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“When Abraham arrives in the promised land from his native city of Ur, a Philistine king is already there to meet him.”

Princeton alumna Mary Brunkow *91 receives Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Brunkow received her Ph.D. from Princeton in 1991 in molecular biology. She shares the award with Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi for discoveries about how the immune system is kept in check.

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Magnetotactic bacteria optimally navigate natural pore networks Diverse magnetotactic bacteria are adapted to the local geomagnetic field and grain size to maximize their swimming speed through the pore space.

Magnetotactic bacteria swim along geomagnetic field lines to navigate sediments. Using microfluidics and simulations, this study shows their motility is optimised, revealing how evolution fine-tunes life for challenging environments.

Sound by friction (stridulation) ! Spiny lobsters have lost the large claws (chelae) of true lobsters. Instead, they rely on long antennae for defense and sensing. When the antennae move, a pad-like plectrum at the base rubs against a ridged file on the head producing a scary underwater sound!

Cyzicuz- after King Kyzikos who hosted Jason and his crew on their way to the Golden Fleece… and mistakenly killed by him.

“…and the Ptolemies send with him the scholar-adventurer Eudoxus of Cyzicus. Eudoxus makes a successful return and then leads a second trading voyage of his own to the Indian coast.” — Cyzicus today is an archaeological site near the town of Erdek in Balıkesir Province, Türkiye.

Josephine Quinn · Born on the Beach: Ancient Coastlines Seas are repetitive creatures, working in cycles of tides, migration and climate change, which is normally to say the...

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Ferdinand Mount · Biff-Bang: Tariffs before Trump It is the least convincing cliché of the age that ‘globalisation has passed its sell-by date.’ On the contrary,...

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I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible

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‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

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“The threat is from leaders who are “walking versions of the dark triad” – narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism – in a world menaced by the climate crisis, nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence and killer robots.”

Inimitable hand | Royal Society During Elizabeth Gould's brief career as an ornithological illustrator, she made a significant contribution to the natural history of birds, as Katherine Marshall discovers.

In her short career as an ornithological illustrator, Elizabeth Gould (1804 - 1841) produced over 650 lithographic plates, a significant contribution to the natural history of birds. Picture Curator Katherine Marshall uncovers her story on our blog: #WomenInSTEM royalsociety.org/blog/2025/07...

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Göbekli Tepe challenges the idea that religion emerged after agriculture, whereas Stonehenge shows the maturation of societies with symbolic, ritual, and calendrical structures.

Gobeklitepe vs. Stonehenge

Harvard seeks billions in funding restored at a pivotal hearing in its standoff with Trump administration A lawyer for Harvard, Steven Lehotsky, said at Monday's hearing the case is about the government trying to control the "inner workings" of Harvard.

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These women are performing a festival chore: specifically, they’re perfuming clothes and fabric that they’ve placed on a stool and suspended above smoking wood. The one on the left is pouring
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“Revolutionary Science Comes from Unexpected Angles”

Thoughts from our own Tom Rapoport on the role of basic science in curing disease. magazine.hms.harvard.edu/articles/rev...

Odds of winning NIH grants plummet as new funding policy and spending delays bite Funding multiyear grants up front will sharply cut number of investigators receiving awards

New Science story about multi-year funding and it potential catastrophic consequences

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Mount Holyoke College in lovely western Massachusetts is hiring a tenure-track neuroscientist. Amazing students and fantastic faculty support - please share!
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Franz Kafka Before the Law — Harvard University Press Read a short story from Franz Kafka’s Selected Stories, featuring beautiful illustrations as well as authoritative annotations and all-new translations by Mark Harman (“the finest living Kafka transla...

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found it was also published again in “A possible unifying principle for
mechanosensation” by Ching Kung - (with heat? added) thanks !

YouTube video by TheWrap Mandy Patinkin Insists Gaza War Is ‘Endangering the Jewish Population’ in Impassioned Plea for Peace

“This isn’t making Israel safer”
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Far-right Israeli politicians and settlers discuss luxury ‘Gaza riviera’ plan Legal experts say scheme to annex territory and forcibly displace Palestinians is tantamount to ethnic cleansing

“When an occupying power creates a coercive environment by, for instance, withholding food, and that coercive environment leaves no choice to the civilian population but to move, then this can amount to the war crime of forced displacement,” said Janina Dill

Given everything that’s happened to science this year, riding in the Pan Mass Challenge and committing to raising $4k for research felt like the least I could do.

Check out my story about why this is so important to me & if you’re able, chip in a little. Every bit counts -> profile.pmc.org/JF0546

Harriers evolve owl-like hearing to locate prey Researchers from Canada and Australia have discovered that harriers possess auditory adaptations similar to owls, including enlarged ear openings and specialised brain regions for sound localisation. ...

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fun! could you please share the reference ? :)

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Is Colbert’s Ouster Really Just a ‘Financial Decision’? CBS no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt.

CBS claims that its decision to cancel Stephen Colbert’s show is “financial,” but “the network that once made Cronkite the most trusted man in America no longer gets the benefit of the doubt,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues:

Elegant demonstration from Hudspeth lab that cochlear tuning arises from a collection of locally tuned nonlinear resonators, rather than from global traveling wave dynamics.

Amplification through local critical behavior in the mammalian cochlea | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...