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College of Science and Mathematics revels in inaugural Scholarship Luncheon
“I am grateful for the Georgia Power Scholarship, which helps me work towards my goal of becoming an orthopedic surgeon,” says KingDavid Nwankwo.
NH economy grows slowly
New Hampshire’s economy continued its lowgear, forward momentum in the spring, grinding away at a 2% annual growth rate that is slower than several of its Northeast neighbors and the country as a whole.
🐣 Wonderkid of the week: Kerim Alajbegovic 🇧🇦
As it does every week, OneFootball shines a spotlight on a rising young talent. This Wednesday, we introduce you to a young forward making his mark in Serie A and European competition.At just 19, Keri...
Albion set to reward Campbell with new contract
West Bromwich Albion head coach James Morrison is pleased George Campbell is set to be rewarded for his performances with a new contract at Albion.
I’m an athletic trainer – here’s how to know when kids sports are too intense
It can be tempting to ratchet up training intensity for kids in youth sports, but focusing on fun and letting them lead the way may ultimately be more rewarding.
Jenna Dewan on balancing two shows, her closest ‘DWTS’ bond, and a big ‘The Rookie’ season 9 tease
Jenna Dewan takes EW inside her weekly effort to thread the needle between ‘DWTS’ and ‘The Rookie,’ which are filming simultaneously this fall, and why the latter show is still ‘the best job I’ve ever had.’
Wayne Rooney named pundit of the year at Broadcast Sport Awards
Wayne Rooney was named the pundit of the year at the 2026 Broadcast Sport Awards on Thursday night.
Wayne Rooney named pundit of the year at Broadcast Sport Awards
Wayne Rooney was named the pundit of the year at the 2026 Broadcast Sport Awards on Thursday night.
Palmer misses too many chances to impress
England manager Thomas Tuchel says Cole Palmer "misses too many chances to impress" after not selecting the Chelsea forward for England's November Nations League fixtures.
Katie Finneran, Charles Busch, More Will Lead Entertainment Community Fund Benefit at Birdland Jazz Club
Producer Jamie deRoy's award-winning variety show Jamie deRoy and Friends will return for the special benefit concert.
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...
County Awards Berks LaunchBox $125K for Small Business Grants
Of the total grant awarded, $12,000 will be set aside for Penn State Berks student entrepreneurs participating in the college’s Flemming Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development Center Customer Discovery Lab, which will be distributed to awardees in $1,000 increments.
Zelda: Ocarina of Time Switch 2: All Gold Skulltula locations and which have moved
How to find every Gold Skulltula in Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, rewards…
When does Christmas music start playing on local, SiriusXM radio stations in 2026?
Have you put your Halloween decorations away yet? Or, are you already barreling toward the holiday season?
Keystone Quilters quilts receive awards
Keystone Quilters held a colorful Quilt Show, “Freedom of Expression,” Oct. 9-10 at the Finland Mennonite Church in Pennsburg.
Kalispell Chamber honors business and community leaders
The chamber's highest honor, the Flathead Legacy Award, was presented posthumously to Paul D. Wachholz, who died at 89 on July 28.
Baltimore Orioles Slugger Named Silver Slugger Finalist In First Season
Pete Alonso was named a finalist for the prestigious offensive award after his first season in Baltimore.
Pamela Abdy Unleashes Her 'Pure, Unadulterated Rage' at WIF Honors
The former Warner Bros. exec gave a passionate 15-minute speech at the event, where she was presented with the Vanguard Award.
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.
Antje Graupe Pryor Cancer Data Science Award 2026 - Oncology News, Insights, Stories by OncoDaily
The Antje Graupe Pryor Cancer Data Science Award 2026, administered by the Arnie Charbonneau Cancer Institute, provides C$40,000 for a Calgary-led project
Fast beam pinching via a plasma lens yields extremely brilliant gamma-rays
The fast electron beam pinching in nonuniform plasmas, where a density upramp acts as a plasma lens to violently self-focus the beam, offers a promising pathway toward ultra-bright gamma-ray sources with photon energies reaching up to the GeV scale.
