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Values and Conflicts at Journals

What makes an argument ‘correct,’ or, at least, reasonable? We can debate about each other’s claims endlessly, and there’s an interdisciplinary field… The post Values and Conflicts at Journals appeared first on Absolutely Maybe .

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More Trials Recruiting and Other NextGen Covid Vaccine News

June was a relatively slow news month for next generation Covid vaccine development. So I took the opportunity to simplify the structure… The post More Trials Recruiting and Other NextGen Covid Vaccine News appeared first on Absolutely Maybe .

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Bumper Month of Clinical Trial News to Ring Out This Vax Series

Before I get to the bumper crop of recent clinical trial news, there is news about this monthly update. This is the… The post Bumper Month of Clinical Trial News to Ring Out This Vax Series appeared first on Absolutely Maybe .

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Farewell Post

Experimenting with colors for the Absolutely Maybe logo feels like another lifetime. It was 2013, and this blog was launching on the… The post Farewell Post appeared first on Absolutely Maybe .

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Lessons from South Africa on how parks and community gardens can help cities adapt to climate change

Parks do more than cool cities. They also help people work together to cope with climate change, but only if local communities help design, manage and care for them.

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Nairobi’s largest informal settlement is getting an upgrade. But who will actually benefit from new apartments?

The success of Kibera’s transformation will not be measured by the number of apartment blocks completed.

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Ghana’s housing problem goes beyond numbers – it’s also about quality

New census-based research shows Ghana’s policy must confront the quality of the homes people already occupy.

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Millions of Africans are displaced without crossing a border – and their needs are often overlooked

The issue of internal displacement remains poorly understood despite the very large number of people involved.

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DR Congo’s riverboat economy – how a floating transport system tells the country’s story

Baleinières, handmade wooden cargo ships, are floating microcosms of life in the DR Congo.

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Nairobi’s expansion is swallowing up rural land: new book reveals the impacts on families

Urbanisation is experienced through growing tensions within families over precious yet meagre plots of land.

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Young South Africans move for work and opportunity. What happens to their health when they do?

Moving can change the conditions that shape health, so health and social policy must plan for a mobile population.

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As the planet warms, cities like Bangkok could be increasingly inundated by deadly floods

Thai authorities have declared a city-wide disaster zone following the deaths of at least 31 people.

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Caltech Leads NASA Mission to Make the First Deep Ultraviolet All-Sky Maps

To the casual observer, the starry sky offers a picture of tranquility. In reality, stars flare, explode, and occasionally crash into each other in cataclysmic collisions that bathe the universe in heavy elements and light. On October 27, NASA announced its commitment to launch the Caltech-led Ultraviolet Explorer (UVEX) mission—a new space observatory that will provide unprecedented views of our dynamic universe. The mission will also identify millions of tiny galaxies and make the very first deep all-sky maps in ultraviolet light. With NASA's commitment in place, the UVEX team will begin bui

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Five Caltech Faculty Selected by Meta to Help Solve Open Problems in AI

Caltech has been selected by Meta as one of five academic partners across the US to receive access to their latest artificial intelligence (AI) models, along with research funding and collaboration opportunities. New research agreements with five faculty members will expand on a strategic partnership between the Institute and Meta to advance breakthroughs across physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, and mathematics. The selected Caltech faculty members will receive research grants for up to three years, plus access to frontier Muse AI models through Meta's first-party application prog

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Chemical Data Collected from the Eaton Fire Plume Help Characterize Urban Fires

Caltech scientists have published the first detailed analysis of the atmospheric particles in the smoke plume from the Eaton Fire that devastated much of the town of Altadena in Southern California's San Gabriel Valley and the surrounding areas in January 2025. The results confirm the very different chemical nature of the smoke produced by an urban fire as compared to the plume from a typical wildfire. In the early stages of the fire, when many structures and vehicles were burning, the concentration of toxic metals in the atmosphere spiked dramatically. This chemical signature, which was measu

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Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman Joins Caltech as Associate Vice President and JPL Deputy Director

Deeply inspired by his venture to the furthest boundaries of human exploration, former NASA astronaut and Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman says he is now on a mission to extend humanity's horizons and understanding further. Wiseman will begin that mission soon as he joins the leadership team at Caltech and JPL as the Institute's associate vice president and JPL deputy director on November 30. "When I think about what I have seen and experienced firsthand in visiting the Caltech and JPL community, there are three things that immediately stand out: professionalism, a deep technical understandin

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$27.5 Million Gift Expands Aerospace Prowess of Caltech and JPL

Caltech and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which Caltech manages for NASA, will expand aerospace research, hands-on training, and innovation on campus and at the Lab through two gifts totaling $27.5 million from philanthropists Foster and Coco Stanback. A $20 million gift through the Foundation for the Carolinas will create the New Space Makerspace at JPL and support education and workforce development programs led by Caltech. A separate $7.5 million gift will renovate and expand Caltech's hypersonic research facility and add a new shock tube for studying flight at extreme speeds. "Calte

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Remarks from Invited Speakers at Inauguration: Jacqueline Barton and Peter Dervan

October 29, 2026 - The Inauguration of President Ray Jayawardhana Peter Dervan: Dear Trustees, faculty, students, postdocs, staff and friends, Jackie and I never expected to be on stage today at the Inauguration of Caltech's next president, Ray Jayawardhana. We had lunch a few weeks ago with Ray at the Athenaeum. The hour flew by as we reflected on our careers at Caltech. We shared with Ray what we believed was the essence of Caltech culture and success. It was clear that Ray gets Caltech and what makes it so special. He is deeply committed to preserving that culture. How does a small institut

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"What Could We Not Do?": The Inauguration of Ray Jayawardhana as Caltech's 10th President

On a November evening more than a century ago, George Ellery Hale, one of Caltech's three founders, and his guests gathered atop Mount Wilson to witness the first light of the 100-inch Hooker Telescope, the world's most powerful at the time. Ray Jayawardhana, who took office in July, began his inaugural address on Thursday, October 29, recounting that moment after he was formally installed as Caltech's 10th president. "First light," he explained, "is the poetic term astronomers use for the moment a new telescope first opens its eyes to the cosmos. It marks both the culmination of years of inge

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Caltech Mourns the Passing of Ted Scudder, 1930–2026

Thayer (Ted) Scudder, Caltech's only professor of anthropology for the latter half of the 20th century, passed away October 22 at the age of 96. He was regarded as a leading specialist on dams and their lasting effects on communities and global ecosystems. "Ted will be remembered as a world expert on the subject of forced population resettlement due to the construction of large dam projects," says economic anthropologist Jean Ensminger, Caltech's Edie and Lew Wasserman Professor of Social Sciences, Emeritus. "As a result of this work, Ted also developed a passion for the long-term study of a s

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MIT affiliates named 2026 Schmidt Sciences AI2050 Fellows

Five MIT faculty members and two additional alumni are honored with fellowships to advance research on beneficial AI.

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MIT engineers design a safer, more efficient vaccination system for farmed fish

Water-resistant microneedles made from food-grade silk could deliver vaccines to help prevent the spread of disease in aquaculture.

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Regina Barzilay and Jim Collins win Pritzker Prize for AI and Science Research Excellence for work in AI-enabled antibiotic discovery

The MIT professors collaborated to identify the first AI-discovered antibiotic, a scientific breakthrough that is widely recognized as a milestone in AI-driven drug discovery.

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A flexible new route to designer materials built from nanoparticles

Pliable connector molecules could be key to creating nanoparticle-based materials for photonics, chemical catalysis, medicine, and more.

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