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Nebraska Makes Major Coaching Change After 4th Consecutive Loss
Following their fourth consecutive loss, Nebraska Cornhuskers head coach Matt Rhule has fired offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen.
Mass Effect Cast Celebrates N7 Day With Video Asking Fans to Help Save the Franchise
Without BioWare, N7 Day is quieter this year, but that didn't stop the Normandy cast and crew from teaming up for a video message asking fans to help save Mass Effect.
FBI probes alleged Alaska Senate spoiler scheme
Alaska Senate candidate Gerald Heikes says FBI agents subpoenaed him days before the election as the Justice Department investigates whether Democratic operatives recruited spoilers into the race. CNN’s Curt Devine reports.
Windows PowerToys can automate some of your more tedious PC tasks
Don't waste time rearranging windows, renaming files or taking other tedious actions manually when Windows can automate them for you with PowerToys.
Letters: Magical time for Luka Doncic and the Lakers
Readers of the Los Angeles Times Sports section give their thoughts on Luka Doncic, the Lakers, Lincoln Riley, Justin Herbert and more.
OU men's basketball bounces back against Mississippi Valley State
Following its historic upset loss to East Texas A&M, OU men’s basketball bounced back with a 84-57 victory over Mississippi Valley State Friday evening.
Taskmaster Champion Chloe Petts on Richard Ayoade, Hide & Seek & The Beans Task
"It's what I've been working my whole career towards."
Jim E. Brown dreams of Shady Maple \'stodge\' before West Art show
Jim E. Brown is playing his first-ever concert in Lancaster County next week, but if you ask him, he’s much more excited to hit the famous 200-foot buffet line at
‘I’ve Gotten Death Threats for Covering Caitlin Clark’ – 5-Time All-Star Gets Brutally Honest on Dark Reality of WNBA’s Popularity Boom
Angel McCoughtry is asking the WNBA to look out for its former players, not only the ones still on its rosters. The former Atlanta Dream forward made the case on Thursday’s episode of the “Get TO the Point” podcast, pointing to threats she says have come with covering the league from the outside.
Five players who stood out in Nebraska football’s loss to Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Look away, Husker fans. That loss wasn’t pretty. Nebraska football entered its Friday night road matchup against Illinois on a three-game losing streak. In each of those three games, the Huskers led at the start of the fourth quarter. The script flipped this week, but not in a way that benefited NU. The Fighting Illini won 24-13 in a short-week showdown that included a scoreless first quarter, a record-breaking performance by one of their wide receivers and plenty of decisions for Nebraska to dwell on. Collin Dixon Anthony Colandrea Blackshirts Cameron Lenhardt and Andrew Marshall four-game losing streak Jamal Rule Wide receivers Kwazi Gilmer and Jacory Barney Jr.
Illinois Hands Nebraska Fourth Straight Loss
The slide continues for Nebraska football. After starting 5-0, the Huskers have now lost four straight. The latest came at the hands of Illinois, 24-13, on Frid
Fairfield women’s basketball beats Binghamton in season opener
FAIRFIELD, Conn. (WTNH) — Katey L’Amoreaux recorded a double-double with 23 points and 10 assists to lead the Fairfield women’s basketball team to a season-opening 90-63 win over Binghamton on Friday night. The game is part of the America East-Metro Challenge. Meg Anderson hit two 3-pointers in the opening 30 seconds en route to 22 […]
Bears’ stadium relocation gets more clarity after Roger Goodell meeting
The Chicago Bears have been in pursuit of a new stadium for years and they may finally be getting close to a positive resolution that meets their needs. Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker met with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell as well as Bears officials Kevin Warren and George McCaskey regarding a path towards building a new stadium in Arlington […] The post Bears’ stadium relocation gets more clarity after Roger Goodell meeting appeared first on ClutchPoints.
