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Prop 134 fails Colorado board of ed good-policy standards
Somewhere in Colorado, a girl could be pulled aside by a coach or an official who thinks she looks “too strong” or “too tall” to be a girl. Under Proposition 134, that isn’t just a hypothetical. During the legislative session, the Colorado state Board of Education routinely takes positions on legislation but has not typically […]
Yale conservatives of color say race has not affected their politics
Four students of color who are members of right-wing political groups on campus said their ideologies have largely been unaffected by their racial identities, though they were split on whether Yale fosters a space welcoming to conservative ideals.
L’Oréal Expands Sports and Entertainment Marketing with PSG and Plénitude Arena Partnerships
L’Oréal is expanding its sports and entertainment marketing through partnerships with Paris Saint-Germain and Plénitude Arena, combining beauty experiences, brand activations and skin health research.
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics Hosts 1st Annual Health & Wellness Fair Featuring DJ Darla, Aztec Dancers, and Hourly Games
Santa Barbara Neighborhood Clinics (SBNC) is proud to present its 1st Annual Health & Wellness Fair: "Building Healthier Families,
Governor Gianforte Highlights Montana Quantum, Photonics Partnerships at Indian Institute of Science
BENGALURU, India – Continuing Montana’s trade mission to India, Governor Greg Gianforte today visited the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bengaluru to strengthen ties between higher education, Montana’s quantum and photonics ecosystem, and India’s research community.
Climate hopes shift from politics to the courts
The political fight against global warming may be losing steam, but the legal battle is heating up.
Korean cosmetics stocks surge as K-pop entertainment shares fall
Cosmetics makers led gains on the Korea Exchange, while K-pop and content companies suffered the market's sharpest industry decline.
Climate hopes shift from politics to the courts
The political fight against global warming may be losing steam, but the legal battle is heating up. On the political front, from Europe to the United States, governments have been scaling back climate...
Colorado state GOP secretary endorses Greg Lopez in governor’s race
Colorado Republican Party Secretary Russ Andrews broke with the state party Thursday to endorse unaffiliated gubernatorial candidate Greg Lopez over GOP nominee Victor Marx, saying he’d found it “impossible” to support Marx’s candidacy “in good conscience” after a series of recent revelations. “I feel it was the right thing to do, and staying true to […]
Climate hopes shift from politics to the courts
The political fight against global warming may be losing steam, but the legal battle is...
FAMU volleyball match moved up, softball game scrapped by Isaias
FAMU athletics have made some schedule changes to volleyball and a fall ball softball game as Tropical Storm Isaias nears landfall in Tallahassee.
Aday Mara Stays Perfect Against The Bucks
The Thunder’s lottery pick silenced Summer League skeptics by shooting a perfect 100% through two games, earning immediate trust from veterans with his elite size and conditioning.
Video: Opinion | How TikTok Warps Our Politics
What are the political consequences of the era of video? TikTok is overwhelming our world with emotional appeals that print media can’t capture, according to the Times of London columnist James Marriott, and it’s making us more mystical, tribal and autocratic.
In Depth: A look into the politics and laws surrounding Oklahoma's open U.S. Senate seat
'Jesse Watters Primetime' visits Columbia University to talk politics
'Jesse Watters Primetime' visits Columbia University to ask students about their political beliefs.
How MLB's Proposed Changes Would Impact the A's
MLB's latest proposal would shorten the regular season and make changes to the postseason format — but only if players agree to a salary cap first
Photonic circuits become trainable AI hardware
Nature Computational Science - A physics-based in situ learning method is demonstrated that directly measures optical gradients with photonic integrated circuits, allowing diverse circuit...
Whitmer celebrates Michigan educators completing intensive Science of Reading training
LANSING, Mich. — On Wednesday, Governor Gretchen Whitmer announced that 8,019 Michigan educators have now completed Language Essentials for Teaching Reading and Spelling (LETRS) training, a program that helps educators strengthen their literacy instruction and implement proven methods, like phonics and comprehension, to empower kids in the classroom. This milestone comes after Michigan saw record […]
Mitchell Robinson Sends Strong Message About Celtics After Knicks Exit
Mitchell Robinson reveals what will change with the Celtics after leaving the Knicks as he prepares for his Boston preseason debut. The post Mitchell Robinson Sends Strong Message About Celtics After Knicks Exit appeared first on HEAVY.
