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SeaWorld's Christmas Celebration Kicks Off Tonight with Millions of Sparkling Lights, Spectacular Entertainment, and Return of Beloved “Miracles” Show at Orca Stadium
SeaWorld Orlando kicks off its spectacular 2026 Christmas Celebration tonight, Friday, November 6, transforming the park into a winter wonderland filled with millions of sparkling lights, dazzling holiday shows, festive music, and unforgettable family experiences!🎄 Running on select dates through January 4, 2027, this year's celebration features the highly anticipated return of “Miracles” at Orca Stadium, the beloved holiday orca presentation returning for the first time since 2019!
From a ship frozen into Arctic ice, a warning to world leaders: Trust the science
Drifting through the polar darkness, a team of scientists is documenting a rapidly changing Arctic. As sea ice retreats and oil tankers move in, a conversation with the UN chief reveals why the battle for climate science matters far beyond the North Pole.
Daft Punk and K-pop Demon Hunters Team Up in Unexpected Crossover
Daft Punk and Netflix’s K-Pop Demon Hunters came together in an unexpected crossover as LEGO brought characters from different entertainment franchises together for its latest holiday commercial. The ...
FSU chemists develop light-powered method to resurrect 'dead-end' compounds for drug discovery
Throughout the drug development process, which can take a decade or more, tens of thousands of chemical compounds are produced that never go on to become
ELC’s New Platform Advances Skin Science & Longevity
‘Mastering Skin Longevity’ serves as a shared scientific foundation that ELC brands can apply through their areas of expertise.
Harborough sign 'world's tallest striker' Hudlin
Non-league Harborough Town have sign striker Kyle Hudlin, one of the world's tallest professional players, in time for their FA Cup trip to Leyton Orient.
Annual gingerbread house contest to have folk art feel
Gingerbread architects of all ages have a new muse this holiday season: a Hillsborough couple’s collection of more than 1,400 miniature American buildings.
What many get wrong about Amish or Plain Anabaptist communities, measles, and health
The U.S. has reported three measles deaths this week in three different states. All the affected were unvaccinated, and some were too young to get vaccinated, relying on herd immunity. Many states haven’t seen a measles death in more than 30 years. Measles is highly contagious, but it mainly spreads among those without immunity. Social factors typically shape these unvaccinated pockets. Many states describe these deaths as occurring among “under-immunized, rural communities.” (In the future, it could be among other tight-knit groups.) Small signals in the news point to many outbreaks right now among the Plain Anabaptists (APA), which include communities like the Amish and Mennonite. Many know APA communities from a distance through their bakeries, furniture, and roadside buggies. But most of us don’t know enough about them, their traditions, or how those traditions actually interact with health and disease. Rumors, misconceptions, and frustration fill those voids. Tristan Sharratt, a family nurse practitioner and rural health researcher who grew up near and works with these communities in Central New York (and a YLE reader who reached out!), says misconceptions continue to create major problems. If the U.S. wants to stop a tsunami of measles coming down the pipeline, or even support health in those communities proactively beyond measles (which is ideal), we must understand how specific communities protect themselves, their values, and the role broader society plays. This starts with a conversation and some self-reflection. Here are the top five lessons I learned from my conversation with Tristan.
Chiefs News: Rashee Rice files for bankruptcy
The latest Chiefs news, brought fresh to you every morning!
Ohio State’s Movember campaign promotes men’s health through campus events
Ohio State is taking conversations about men’s mental and physical health beyond its campus offices through its annual Movember campaign, featuring a monthlong series of events across campus focused on wellness and student support. The campaign began Nov. 2 at the Ohio Union West Plaza and will continue with events Nov. 16, from 6-8 p.m. […]
TN Politics: Is Trump the very model of a major MAGA governor? Blackburn will soon find out.
Marsha Blackburn wants to run Tennessee through a Trump-style DOGE wringer. Is that what voters want?
Becoming a Black Scientist: Why the Path Is Harder
Black scientists face barriers from education through to employment, including disparities in representation, unemployment, and progression opportunities. Improving access alone is insufficient; structural and cultural factors must be addressed.
President JD Vance? More slogging through a sewer of odious politics.
Temperate Americans of all political stripes should unite to stymie the vice president’s ambitions.
Keene Downtown Group sees opportunity in construction project
The Keene Downtown Group (KDG) has entered a pivotal moment. With a roughly $500,000 grant from the Northern Border Regional Commission (NBRC), the organization is accelerating a multipronged effort to
Octopuses Can Squeeze Their Bodies Through Tiny Holes, And Scientists Are in Awe
Learn from the masters.