Golden State Warriors’ Kristaps Porziņģis steps away from basketball over undisclosed health issue
Warriors center Kristaps Porziņģis says his body has not responded as expected and is stepping away from basketball to prioritize his health
Former Knicks star Kristaps Porzingis steps away from the NBA to focus on undisclosed health issue
Kristaps Porzingis announced he is stepping away from basketball to prioritize his health due to an undisclosed matter in a social media post on Friday.
New outbreak of mpox in Anchorage prompts advisory from state health officials
The contagious disease, which was a problem during a global outbreak in 2022, is emerging again around in the U.S., including Alaska.
Kansas State Basketball: 2027 Game 2 vs CSUN
The Wildcats really need to get back in the win column here in the early going.
UConn women’s basketball lands commitment from five-star Sydney Savoury
UConn, Geno Auriemma land first recruit in class of 2027 as Michigan native Sydney Savoury commits to Huskies.
Warriors Center Kristaps Porzingis Steps Away From the NBA to Focus on Undisclosed Health Issue
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Golden State Warriors center Kristaps Porzingis announced he is stepping away from basketball to prioritize his health due to an undisclosed matter in a social media post on Friday. Porzingis did not reveal the nature of the issue in a message posted on his X account, and the ...
NBA player Kristaps Porzingis says he is stepping away from basketball to address health concerns
Golden State Warriors' Kristaps Porzingis announced he's stepping away from basketball to address recent health concerns.
NBA player Kristaps Porzingis says he is stepping away from basketball to address health concerns
Golden State Warriors' Kristaps Porzingis announced he's stepping away from basketball to address recent health concerns.
Alaska science time capsule: A record cold snap, haunted garage doors and Murphy’s Law
Disruptions to the ionosphere caused can impact radio waves on Earth.
FBI agents served an Alaska Senate candidate with a subpoena just days before election day
Gerald Heikes, a longshot candidate, was issued a subpoena as part of a DOJ probe into whether Democrats boosted spoiler candidates.
Washington vs. Penn St – Game Thread and How To Watch
The Big 10 is chock full of teams like Washington and Penn St, who are better defensively than offensively, who have questions about QB play, who lack explosiveness, and who will likely finish with somewhere from 6-8 wins. Iowa, Northwestern, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Wisconsin all fit the same profile. The Huskies and Nittany Lions are […]
Warriors' Kristaps Porziņģis stepping away from basketball to deal with ongoing health issues
Porziņģis signed a two-year, $40 million deal with the Warriors in free agency this summer
Kristaps Porzingis stepping away from basketball amid health issues: 'Not where I want to be'
Kristaps Porzingis cited his ongoing health struggles in his decision to step away, as the Warriors reportedly stopped his $20 million salary payments.
Campbell hosts Harnett business leaders for economic update
Photo by Campbell University Harnett County has grown more than 27% over the last 15 years and is on the cusp of significant growth in the business sector as well. Campbell University recently hosted the 2026 Harnett County Economic Development Update; this was the university's third year in a row hosting the event. The annual event invites elected officials, business leaders and stakeholders from Harnett and its neighboring counties to share updates on new projects, economic trends and announcements from the previous year. Campbell’s continued involvement is part of its five-year Strategic Plan, launched earlier this year, which lists “community impact” as one of its four main objectives. “Every place I have ever worked, the university has been viewed by its surrounding community and region as an asset to economic development, as an inducement to business and industry and as a driver of innovation. It has been seen as the indispensable partner for growth,” Campbell President Dr. William M. Downs told the group of about 200 in attendance. “We ask that you save us a seat at your table when you are dreaming big about the future of this county and beyond. Campbell University is open for business, and we’d like to do business with you.”In addition to Campbell, Harnett is home to Harnett County Schools and its Career & Technical Education programs and a satellite campus of Central Carolina Community College, home of the Eugene Moore Manufacturing & Biotech Solutions Center (the largest training facility in the state). Stephen Barrington, Harnett County Economic Development director, shared the county’s latest initiatives, focus areas and opportunities in economic development. He lauded Campbell and the county’s strong educational and training infrastructure for training the area’s current and future workforce.