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Igniting wonder in high schoolers through science and technology
High schoolers are at a particularly impressionable stage of brain development, making them highly receptive to new information.
Giannis Antetokounmpo ‘speechless’ after Doc Rivers questioned his IQ
After Doc Rivers questioned his IQ, Giannis Antetokounmpo is questioning why his former head coach slandered him. Last week, Rivers went on The Bill Simmons Podcast and claimed Antetokounmpo “doesn’t have a super-high IQ” while also alleging the former NBA MVP was difficult to coach. After leading the Miami Heat to a 114-108 victory over…
The fierce battle for James Bond is playing out in public
(CNN) — It’s been five years since Daniel Craig bid farewell to the role of 007 in “No Time to Die,” which ended with a closing credit promise that “James Bond will return.” And while corporate machinations have slowed the character’s reappearance, the battle to play cinema’s most famous secret agent is playing out more publicly than usual.In recent weeks, there have been numerous leaks to the press about the slew of big-name actors said to be auditioning for Bond in what will be the 26th film in the franchise, stoking debates among fans.Last month, it was reported that “final screen tests” were being held, with “One Night Only” heartthrob Callum Turner, “Slow Horses” actor Jack Lowden and Josh O’Connor of “Challengers” said to be among those who made the cut. Then two surprise names entered the mix over the weekend, with Deadline and Variety reporting “Primetime” star Robert Pattinson and “X-Men” actor Nicholas Hoult had also undergone screen tests for the role. (Pattinson’s casting would be particularly remarkable given he’s also currently leading another major franchise as Batman, while Hoult is appearing as Lex Luther in the new “Superman” movies.)Other wild cards, per Variety? Pop singer Harry Styles or “The White Lotus” star Theo James. At 32, Styles would be the youngest choice, while 41-year-old James is the oldest.Representatives for the actors and Amazon MGM Studios, didn’t respond to requests for comment. None of the actors have revealed what the audition process has involved, although O’Connor told the BBC that being considered was an “incredibly bizarre pinch-me moment.”A ‘methodical’ huntProducer Amy Pascal, who steered “Spider-Man” to several reboots over her career, has said fans can expect a decision by the end of the year. “We are being really, really methodical,” she told Deadline this summer. “Daniel Craig is a hard act to follow. And it’s got to be something really different that is a stirring and exciting and different.”There is immense pressure to get the decision right. For one, the Bond franchise is big business, with Craig’s “No Time to Die” earning more than $900 million. (In 2022, Amazon paid $8.5 billion to acquire Bond’s parent company, MGM.) But the role also occupies huge cultural real estate as one of the most identifiably “British” characters in film.Just six actors have portrayed Bond. Sean Connery first appeared as the suave, shaken-not-stirred secret agent in 1962’s “Dr. No.” Tradition has it that the role should be played a Brit, although George Lazenby, an Australian, played Bond in 1969’s “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.”Pierce Brosnan, who played 007 in four movies, appeared to back Turner in an interview with Vanity Fair last week, saying the husband of Dua Lipa was a strong actor. “They all have a voice and a physique, and a presence on film,” Brosnan said of the final candidates. “They all have longevity as actors, all of these young men.”“Whoever plays the role, I wish him the very best of life and strength and courage,” he said.The next Bond movie will be directed by Denis Villeneuve, who knows a thing or two about working in a franchise, given he has overseen the “Dune” trilogy. At a Los Angeles gala on Saturday, Villeneuve appeared to be reveling in the media’s focus on the battle for Bond.“I should not comment right now because every word I’m going to say is going to be scrutinized,” Villeneuve told Variety. “I would just say that I’m having a great time.”The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2026 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. Discovery Company. All rights reserved.THE-CNN-WIRE (TM) & © 2026 CABLE NEWS NETWORK, INC., A TIME WARNER COMPANY. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
Arts Center of Cannon County presents Christmas in Connecticut
Based on the beloved Barbara Stanwyck film, this hilarious musical is destined to become a holiday tradition!