How Trump Has Alienated Republican Voters
Plus, a big debate night in Senate battlegrounds.
Money, Power, Politics
Host Stephanie Ruhle brings her business acumen, hard-hitting interview style and original reporting to mornings, helping you understand what's happening today and why it matters. Make sense of it all, together.
Cavs vs. Celtics preseason game thread
The Cavs open up their exhibition slate vs. the Celtics.
Bill Nye the Science Guy experiments with prevalent topics at Beyond the Conversation
Bill Nye, known to generations as “The Science Guy,” took the Beyond the Conversation stage Wednesday as Titans filled TSU Pavilions A, B and C, welcoming the legend himself with
New documentary traces Elon Musk's rise and embrace of right-wing politics
Elon Musk remains one of the more powerful and controversial figures in business, science, tech and politics. He played a central role in the early days of the second Trump administration. Now, a new documentary is chronicling Musk's rise to power and embrace of right-wing politics. William Brangham reports.
Trump bucks and the politics of mailing checks
The checks started going out last week, nearly one million of them, and mostly to battleground states. With a return address for the U.S. Treasury and a letter enclosed signed by President Donald Trump, these one-time checks for $500 were ostensibly government rebates for Obamacare enrollees who overpaid. In the accompanying letter, however, Trump attacks his predecessor and talks about his record in office on an important issue he’s not polling well on, which makes it seem more like the most expensive political mailer in U.S. history. The average piece of direct mail costs between 30 cents and $3, according to Mail Processing Associates, a print, mail, and fulfillment company. At $500 a pop plus roughly 50 cents each to issue the paper check, the cost of Trump’s healthcare mailer sent to more than 950,000 enrollees comes in at more than $475 million. Trump’s midterm healthcare message “For years, the Biden Administration overcharged you to fund the operation of HealthCare dot gov,” Trump wrote in the letter. “That money belongs to hard-working Americans, not the Government, and now, I am returning it to you!” In the letter, Trump makes false and misleading claims about his administration’s record on healthcare costs, an issue Democrats have a 20 point advantage on over Republicans, according to a recent poll from KFF, a nonpartisan health policy think tank. Trump touts his administration’s TrumpRX program, which he claims is “delivering massive discounts.” However, new research from KFF found that of a selection of drugs available on the TrumpRX platform, just five were the lowest price, while 13 were the highest price. Trump also falsely claims in the letter that he’s fighting to lower healthcare costs. In reality, average monthly premium payment costs for enrollees rose 58% under Trump while marketplace sign-ups declined 5%, per KFF. Under Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act, it’s estimated 10 million more Americans will be uninsured by 2034. You get a check and you get a check and you get a check Trump’s long promised cash outs to his fans, from his days as a casino operator and gameshow host to his presidency. During the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the first Trump administration made the unprecedented move to put Trump’s name on checks that went out under the CARES Act (notably the $500 refund checks this time around don’t feature Trump’s name). Ever since, Trump’s been chasing that high. In his second term, Trump’s promised more stimulus that never arrived, like refund checks from DOGE cuts and tariffs, while he said at his party’s convention last month that he’d give out $5,000 checks to everyone if Republicans win in November. In reality, DOGE overstated its cost cutting and Trump’s government actually now spends more than former President Joe Biden’s, while Trump’s tariffs actually grew the trade deficit. His proposal for $5,000 checks would add about $1.2 trillion to the national debt. The problem is there’s no money to give. These $500 checks — plus $90 Medicare rebate checks also going out as well as $250 deposited this week in some Trump Accounts for kids courtesy Dell Technologies CEO Michael Dell and his wife Susan — represent the closest Trump’s going to get to making good on his promise to deliver cash fast. And the checks seem especially targeted. Though the $500 checks went out to enrollees in one of 30 states that use the federal HealthCare dot gov marketplace, a Reuters review found 71% of the payments, or $339 million, went to enrollees in 13 states that have the most competitive elections for governor and U.S. Senate. Most Americans don’t buy it Could Trump bucks sway the election? An Economist-YouGov poll found 57% of U.S. adults doubt Trump will deliver on his promise for $5,000 checks, compared to 21% who do. “I’m waiting on my DOGE check and I’m still waiting on my tariff check,” one 2024 Trump voter who’s since turned on him told a recent focus group. “It felt like kind of trying to buy people’s votes, which honestly felt like in elementary when the class president was like, hey we’re going to take you to the water park if you vote for me. It’s like, I don’t think it works like that.” But for voters in swing states who got a check, it could still matter. One survey published in 2022 found receiving a physically personalized check in the mail during the pandemic was associated with a much greater self-reported likelihood of voting for Trump in 2020, and those gains mainly came from out partisans. The issue for Trump comes if these checks are mostly going to Obamacare enrollees whose premiums have gone up by more than just $500 since he took office and who view the money as something like a bribe before the election rather than an actual long-term solution to lowering household costs. Spending $500.50 per mailer would be absurd as a normal campaign expenditure, but since Trump’s checks and letter are a government rebate, his campaign and super PAC didn’t have to spend a dime and he got out his message regardless. If enough voters in key states are swayed by the one-time payment, it could prove to be the best $0 the Trump campaign spent. 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Last Call for 10.8.26 – A prime-time read of what’s going down in Florida politics
A digest of the day's politics and policy while the bartender refreshes your drink.