“Workforce is at the top of the list when we talk about economic development,” Barrington said in a press release. “Work and skill-ready talent remains at the top of the list [of assets in Harnett County]. We’re extremely grateful for the education and training of our students for the next generation.”One big project landed in September when Harnett County was awarded a $500,000 Build Ready Sites grant from the North Carolina Railroad Company to advance a rail-served industrial site. The investment will help prepare the property for future development and strengthen Harnett County’s ability to compete for rail-served projects. The funding will support Byrd Industrial Site B, an 83-acre site with 58 developable acres within the Byrd Industrial Sites in Lillington.Harnett County is also actively working with Samet Corp. is actively working with Samet Corp. on the development of a 175,500-square-foot speculative industrial building to stimulate economic development.Featured speaker was Ted Abernathy, founding and managing partner of Economic Leadership, a small group of data, strategy and best-practice policy experts that work with companies, foundations and business organizations to analyze competitiveness, develop strategy, support leadership, tune communications and reimagine the future.Abernathy lauded Harnett County’s proximity to one of the fastest-growing and most business-friendly regions in the country — the Research Triangle and Raleigh-Durham metropolitan area — and said Harnett needs to attract more businesses that offer higher-paying jobs to compete. “The quality of the jobs you attract is one of the challenges for you as you go forward,” Abernathy said in a press release. “You need more high-paying jobs. A big chunk of the population here is making $25 to $50 an hour, which is good. But where you’re really weak is this high end. If you looked at Raleigh or Durham or Mecklenburg, that number would be a third of their jobs.”Learn more about Harnett County Economic Development and current projects happening at harnettedc.org.
Angry Voters Put Health Care on the Agenda. Now Comes the Repair Work
Voter anger over healthcare program rollbacks helped Democrats win both chambers of Congress in Tuesday’s midterm elections, ending the Republican majorities that enacted last year’s cuts to federal Medicaid and food assistance programs. As of this writing, Democrats have an eight-seat majority in the U.S. Senate, with races in Alaska and Mississippi still too close […]
Warriors’ Stephen Curry reveals his only trash talk with Klay Thompson these days, and it’s not what you think
Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson may no longer share the same locker room, but their friendly rivalry remains alive. Following the Golden State Warriors’ 120-100 victory over the Miami Heat, Curry revealed that his recent trash talk with his former Splash Brothers partner had nothing to do with basketball, despite their emotional reunion at Chase […] The post Warriors’ Stephen Curry reveals his only trash talk with Klay Thompson these days, and it’s not what you think appeared first on ClutchPoin
How voters decided the 2026 campaign finance ballot measures
Voters in Montana and Michigan approved major 2026 campaign finance reforms, while Alaska and California measures remain too close to call.
Arkansas basketball vs Virginia prediction, pick for top-15 showdown
Time for a major test! It's Arkansas basketball vs Virginia this weekend in a top-15 showdown. Here are 3 things to watch and our score prediction.
How to watch Michigan State Sartans: Football, Basketball, and Hockey
What games are coming up this week for MSU teams?
The politics of Poland’s judicial crisis
Dramatic scenes are playing out at Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal amid a wave of speculation about whether Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government and the Tribunal judges elected by its liberal parliamentary majority are acting lawfully. Many would ask whether democrats must break the law t
Florida's Kiyomi McMiller lands on ESPN's top 50 players list
Florida women's basketball guard Kiyomi McMiller lands on ESPN's top 50 players in women's college basketball.
Michigan Hoops Expected to get BIG BOOST vs. UCONN
Michigan basketball is expected to get Moustapha Thiam back against UConn. Here's why his return could be a major boost for the Wolverines.
How to Watch: UNC Basketball vs. Wofford
The Terriers come to town for game two of the season.
Bryce James hits milestone in college basketball career at Arizona
The son of LeBron James got his second career start on Thursday night.
Cass County task force finds behavioral health a primary public safety challenge
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) - Cass County's Public Safety Task Force has recommended developing a behavioral health car...
