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Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Politics of Strategic Depth
Eritrea remains a structural challenge to Ethiopia’s national security. The present relationship between the two countries is defined by escalating tensions, in which Asmara, consistent with its broader and long-standing calculation that a stable Ethiopia constitutes a threat, has cultivated alliances with Ethiopia’s diverse rebel…
HKUST President and Chinese Academy of Sciences Academician Prof. Nancy Ip Receives UNESCO Honor for a Second Time
HONG KONG, HK / ACCESS Newswire / November 7, 2026 / Prof. Nancy IP, President and The Morningside Professor of Life Science at (HKUST), has been awarded the 2026 UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize for Research in the Life Sciences in recognition of her pioneering contributions to neuroscience and Alzheimer's disease research.
Bengals News: Cincinnati goes International
The Bengals are getting prepped to take on the Falcons in Spain this Sunday.
Franciscan Health Lafayette East Nationally Recognized by Healthgrades
Franciscan Health Lafayette East has been nationally recognized for clinical excellence from Healthgrades. Franciscan Health Lafayette East was recognized as being among one of Healthgrades …
Boost for Arsenal as key international not called up
William Saliba hasn’t been called up to the latest France squad, but it appears that’s the outcome Arsenal were hoping for.Photo by David Ramos/Getty ImagesAhead of the announcement of the France ...
Big match in Graz ahead
Final clash before international breakWe have a real blockbuster to conclude an intense few weeks this autumn! Before the upcoming international break, our Red Bulls will travel to face SK Sturm this ...
Keep geopolitics out of marine science
The politicization of marine scientific research is undermining the very cooperation needed to protect the oceans. Recently, some Philippine commentators have portrayed China's marine research activities near Huangyan Island and elsewhere in the South China Sea as potential "military threats". They have coined the term "ghost research ships", suggesting that routine scientific work is linked to military operations, submarine navigation and even anti-submarine warfare. By intertwining technological possibilities, the sensitivity of the locations and existing geopolitical tensions, they have crafted a narrative that misrepresents China's marine research as a "security concern". These claims lack supporting evidence and run counter to the international community's shared interest in advancing ocean science and protecting the marine environment.
What China's first Antarctic law means for science, tourism and beyond
While China's 43rd Antarctic expedition embarks on its southbound voyage, the country has adopted its first national law on Antarctic activities and environmental protection on Friday, bringing science, tourism, fishing and shipping under one legal framework. What
Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong wins NL Platinum Glove Award
Pete Crow-Armstrong and the Chicago Cubs have more hardware to celebrate. Just days after helping Chicago win the National League Team Gold Glove , the Cubs’ center fielder was named the 2026 NL Platinum Glove Award winner. Rawlings announced the honor on Friday, with New York Yankees outfielder Cody Bellinger taking home the American League […] The post Cubs’ Pete Crow-Armstrong wins NL Platinum Glove Award appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Yankees’ Cody Bellinger wins AL Platinum Glove Award
Cody Bellinger’s banner defensive season with the New York Yankees just got even better. Less than a week after winning a Gold Glove , the Yankees outfielder has been named the 2026 American League Platinum Glove Award winner. Rawlings announced the honor on Friday, with Chicago Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong taking home the National […] The post Yankees’ Cody Bellinger wins AL Platinum Glove Award appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Holly Hop Ice Cream Shoppe Lubbock announces final hours of business
Lubbock's iconic Holly Hop Ice Cream Shoppe announced its final hours of business. Here's what to know about the closure.
What Live Nation Entertainment (LYV) Said on Its Q3 Earnings Call
Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE:LYV) reported concert attendance of more than 60 million in the third quarter of 2026, up nearly 20%, as stadium shows and international markets helped drive growth, President and CFO Joe Berchtold said on the company’s earnings call. Berchtold said the company expec
Local political analyst takes it to the national stage
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- A familiar face in Charlottesville's political scene took his election expertise to New York City this week, covering the midterm elections at CBS national headquarters.
Jazz Chisholm Jr. Finds Home With Reds Or Nats
Jazz Chisholm Jr. may leave New York. Fox Sports breaks down the best fits for his power and speed, focusing on the Reds and Nationals.
Melco Resorts & Entertainment L (MLCO) Stock Forecasts
At Yahoo Finance, you get free stock quotes, up-to-date news, portfolio management resources, international market data, social interaction and mortgage rates that help you manage your financial life.