Despair over future fuels political anxiety for Michigan college students
Many young people feel uncertain about their paths and pessimistic about American government. Their anxiety is fueling restlessness in national politics that has contributed to the rise of outsider candidates.
‘Breathtaking,’ ‘Devastating’: Mathematics Reels After New OpenAI Release
Hundreds of new A.I.-generated findings moved the frontiers of higher math in a single day — dispelling any doubt that the field is forever changed.
Latest News from CNN Politics
Democratic candidate for Texas governor Gina Hinojosa joins Kasie Hunt to discuss her views on the death penalty.
Public Health offers free drive-through flu clinics
Plumas County Public Health Agency announces its annual free drive-through flu vaccination clinics beginning Monday, Oct. 19, and continuing through
A looming Social Security debate: From the Politics Desk
Plus, Democrats’ corporate PAC dilemma.
The Fandom Effect: Sports Urbanism 2026
Uncover how respondents rate their experiences and how stadiums can tailor programming to attract more visitors year round.
Speaker Johnson says he doesn’t know what’s next for him if GOP loses House
The remarks prompted speculation the Republican leader might retire from politics if Democrats retake the chamber.
I'm Italian American, but I Don't Celebrate Columbus Day.
The holiday brings out many of the worst excesses of identity politics.
New Jersey Politics (Episode 531)
This week on New Jersey Politics with Laura Jones, Assemblywoman Marisa Sweeney on her bill requiring AI companion apps to clearly and repeatedly tell users
Northwest Biotherapeutics and the UK National Health Service Blood and Transplant Announce Collaboration to Support DCVax®-L Production
/PRNewswire/ -- Northwest Biotherapeutics (OTCQB:NWBO) (the "Company" or "NWBio"), a biotechnology company developing DCVax® personalized immune therapies for...
Speaker Johnson Floats Leaving Politics to Start ‘Lawn Business’ If GOP Loses House
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) floated an unexpected career change if Republicans lose their House majority in next month’s midterm elections, saying he would be willing to leave politics behind and start a lawn business in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Speaker Johnson Floats Leaving Politics to Start ‘Lawn Business’ If GOP Loses House
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) floated an unexpected career change if Republicans lose their House majority in next month’s midterm elections, saying he would be willing to leave politics behind and start a lawn business in his hometown of Shreveport, Louisiana.
Johnson unsure on ‘next chapter’ if Republicans lose majority
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) cast doubt on his future in GOP leadership for the first time Thursday, saying he is unsure “what my next chapter of life is” if Republicans lose the House majority. “If God moves on our hearts and says we should, you know, go back to my hometown of Shreveport and […]
Sandwiches to socialism: How a DSA chapter in Austin is building political power
The Democratic Socialists of America has experienced rapid growth and increased influence within American politics, driven by grassroots organizing and a platform focused on issues like housing, healthcare, and social justice.