Police seek man wanted in burglary at SW DC business
D.C. police are asking for the public's help identifying an individual accused of burglarizing a business in Southwest.The burglary happened around 1:14 a.m. Su
Maryland men’s basketball vs. Georgetown preview
The Terps look to get their revenge on the team that handed them their first loss last year.
Scientists removed the glare from a James Webb telescope image — and unmasked a hidden planet
Using machine learning, astronomers developed a new way of looking at James Webb telescope data that allows far-off planets to emerge from their star's glare.
How 14-Game Road Nonleague Schedule Benefits Mississippi Valley State
The Mississippi Valley State men's basketball team is playing all 14 nonconference games on the road. The Delta Devils face four teams in the Associated Press top 25.
Duke Sets New Mark in Win Over Coastal Carolina
The Duke Basketball program set a new scoring mark under Jon Scheyer in their win over Coastal Carolina.
This weekend in sports: College hoops, state swim meet, volleyball home finales, on-ice showdowns
The college basketball seasons tip off with both Universities hitting the home hardwood Friday and Saturday. Plus, the state’s best swimmers dive into the Bartlett Pool, UAA and UAF host their home finales for volleyball, Fairbanks and Kenai square off on the ice in Soldotna, Anchorage has two games at the Sullivan Arena and both college hockey programs hit the road.
Arts District businesses seek emergency relief as Las Vegas construction cuts into foot traffic
Business owners along Charleston Blvd. and Commerce St. are asking the city for measures including extended construction hours, expanded free parking and temporary relief from certain taxes and fees.
Nintendo's Classic Remakes For Switch 2 Are Seemingly Just Getting Started
Majora's Mask when?
How UVM sports teams fared Nov. 5-8
Results and schedules for Vermont soccer, field hockey, basketball and hockey programs for Nov. 5-8, 2026.
What Phoenix-area business owners say happened after buying 'risk-free' Facebook ads
On Your Side’s Christine Stanwood reports how she received messages from business owners asking for their money back from the person running the group.
How Purdue sports became important part of search landing on President Jay Silveria
Purdue University announced Jay Silveria as next president, and he comes from the SEC while tasked with athletics responsibilities he'll have to wrap up.
Apple Surveys iPhone Duo Buyers About Crease and Camera
Apple is sending email surveys to some iPhone Duo buyers to get feedback on display size, crease, under-display camera, and other features. The first question asks why the buyer chose the iPhone Duo now, with answers like "I wanted to try Apple's first foldable," "It was an impulse purchase," and "I expect smartphone prices to increase".
Eastern Nebraska, including rural areas, favored online sports betting while the rest of the state said ‘no’
People in north-central Nebraska adamantly struck down two ballot measures that would have legalized online sports wagering.
What Drives Young Granite Staters to Get Involved in Politics?
If you ask members of Gen-Z why they ran for office, you’re likely to hear that they wanted to breathe new life into the political scene here in New Hampshire, and provide more representation of their generation.
Stellantis asks parts makers for deeper visibility into supply chain
The request for "Tier-N" visibility matches policies at General Motors and other competitors as the industry experiences more frequent factory disruptions.
Worried about uncertainty? Science has the answers
John Maddox, the longtime editor of Nature, was once asked how much of what the international scientific journal published turned out to be wrong. His reply:
Jackson County interim executive asks judge to dismiss bribery charges as ‘political logrolling’
Interim Jackson County Executive Phil LeVota asked a federal judge to dismiss the four-count bribery indictment against him. He claims it was just “the everyday trading of political acts.”
Brandsegg-Nygard’s Summer Goal Was Just Making the Red Wings
Michael Brandsegg-Nygard asked only to make the Red Wings this fall. He has blown past it. #RedWings
AN INTERNATIONAL FUGITIVE HUNT TAKES AN UNEXPECTED TURN WHEN THE MARSHALS ARE CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF A DIAMOND HEIST SHOOTOUT, ON “MARSHALS,” SUNDAY, NOV. 29
Scarlett Burke Guest Stars as Shelby Gaines Judd Lormand Returns as Eddie Wilson Marque Richardson Returns as Patrick Burns “Bad Medicine” – Taske
Jon Scheyer Believes Duke Had a Learning Experience vs. Army
Duke basketball head coach Jon Scheyer believes his team had a learning experience in the season-opening win over Army.
