The New Dark Ages: The End of Reading and the Dawn of a Post-Literate Society James Marriott Bodley Head (2026) The thriller novelist Dan Brown writes books that some critics complain are for people who don’t read books. The journalist and former rare-book seller James Marriott has now written a book for people who read
Credit: gorodenkoff/iStock via Getty Until just a few years ago, my journey in learning to code as a wet-lab clinician-scientist was marked by frustration. I regularly found myself staring at a flashing cursor, scouring jargon-filled forums for clues to why my script had crashed and spending hours hunting down a single missing comma or mismatched
Credit: Jonathan Nackstrand/AFP via Getty The 2026 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel has been awarded to economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford for their research on how to stabilize an economy to avoid socially and economically damaging fluctuations in inflation, growth and employment. The work, in the words
Denmark and other Scandinavian countries are seen as top destinations for PhD candidates from other European nations.Credit: Bumble Dee/Shutterstock How much do PhD students earn? The first comprehensive overview of PhD income shows vast imbalances across much of Europe1. The report, which investigated the earnings of first-year doctoral candidates in 2024–25 across 26 countries, was
Lee, J., Hwangbo, J., Wellhausen, L., Koltun, V. & Hutter, M. Learning quadrupedal locomotion over challenging terrain. Sci. Robot. 5, eabc5986 (2020). Article PubMed Google Scholar McGeer, T. Dynamic walking robots and the w prize [industry/research news]. IEEE Robot. Autom. Mag. 14, 13–15 (2007). Article Google Scholar Shin, Y.-H. et al. Design of KAIST HOUND,
Collection and harmonization of clinical, pathological and demographic metadata Brain tissue specimens were sourced from two brain banks: the Mount Sinai NIH Neurobiobank (MSSM) (1,042 samples) and the NIMH-IRP Human Brain Collection Core (HBCC) (300 samples). Furthermore, samples were obtained from five prospective cohort studies conducted at the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center (RADC) (152 samples)124,125.