Chamber honors business and community leaders at annual awards banquet
Photo by Tom Rivers LYNDONVILLE – The Orleans County Chamber of Commerce held its 28th annual awards dinner this evening at the White Birch Golf Course. About 80 people attended the event. Pictured from left, front row: Erin Hackenberg, owner of EH Collectives, New Business of the Year; Brandon Johnson, owner of Dance Theater Premier […]
'ER' and 'The Pitt' are similar enough for lawsuit to move forward
The lawsuit is a clash between the makers of multiple Emmy-winning TV series that were each among the most acclaimed shows of their eras
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.
LSCP celebrates Marquette County small businesses
The LSCP recognized Superior Solar, 906 Family Dentistry, Mount Shasta, Dukes Farm and Aland Cook from Forsyth Forward
Justin Herbert Receives Vote of Confidence from Chargers Coaching Staff
Despite a winless start and a league-worst QBR, Jim Harbaugh stands by his struggling signal-caller as the Bolts fight to salvage a season spiraling toward disaster.
Drake Maye Wins AFC Offensive Player Of The Month Award
Drake Maye earns first career AFC Offensive Player of the Month honors with huge October stats. See the numbers and what's next for the Patriots.
2026 Silver Slugger: Shohei Ohtani, Mike Trout, Junior Caminero among finalists for batting award
Iron Mountain data center business growth tops total IT sales increase
Company targets selective global development as US heads toward tougher restrictions
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
Nyberg: What to know when starting a small business
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (WTNH) — Small business owners looking to build a brand are about to get some help. Laura Ward of Brand Clarity Intensive sat down with Ann Nyberg to discuss what people shou…
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'ER' and 'The Pitt' are similar enough for lawsuit to move forward, appeals court finds
Ranking top MLB trade candidates during 2026-27 offseason
The MLB offseason has arrived. With the Los Angeles Dodgers finally not winning the World Series, and with smaller-market teams that have built internally, like the Tampa Bay Rays and Milwaukee Bucks, having competed for the title of champion , every team has a greater sense of optimism going forward. Of course, teams are contemplating which free […] The post Ranking top MLB trade candidates during 2026-27 offseason appeared first on ClutchPoints.
This Fintech Company Will Give Your Small Business a $10,000 Grant. Here's How to Apply
Forward Financing launched a Back the Builders Grant Program. It will hand out three $10,000 awards, one of which focuses on AI adoption.
Democrats’ House majority is trending toward historic
The 2026 midterm elections have clearly been very good for Democrats across the board. But their House majority is trending toward historic numbers.
Kings G LaVine Keeps it Real About Defensive Struggles
The Sacramento Kings need to take a big step forward on the defensive end of the floor if they hope to start winning games. Starting shooting guard Zach LaVine was blunt about the team's struggles following Wednesday's loss to the Los Angeles Lakers.
Project to rebuild trust in AI era lands Laude’s $10M ‘moonshot’ award
A $10 million “moonshot” grant from Laude Institute will help Cornell researchers realize the potential of artificial intelligence, while giving online communities control over AI’s role.
Harbor District Receives Concept Ideas for the Pillar Point Ocean Science Center While Looking Towards Public-Private Partnerships for Collaboration and Funding
Harbor District Receives Concept Ideas for the Pillar Point Ocean Science Center While Looking Towards Public-Private Partnerships for Collaboration a
Memorial Healthcare System Mobile Health Program Connects Thousands to Care, Reduces Hospital Admissions - Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report
November 5, 2026 – Memorial Healthcare System’s Mobile Health Program continues to expand access to care across South Broward, serving more than 2,000 patients through more than 2,800 visits in the […]
CBS Sports names Thomas Haugh an opening-night winner
CBS Sports named Florida forward Thomas Haugh an opening-night winner after his 19-point, 10-rebound performance against Miami.
Wendy's RPG WendyQuest Offers Real Food Rewards for Beating Boss Fights
Wendy’s has gone full Wendy’s, releasing a 15-hour RPG based on the fast-food chain’s branding.
