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My brain is frazzled from all of the conflict. I feel like C is attacking me and accepting none of the responsibility for our predicament. I’ve tried to apologise for my shortcomings (failing to consult her on a decision I made about therapy for my son) but she’s thrown it back in my face telling me I’ve made the same mistakes before, and that she finds it hard to trust me. She says I take decisions unilaterally and don’t value her advice despite clear evidence to the contrary.

When you say you need hope about climate change, what do you really need?
Maybe it's proof your actions matter.
Maybe it's permission to want a better future.
Maybe it's feeling less alone.
Your brain treats hope like a prediction. When reality doesn't match, hope breaks.
But agency doesn't break.
Community doesn't break.
Imagination doesn't break.
What if we stopped chasing hope and built something stronger?
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How to Stay Hopeful About Climate Change: A Scientific Look at the Brain’s Hope Circuit
A science-backed exploration of why hope collapses during the climate crisis. Learn the neuroscience behind fragile hope, the psychology of despair, and the durable alternatives—like agency, imagination, and possibility—that truly sustain long-term climate engagement.

Turbulence and dust fragility in protoplanetary discs
Simin Tong, Richard Alexander, Giovanni Rosotti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24818 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Turbulence and dust fragility in protoplanetary discs
Dust growth from micron- to planet-size in protoplanetary discs involves multiple physical processes, including dust growth and fragmentation, the streaming instability, and pebble accretion. Disc turbulence and dust fragility matter at almost every stage. Previous studies typically vary one of them while fixing the other, failing to provide a complete picture. Here, we use analytical models and numerical dust evolution models DustPy to study the combinations of gas turbulence and dust fragilit…

Anisotropy by design in superconducting Nb thin films via ultrashort pulse laser irradiation
Javier Frechilla (Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Arag\'on), Nicolas Lejeune (D\'epartement de Physique, Q-MAT, CESAM, Universit\'e de Li\`ege, B-4000, Belgium), Elena Mart\'inez (Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Arag\'on), Emile Fourneau (D\'epartement de Physique, Q-MAT, CESAM, Universit\'e de Li\`ege, B-4000, Belgium), Alejandro Frechilla (Institu…

Anisotropy by design in superconducting Nb thin films via ultrashort pulse laser irradiation
The ability to fabricate anisotropic superconducting layers a la carte is desired in technologies such as fluxon screening or removal in field-resilient devices, flux lensing in ultra-sensitive sensors, or in templates for imprinting magnetic structures in hybrid magnetic/superconducting multilayers. In this work, we demonstrate tailored superconductivity in polycrystalline niobium thin films exposed to femtosecond ultraviolet laser pulses. The samples exhibit significant changes in their super…

When people say they need hope about climate change, what are they really asking for?
New piece breaks down why hope collapses so easily and what stronger feelings can replace it.
Not prediction. Participation.
Read it here: [link]
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How to Stay Hopeful About Climate Change: A Scientific Look at the Brain’s Hope Circuit
A science-backed exploration of why hope collapses during the climate crisis. Learn the neuroscience behind fragile hope, the psychology of despair, and the durable alternatives—like agency, imagination, and possibility—that truly sustain long-term climate engagement.

Stretching water between two grooves
Matteo Leonard, Dilip Maity, Nicolas Vandewalle, Tadd Truscott
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25864 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Stretching water between two grooves
Controlling water motion on surfaces is critical for applications ranging from thermal management, passive water harvesting, to self-cleaning coatings. Yet stabilising continuous water films, desirable for their high surface coverage and drainage capacity, remains challenging with pure water, due to its high surface tension. Existing strategies rely on extreme wettability achieved by coating or fine-scale patterning, which are costly, fragile, or complex to scale. A robust, purely geometric sol…