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Laser-Synthesized Amorphous PdSe$_{\mathrm{2-x}}$ Nanoparticles: A Defect-Rich Platform for High-Efficiency SERS, Photocatalysis, and Photothermal Conversion
Andrei Ushkov, Nadezhda Belozerova, Dmitriy Dyubo, Ilya Martynov, Alexander Syuy, Daniil Tselikov, Georgy Ermolaev, Sergey V. Bazhenov, Roman I. Romanov, Ivan Kruglov, Anton A. Popov, Alexander Chernov, Alexey D. Bolshakov, Sergey Novikov, Andrey A. Vyshnevyy, Aleksey Arsenin, Andrei V. Kabashin, Gleb I. Tselikov, Valentyn Volkov

Laser-Synthesized Amorphous PdSe$_{\mathrm{2-x}}$ Nanoparticles: A Defect-Rich Platform for High-Efficiency SERS, Photocatalysis, and Photothermal Conversion
The control of material properties at the atomic scale remains a central challenge in materials science. Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) offer remarkable electronic and optical properties, but their functionality is largely dictated by their stable crystalline phases. Here we demonstrate a single-step, ligand-free strategy using femtosecond laser ablation in liquid to transform crystalline, stoichiometric palladium diselenide (PdSe$_{\mathrm{2}}$) into highly stable, amorphous, and non…

Excising Cauchy Horizons with Nonlinear Electrodynamics
Tom\'a\v{s} Hale, Robie A. Hennigar, David Kubiznak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20802 https://…

Excising Cauchy Horizons with Nonlinear Electrodynamics
Charged and/or rotating black holes in General Relativity feature Cauchy horizons, which indicate a breakdown of predictability in the theory. Focusing on spherically symmetric charged black holes, we remark that the inevitability of Reissner-Nordstrom Cauchy horizon is due to the divergent electromagnetic self-energy of point charges. We demonstrate that any causal theory of nonlinear electrodynamics that regularizes the point charge self-energy also eliminates Cauchy horizons for weakly charg…

Kämpfe im Osten der Ukraine gehen weiter
Russische und ukrainische Truppen haben ihre Kämpfe im Osten der Ukraine fortgesetzt. Insgesamt seien im Tagesverlauf 65 bewaffnete Zusammenstöße registriert worden, teilte der ukrainische Generalstab am späten Nachmittag mit. Die Frontberichte konnten nicht unabhängig überprüft werden. Als Schwerpunkte der Kämpfe galten Kupjansk sowie Pokrowsk. Bei Kupjansk seien die ukrainischen Stel…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Rubio hält Waffenruhe weiter für möglich ++
Laut US-Außenminister Rubio ist nach dem Treffen von Trump und Putin ein Waffenruhe noch nicht vom Tisch. Neben Merz und von der Leyen reisen auch die Staats- und Regierungschefs von Italien, Frankreich und Finnland nach Washington.

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Nanoplastic concentrations across the North Atlantic - Nature
Observations from 12 hydrocast stations along a transect crossing the North Atlantic from the subtropical gyre to the northern European shelf provide evidence of large amounts of nanoplastics throughout the entire water column.

Rotating Carroll Black Holes: A No Go Theorem
Ivan Kol\'a\v{r}, David Kubiznak, Poula Tadros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10451 https://

Rotating Carroll Black Holes: A No Go Theorem
Recently, there has been a lot of interest in Carroll black holes and in particular whether or not one could find a Carrollian analogue of a rotating black hole spacetime. Here we show that every stationary and axisymmetric solution (and thence also a black hole) of Carrollian general relativity in any number of $d\geq 3$ dimensions is necessarily also static. Using this result, we construct a unique stationary and axisymmetric black hole in three dimensions - a static Carroll BTZ black hole. A…

Investigating the Robustness of Retrieval-Augmented Generation at the Query Level
Sezen Per\c{c}in, Xin Su, Qutub Sha Syed, Phillip Howard, Aleksei Kuvshinov, Leo Schwinn, Kay-Ulrich Scholl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06956

Investigating the Robustness of Retrieval-Augmented Generation at the Query Level
Large language models (LLMs) are very costly and inefficient to update with new information. To address this limitation, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has been proposed as a solution that dynamically incorporates external knowledge during inference, improving factual consistency and reducing hallucinations. Despite its promise, RAG systems face practical challenges-most notably, a strong dependence on the quality of the input query for accurate retrieval. In this paper, we investigate th…

A Careful Examination of Large Behavior Models for Multitask Dexterous Manipulation
TRI LBM Team, Jose Barreiros, Andrew Beaulieu, Aditya Bhat, Rick Cory, Eric Cousineau, Hongkai Dai, Ching-Hsin Fang, Kunimatsu Hashimoto, Muhammad Zubair Irshad, Masha Itkina, Naveen Kuppuswamy, Kuan-Hui Lee, Katherine Liu, Dale McConachie, Ian McMahon, Haruki Nishimura, Calder Phillips-Grafflin, Charles Richter, Paarth Shah, Krishnan Srinivasan, Blake Wulfe, Chen Xu, Mengchao Zhang, Alex Alspach, Maya …

A Careful Examination of Large Behavior Models for Multitask Dexterous Manipulation
Robot manipulation has seen tremendous progress in recent years, with imitation learning policies enabling successful performance of dexterous and hard-to-model tasks. Concurrently, scaling data and model size has led to the development of capable language and vision foundation models, motivating large-scale efforts to create general-purpose robot foundation models. While these models have garnered significant enthusiasm and investment, meaningful evaluation of real-world performance remains a …

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Dynamical Properties of Dense Associative Memory
Kazushi Mimura, Jun'ichi Takeuchi, Yuto Sumikawa, Yoshiyuki Kabashima, Anthony C. C. Coolen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00851

Dynamical Properties of Dense Associative Memory
The dense associative memory is one of the basic modern Hopfield networks and can store large numbers of memory patterns. While the stationary state storage capacity has been investigated so far, its dynamical properties have not been discussed. In this paper, we analyze the dynamics by means of an exact approach based on generating functional analysis. It allows us to investigate convergence properties as well as the size of the attraction basins. We also analyze the stationary state of the up…