McGonigle Headlines Three Tigers Up for Silver Slugger Awards
Kevin McGonigle's rookie season put him in a Silver Slugger field with Bobby Witt Jr. #Tigers
Brazil Star Raphinha Signs New Contract With Barcelona Through 2030
Raphinha has agreed to a new contract with Barcelona that will keep the Brazil forward at the Spanish club through 2030.
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.
Priority review: Austin considering business subsidies that target local needs, resources
City Council discussion on economic development leans toward boosting small, local projects over the usual business big dogs.
K-Movie Entertainment to launch sales at AFM on ‘Secret Of My Father’
Casting also announced on the third feature from award winning Korean director Jéro Yun.
Davidson Building among 8 Iowa projects awarded historic preservation tax credits
The historic Davidson Building in downtown Des Moines has been awarded nearly $1.46 million in state historic preservation tax credits to support its rehabilitation, one of eight projects across Iowa receiving a combined $18.5 million in tax credits. The Iowa Economic Development Authority announced the awards this week through its State Historic Preservation Tax Credit…
Medicus Pharma proposes $135M SkinJect spinout through SPAC business combination
Medicus Pharma CEO Dr Raza Bokhari joined Steve Darling from Proactive to discuss a proposed transaction involving the company's wholly owned subsidiary, SkinJect, which has entered into a non-binding letter of intent with an undisclosed special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) for a potential business combination. The proposed transaction contemplates a US$135 million pre-money enterprise valuation for SkinJect, alongside a concurrent equity financing intended to support the company's SKNJCT-005 clinical study in patients with Gorlin syndrome and preparations for a potential New Drug Application (NDA). Bokhari told Proactive that the proposed deal is designed to establish SkinJect as a separately listed company focused on advancing its dermatology and rare-disease development program. Under the proposed structure, the SPAC would acquire 100% of SkinJect in exchange for newly issued common shares in the combined company. Medicus Pharma intends to retain majority economic and voting ownership, allowing existing Medicus shareholders to maintain significant participation in SkinJect's potential future value. The separation would also provide SkinJect with a dedicated financing platform to fund its clinical development activities, particularly the SKNJCT-005 study targeting Gorlin syndrome, a rare genetic condition associated with the development of multiple basal cell carcinomas. The concurrent financing is expected to support the clinical program and the work required to prepare and potentially submit a New Drug Application, subject to successful development and regulatory progress. Final ownership percentages have not yet been determined. These will depend on negotiations surrounding the definitive transaction agreement and the combined company's capitalization, including retained SPAC cash, public and sponsor shares, warrants and other potentially dilutive securities. Medicus said the proposed transaction remains subject to the completion of definitive documentation and other customary conditions. The planned spinout represents a strategic step in Medicus Pharma's efforts to give SkinJect a dedicated corporate and financial structure, while allowing the parent company to retain majority participation as the dermatology program advances towards its next clinical and regulatory milestones. #proactiveinvestors #nasdaq #mdcx #tsxv #mdcx #pharma #SkinJect #Biotechnology #Healthcare #RareDisease #GorlinSyndrome #Dermatology #SPAC #ClinicalTrials #DrugDevelopment #NDA #Biopharmaceuticals
Howard's Business Report: Post-election stock market
The soaring post-election stock market carried Hawaii stocks aloft. Howard Dicus takes a look.
Donors raise $12.5M+ for new NICU at Marshfield Children’s
The fundraising milestone will allow Marshfield Children's Hospital to move forward with plans for a new, family-centered NICU.
Susan Bullman, Ph.D.
Susan Bullman, Ph.D., receives TAMEST Mary Beth Maddox Award for breakthrough tumor microbiome research
Three Penn State researchers awarded scientific grants from Kaufman Foundation
The Charles E. Kaufman Foundation has selected three researchers from the Penn State Eberly College of Science to receive scientific research grants: Carlos Blanco, assistant professor of physics, Ribhu Kaul, professor of physics, and Bryce Gadway, professor of physics.
These award-winning feds want to advance science for the public good — and challenge stereotypes about government work
The Arthur S. Flemming awards have been around for more than 75 years and generally recognize civil servants who work in scientific fields.