Voters Approve Constitutional Sports Ban
Nebraskans deserve better than manufactured fear and division.
Ask Your Business a Question, Get a Real Answer: VirtuMCP Brings Secure AI to Miami Beach Companies
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... VirtuWorks, a Coral Gables-based provider of managed IT services and cybersecurity, is bringing VirtuMCP to Miami Beach businesses. The secure gateway connects AI assistants such as Claude and Microsoft Copilot to the systems companies already run on, so owners can get answers from their own data without giving up […]
South Heartland District Health Department wins Hastings Halloween scarecrow contest
A scarecrow named “Joy” helped the South Heartland District Health Department take top honors in the Hastings Parks and Recreation Department’s 2026 Halloween s
Alaskans are waiting for more votes in Senate and governor's races. Both could go to ranked tabulations
Alaskans settled in Wednesday to await more results from key races on the general election ballot, including a bitterly fought U.S. Senate campaign and an open seat for governor.
Value of Arkansas basketball depth can't be overstated
John Calipari will benefit from spreading out player minutes
Alaska Science Forum Time Capsule: Bats in the belfry
Note: Ned Rozell wrote this column on Oct. 25, 1994, his first as the new author of the Alaska Science Forum. I’m pleased to feature this time capsule, as it explores one of my favorite questions in biology: How do mammals survive in intensely cold temperatures? Additionally, Ned ended the story with, in my opinion, a perfectly silly final sentence. Ned published an update on Alaska’s little brown bats in 2019: https://bit.ly/bat-update. — Sara Wilbur
Ask the doctors: Sharing a meal is good for your health
Dear Doctors: I read about a study that says eating meals with other people is good for your mental health. Considering takeout, convenience foods and how much time we spend apart these days, this seems like important information. Do you know what study that was and how it was done?
UConn Gathering Connects the Science of Reading with Classrooms Worldwide
A student exchange with Hebrew University builds on Haskins’ history of discovery and its work with educators close to home and around the world
Here’s how to watch Ohio State women’s basketball vs Central Michigan for free
The Ohio State women are back in action tonight at The Schott. Here’s everything you need to know to stream the game vs. Central Michigan.
Keith Gaskin: Faith, politics and the trap of moral disqualification
Scroll through social media during any campaign season, and you won’t just see debates over tax rates, health care or foreign policy. You will see sweeping verdicts on souls.
Rankings Nebraska's final four opponents of the season
Nebraska dropped its third straight game of the season. Now, the Huskers enter November at 5-3 and are in for a rough stretch.
Michigan State basketball vs Toledo time, TV channel and streaming
Michigan State basketball hosts Toledo in a non-conference game on Thursday, Nov. 5, with the game available to stream on Peacock.
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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907 Sports: The 50th Al Aska Shriners Football Classic Lookback
In this edition of 907 Sports, learn about the Alaska all-star football game that duals as a charity event for Shriners Hospitals for Children. Watch the video attached for the full story.
Husker football scouting report: Illinois
The Illinois Fighting Illini will welcome a Nebraska football team hoping to put their fourth-quarter woes behind them in a Friday night showdown in Champaign.
Sixers Star LeBron James Makes NBA History Against Pistons
LeBron James needed two baskets against the Pistons to reach a number no NBA player had ever hit. The post Sixers Star LeBron James Makes NBA History Against Pistons appeared first on HEAVY.
3 takeaways from Drake basketball's win over Central College
Here are three things we lerned in Drake men's basketball's season-opening win over Central College on Nov. 4, 2026.
Masked suspects steal a safe from Fresno business, police say
Fresno police are seeking public assistance to identify two masked suspects who stole a safe from a business near Kings Canyon Road and Chestnut Avenue on October 17.