Vikings have an Opportunity to make a Statement Before National TV Audience on Monday Night
National health experts dissect election wins, effects on healthcare policy
A national health expert expects Democrats to quickly move to reverse Medicaid cuts passed in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and to restore Affordable Care Act premium subsidies, which led to millions of people losing health insurance coverage.
Consumers say pet health is the last expense they'd cut, survey finds
In a new national survey, most pet owners reported holding steady or increasing what they spend on their pets. Only 7% of consumers said they would trim pet health spending if money got tight.
How journalists can use NHATS data to report on aging, disability and caregiving
The National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS) is a source of national data on aging, disability, dementia, caregiving and long-term care.
Bernhard Capital closes $1B deal for Bowman Consulting
Bernhard Capital Partners has completed its approximately $1 billion all-cash acquisition of Bowman Consulting Group, making the national engineering services firm privately held and ending its Nasdaq listing. The deal combines Bowman’s technical capabilities, established client relationships and national reach with Bernhard’s industry expertise and track record of growing infrastructure services businesses. The companies plan […]
Before the White House, Susie Wiles built political ties in Northeast Florida
Before Susie Wiles became a nationally known Republican strategist, she built a career in Northeast Florida, working behind the scenes for Jacksonville mayors and developing ties to the region’s political and environmental issues.
U.S. sanctions relatives of Cuban military business leaders
The United States has imposed sanctions on relatives of current and former leaders of Cuba's military-run business conglomerate GAESA.
Mike Boynton’s Second Game Is the UConn Title Rematch
Mike Boynton's second game as Michigan's head coach is the national title rematch with UConn. #GoBlue
District 5 biomedical students take research to national level
Four students from the Center for Advanced Technical Studies have earned the opportunity to serve as South Carolina delegates at the American Junior Academy of Science national meeting, to be held in …
Spacewalk Cleanup, Biomedical Science, and Maintenance Wrap Up Week
The seven Expedition 75 crew members cleaned up after a spacewalk, conducted biomedical assessments, and maintained orbital systems to wrap up a busy week aboard the International Space Station.
Registered nurses at Endeavor Health Edward Hospital vote overwhelmingly to join National Nurses Organizing Committee
Registered nurses at Endeavor Health Edward Hospital in Naperville, Ill., voted overwhelmingly to join National Nurses Organizing Committee. Sixty-five percent of nurses voted to join the union to have a say in decisions that affect patient care.
Development Banks To Become 'Major Funding Source' As Aid Recedes, But Experts Warn Of Risks
With bilateral health assistance contracting sharply, multilateral development banks are expected to become the primary external financiers of national health systems, according to experts on the Accra Reset who spoke with Health Policy Watch. However, with the financial terms and interest structures governing new blended-lending pacts largely undisclosed, civil society experts warn that borrowing nations risk trading vanishing grant aid for repayable sovereign debt.
Celtic Park Puzzle Solved
Following last night’s thrilling victory over Besiktas in the Europa League, Celtic has one final match to play before heading into the November international break…Celtic team photograph before t...
Toothbrush bacteria and kidney research send 4 District Five students to national science meeting
What do political scientists actually do, continued?
In part II, we take a closer look at two other subfields: international relations and comparative politics.
'Stranger Things' prequel 'Other Worlds' coming to Netflix in 2028
Netflix announced "Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure," a new, live-action prequel and spinoff series to "Stranger Things" coming in 2028.
Jorge Jesus Thought Cristiano Ronaldo 'Would Return' To Portugal, Not Retire
Portugal coach Jorge Jesus says that he had not expected Cristiano Ronaldo to retire from international soccer despite their recent public falling out.
The Princeton Review names SRU to its 2027 Mental Health Services Honor Roll
Slippery Rock University is one of 76 undergraduate institutions nationwide that the education services company The Princeton Review has named to its Mental Health Services Honor Roll for 2027. The Honor Roll recognition is part of an annual project—now in its third year—that The Princeton Review conducts in partnership with the Ruderman Family Foundation, an internationally recognized organization that works…
REMSEN NEWS: National science honors and Halloween fun
On Wednesday, Oct. 28, the Rotary program was Carol Buczek of Tours by Design, not talking of upcoming trips or bus tours, but talking about her other passion of raising
Russian opposition leader: release of political prisoners should be part of Ukraine ceasefire negotiations
In his interview with VOA Russian, Kara-Murza explained that international attention helps prisoners resist the isolation that authoritarian regimes seek to impose on them.