Cognizant Completes Acquisition of Wizeline
Expanding Digital Engineering and Product Development Capabilities for Enterprise Clients TEANECK, N.J., Nov. 9, 2026 — Cognizant has announced that it has acquired Wizeline, a global AI-native digital engineering and product development services firm serving enterprise clients. Wizeline brings particular strength in Media & Entertainment, with a concentrated, deeply embedded franchise supporting large U.S. enterprises […]
Changing Maps and Outcomes: Gerrymander Potential and District Dissimilarity in Forecasting the 2026 Midterms -
Forecasting the 2026 US Midterm Elections Changing Maps and Outcomes: Gerrymander Potential and District Dissimilarity in Forecasting the 2026 Midterms By Jay A. DeSart, Utah Valley University Congressional redistricting presents a particular challenge for forecasting [...]
CNH to sell 70% of construction equipment business
The sale will leave CNH focused entirely on its agricultural equipment business, which sells Case IH and New Holland tractors and is about four times larger than construction.
CCHS Science Curriculum Complements Our Catholic Identity
TOLEDO, OH - At Central Catholic, our education is about developing the whole person - intellectually, spiritually, morally, and emotionally - as well as preparing students academically. Teachers in all subject areas incorporate Catholic teaching into their curriculum. In the sc
Strengthening payer-provider partnerships across health care
The health care industry is investing heavily in AI, prior authorization, interoperability and overall operational excellence. However, the system remains too complex, fragmented and difficult to navigate.
CT Business Blend: Nov. 9, 2026
Hartford Business Journal’s Greg Bordonaro and WTIC’s Brian Shactman explore the people, companies and trends shaping Connecticut’s business scene every Monday at 8:30 a.m. on WTIC 1080 AM.
SBA Providing Small Business Relief from Willow Fire
Small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives, and eligible private nonprofit organizations in Chaffee County that experienced financial losses due to the W
New York Should Be Allowed to Protect New Yorkers from Lawless Sports Betting, Better Markets Tells Second Circuit
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Dominick Freda, Legal Director of Better Markets, issued the following statement regarding the filing of Better Markets’ amicus brief in KalshiEX v. Williams (2d Cir.): “Kalshi should see the writing on the wall: Courts are standing up to Kalshi and its regulatory cheerleader, the CFTC, with the Ninth and Sixth Circuits recently telling Kalshi
Rays Off-season Trade Target: LHP Nick Lodolo
In resetting the bullpen for 2027, there is one lefty that might represent a reasonable snag for the Tampa Bay Rays. Nick Lodolo’s recent injuries and middling results could create a buying opportunity, particularly if the Reds aren’t convinced he has another level to reach. His projected $5.7 million salary for 2027 is affordable enough […]
Managers with the best win percentages in La Liga history
Winning consistently in La Liga is no easy feat, particularly in a division dominated by two of world football's biggest clubs. Yet a select group of managers have maintained remarkable records in Spa...
Skyrim lead designer hopes Sentinel will finally solve The Elder Scrolls' ladder problem
A veteran Bethesda designer has revealed a particular problem he hopes The Elder Scrolls 6: Sentinel is going to solve.
Baltimore City Council to vote on mental health-focused 911 response
Baltimore City Council will vote Monday on legislation to create a third branch of public safety, aimed at improving responses to nonviolent 911 calls, particularly those involving mental health crises.
Community-Based Mental Health Care Offers Promising Alternative to Psychiatric Hospitalization for Adolescents
Intensive community care services (ICCS) provide home and community care for people suffering from psychological distress. These services offer an A new meta-analysis finds that intensive community care can reduce hospital admission days and improve psychosocial functioning and behavioral outcomes in adolescents with severe mental health difficulties.