Alex Rodriguez completely misunderstands ‘Moneyball’ while praising Milwaukee Brewers
In 2003, “Moneyball” took MLB by storm. The book, which chronicles how the 2002 Oakland Athletics won 103 games using a data-driven approach, became the template for how baseball would be played for decades to come. Many of that Athletics team’s core “sabermetrics” tenets still drive strategy in MLB today: prioritizing on-base percentage over batting…
Panel debates effects increased fentanyl penalties will have on state
A University of Denver panel examined Proposition 132, the November ballot measure that would increase criminal penalties for fentanyl possession and distribution while sparking debate over treatment, prison costs and overdose prevention.
City council debates higher taxes on big corporations, expanding small business exemptions
The proposal could exempt 18,000 small businesses from city taxes while generating millions in new revenue, but critics warn it could drive companies away.
Presbyterian College alumna Liz Wolverton ’96 to deliver 2026-27 Vance Lecture on Nov. 9
Learn how business ethics shape leadership with Liz Wolverton at the Vance Lecture on Nov. 9 at Presbyterian College.
From hidden gems to horror classics: What to watch this Halloween
Craving something scary? We've rounded up 36 horror films and spooky TV shows to watch.
A Yale physicist — and IceCube member — salutes this year’s Nobel Prize winner
Yale physicist Reina Maruyama was part of the construction and commissioning team for the IceCube experiment, whose principal investigator, Francis Halzen, won the 2026 Nobel Prize for physics.
Tim Cook Explains Why He Stepped Down as Apple CEO Before iPhone Duo Launch
The Independent's David Phelan on Wednesday interviewed Apple's executive chairman Tim Cook at Apple's U.K. headquarters in the Battersea Power Station, and one of the topics they discussed was John Ternus taking over as Apple's CEO. Ternus, who was previously Apple's hardware engineering chief, succeeded Cook as Apple's CEO on September 1. Cook said the transition "started years ago". "It's been an interesting transition," said Cook.
Murdaugh Retrial: Secrecy, Science And A Flood Of Filings
State invoked grand jury secrecy, challenged DNA and ballistics requests and offered original crime-scene scans ahead of Murdaugh’s October 16 hearing…
Freshman WR Jahsiear Rogers dismissed from OU football team
OU freshman wide receiver Jahsiear Rogers has been dismissed from the team, OU athletics communications confirmed to the OU Daily. No reason was given for Rogers' dismissal.
Politics Friday: An open House seat is up for grabs in Minnesota's 2nd District
Friday at noon, MPR News hosts a debate between the two candidates in Minnesota’s 2nd Congressional District. Then, a rundown of the week in Minnesota politics.
Renowned Mote Marine Science and Education Center Opens New Aquarium in Sarasota Using Penetron Technology
Situated on a 12-acre site within Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, the Mote SEA campus features state-of-the-art STEM teaching labs for biomedical science, microbiology and immunology; marine and coastal ecology; and ocean engineering, AI technology, robotics, and sensor development. These labs provide hands-on learning opportunities for more than 70,000 K–12 students each year from Sarasota and Manatee County schools, as well as schools in nearby counties.
New St. Pete Polls survey has Ashley Moody at 47%, Angie Nixon at 45%, and the Senate race still inside the margin of error
U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody leads Democrat Angie Nixon 47% to 45% in a new St. Pete Polls survey for Florida Politics, a narrow edge for the Republican inside
How do we remember history through 'The Minutes'? Civic comedy tackles small town politics
“The Minutes” hides a misremembered town secret within the records of a typical town council meeting.
Byron Donalds 45%, David Jolly 45%: St. Pete Polls finds the Governor's race deadlocked with four weeks to go
Both candidates gained a point since September; Jolly's lead among independents is now 17.
The Politics Hour: D.C. Attorney General Brian Schwalb on prosecuting 'extreme housing neglect'
D.C. AG Brian Schwalb talks pushing for better housing conditions, suing Amazon, and driving down youth crime. Plus, WAMU's Maryland reporter Jenny Abamu on Governor Wes Moore's political future.
Eagles’ Pass Rusher Emerges as Potential Trade Candidate Before Deadline
The Philadelphia Eagles and general manager Howie Roseman have never shied away from being active in NFL trade discussions. Over the years, Roseman has had one of the more aggressive mindsets in the trade market. With the 2026 NFL trade deadline coming up after Week 9, it would not be surprising to hear the Eagles […] The post Eagles’ Pass Rusher Emerges as Potential Trade Candidate Before Deadline appeared first on Gridiron Heroics.
