There is no way to know how or when it happened. When you can’t trust your own memory, how can you know? It seems like one day I was hearing about it, reading about it online, and the next it was affecting people on campus. My teachers forgot their lesson plans and then rambled on
Chemist Omar Yaghi accepted a full-time position as a researcher at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China.Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Nobel Prize-winning chemist Omar Yaghi has left the United States to take a full-time position at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, where he will lead a new artificial intelligence-assisted materials discovery institute. Nobel Prize in Chemistry for
Qingdao rail manufacturer CRRC Sifang Rolling Stock worked with a Chinese doctoral student to improve manufacturing techniques for its Cetrovo subway trains.Credit: Zhang Jingang/China Report/Future Publishing via Getty For most graduate students, a written thesis is a requirement to complete their studies. But in China, a law passed in 2024 allows some people to graduate
Prehistoric cave paintings in a cave in Sulawesi, Indonesia.Credit: Mangiwau/Getty Photography Last September, a train left Surakarta, in central Java, Indonesia. On board was Eduard Pop, a paleoanthropologist at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands, and a specialist in homo erectus – a hominid, closely related to our own species, that emerged almost
Some researchers who use the LaTeX markup language for typesetting unknowingly make private information public.Credit: Tom Houghton/Nature Nearly all of the nearly three million articles available on the arXiv preprint server contain details that the authors never wanted to share, according to a new study. The study, uploaded to arXiv in April and presented at
For the first time, scientists have used NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) to directly measure the magnetic fields of PSR J1101-6101, a pulsar located within what is often known as the Lighthouse Nebula. The results provide new insight into the structure of some of the most extreme objects in the cosmos, as NASA continues