1st Place Art + Science Competition: Hillerbrand and Magsamen
For the Art + Science Competition entitled States of Change, we asked to see photography that examines art and science through transition, transformation, and instability. Change may be gradual or abrupt, visible or difficult to perceive, ranging from emotional shifts to environmental conditions. We invited artists to consider how photography can reveal states of change—where
This DU professor is using debate as a tool to fight deep political divides
The University of Denver’s Debate Across Curriculum program takes debate back to its roots — as a way to search for truth rather than incite verbal brawls
With $650 million commitment, Pfizer fuels fast business growth in eastern CT
Furthering eastern Connecticut’s status as a revived economic powerhouse, Pfizer this week announced plans for a $650 million manufacturing technology center in Groton.
UAE's Gargash warns of prolonged regional uncertainty, says US-Iran settlement appears difficult
By Alexander Cornwell ABU DHABI, Nov 9 (Reuters) - Senior Emirati official Anwar Gargash warned on Monday that the region could face a prolonged period of uncertainty, saying a comprehensive political
Computer science department revamps curriculum to combat falling enrollment in the age of AI
The Department of Computer Science is revamping its curriculum and finding new ways to make its program appealing in response to developments in artificial intelligence and changes in international student visa policies.
BUSINESS BRIEFS November 9, 2026: Business news in the Berkshires and beyond
Berkshire Agricultural Ventures Board board update Great Barrington— Berkshire Agricultural Ventures (BAV) announces that regenerative systems strategist
Will Democrats Allow Republican Farm Bill that Threatens Health and Environment after Midterm Landslide? - Beyond Pesticides Daily News Blog
(Beyond Pesticides, November 8, 2026) As retiring Democratic leaders in the House and Senate Agriculture Committees huddle with the authors of the Republican Farm Bill to negotiate and fast-track the legislation, over 180 national, state, and local organizations from across the country are asking the negotiators to reject amendments that undermine longstanding public health and environment protections. In a letter to outgoing ranking member of the House Agriculture Committee, Rep. Angie Craig, and outgoing ranking member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, Senator Amy Klobuchar, the groups call the pesticide provisions in the bill “a sweeping set of exemptions, waivers, and revocations undermining 50 years of environmental laws adopted by Congress to protect farmers, families, and the environment.” The letter identifies numerous provisions of the Farm Bill that “(i) Undermine pesticide safety reviews and standards, (ii) Undercut endangered species protections, (iii) Exempt synthetically derived chemicals from safety reviews, (iv) Waive reviews for chemical categories, and (v) Delay pesticide safety reviews by five years for chemicals in wide use today.” The letter calls on negotiators to remove Title X, “Subtitle B—Regulatory Reform” from the Senate Bill, S.5526, Agricultural Act of 2026, also contained in Title X Subtitle C, “Part 1, Federal Insecticide, […]
MassDevelopment Awards $73K for Merrimack Valley Small Business Help
The Merrimack Valley Planning Commission’s affiliated nonprofit Merrimack Valley Economic Development Corporation last week was awarded $73,205 through MassDevelopment’s Small Business Technical Assistance Program. Merrimack Valley Economic Development Corporation will expand its support for small businesses across the Merrimack Valley, with a particular focus on Lawrence, Haverhill and Methuen. The program primarily serves existing small
Can Instagram-worthy healthy food compete with tempting fast food photos?
In a study of 203 Indian adolescents, researchers found that visually appealing Instagram images of healthy foods were significantly associated with a greater willingness to eat them, particularly for millet and pulse dishes. Although participants reported generally favorable attitudes and intentions toward healthy foods, most changes in eating behavior were not statistically significant, and nutritional captions provided no measurable additional benefit.
Texarkana nonprofit sees messaging service as mental health lifeline
TEXARKANA -- A local nonprofit is offering people in the greater Texarkana area another way to seek help during difficult times.
‘Outsider’ gets laughs with inside politics
NILES — It can be hard to spoof something as ridiculous as contemporary politics, especially after the barrage of truly insane commercials that voters have endured the last several months, but Trumbull New Theatre’s production of “The Outsider” wrings plenty of laughs out of it. Paul Slade Smith’s script takes many shots at pandering politicians […]
If Snap's Specs are still ridiculously expensive, they're also a lot more comfortable than they used to be
Snap's Specs, which have been in development for many years now, are going to market this fall. Will they be a hit with users?