Cyborg Politics 3.0: AI and the Algorithms of Unpeace
How AI is transforming politics, warfare, and peacemaking, creating a new era of cyborg power and algorithmic "unpeace."
Valerie Bertinelli slams critics on Eddie Van Halen's death anniversary
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Amendment 79: New Opportunity: B.8 Heliophysics Spaceflight Science Foundations
The Heliophysics Spaceflight Science Foundations (SSF) program (B.8 of ROSES) solicits investigations that enable the formulation of high-impact spaceflight
Horror Movies, Politics Are Killing Film Festivals: Opinion Column
The film festival circuit is drowning in bloody genre fare and ideological theater. Whatever happened to indie cred?
Brownsville Native Supports U.S. Navy Osprey Squadron
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Kentucky Senate budget chair questions whether politics are influencing budget forecast
A Republican leader has raised concerns about whether political games are being played with budget forecasts that show new revenue amid a very uncertain economic forecast.
Fermilab to lead two new Genesis Mission awards to accelerate development of microelectronics and quantum
Two new awards will expand Fermilab’s critical role in the Genesis Mission by developing custom microelectronics and advancing quantum information science.
Pro-ICE Film 'Pawn Shop' Crew Are Angry About Movie's MAGA Politics
A crew member who quit the pro-ICE film 'Pawn Shop' didn’t know its MAGA politics when hired, raising questions about what productions disclose.
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American Gladiators: MMA, Trump and the Politics of Masculinity
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FCM Travel Launches Proactive Analytics Tool
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The politics of tariffs after Trump
Trump’s most enduring legacy on trade may be not the tariffs themselves, but the partisan realignment they leave behind.
Q&A: Special Forces vet talks politics and family
Courtesy | Nick Freitas Nick Freitas is an author, political commentator, and social media influencer with more than 2 million Instagram followers. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates as a Republican from 2016–2026 and, before then, was a sergeant and Green Beret in the U.S. Army Special Forces. Freitas gave a lecture on...
Every Yale player drafted by the Boston Celtics
Let's take a look at every player who has been drafted by the Celtics out of Yale.
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Open science is compatible with research security, says Canada’s chief science advisor
Open science is “not incompatible” with research security and science leaders and policymakers should “demystify” the false dichotomy between the two, according to Mona Nemer, Canada’s chief science advisor. More than a decade ago, EU policymakers were promoting open science, open innovation and open collaboration across the world. It was a political movement that aimed to make scientific research, data, software, publications and methodologies transparent, accessible and reusable for everyone.But that rhetoric has changed over the past few years. After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 and Donald Trump came back to power in 2025, international partnerships have become more pragmatic. Countries are trying to implement protectionist policies and governments are increasingly worried about technology espionage. According to Nemer, science can remain open if the sector can come up with improved security protocols that would protect research data from undue manipulation by foreign actors. “If anybody can fiddle with the with the data, then [open science] is actually quite dangerous and quite useless,” she told Science|Business. Universities and research institutions are increasingly vulnerable to attempted espionage and other types of foreign interference. In September, the UK’s domestic counter-intelligence service MI5 issued a security warning against collaborations with the China General Technology Research Institute. And earlier this year, Germany’s Helmholtz Center for Information Security was criticised by federal research minister Dorothee Bär, who told a parliamentary hearing that “existing rules and systems” at the institute “were not suitable” for preventing leaks to China. According to Nemer, universities and research institutions should perhaps follow the example of the private sector, as companies have been able to safeguard their research while still publishing results. “I think that there is a level of research security hygiene that researchers and institutions need to just adopt,” she said. “You don't have to tell Sanofi or IBM how to safeguard their research, which they end up publishing anyway.”While certain areas of research will not be open for collaboration with certain partners, in other areas cooperation is necessary even with researchers based in adversarial countries. “I stress this because politics change,” she said. “Science and politics don't make for good fellows, and whether we like it or not, politics will influence certain things.”Researchers will play an important role in “protecting the integrity of science,” said Nemer. “I think that it's time that there's a commitment to a certain scientific compact, so that citizens don't think that science is actually an open door for espionage and for anti-nationalism.”New partnershipsNemer spoke with Science|Business on the margins of the Hamburg Science Summit on September 17, the day when Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney called for increased cooperation with the EU, including in science and technology. Canada is looking to strengthen ties with partners in