Richard Stone

1 month ago | science.org | Richard Stone

When Cuban neuroinformaticist Pedro Antonio Valdés Sosa wrote in October 2023 to Xi Jinping, China’s leader, hailing the two Communist nations’ budding collaboration in brain science, he did not expect a reply. But Valdés Sosa’s paean to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a $1.3 trillion global infrastructure effort and China’s flagship means for projecting soft power that he praised as an “insightful and innovative idea,” struck the right chord in Beijing.

2 months ago | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Evan Chen |Shai Shimony |Marlise R. Luskin |Richard Stone

Conflicts of Interest The authors declare no conflicts of interest. References 1, , , et al., “NPM1 Alternative Transcripts Are Upregulated in Acute Myeloid and Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Their Expression Level Affects Patient Outcome,” Journal of Translational Medicine 16, no. 1 (2018): 232. 2, , , and , “Acute Myeloid Leukemia Carrying Cytoplasmic/Mutated Nucleophosmin (NPMc+ AML): Biologic and Clinical Features,” Blood 109, no. 3 (2007): 874–885.

2 months ago | science.org | Richard Stone

Helping research labs in the Caucasus secure dangerous pathogens. Training biologists in Southeast Asia on how to disrupt an attack with a bioweapon. Rebuilding a radiation monitoring system for the defunct Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant. These efforts are among hundreds of programs aimed at preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and improving research security that have ground to a halt because of President Donald Trump’s administration’s freeze on U.S. foreign aid.

2 months ago | science.org | Richard Stone

Legend has it that if you walk along Old Light Road in Summerville, South Carolina, you might see an eerie glow hovering over an abandoned rail line in the nearby woods. Old-timers will tell you it’s a spectral lantern held by the apparition of a woman searching for her decapitated husband’s head. Susan Hough has proposed a scientific explanation that is far more plausible, however.

Jan 13, 2025 | science.org | Richard Stone

Bowing to national security concerns raised by members of the U.S. Congress, the University of Michigan (UM) last week announced it will terminate an institute run with an elite Chinese university that has funded joint biomedical and energy research and trained science and engineering students. UM’s 20-year partnership with Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) is the latest academic casualty of rising geopolitical tensions between the United States and China.