Fishers business picked for Indiana Grown Holiday Gift Box
Fishers company Sweet Melissa Honey & Hive is featured in the 2026 Indiana Grown Holiday Gift Box, which includes 14 products from 11 Hoosier businesses. Indiana Grown, a statewide initiative with the Indiana State Department of Agriculture, highlights local products and artisan goods, acco
Chivu: ‘Inter know difficulties presented by Como’
Cristian Chivu warns Inter ‘know the difficulties we could run into’ against Como today, so they need ‘character, determination and the right attitude.’It kicks off at San Siro at 17.00 GMT (1...
Eagles Lack of QB Success if Ridiculous After Having Four-QBs on Roster
Despite having four rostered quarterbacks, Howie Roseman’s guys weren't ready.
Campbell County health and food inspections (10/30/26–11/5/26)
GILLETTE, Wyo. — The Consumer Health Services Division of the Wyoming Department of Agriculture conducts inspections of retail food establishments throughout Wyoming (where there is not a local health department that does inspections) to help ensure safety of Wyoming residents. Campbell County establishments are inspected at least once a year by the WDA. All of […]
Polar bears are gathering close to this Canadian town—and co-existing with humans
The carnivores are particularly vulnerable to rising sea temperatures.
Polar bears are gathering close to this Canadian town—and co-existing with humans
The carnivores are particularly vulnerable to rising sea temperatures.
Beef industry quietly squashes part of its own science curriculum after ranchers protest
Lesson for teenagers included how cattle’s methane emissions contribute to climate crisis, but it was then scrapped
Last season difficult with injury and miscarriage
Fulham striker Rodrigo Muniz, who scored for his side in a 1-1 draw against Newcastle United, speaks of the struggles he endured last season.
Expecting a baby? Five tips to help you prepare for pregnancy costs
Out-of-pocket maternity expenses are difficult to estimate. Here are ways to budget for the myriad medical bills.
America's truckers on the brink with 221 bankruptcies this year
Justin Stoneman has been in the trucking industry for 27 years, operating out of central Michigan’s agricultural heartland. Hauling grain and fertilizer around the Midwest, his 12-odd tractor trailers generated
UK HealthCare’s SMART Clinic offers support for addiction recovery, psychiatric treatment
By Dr. Danielle Anderson and Dr. Gopalkumar Rakesh University of Kentucky Asking for help with substance use can be difficult but figuring out where to turn for that help shouldn’t be.
Patriots legend Bill Belichick gets ‘GOAT’ claim from Rob Gronkowski
Coach Bill Belichick coached 24 seasons with the New England Patriots ( now coached by Mike Vrabel ) as he led his team to five Super Bowls, four of which came with Rob Gronkowski as his star tight end. The modern-day Patriots are reeling in the injury department , particularly at wide receiver with AJ Brown out, and don’t have a bona fide star to […] The post Patriots legend Bill Belichick gets ‘GOAT’ claim from Rob Gronkowski appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Low testosterone linked to 18% higher risk of dying from cancer
A major international study tracking more than 26,000 men found that very low testosterone levels were associated with an 18% higher risk of dying from cancer later in life. Surprisingly, testosterone itself showed no clear link to prostate cancer, although two other sex hormones did. Researchers believe low testosterone could be an important early warning sign of future health risks, particularly when levels fall below 8.6 nmol/L.
Alcaraz sets up Shelton rematch in Paris final
Carlos Alcaraz says he is ready for "one of most difficult challenges in tennis" after setting up a rematch against Ben Shelton in the Paris Masters final.