other corners of the world, after the Trump administration threatened to put tariffs on Canadian goods and services and even openly suggested Canada could become the 51st state. In parallel, the US government has indicated it wants to retreat from international science projects, including US collaboration with Europe’s CERN particle accelerator and other big science labs.Related articlesThe stats we need to better understand R&DCanada looks to deepen research and education links with the EUCan researchers trust that AI models won’t leak their ideas?Nemer said the US is still a science “powerhouse,” but Canada and Europe will have to work closely together on global challenges. “It’s important for both [sides], but I think it's also important for the rest of the world, because the cut in funding for development, in health, in regions like Africa and other places, have dramatic effects.” The Trump administration is also planning a review of the Nelson memo, a Biden-era document that mandated that results of federally funded research would be openly available. With that idea being called into question, Nemer said it could be “very disruptive” to scientific collaborations and could jeopardise research on climate change, the Arctic and global health. “When your collaborator suddenly tells you I'm not going to share the data with you as a researcher, if this happens, I think it's very worrisome,” she said. “I'm certainly hoping that a lot of the Canadian institutions, funders, researchers, have started looking at joining forces on databases and using more European research infrastructures,” Nemer added.
Concern after Europeans endorse US science agenda
Germany’s biggest research funder has said it is “concerned” after Berlin, plus several other European countries, endorsed a controversial US-led science policy statement. On October 4, the White House announced that 16 countries, including Germany, the UK, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Poland, Japan and South Korea had backed the Kyoto Vision for a Golden Age of Science.The document, agreed on the margins of the annual Science and Technology in Society forum in Kyoto, which gathers science ministers from across the world, appears uncontroversial at first sight. It’s a one-page statement, without any concrete measures, that touches on reducing administrative burden on scientists, experimenting with new funding models and the use of “super intelligence” in science, the Trump administration’s preferred term for artificial intelligence. However, what’s controversial is that much of the language in the Kyoto Vision reflects Science: A New Golden Age, a major policy document released by the White House in July.That document attracted criticism for deriding universities as “legacy institutions” and suggesting money be diverted to new research labs. In a speech in Kyoto on October 4, Michael Kratsios, director of the White House Office for Science and Technology Policy and the report’s author, said that the US was seeking to “diversify the ways that we support research to meet our best scientists where and when they do their best work.” The worry is that the Trump administration may be using genuine dysfunctions in academia as a pretext to defund and disempower universities, which US vice president JD Vance has labelled “the enemy.” Many in Europe also want more experimentation and reform of how science is organised and funded, and agree with criticisms of academia made by Science: A New Golden Age. But some also fear that if the US pushes for reform partially in bad faith, it could politicise and undermine the whole agenda. Washington is currently trying to change federal funding rules so that political appointees can block and cancel scientific grants. It has cut grants mid-project on topics related to diversity and other politically forbidden areas. And last year, it threatened to cut Harvard University’s federal funding unless it admitted a “critical mass” of new faculty and students to create campus “viewpoint diversity.” “Particularly concerned”Because of this wider US political context, the Kyoto Vision’s otherwise innocuous sounding statement that “we encourage experimentation with new institutional models for science that provide varying levels of autonomy, resources and direction” has caused consternation in Europe, particularly from some of Germany’s biggest science organisations. A spokesperson for the German Research Foundation (DFG), the country’s biggest funder, said that it would “closely monitor whether the current US administration uses the Kyoto Vision to restructure research funding to the detriment of research institutions such as universities and their autonomy.” The DFG was “particularly concerned” with the statement’s references to Science: A New Golden Age, they continued. A spokesperson for the German Rectors’ Conference, which represents the country’s universities, said that the reference to “new institutional models” raises “questions on the underlying understanding of academic freedom and autonomy.” Research funding must “guided first and foremost by scientific not political principles,” they went on. Dampen criticismEuropean endorsement of the Kyoto Vision might dampen domestic criticism of the Trump administration’s science policy, some in the US fear, by suggesting international support. “What we saw from Germany, Japan, the UK and other countries, is an impulse that the administration has exploited with our own science reform movement, a belief they can use dialogue to make things better,” said Cole Donovan, director of science policy at the campaigning group Stand Up for Science. “In practice, the administration has done the opposite.” Not a binding statementThere’s been so much