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07/13/2026
Lots of research papers come out every year. A growing number are fakes, churned out by paper mills.
Liz Allen thinks trust has to be built into research from the start. Where's it from? Who did what? Who funded it? That's why she helped create CRediT, a standard that puts everyone's role in a paper on the record, not just the first author's.
Kate Becker has the full story on QSpace: https://qspace.fqxi.org/articles/282/paper-trail-rebuilding-trust-in-science
Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explains how Sankofa, the idea of going back and getting what we’ve forgotten, connects to cosmology, Black history, and the origins of the universe.
06/26/2026
FQxI's Ekkehard Peik came up with the nuclear clock back in 2003, then waited nearly twenty years for anyone to build one. This June, his own team finally did.
Full story: https://qspace.fqxi.org/news/165323/scientists-just-built-a-clock-that-could-become-the-most-precise-ever-made
Michael Montague won 3rd place in our essay competition, “How Quantum Is Life?”, which awarded $53,000 across anonymously submitted entries.
This is a clip from our interview with Michael. You can listen to his full interview, along with the podcast featuring more of the winners, below.
Podcast: https://qspace.fqxi.org/podcasts/129/2026.05.13
Full video chat with Michael: https://qspace.fqxi.org/videos/567/a-microbiologists-case-for-quantum-biology-%7C-michael-montague
Microbiologist Michael Montague explains: the color of your iris is an aggregate effect. Around 10^17 pigment molecules adding up to a visible signature. Remove one and no one would notice.
What makes life quantum, in his telling, is the opposite. A single molecular event that cascades up to shape an entire cell, an entire organism, an entire life.
He gives the example of a cosmic ray hitting a strand of DNA, altering a nucleotide, which starts a chain that could end in a tumor.
He calls these "scale shifting effects." And he argues they're everywhere in living systems. That, he says, is the real answer to the question "how quantum is life."
Michael won 3rd place in our essay competition for his essay "Scale Shifting: Quantum Biology, Quantum Omics, & a Quantum Biotech Future."
Watch our full chat with Michael here: https://qspace.fqxi.org/videos/567/a-microbiologists-case-for-quantum-biology-%7C-michael-montague
We Interviewed Harry Kumar, co-founder of Moth Quantum, at SXSW after hearing their talk on their new game 'Quantum Backrooms'.
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