Octopuses Can Squeeze Their Bodies Through Tiny Holes, And Scientists Are in Awe
Learn from the masters.
Pick of the stats: Watford v Middlesbrough
BBC Sport highlights some of the key stats and facts for the Championship match between Watford and Middlesbrough.
3 ways fidgeting may actually benefit your health
While fidgeting isn’t a replacement for exercise, small muscle movements throughout the day may help in a few small, albeit temporary, ways.
Biodiversity loss is a growing business risk for outdoor brands
Biodiversity loss is a growing business risk for outdoor brands, says Bettina Faust of the Global Nature Fund.
I tried HP's RTX Spark laptop and burned through 50 million AI tokens - and it cost me $0
I ran a free, open-weights AI model locally on HP’s $7,000 OmniBook Ultra and turned 20 years of my articles into a searchable archive in a day.
Eva Shriver-Kealoha ‘30 makes her mark with new henna business
In third grade, Eva Shriver-Kealoha ‘30 would doodle skeleton hands on herself and her friends with a ballpoint pen. Now, as a first-year college student, she has turned that childhood hobby into a side hustle, creating elaborate henna designs through her new on-campus pursuit, Dyed Skins by Eva. Originating in North Africa and the Middle...
A hacked fridge is a warning for every connected business
"The systems that keep businesses running may be exposed through connections their security teams do not know exist," writes Dr. Guy Waizel, a Tech Evangelist and Senior Researcher at Cato Networks.
Scientists confirm horseshoe crabs in a second Philippine province, urge conservation
Philippine researchers have confirmed the presence of horseshoe crabs in the southern island province of Tawi-Tawi for the first time through interviews with local residents. Previously, scientists had recorded the arthropods’ existence only in the country’s Palawan province. In a recent study, fishers and coastal residents described two distinct horseshoe crab species with features resembling […]
For More Than 20 Years, Bangladesh’s One Constant Has Been Political Violence
Violent clashes between rival parties, within their own ranks, and around elections have persisted through successive governments.
The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
Kalispell Chamber celebrates local businesses, community leaders at annual Grand Event
The Kalispell Chamber of Commerce brought the community together for its annual Grand Event, celebrating the local businesses, leaders, and organizations.The an
Baldwin & Shell Construction now 100% employee-owned
Baldwin & Shell Construction Co. announced Thursday (Nov. 5) that it has become 100% employee-owned through the establishment of an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), giving eligible employees a direct...
Baldwin & Shell Construction now 100% employee-owned
Baldwin & Shell Construction Co. announced Thursday (Nov. 5) that it has become 100% employee-owned through the establishment of an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), giving eligible employees a direct...
Elm Avenue construction affects businesses south of Hastings Southeast roundabout
Quality First Hail & Auto Spa and Miscues Sports Bar and Grille have relied on dedicated customers, who have helped them navigate through the construction on Elm Avenue.
'JD, habibi.' Arabs celebrate El-Sayed's use of a term of affection in his victory speech
“Habibi” literally translates to “my beloved” and is peppered through Arab pop songs. In everyday speech, it often means “buddy,” “pal,” or “bro.” El-Sayed's supporters have sported shirts reading “Habibi for Abdul.”
Morro Bay paddleboarder could avoid felony charges through mental health diversion
Andrew Gustafson was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon and force likely to produce great bodily injury following an incident in the water in 2025.
“Looking for certainty”: Evansville business leaders reflect on midterm elections
EVANSVILLE, Ind. (WEHT) — Economic growth is called to question at the Evansville Regional Economic Partnership’s 2026 Policy Focus. E-REP brought in Rob Engstrom, the president of the Washin…
North Georgia flooding: Businesses face long road to recovery
Business owners along the Georgia-Tennessee border are digging through mud and ruined inventory after severe flooding along the swollen Toccoa River devastated the twin towns.
Lucky Strike Entertainment Corp (LUCK) (Q1 2027) Earnings Call Highlights: Revenue Growth and ...
Lucky Strike Entertainment Corp (LUCK) posted 3.5% revenue growth and reaffirmed EBITDA guidance while suspending its dividend to target roughly $100 million in debt reduction.
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.
Live Nation Entertainment Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Live Nation Entertainment (NYSE:LYV) reported third-quarter financial results on Thursday. The transcript from the company’s third-quarter earnings call has been provided below.This transcript is brought to you by
Vandalia Health, osteopathic school to reopen labor, delivery services at Greenbrier Medical Center
Greenbrier County families will again have access to labor and delivery services through an agreement between Vandalia Health and the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine.