A bigger Democratic majority could reshape Marie Gluesenkamp Perez's role
The political dynamics that have made Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez a national figure could shift in the next Congress.
Nicklaus Children’s Health System Recognized for Digital Health Achievement as 2026 Digital Health Most Wired Survey Recipient - Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report
November 5, 2026 – The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has announced the results of its 2026 Digital Health Most Wired Survey, an internationally recognized benchmarking program that […]
National Politics Will Never Be the Same: Juan González on How Latino Voters Remade the Political Map
The midterms saw a landslide of Latinos vote for Democrats. In Texas, California, Kansas and Colorado, Latinos who had voted for Republicans just two years ago voted for Democrats in large numbers, helping secure Democratic control of both the House and the Senate. Latino lawmakers will make up about a fifth of the Democratic majority in the House. And in an historic victory, the two most populous states in the country, California and Texas, will soon be led by Democratic Latino governors. “Texas has been suddenly transformed into a battleground state,” says Democracy Now! co-host Juan Gonzalez. “Texas has been the biggest and most important red state in the country for decades, and I’ve been predicting for years that it is the key link for achieving a realignment of national politics.”
Brothers together, first squad without CR7 and +! Europe names squads
Several European national teams announced their squads for the Nations League this Friday (6).Jorge Jesus named his first Portugal squad without Cristiano Ronaldo, while England will feature the Belli...
Lindsay Pieper examines persistent gender inequities in the Olympics and Paralympics
Despite progress toward gender equity in international sports, women continue to face significant disparities in athletic opportunities, leadership positions and media representation, according to...
Washington Nationals Tabbed Offensive Team of the Year Finalist
After a monster 2026 regular season, the Washington Nationals draw a deserving postseason recognition, released on Thursday
Cristiano Ronaldo receives touching tribute from FIFA President after retirement
Cristiano Ronaldo has retired from international soccer at the age of 41. After spending 23 years at the top of the industry, Ronaldo has finally decided to hang up his boots after 234 games and 146 goals for Portugal. A Portuguese soccer legend, Ronaldo was a part of the Portuguese national team for over two decades, where he represented the squad […] The post Cristiano Ronaldo receives touching tribute from FIFA President after retirement appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Bellingham and King handed England call-up, but Palmer overlooked
Jobe Bellingham and Josh King have been included in the final England squad of the year, but Thomas Tuchel has overlooked Cole Palmer and Kobbie Mainoo for November’s internationals. The World Cup bronze medallists are all but assured of a place in the Nations League quarter-finals ahead of next Thursday’s home game against Croatia and the trip to Spain three days later.
Confirmed: Real Madrid duo Trent, Bellingham called up by England
With the second international break of the season almost upon us, national team managers have begun announcing their squads for the upcoming matches.Real Madrid are expected to see a large number of p...
Florida State football seeks new coach amid $306M question: Can FSU afford it?
Florida State has $306 million in debt but insists money won’t stop FSU football coaching search or pursuit of another national championship.
Can AI learn to understand nature? Scientists set out a roadmap for the future of ecology
An international team of scientists has outlined how a new generation of artificial intelligence models could transform our understanding of ecosystems and help predict their responses to environmental ...
The fight is growing over ballot counting in Mississippi’s tight Senate race
National party operatives, lawyers, grassroots activists and content creators are descending on Mississippi to observe the vetting of thousands of provisional ballots in the coming days and to gear up for possible legal challenges over the final results.
3 global universities for a forensic science master's degree
Explore forensic science master's degree options in Asia, Europe, and the US, from police-led training at NUS to accredited programmes at King's and Penn State.
What everybody got wrong about Oregon: Inside the fall of a 2026 national championship favorite
Three months ago, the Ducks were pinned by some as the most complete team in the country. Now, they're likely out of the playoff race entirely.
New sporting director wanted! Ex-international linked with Hannover?
There is still no calm at Hannover 96 under head coach Sandro Wagner, despite their recent morale-boosting 2–1 win over Dynamo Dresden. Sitting 12th, the second-division club are falling short of th...