Hurricanes Handed Defensive Warning Before Blackhawks Game
The Carolina Hurricanes defeated the New York Islanders 5-3 on Thursday, Nov. 5, at UBS Arena in Elmont.But either way, the Canes were not exempt from criticism. In particular, Rod Brind’Amour’s team drew criticism for its defensive performance.The Chicago Blackhawks will surely take note as Carolina faces them this Saturday, Nov. 7.Although they came away […] The post Hurricanes Handed Defensive Warning Before Blackhawks Game appeared first on HEAVY.
BioWare May Be Dead, But We Spoke to the Modder Who Rebuilt Mass Effect 3's Multiplayer Into the Legendary Edition
When the Mass Effect Legendary Edition came out in 2021, it included the single player campaign of all three original games, along with all the DLC. But while all the story content you could ever want was included, Mass Effect 3's multiplayer mode was conspicuously absent, despite having a dedicated fanbase.
Netflix Removes A Great ‘Netflix Original’ Show For A Frustrating Reason
Why would Netflix remove one of its own Netflix Originals from its service? Particularly one as good as this series, which you can now not watch anywhere, in full.
Wall Street banks brace for ‘political theater’ as Democrats return to power—but few expect major change anytime soon
“They can make life difficult, but they can't necessarily change the overall tenor of where the banks are projected to go,” a Citi analyst said.
Scientists discovered an unknown baby right whale off Canada. They say it's a cause for joy
It would seem difficult to miss a 15,000-pound (6,804-kilogram) baby, but for months scientists who study rare whales did just that, and now they couldn't be happier.
Academy of Computer Science and Engineering vs Haddam-Killingworth Football
View pregame, live and post-game details from the Academy of Computer Science and Engineering vs Haddam-Killingworth Connecticut game on Nov 7, 2026
Friday's Connecticut high school sports roundup: Brien McMahon boys soccer advances in states
A look at the Connecticut high school sports scene for Friday, November 6, 2026.
Jason Priestley reflects on the ‘difficult’ decision to let Shannen Doherty go from ‘90210’
Jason Priestley is opening up about Shannen Doherty’s departure from ‘Beverly Hills, 90210,’ revealing why the difficult decision was made and whether he still thinks it was the right call.
Jason Priestley recalls ‘difficult’ decision to let Shannen Doherty go from“ Beverly Hills, 90210”
The actor reflected on Doherty’s exit at the end season 4, and why the cast ultimately felt they had no other choice.
Pollsters, data centers and fraud risk: CT politics news
Plus: A Connecticut museum wins Award of Merit and CVS breakup raises questions for Hartford
Council for Agricultural Science and Technology honors Baltensperger
The Council for Agricultural Science and Technology has presented its annual President's Award to David Baltensperger, Ph.D.,
New partnership gives ISU health science students streamlined path to medical school at Midwestern University
A new admissions and articulation agreement between Illinois State University and Midwestern University will create opportunities for health science students.
New partnership gives ISU health science students streamlined path to medical school at Midwestern University
A new admissions and articulation agreement between Illinois State University and Midwestern University will create opportunities for health science students.
Connecticut Sen. Chris Murphy released from hospital after stroke
The 53-year-old Democrat said in a statement Friday that doctors are “encouraged by the progress” he’s made so far.
Chris Murphy's office issues health update after senator's stroke
The Connecticut Democrat will miss the next few weeks of Senate votes after experiencing a small brain bleed. His doctor expects a "full recovery."
CT Science Center plans its largest original exhibit, featuring dinosaurs
The Connecticut Science Center dinosaur exhibition will open in Hartford in 2027, featuring more than a dozen robotic animals and a local fossil.
Mora earns first senior call-up with Portugal
“Gasperini always wants to play up front; it’s difficult to do that so often. But it’s fun to play with this philosophy,” Rodrigo Mora said after Roma-Cagliari, a match in which he scored an u...
Deschamps ‘not particularly keen’ on Manchester United job
Didier Deschamps is ‘not particularly keen’ on the Manchester United job amid reports the former France manager has been approached about the role.Deschamps is weighing up his options after leavin...