Escape Artist Octopuses Can Squeeze Through Impossibly Small Holes. Now, Scientists Have Figured Out How They Do It
And how their escapology skills could inspire a new era of OctoBots.
How octopuses squeeze through tiny openings, step by step
In the lab, octopuses used specific moves to slip arms and a bulbous body through tiny holes. The finding could inspire new body plans for soft robots.
9/11 at 25: Honoring the Past, Protecting the Future
Commemorating the transformative work of the World Trade Center Health Program in clinical care and research Thursday, September 3, 2026 Provided by the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Program Overview This program brought together health professionals, legal experts, elected officials, journalists, and September 11 responders and survivors. 911 Health Watch worked with Mt. […]
Health care is in rough shape in Massachusetts. Can the new Congress help?
Any moves by Congress to change health policy face the potential of a presidential veto.
Weill Institute alumni share lessons for careers in science
The alumni panel “Journey Through Science” connected a day of interdisciplinary research presentations, discussions, and a poster session with the question: What comes next?
Idaho to receive $185 million in federal funding for rural health care
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced an initial $185 million in funding for Idaho through the Rural Health Transformation Program.
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 […]
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.
Chinese scientists chill atoms to record low on Tiangong space station
Scientists brought thousands of rubidium atoms to less than 10 trillionths of a degree above absolute zero.
Washington voters pass initiative to ban transgender girls in girls’ sports
The first of its kind in Washington state, the initiative requires all girls looking to participate in sports to undergo medical testing — through a genital exam, a hormone test or a chromosome test — before being able to participate on a girls school sports team.
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.
Arizona Science Center unveils new fall exhibits focused on caves and creativity
Arizona Science Center is expanding its lineup of interactive experiences this fall with two new attractions designed to engage guests through hands-on exploration, creativity and scientific discovery.
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…
Noblesville business offers unique way to dispose of pumpkins
A business in Noblesville offers residents a unique way to dispose of uncarved pumpkins after Halloween. Happy Goat Lucky Yoga, an animal-assisted therapy and goat yoga business, is doing a pumpkin round-up throughout November for their 18 goats. Residents can text 317-922-9459 for the address t
The election brought a wave of historic firsts. Here are some groundbreaking winners
While some of these candidates have avoided focusing on the inherent historic value of their race, gender, religion or sexual orientation, some voters' rights advocates are celebrating how the electorate has expanded.
Sphere Entertainment Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript
Sphere Entertainment (NYSE:SPHR) reported third-quarter financial results on Thursday. The transcript from the company’s third-quarter earnings call has been provided below.This transcript is brought to you by Benzinga
Women’s Heart Health: How Your Risk Changes Throughout A Lifetime of Hormones
New guidance highlights how periods, pregnancy and menopause can affect women's heart health and why prevention matters at every age.
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
Convicted bank robber connected to prior McHenry business burglary through DNA link, receives prison sentence
A 39-year-old man is sentenced for the 2024 burglary of a McHenry business after authorities connected DNA from the crime scene to evidence from a bank robbery months later.
Celtics Star Makes Honest Admission About Mitchell Robinson’s Early Struggles
The Boston Celtics gutted out a 109-102 win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Wednesday night at TD Garden. Jayson Tatum sat with rest. Payton Pritchard left in the third quarter with an eye abrasion. Boston built a 21-point halftime lead, watched it disappear, and had to fight through a fourth quarter where Milwaukee briefly took […] The post Celtics Star Makes Honest Admission About Mitchell Robinson’s Early Struggles appeared first on HEAVY.
Amazon Prime members are getting a new perk
Prime members can order Uber Eats through Amazon without paying a delivery fee on $25+ orders.
Yankees Birthday of the Day: Johnny Damon
Johnny Damon went from helping the Red Sox end their championship drought to helping the Yankees win it all, turning a former rival into a fan favorite in the Bronx.
Small Business Insider: Election Response, Entrepreneurial Surge, Policy Update & More - Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council
● Election Results Amplify Call to Address High Costs and Economic Uncertainty ● Kerrigan in the DC Journal: America’s Innovation Economy Runs on Small Business – Why Protecting Bayh-Dole Matters ● Featured Interview on BRN: Kerrigan on CHOICE Arrangements ● ICYMI: America’s Entrepreneurship Surge Continues – Nearly 5 Million Business Applications Filed Through September ● […]
Packers Could Land 28-Start OL in Trade Deadline Deal
The Green Bay Packers offensive line has been the biggest thing holding the team back through the first eight weeks of the NFL season. With the Philadelphia Eagles often having their offensive line as a strength, trading for Eagles right guard Tyler Steen makes sense, according to Daniel Popper of The Athletic. Popper notes that […] The post Packers Could Land 28-Start OL in Trade Deadline Deal appeared first on HEAVY.
