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Danish Umar is a NOMIS–Salk Fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, where he conducts research in the laboratory of Deepshika Ramanan. Born and raised in Nawada, Bihar, India, […]

NOMIS researcher Janelle Ayres and scientists at the Salk Institute have discovered that, contrary to dogma, naked mole rats are capable of peaceful queen succession, demonstrating unappreciated flexibility in their […]

The eusocial naked mole rat exhibits extreme reproductive skew, with a single queen monopolizing breeding through behavioral dominance. When the queen is removed or dies, reproductive suppression is lifted, leading […]

Emilie Skoog and Sarah Joiret have joined the ranks of NOMIS–ETH Fellows at the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich. This 2026 cohort of fellows will […]

While fears of AI replacing jobs are widespread, a new NBER working paper led by NOMIS Awardee David Autor and colleagues reveals that the creation of novel occupations acts as […]

Sarah Joiret is a NOMIS–ETH Fellow at the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). She will conduct her research under the mentorship of Caroline Dorn […]

Emilie Skoog is a NOMIS–ETH Fellow at the Centre for Origin and Prevalence of Life at ETH Zurich (Switzerland). She is conducting her research under the mentorship of Marie Schölmerich. […]

Nils Güttler is an assistant professor of the history of science at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is leading the project Science for the People: Social Movements and Knowledge […]

NOMIS researcher Gerald Shadel has been elected as a 2025 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow. He is one of two Salk Institute scientists to receive the […]

How do habits influence lifespan? In a study monitoring the lives of African turquoise killifish, NOMIS Awardees Anne Brunet and Karl Deisseroth and colleagues at Stanford University have found that […]

Mapping behavior of individual vertebrate animals across lifespan could provide an unprecedented view into the lifelong process of aging. We created a platform for high-resolution continuous behavioral tracking of the […]

The Question The belief that humans have a poor sense of smell compared to other animals is false. Olfaction in humans serves important purposes. In addition to the assessment of […]

When do voters actually think for themselves? A new study sheds light on when and why people follow their political party’s lead — and what it takes to break the […]

The search for life on other planets has long focused on the presence of water. Now, NOMIS–ETH Fellow Craig Walton and colleagues have demonstrated why only a small number of […]

The Question How can science help address today’s political, social and environmental crises? And are our existing scientific institutions capable of doing so — or have they become part of […]

A crucial factor governing the habitability of exoplanets is the availability of bioessential elements such as nitrogen (N) and phosphorous (P), which foster prebiotic chemistry and sustain life after its […]

Party cues can influence public opinion, but the extent to which they do so varies dramatically from context to context. Why? The long-standing theory that party cues function as “heuristics” […]

Alena Williams is a NOMIS–eikones Fellow at eikones – Center for the Theory and History of the Image at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and university professor of Theory and […]

Aging is characterized by a decline in the ability of tissue repair and regeneration after injury. In skeletal muscle, this decline is largely driven by impaired function of muscle stem […]

New research by NOMIS Awardee Thomas Rando and colleagues at UCLA reveals that aging muscles heal more slowly because their stem cells adopt a “safety first” strategy, prioritizing their own […]