CU faculty to use award to study rural student success in science
CLEMSON — A Clemson University faculty member with a background in rural education outreach and research will use an award from the National Science Foundation to better understand how rural
GU Professor Awarded National Science Foundation Grant
The grant will support a four-year project dedicated to developing new methods for data privacy.
South Park Middle School science teacher wins Bubbl’r National Teacher of the Year
South Park Middle School science teacher Kimberly Loeper won the 2026 Bubbl’r National Teacher of the Year contest, earning a $10,000 prize for the school.
Indonesia’s National Hero titles and the politics of unresolved violence
Indonesia keeps honouring the victims of state violence only once their killers can no longer be prosecuted.
Brookdale Biology Student Takes Research to International Stage in Iceland
Brookdale Biology Student Takes Research to International Stage in Iceland Christina Weber presents microplastics research alongside leading scientists from around the world When Brookdale Community College student Christina Weber applied to present her scientific research
10 faculty members win National Science Foundation award
The College of Engineering faculty members received the U.S. NSF's Faculty Early Career Development Program awards during the 2025 cycle.
Vladimir Putin calls out nations opposing Russia’s return to international sports
Several countries have said their national teams will not play against Russia following a decision by sport’s highest court to readmit Russian teams to international ice hockey.
UH undergraduate student research featured at national STEM conference | University of Hawaiʻi System News
UH undergraduate scholars presented innovative research at a national STEM gathering.
Meet the unexpected winners of this year’s midterms
While Democratic victories in marquee national contests took the spotlight this week, with the party securing at least 250 seats in the House and winning back the Senate, several candidates in down-ballot races across the country clinched what appear to be surprising wins.
Trump signs proclamation to prevent changes to Oval Office, other White House rooms
Trump signed a proclamation designating the Oval Office and Cabinet Room a national monument to prevent future presidents from altering them.
Fairfield Democrats credit election wins to national politics and New York transplants
Democrats in Fairfield had a very good Election Day, having completely flipped a former Republican stronghold, into a town fully represented by Democrats at the federal and state level.
UCLA Health to lead national study on menstrual symptoms and breast pain in NCAA Division I student-athletes
UCLA Health is set to lead a national study examining how premenstrual symptoms, menstrual pain and breast pain affect collegiate female student-athletes’ training, competition and overall well-being.
South Park Middle School science teacher wins Bubblr national award
Kimberly Loeper, a science teacher at South Park Middle School, won the Bubblr 2026 National Teacher of the Year award Thursday.
South Park Middle School science teacher wins Bubblr national award
Kimberly Loeper honored at Oshkosh school; company also awards $10,000 for school resources
Worried about uncertainty? Science has the answers
John Maddox, the longtime editor of Nature, was once asked how much of what the international scientific journal published turned out to be wrong. His reply:
Rabid raccoon confirmed near West Ashley; one person exposed, health officials say
WCIV ABC News 4, Charleston, South Carolina provides coverage of local and national news, sports, weather and community events in the region, including North Charleston, Mt Pleasant, Summerville, Hanahan, Goose Creek, Rantowles, Cottageville, St George, Moncks Corner, Jacksonboro, Ravenel, Cottageville, Walterboro, Sullivans Island, Dewees Island and Folly Beach.
Correctional Health Services Earns Full Accreditation
Governor Spencer Cox, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Executive Director Tracy Gruber, and Correctional Health Services (CHS) Director Dr. Marcus Wisner recently gathered to celebrate a historic milestone: achieving full accreditation from the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC) across Utah’s state correctional facilities. To resolve past long-standing operational hurdles – including a 43 percent staffing vacancy … Read More
UMC Health System earns national AMA recognition for physician well-being
American Medical Association has recognized UMC Health System as a national leader in physician wellness.
Kansas' rate of children without health insurance tops national average for second year
Kansas' rate of uninsured children surpasses the U.S. average for the second consecutive year with 8.5% of Kansans under age 18 without access to coverage.
AN INTERNATIONAL FUGITIVE HUNT TAKES AN UNEXPECTED TURN WHEN THE MARSHALS ARE CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A DIAMOND HEIST SHOOTOUT, ON “MARSHALS,” SUNDAY, NOV. 29
Scarlett Burke Guest Stars as Shelby Gaines Judd Lormand Returns as Eddie Wilson Marque Richardson Returns as Patrick Burns “Bad Medicine” – Taske
VCSU Shooting Sports Places 3rd at Nationals
The VCSU Shooting Sports team capped off its season with an unforgettable performance at the trap shooting national championship, earning third place overall with a combined score of 955/1000.