To squish or not to squish: The science behind squishies
For college students, sitting through a long lecture can be harder than it sounds. About halfway through, your leg starts bouncing under the desk, or your thumb starts clicking your pen without you…
Patriots Share Mixed Reactions to Tom Brady’s Return
The New England Patriots will have an all-time great return to Gillette Stadium, and head coach Mike Vrabel and quarterback Drake Maye have made their feelings known about the occasion.Patriots legend Tom Brady will return to Foxborough on Sunday, Nov. 8, to call New England’s matchup against the Green Bay Packers as FOX’s lead color […] The post Patriots Share Mixed Reactions to Tom Brady’s Return appeared first on HEAVY.
Susan Bullman, Ph.D.
Susan Bullman, Ph.D., receives TAMEST Mary Beth Maddox Award for breakthrough tumor microbiome research
US Department of Justice Intervenes in Health Insurance Whistleblower Lawsuit Brought by Lieff Cabraser Against Centene Corporation
The Lieff Cabraser law firm represents a former employee. NASHVILLE, Tenn.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–On October 27, 2026, the United States sued one of the nation’s largest health insurance companies, Centene Corporation, for fraud under the False Claims Act. Lieff Cabraser’s Nashville Office is proud to represent the relator, who brought this matter to the government after internal
AI For Science & The Fear Of Missing History
Bern, 1905. A young patent clerk named Albert Einstein published four papers that transformed physics. More than a century later, scientific breakthroughs still tend to be associated with exceptional people and years of painstaking work. Artificial intelligence (AI) may change the pace of that work. Models are beginning to help prove mathematical results, spot patterns […]
How Jared and Genevieve Padalecki brought ‘Guarding Stars’ to the screen (exclusive)
Genevieve Padalecki tells Entertainment Weekly that she recruited her husband, Jared Padalecki, to star as Jack Stapleton in the new Netflix movie ‘Guarding Stars,’ based on Katherine Center’s book ‘The Bodyguard.’
How Camp KEEP Turned a Love of Science into a Calling to Teach
Inspired by a transformative sixth-grade experience at Camp KEEP, Frontier High School student teacher Marissa Moseley went on to conduct important scientific research, develop drought-resistant crops, and pursue a career in education to inspire the...
Clemson Rural Health graduates first cohort of Protein Rx participants
Clemson Rural Health (CRH) launched Protein Rx, a first-of-its-kind program focused on addressing malnutrition in adults through protein prescriptions and
Henrico Business Watch: Business license filings Oct. 29–Nov. 4, 2026
Henrico County reported the following business license filings with start dates during the week. The filings are listed alphabetically by business or trade name, followed by a registered address and business industry classification. Aulden Salon LLC, 201 Towne Center West Boulevard, Henrico – Hairdressing services. Bita's Borough and Bean LLC,
‘A common interest amongst everybody’: Yampa Valley Entertainment brings performances, community together across Northwest Colorado
From local festivals to major entertainment venues, Craig’s Nick LaGorga is helping communities connect through live music while envisioning a growing role for entertainment in Moffat County’s future. For LaGorga, the magic of live entertainment...
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.
How an FGCU class sparked a BBQ business breakthrough
Learn how an FGCU entrepreneurship class helped launch a Florida barbecue business success story
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.
Scientists discover that a clogged filter could revolutionize oil refining
Scientists have developed a remarkable new membrane that separates crude oil at room temperature, using the oil itself to create microscopic filtration channels. The breakthrough could cut refining energy consumption by nearly 32%, carbon emissions by almost 38%, and operating costs by 36%, potentially transforming one of the world's most energy-intensive industries.
A clever molecular trick unlocks previously impossible properties in glass
Scientists have discovered how to reprogram the internal structure of glass using a special molecule that rearranges chemical bonds while lowering the melting temperature. The breakthrough could unlock entirely new glass materials with precisely controlled magnetic and optical properties, opening possibilities for advanced electronics, sensors, and other technologies.
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.
Scores, updates for Delaware high school girls volleyball playoffs
Check back with Delaware Online/The News Journal each day throughout the state tournaments for updated schedules, scores, photos and highlight videos.
Health Care: Don’t Just Fix What They Broke
The new Congress must not only repair what Trump has wrought but focus on immediate relief for the already insured.
The South flexes political power in midterms, sets regional influence in 2028 election
Tuesday's dramatic midterm results have transformed the electoral map, ensuring the path to future power for Democrats and Republicans must run through the South and its diverse voting population.
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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