High-flying Western Way Entertainment brings trick riding, mounted shooting to ABAC PCA Pro Rodeo
When the PCA Pro Rodeo returns to Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Nov. 13-14, the competition inside the arena won’t be the only thing keeping fans on the edge of their seats. Western Way Entertainment will bring a high-energy specialty act featuring trick riding, trick roping and mounted shooting to the ABAC Rodeo Arena as part of…
Penguins Veteran Could Become Enticing Trade Target for Ottawa
The Pittsburgh Penguins may have veteran pieces that could be of particular interest to the Ottawa Senators this season. The post Penguins Veteran Could Become Enticing Trade Target for Ottawa appeared first on HEAVY.
Armstrong welcomes HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to North Dakota, stresses importance of soil health | North Dakota Office of the Governor
Gov. Kelly Armstrong participated in a roundtable discussion with U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., stressing the importance of soil health to agriculture and the future of Americans’ health and well-being.
Suffield School Panel Backs Science Curriculum Changes, Reviews Music Scheduling
Plans include new science units for grades three through five, preschool reading materials and possible band scheduling changes.
AP Computer Science: New Challenges, New Opportunities, and New Faces
AP Computer Science A has quickly become one of Latin’s fastest-growing classes, enrolling 82 students over just two years and filling three sections this year. Despite Latin offering few AP classes, AP Computer Science A was added to the Upper School curriculum at the beginning of the 2025-26 school year. Along with the course, Latin...
Gov. Newsom will commute all death sentences in state to life without parole
Newsom said the decision was among the most difficult choices of his career because it will surface painful memories for crime victims’ families.
Rebecca Gayheart recalls telling her daughters Eric Dane had ALS
Rebecca Gayheart Dane opened up about the difficult moments she and Eric Dane had to navigate in light of his ALS diagnosis, including breaking the news to their daughters.
USDA revising cost-share requirements for Dairy Business Innovation
MADISON, Wis. (WKOW) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is revising cost-share requirements for the Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives program after discussions with the four DBI centers and dairy industry
SpaceX and Tesla stock are tanking in the days after the blue wave
Shares of Musk's companies have cratered since Democrats swept the midterms, with concerns that a Tesla-SpaceX merger could now be more difficult.
Creating room for Indigenous researchers to grow
Ava Schaaf can picture the future she wants: medical school, a physician’s degree and another Native doctor for her community. Getting there means working through difficult science courses. It also means finding people who help her believe she belongs.
Gamers go to ridiculous lengths to "improve" GTA VI with Nvidia's DLSS 5
Using a capture card and open source software to run PS5 video through a PC GPU.
Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis says he's 'not a fan' of sports gambling amid prediction market boom
In an interview with CNBC Sport, Las Vegas Raiders owner Mark Davis expressed concerns about the expansion of sports gambling, particularly proposition bets.
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.
STHS and Prominence Health Host Senior Safety Workshop on November 18th
A simple misstep can have life-changing consequences for older adults. Beyond physical injuries, a serious fall can affect mobility, confidence and independence, making everyday activities more difficult.
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.
Firms struggle to insure against climate risks: Barclays
Nearly nine in 10 U.K. businesses in sectors including agriculture, hospitality, manufacturing, housing and transport have struggled to secure climate risk insurance…
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.
De Roon: “I never had any doubts about joining Roma.”
Marten De Roon gave an interview to Idealista.it in which he discussed his arrival in Rome.“When the coach called me, I already knew it would be a difficult move, partly because of the history of Ro...
Fairview Health Services Partners with hellocare.ai to Expand Enterprise Virtual Care and Bring Connected Care to the NICU
Minneapolis, MN and Clearwater, FL — Fairview Health Services and hellocare.ai today announced an enterprise partnership to expand virtual care capabilities across Fairview’s inpat | Minneapolis, MN and Clearwater, FL — Fairview Health Services and hellocare.ai today announced an enterprise partnership to expand virtual care capabilities across Fairview’s inpatient environments, including a dedicated deployment designed to connect NICU patients, families, and care teams.
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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