Watch: Gina Hinojosa’s first press conference as governor-elect
Hinojosa’s first press conference begins at 2 p.m. Thursday. She ousted longtime Republican Gov. Greg Abbott amid a national blue wave.
Tillamook teen wins national FFA title for flower business
Coastal town known for dairy, but students get well-rounded ag education Tillamook, Ore., is known for dairy, but a student from this coastal community won a national FFA title for […]
Everforth awarded potential $200M+ federal contract
Everforth ECS has secured a contract extension potentially worth more than $200 million to help the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
Help veteran-owned small businesses avoid scams during National Veterans Small Business Week
National Veterans Small Business Week (NVSBW) starts in just a few days. A great way to honor veteran small business owners is to help them spot and avoid scams. And if you’re a business owner (veteran or not), your best defense against scammers is an informed workforce. Here’s how you and your team can take part in NVSBW 2026 and learn more.
NIST Releases Cybersecurity Guide for Solo Business Owners
What: On November 2, 2026, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a document titled, Small Business Cybersecurity: Non-Employer Firms (NIST Cybersecurity White Paper 50). The guide provides practical cybersecurity steps fo
International business drives Fairfax’s premium growth
Canada-based Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.’s property and casualty insurance and reinsurance businesses recorded a 9% year-on-year growth in gross premiums written to $8.9 billion in the third…
Geneva Health Forum 2026: Rethinking cooperation in global health
From November 10 to 12, at the Biotech Campus in Geneva, the Geneva Health Forum (GHF) will bring together healthcare professionals, researchers, institutional leaders, and representatives from international and humanitarian organizations for three days of debate, networking, and the sharing of experiences.
Today on Texas Standard: How Texas’ Democratic sweep could change the state’s political identity
Texas has spent decades serving as a national symbol of Republican political power. Tuesday’s election overturned that image with Democratic victories up and down the ballot, leaving Texans and political observers elsewhere reassessing what the state represents.
A bitter end for Ronaldo - the icon who transformed Portugal
As Cristiano Ronaldo retires from international football, Guillem Balague looks at why and what is next for the Portugal legend.
Bingo, Care Bears, Pokémon cards and the classic playground slide make it into the Toy Hall of Fame
The National Toy Hall of Fame has inducted bingo, Care Bears, the Pokémon Trading Card Game and the humble playground slide | WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM
Germany's Holocaust remembrance is becoming a political performance
The memory of six million murdered Jews has become part of Germany's national identity. Yet the solemn promise of “Never again” is all too often followed by the familiar words “We strongly condemn.”
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, IBM And AMD Launch New Co-Design Platform for Quantum Error Correction
IBM, Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Quantum Science Center and AMD unveiled a joint platform integrating quantum and HPC.
Report: Japan's Tashima to stand against Infantino for FIFA presidency
Kozo Tashima, the honorary president of the Japanese Football Association (JFA), will challenge Gianni Infantino for the FIFA presidency, according to reports. Infantino’s position appeared under threat after a dropped plan for private investment in the World Cup caused consternation, but he has rallied and now looks to be in a strong position to win a fourth term at FIFA Congress in Morocco next year.
Cristiano Ronaldo announces international retirement
Portuguese football legend Cristiano Ronaldo announced on Thursday he was retiring from international football at the age of 41.- 'Will stay with me forever' - The Portuguese Football Federation said it would organise a "fitting tribute" to Ronaldo's "immense career".
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.
Cristiano Ronaldo retires from international football
Ronaldo calls time on his career with Portugal as international football’s all-time top scorer after a dispute with his country’s federation
Cristiano Ronaldo announces retirement from Portugal duty
Cristiano Ronaldo’s career representing Portugal has officially come to an end. The 40-year-old star took to social media to post a video confirming his retirement from the national team.Portugal’...
🚨 BREAKING: Cristiano Ronaldo announces international retirement
Cristiano Ronaldo has announced his retirement from international football, bringing an end to his record-breaking career with Portugal.The 41-year-old confirmed the news in a video posted on Instagra...
MD-based home exterior improvement business adds 5 locations
A Maryland-based exterior home improvement company is expanding its national footprint with five new locations.
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.
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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