See how Plano voted on a tax to fund a new home for NHL's Dallas Stars
Proposition A in Plano asked voters to approve five taxes to help fund a new $1 billion arena.
Houston Museum of Natural Science at Sugar Land could see $4M in renovations
Museum Executive Director Kavita Self asked the city of Sugar Land to fund part of a proposed $4 million renovation project to upgrade exhibits and accessibility.
Jay Jones went into the family business. He found his own way to win
Jones has been surrounded by basketball since childhood. Now he's making a name for himself with the Quakers.
The Republican missteps that laid the groundwork for a historic midterm rebuke
A campaign that put a distracted President Donald Trump front and center, and a war no one asked for, led the party into a wall of voter anger.
Nebraska voters reject mobile sports betting initiatives
Nebraska voters rejected two initiatives that would have legalized mobile sports betting in the state. The result was a win for Gambling With the Good Life, the anti-gambling nonprofit founded by Pat Loontjer.
Congress gave Nebraska millions for rural healthcare. Most isn’t getting to rural hospitals.
Much of the $218 million Nebraska has received to soften the blow of looming Medicaid cuts has gone to big cities and out-of-state contractors. DHHS leaders argue more money will make its way to rural areas.
Trans sports bans get voter approval in 4 states
Voters in four states — Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska and Washington — are on track to pass or have passed measures to restrict transgender athletes’ participation in sports, a key policy focus of the Trump administration.
EverHope seeks 10 foster families in Northwest Arkansas
Northwest Arkansas needs more foster families, and EverHope is asking for help to identify 10 prospective foster families by the end of 2026, according to a news release. When there’s...
Voters reject Rosie’s in Pulaski, Amherst County
Voters in Pulaski and Amherst County reject pari-mutuel wagering proposals that could have brought Rosie’s Gaming Emporiums
STEM School Highlands Ranch vs. Aurora Science & Tech: Colorado High School Girls Basketball, Dec. 10, 2026
STEM School Highlands Ranch at Aurora Science & Tech, Colorado high school girls basketball, Dec. 10, 2026, 7:15 PM. Records, rosters and head-to-head.
Golden View Classical Academy vs. Aurora Science & Tech: Colorado High School Girls Basketball, Jan. 7, 2027
Golden View Classical Academy at Aurora Science & Tech, Colorado high school girls basketball, Jan. 7, 2027, 5:30 PM. Records, rosters and head-to-head.
Asked & Answered with Texas Business Court Judge Marialyn Barnard: Switching Careers and What’s Next for the Court
In this edition of Asked & Answered, Texas Business Court Judge Marialyn Barnard, recently appointed to her second term on the bench, says serving on the court is the highlight of her career. She also talks about passing the bar at age 39, teaching high school English and why she wants lawmakers to expand the Business Court’s jurisdiction across the state.
Always Asking Why: The Drive Behind UCF Nursing Leader's Passion for Healthcare
As the dean of the College of Nursing and Orlando Health Endowed Chair in Nursing, Sharon Tucker has transformed curiosity into discovery, leadership and new possibilities for the future of healthcare.
Dan Hurley gives brutal reaction to being given game ball
Say what you will about Connecticut Huskies basketball coach Dan Hurley, but he is never going to win anyone over with a charm offensive. Hurley has been incredibly successful at UConn, but he’s also drawn criticism for his antics and outbursts, especially his treatment of referees. But when it comes to his press conference escapades, Hurley can sometimes…
NH office construction pipeline runs thin
The amount of available office space in New Hampshire is shrinking and becoming more expensive to lease due to a lack of new construction and higher demand that is still trying to find its footing post-COVID. The office vacancy rate statewide fell to 10.3% in the third quarter, down 3.1% from a year ago, and average asking rent rose to $22.28, up 1.7% from a year ago, according to a Colliers study.
Kentucky basketball scores huge commitment from 7-foot-5 center
Kentucky basketball lands 7-foot-5 center Cherif Millogo, the No. 36 recruit in the 2027 class, giving the Wildcats their second commitment.