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Naked mole rat queens produce a chemical that prevents other females from reproducing.Credit: Neil Bromhall/Getty Naked mole rat (Glaber heterocephaly) queens produce a chemical that prevents other females in their colony from reproducing. A study published today in Nature suggests that this compound maintains a strict social structure that is dominated by a queen, even
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Computer scientist Pan Hui with a digital teaching avatar used at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Guangzhou.Credit: Yawei Zhao At the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in Guangzhou, students can listen to lectures given by AI avatars that look and talk exactly like Albert Einstein or mathematician John Nash.
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The authors of the Global Justice Report They are calling for a UN-led central bank to replace the International Monetary Fund.Credit: Samuel Corum/Bloomberg/Getty Ambitious. Utopian. Crackpot. These are some of the responses to last month’s post by Global Justice Report by economist Lucas Chancel of the Paris-based World Inequality Lab and his 44 co-authors. The
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John Moolenaar, Republican of Michigan, is the chairman of the US House Select Committee on China.Credit: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty U.S. House lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle have expressed concerns about China exploiting U.S. research but have diverged over how to protect the country’s research and fund it. The concerns, expressed at
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Original sin Kathryn Paige Harden Weidenfeld and Nicolson (2026) A 2021 analysis of genetic data from 1.5 million people, co-edited by psychologist Kathryn Paige Harden, concluded that some DNA sequences were more common in people with addiction than in those without. “This combination of genetics with incorrigibility is another legacy of the doctrine of original
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