By Robson Tramontina, Research Associate, Chemical Biology and Biological Chemistry, University of Manchester
AI company Anthropic recently announced that its popular system Claude had identified an unusual family of biological molecules. These molecules were enzymes, a type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions in living organisms.
The new group of enzymes were discovered in bacteriophages – viruses that infect bacteria. Anthropic named them array-associated reverse transcriptases (ARTs).
The finding was…
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By Laura Jansen, Associate Professor in Classics & Comparative Literature, University of Bristol
At a time when scholarship and creative writing are often treated as separate pursuits, Carson has shown how deeply they belong together.
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By Leonie Fleischmann, Senior Lecturer in International Politics, City St George's, University of London
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and leading opposition figure Gadi Eisenkot took to social media as their country marked three years since the devastating Hamas attacks of October 7. As the country mourned, the rival politicians played the blame game.
Eisenkot is the man widely thought to be most likely to beat Netanyahu in this month’s general election. He is running hard on accountability for the October…
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By Damian Bailey, Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of South Wales
Brian Clark, Distinguished Professor of Physiology and Neuroscience and Executive Director of the Ohio Musculoskeletal and Neurological Institute (OMNI), Ohio University
Frances Ashcroft, Emeritus Professor, Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, University of Oxford
Florence Buchanan helped transform the study of the nervous system, yet no authenticated portrait of her was known until now.
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By Khalid Beshir, Lecturer in Biomedical Science, University of East London; London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Doctors outside malaria zones often don’t think to test for it, while symptoms, rapid tests and drug resistance can all complicate diagnosis and treatment.
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By John Wigger, Professor of History, University of Missouri-Columbia
When I was researching my 2017 book, “PTL: The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire,” I interviewed dozens of former staffers and supporters of PTL, the ministry, television and theme park empire that the Bakkers built starting in the 1970s.
Time and again, I heard the same thing. PTL – sometimes known as “Praise the Lord” or “People That Love” – was both the best and worst thing they ever did.
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By Kaitlyn M. Sims, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, University of Denver; Institute for Humane Studies
The drinking, drugging and sexual assault culture on American college campuses is once again attracting national attention.
A former Cornell University student filed a civil lawsuit in September 2026 alleging that seven Chi Phi fraternity members gang-raped her when she was a sophomore at the school two year earlier.
The apparent failure of institutions she reached out to for help has become an important part of the story.
As a researcher who
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By Shay Rabineau, Associate Professor of Israel Studies, Binghamton University, State University of New York
From the printing press to smartphone apps, technology has continually transformed the experience of sacred journeys. A scholar of trails and walking explains the history.
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By Vahe Peroomian, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
If you think about leap years, it may seem like humans have a very odd way of measuring time. Sometimes, timekeepers even have to add extra seconds to clocks.
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By Ashique KhudaBukhsh, Assistant Professor of Computing and Information Sciences, Rochester Institute of Technology
AI models will refuse to say whether a person’s face looks gay or straight, but they will alter images of faces to fit stereotypes of gay and straight.
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