Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 32, Issue 3, Page 1022-1039, September 2026.What does it take to turn a tool into a talking tool and that into an ultimate authority? Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) in its diverse forms, such as large language models (LLMs), is celebrated as a useful tool. But LLM‐based conversational agents, or chatbots, the software applications through which ordinary users are likely to engage ...
Webb Keane
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Reduced gas accretion onto galaxies due to effects of external giant radio lobes. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S AQiu Y, Cen R.
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Why do Public Debates Escalate? Trigger Points and the Moral Dynamics of “Hot Politics”
The British Journal of Sociology, Volume 77, Issue 4, Page 701-712, September 2026.ABSTRACT Escalating, emotionally charged, and moralized forms of controversy are a central feature of contemporary politics. Our study develops a framework for understanding how political debates between ordinary citizens become heated; why certain issues provoke particularly strong emotions; and how this affective potential is weaponized by ...
Linus Westheuser +2 more
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Origins of life: the possible and the actual. [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol SciSolé R, Kempes C, Stepney S.
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Environmental Release of Genetically Intervened Microorganisms: Towards a New Narrative
Microbial Biotechnology, Volume 19, Issue 9, September 2026.From control to partnership: Rethinking the environmental release of laboratory‐trained microorganisms for bioremediation. ABSTRACT The deliberate release of genetically engineered microorganisms for environmental applications has remained largely blocked since the early days of recombinant DNA technology, when limited ecological knowledge, lack of ...
Victor de Lorenzo
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Quantum Entanglement Asymmetry and the Cosmic Matter-Antimatter Imbalance: A Theoretical and Observational Analysis. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Neukart F.
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The Great Cosmic Silence: What Does the Fermi Paradox Tell About the Future of Humanity?
Global Policy, Volume 17, Issue 4, Page 553-565, September 2026.ABSTRACT This article examines how institutional time horizons shape the long‐term survival prospects of human technological civilisation. While research on global catastrophic and existential risks has expanded, the temporal structures of political‐economic institutions remain underexamined.
Heikki Patomäki
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Isotropic fluid structures and role of non-metricity on their dynamics governed by an electric charge: A theoretical study. [PDF]
PLoS OneNaseer T +4 more
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Water Beings and Capitalist Relations in India's Sundarbans Delta
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 595-606, September 2026.ABSTRACT This article explores entanglements between water cosmologies and capitalist transformation in the Sundarbans delta of West Bengal, India. It traces how “awakened” tidal creeks have been iteratively enclosed as private fisheries from the colonial period to the present, with particular focus on the expansion of commercial aquaculture over the ...
Calynn Dowler
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The Mutable Original: How Chinese Counterfeits Become Nigerian Originals in African Markets
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 3, Page 581-594, September 2026.ABSTRACT Affordable Chinese copies of Western brands are ubiquitous in African markets. Despite democratizing consumer access, these goods appear to cement hegemonic value hierarchies that rank Chinese or local products as inferior to Western goods.
Jing Jing Liu
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