question of scientific honour and credit. Citing a recent Intellectual discussion on “What AI Means for Mathematics” featuring Fields Medalist Deng Yu 邓煜—at a moment when AI is already batch-solving mathematical conjectures, as HKU Vice-President Lin Chen noted in his opening remarks—Zhou agreed that human researchers must remain the principal agents: AI is a tool that frees scientists from tedious calculation to think about deeper, messier real-world problems. Yet that partnership creates a thorny new evaluation problem. When a breakthrough is made with AI, what is the human contribution and what is the machine’s? And since AI models distil centuries of accumulated human scholarship, is it right that the credit and value flow so heavily to the private AI companies building the tools? The old struggle over how to assign scientific honour is acquiring a whole new layer. What I took away was a serious discussion of how science can remain trustworthy as its scale, incentives, and tools change. These were scientists with real standing inside China’s system questioning how that standing is produced, and proposing changes that would affect their own institutions and peers. That made the afternoon at HKU’s Beijing Centre worthwhile. At the close, Wang Feng, Director of Communications and Public Affairs at HKU, said the value of the forum series—which heads to Hangzhou in December and cities like Chengdu early next year—would lie in the real cooperation it helped bring about. The university has plenty to celebrate: this week it topped the QS Asia rankings for a second consecutive year, alongside its 11th-place position in the QS World University Rankings 2027. For me, bringing this debate to an audience beyond the people who review papers and allocate grants was a useful contribution. 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Business Education Is at a Positive Tipping Point
By Laura Colombo The guest essay in The New York Times—with the title “I Teach at a Business School. It’s Time to Shut Them Down.”—by Academy of Management Scholar Chris Marquis of the University of C...
Commentary: Shift the wildfire spending to damage prevention, not just reaction
While a fire may be burning two states away, the smoke still arrives, settling over neighborhoods and dimming skylines. School administrators move recess indoors, and outdoor work slows or stops.
Ballon d'Or winner Kane extends contract with Bayern Munich
Harry Kane said he felt "right at home" after he signed a two-year extension at Bayern Munich, keeping the Ballon d'Or winner at the club until 2029, the German champions announced on Thursday. Bayern sporting director Christoph Freund said the club were "absolutely delighted" to extend Kane's deal, adding: "With Harry Kane we have the Ballon d'Or winner on the pitch -- a team player, a leader, the best all-round striker in the world.
Patriots’ Mike Vrabel doesn’t sound thrilled about catching up with Tom Brady before he calls Packers game
Tom Brady will return to Gillette Stadium on Sunday, but this time he won’t be wearing a Patriots uniform. The seven-time Super Bowl champion will be at the stadium as a FOX Sports broadcaster for New England ‘s Week 9 matchup against the Green Bay Packers. His return also gives former teammates a chance to reconnect. However, Patriots head coach […] The post Patriots’ Mike Vrabel doesn’t sound thrilled about catching up with Tom Brady before he calls Packers game appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Official | Bayern Munich extend Harry Kane’s contract until 2029
Bayern Munich have officially confirmed that Harry Kane has signed a two-year contract extension, keeping the England captain at the German record champions until June 30, 2029. The recent Ballon d’...
Mercedes-AMG GT 4-Door Coupe first drive: Where tech and fun collide
The spirit of AMG is alive via three axial flux electric motors.
Iranian Leaders Cheer Trump’s ‘Political Defeat’ as Republicans Blame War for Midterm Losses
Iranian leaders have hailed what they say is Americans’ rejection of the war, while Republicans look for answers and Democrats decide what’s next.
Apple Launching Five New Products Tomorrow
Apple is releasing five new products this Friday, November 6, following pre-orders that opened last week, including its first touchscreen MacBook Pro models. The following new products will be available from tomorrow: iPad mini with OLED display and A20 Pro chip iMac with M6 chip 14-inch MacBook Pro with M6 chip 14-inch MacBook Pro with OLED touchscreen 16-inch MacBook Pro with OLED touchscreen The iPad mini starts at $699, the iMac starts at $1,499, and the M6 MacBook Pro at $1,999.
UK can avoid euro but must accept free movement to rejoin EU, says former top Brexit negotiator
Michel Barnier says Britain could avoid having to join the single currency, but free movement is non-negotiable
In Warren County, a reflection of rural healthcare's turmoil
Rising costs, staff shortages and plummeting reimbursement rates have shuttered several of Pennsylvania’s rural hospitals, with nearly a third at risk of closure in the coming years.
Sony says PlayStation 6 development is ‘progressing as scheduled’, as PS5 sales hit 97.9m
The company intends to make ‘solid progress’ on development of PS6 next year…
Michigan State’s Alessio Milivojevic questionable for rivalry clash with Wolverines
Michigan football could receive a major boost ahead of its highly anticipated rivalry clash against Michigan State, with Spartans quarterback Alessio Milivojevic listed as questionable for the matchup. College football insider Pete Thamel reported that the Spartans could potentially be without their starting quarterback for Saturday’s crucial […] The post Michigan State’s Alessio Milivojevic questionable for rivalry clash with Wolverines appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Bayern Munich confirm Harry Kane contract extension
Harry Kane has signed a new contract with Bayern Munich, extending his stay at the German champions until 2029.Bayern confirmed the Ballon d’Or winner’s contract extension on Thursday.“I feel ri...
PRDots Launches in Dubai, Bringing Earned Media, Digital PR, AI Visibility and Link Building Services to Businesses Across the UAE
Dubai-based PR and digital communications agency aims to help startups, growing businesses and established brands strengthen their media presence,...
Ireland must step up for World Cup countdown
Ireland head coach Andy Farrell says he is excited by the prospect of another challenging journey as he admits his squad must improve before they can harbour realistic aspirations of winning next year's Rugby World Cup.
Oregon to increase 2027 payments to care organizations for Health Plan members
Next year, Oregon will pay an average of nearly $630 per member every month to the organizations arranging providers for the vast majority of Oregon’s 1.4 million Medicaid members under
RiverBank leads Spokane County in SBA lending
Two years after developing its Small Business Administration lending department, RiverBank Holding Co., the parent company of Spokane-based RiverBank, has become the county’s top SBA lender. The increase in SBA lending comes as the community bank establishes a director of fintech position…
Wild Birds in Lincoln Heights changes ownership
Wild Birds Unlimited Inc., operating on Spokane's South Hill, is under new ownership following the acquisition of the avian product shop by longtime Montana franchisee operators John and Kathy Haigh.
Storhäug Engineering expands beyond Spokane
Storhäug Engineering Inc. is experiencing high demand for its engineering, design, and consulting services in Spokane County, prompting the Spokane-based company to expand its geographic reach, says principal Austin Storhäug.
AI threats challenge cybersecurity landscape
Artificial intelligence is accelerating cybersecurity threats against businesses and government agencies, allowing criminals to potentially impersonate employees, steal sensitive information, and compromise corporate networks faster than organizations can respond, warn some cybersecurity experts.
Dissecting Colorado’s Democratic sweep
Swoosh. Donald Trump came into his second term with a swoosh. He brought in Elon Musk and his tech bros with a swoosh. They swooshed out thousands of government employees across the nation. Then Trump’s ICE agents swooshed out thousands of recent immigrants, with some American citizens caught in the crossfire. Then Trump swooshed in […]
Avram Glazer says Manchester United not reliant on sporting success for commercial power
United's co-owner was making a rare speaking appearance at Deutsche Bank’s inaugural Sports Investment Conference in London.