Latino voters reflect on historic Democratic wins as Texas shifts left
Two years after Donald Trump flipped longtime Democratic strongholds in the Rio Grande Valley, the region swung back toward Democrats in an election that will bring Texas its first Latina governor.
State Launches New Rural Health Transformation Program Dashboard
NC Awarded $100M for Year 2, Funding to Come in Phases
Six-Story Medical Office Building Tops Out At Broward Health North In Deerfield Beach
Florida YIMBY says "Yes In My Backyard" to positive new development in Florida.
Everything you need to know about the 2026 Latin Grammy Awards. Here's how to watch
The 2026 Latin Grammy Awards are back, with the show set for Nov. 12 at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena | WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM
Everything you need to know about the 2026 Latin Grammy Awards. Here's how to watch
The 2026 Latin Grammy Awards are back, with the show set for Nov. 12 at Las Vegas’ MGM Grand Garden Arena | KNSS Radio
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Many female politicians say open hostility towards them is growing. Researchers say democracy could pay the price. #dwgermanpolitics
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.
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
One of Birmingham’s largest proposed construction projects takes a big step forward
It’s a long-coveted site that’s bewildered developers.
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.
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.
State Prize for VISTA Science Experience Center
The VISTA Science Experience Center was awarded the 2026 Austrian State Prize for Adult Education in the category “Science Education for Adults.” Federal Minister Eva-Maria Holzleitner presented the award on November 4 at the Haus der Begegnung in Vienna. The award recognizes the innovative concept
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.
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.
What the midterms taught us about the future of the Democratic Party
Conversations with more than a dozen top Democrats, including several openly considering running for president in 2028, showcase a euphoric party that is slightly divided on the way forward.
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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Take-Two CEO Faces Bizarre Question Over Company's Lack of 'Enough Hits'
Strauss Zelnick, the CEO of Take-Two Interactive, faced an awkward interview, in which it was suggested the firm hasn't had 'enough hits'.
Imaging Science Thesis Defense: A Step Towards Developing Digital Twins of Forest Environments with Terrestrial Laser Scanning | Events
Imaging Science MS Thesis Defense A Step Towards Developing Digital Twins of Forest Environments with Terrestrial Laser Scanning Zoom Link here Aisha Co Imaging Science MS Candidate Rochester Institute of Technology Abstract: Digital twins have become an increasingly relevant topic as we pursue accurate representations of the real world for planning, research, and even design purposes. This study focuses on the steps for creating digital twins of forest environments using sparse points from terrestrial light detection and ranging (LiDAR). Specifically, we developed geometric models of structural digital twins (SDTs) from leaf-off terrestrial laser scanning of real-world forests. Three algorithms were used to develop an approach to handle individual tree reconstructions for sparse point clouds, and they were tested and validated with a two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistic against an existing inventory of the RIT Nature Trail to evaluate the reconstruction’s fidelity. The key evaluation metrics included diameter at breast height (DBH) and height. The limited nature of available ground truth necessitated the use of an additional validation method using a PANGAEA open dataset, based on comparing DBH, height, and crown diameter against the dataset’s calculated measurements. Reconstructions were compared against per-tree reference values at two-point spacings for sixteen trees from the open BR07 dataset (PANGAEA); these specifications matched the collected RIT Nature Trail data and the scanner’s nominal spacing. On BR07, the proposed method had the lowest median DBH error among the methods that modeled every tree (1.28cm, 4.1%), and this error was nearly unchanged at the coarser spacing, while TreeQSM’s rose from 4.2% to 6.5% and AdTree overestimated DBH by 30% to 40%. Results show the proposed method understates the tree heights by 0.2m to 1.4m but contains the least error when estimating DBH. The proposed method was able to produce all 69 trees, while SimpleTree produced 49 and none at the 4.35 cm BR07 spacing. We concluded that the developed geometric model (digital) twins have significant potential to serve as both simulation and prediction tools. We recommend that future efforts focus on collecting per-tree ground truth measurements within the scanned plot and incorporating leaf-on scans. Leaf-on scans include representative foliage, which would add realism to the model and ecological function of the trees. Intended Audience: Beginners, undergraduates, graduates. Those with interest in the topic. To request an interpreter, please visit myaccess.rit.edu
Samsung honors 10 Korean science and AI research pioneers
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Lucky Daye stands on business as ‘ALOUD!’ album hits #1
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Missouri Democrats broke the GOP supermajority in the statehouse. Now what?