concern in Germany that the country’s federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space put out a statement defending its endorsement of the Kyoto Vision, which it has posted on its website. Related articlesIs metascience being co-opted?European researchers sound the alarm that Trump rule changes will hit cooperationThe US ‘golden age’ science strategy: what Europeans need to know The ministry said that it “should be regarded as a basis for discussion and does not constitute a binding statement.” Backing the statement gives Germany the chance to raise “issues and concerns” with the US during upcoming talks on science and technology scheduled for November. “Although these intentions appear, in principle, to be worthy of support, they will be scrutinised and examined more closely as the process continues,” the statement continues. Super intelligence?A ministry spokesperson confirmed to Science|Business that Germany had broadly endorsed the Kyoto Vision.However, they said Berlin had not agreed to final changes in the statement to refer to AI as super intelligence. In September, facing protests against data centres and polling that suggests US citizens are far more concerned than excited by the technology, Trump issued an executive order that attempts to rebrand AI as super intelligence, following polling on social media.The name change is to “reflect the transformative capabilities of these technologies and the limitless opportunities they create for the American people,” the order says. EU askedThe UK and Italian science ministries did not respond to a request for comment on their endorsement of the Kyoto Vision. Although most EU countries did not endorse the statement, it’s not clear which states the US asked. The White House Office for Science and Technology Policy did not return a request for comment. A European Commission official, speaking under condition of anonymity, said that the US had approached the EU, but too late for the EU to quiz all its member states on whether Brussels should endorse the statement.
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The Nobel boys club (again)
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Glen Powell on why he doesn't talk about politics: 'My calling is elsewhere'
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People over politics
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OpenAI has released an extraordinary body of mathematical work produced by an unreleased frontier model: 722 manuscripts spanning 372 research families across fields including number theory, complexity theory, and mathematical physics. Each result required, on average, the equivalent of roughly three hours of ChatGPT Pro reasoning. A New Era of Discovery We may be witnessing the beginnings of a “math singularity”: a point at which machine-generated discovery accelerates beyond humanity’s ability to independently reproduce, verify, or fully absorb it. If frontier models can generate hundreds of meaningful results in the time it takes a human researcher to investigate one, the constraint will no longer be producing new mathematics. It will be our capacity to validate, interpret, and integrate it. This does not make mathematicians obsolete. It changes their role. They may increasingly serve as guides, critics, and meaning-makers. Increasingly, they will decide which questions matter, determining which results can be trusted, and explaining why they are important. Mathematical insight may become abundant, while human judgment becomes more valuable than ever. Mathematics May Be Only the Beginning Every scientific discipline could eventually experience a similar acceleration. AI systems could generate and test hypotheses, connect findings across specialized fields, and explore possibilities at a scale no human research community could match. In medicine, imagine models identifying overlooked disease mechanisms, designing drugs and clinical trials, personalizing treatments, or discovering cures in months rather than decades. In materials science, AI could help create better batteries and cleaner industrial processes. In climate science, it could accelerate advances in energy, forecasting, and carbon removal. In biology, it could uncover relationships hidden across enormous genomic and molecular datasets. The result would not simply be faster research. It could expand the frontier of what is scientifically possible. The New Bottleneck Scientific discovery, however, is not the same as scientific progress. A medical breakthrough must still survive laboratory testing, clinical trials, regulatory scrutiny, manufacturing constraints, and real-world deployment. As machine-generated ideas multiply, the bottleneck may shift from producing breakthroughs to validating them safely and translating them into practice. We may soon have more hypotheses than laboratories can test, more drugs than clinical trials can evaluate, and more mathematical results than experts can review. That imbalance will require better systems for automated verification, reproducible research, prioritization, peer review, and collaboration between AI and domain experts. The importance of OpenAI’s work is not merely the number of manuscripts produced. It offers a glimpse of a world in which intelligence can explore thousands of intellectual paths in parallel. If ideas cease to be scarce, humanity’s defining challenge will be deciding which are true, which matter, and how to turn them into progress. The math singularity is not the end of human inquiry. It is the beginning of a new kind—one in which machines expand the frontier of knowledge and humans decide where it should lead. Subscribe Share Leave a comment
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