A Mizzou political science professor breaks down what Democratic gains nationally and in Missouri mean going forward.
Monolith Soft details its involvement with Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake
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Local writers earn National Entertainment Journalism Awards finalist spots
Telling local stories that matter and are award-worthy.
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City of Marshall moves forward with feasibility study to boost local business
“A feasibility study is where we’re gonna have some great professionals come in and let us know what kind of numbers we would be looking at" The City of Marshall is exploring new ways to expand economic growth and attract more businesses to the community.
Brandywine student lands a spot at Jefferson Health’s Volunteer Medical Program
This past summer, third-year biology student Aaliyna Patel took an important step toward her future career in medicine through a volunteer internship with Jefferson Health’s Abington Hospital.
Colorado Running Back Richard Young to Start Against Arizona State
Fresh off a dominant 120-yard performance against Kansas State, the Alabama transfer looks to anchor the Go-Go offense and spark the Buffaloes' late-season push toward bowl eligibility.
Among Strawberries and Food Scraps, Students Find Science - Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute (RCEI)
At two Rutgers research centers, the familiar inspires questions about growing food and making better use of what remains It was October, but inside a greenhouse at Rutgers’ research farm in Cream Ridge, N.J., strawberry plants were still flowering and bearing fruit. Edward Durner invited the visiting Honors College students from Rutgers University-New Brunswick to try the berries, then offered ... Read More
Lubrizol awards Kirtland Schools lab grant, visits science classes
Kirtland Schools students are getting new science equipment and hands-on learning experiences through a partnership with Lubrizol. The district was named the inaugural recipient of a $34,784.58 Lubrizol Learning Lab Grant, according to…
BROWARD HEALTH CELEBRATES TOPPING-OUT CEREMONY FOR MEDICAL OFFICE BUILDING AT BROWARD HEALTH NORTH - Florida Hospital News and Healthcare Report
Shane Strum, President and CEO of Broward Health, signs the beam with fellow executives November 4, 2026- Broward Health celebrated a major construction milestone with the topping out of its […]
Harrison Ford’s latest career milestone? A Paley Honors Award
LOS ANGELES — The Force is with Harrison Ford. The legendary actor, who received the SAG-AFTRA Life Achievement Award earlier this year, will be lauded with another career honor. The
Did Cher not deserve her Oscar, as Michael Douglas said last week?
Michael Douglas has reignited an online debate over the 1988 Oscars race by joining those who say Glenn Close, not Cher, deserved the best actress trophy.
Mueller earns Global Challenge Award
A brief conversation with a fellow high school student led Raya Mueller to write an essay that earned her a scholarship and connected her with fellow students driven to make the world a better place.
Business Aviation Is About Connecting With People
Networking, industry involvement, mentorship and meaningful professional relationships can open doors to rewarding aviation careers.
2026 Texas Rangers Awards announced
Ezequiel Duran has been named the 2026 Texas Rangers Player of the Year
Matt Olson Wins Fourth Gold Glove As Braves Defense Shines
Matt Olson takes home his fourth Gold Glove Award. See the full list of winners and why his defensive work matters for Atlanta's future.
Four locals to be honored at second Excellence in Business Leadership Awards
The Nov. 16 event will feature three awards and the ATHENA Award’s 41st anniversary.
WVU neurobiologist expands neuroscience research, student training with NSF CAREER award
Eric Horstick, a West Virginia University Eberly College of Arts and Sciences neurobiologist, will use a nearly $1 million National Science Foundation CAREER award to investigate how brief changes in temperature early in life can shape the brain and behavior using zebrafish.
Luka Doncic Loses A Stat And The Lakers Love It
Luka Doncic went backward in one stat on Monday, and the Lakers are thrilled. Here is why losing a technical foul is actually a big win for their star.