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The underground “Jiangmen Underground #Neutrino Observatory" (JUNO) near Jiangmen city in the Guangdong Province has successfully completed the filling of its 20,000 tons of liquid scintillator and begun data taking: https://www.prisma.uni-mainz.de/outreach/press-releases/juno-completed-liquid-filling-and-begins-data-taking/ - JUNO will tackle one of this decade’s major open questions in particle physics, the ordering of neutrino masses i.e. whether the third mass state (ν₃) is heavier than the second (ν₂).

How a focus on video helped News UK's Talksport transform from a radio station to a multi-platform sports brand, with 35M to 45M YouTube views per month (Alice Brooker/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

How Youtube revenue is fuelling Talksport's transformation into video brand
News UK's director of digital for broadcasting shared how Talksport's new studio has helped it progress in becoming a more video-based brand.

Topological phase transitions between bosonic and fermionic quantum Hall states near even-denominator filling factors
Evgenii Zheltonozhskii, Ady Stern, Netanel H. Lindner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17457

Topological phase transitions between bosonic and fermionic quantum Hall states near even-denominator filling factors
We study the quantum critical point between the fermionic $ν=8$ quantum Hall state and the bosonic $ν=2$ quantum Hall state of Cooper pairs. Our study is motivated by the composite fermion construction for the daughter states of even-denominator fractional quantum Hall states and the experimentally observed transition between the daughter and the Jain states at the same filling. We show that this transition is equivalent to the transition between a neutral invertible $E_8$ state and a topolog…

Electromagnetic Formation Flying Using Alternating Magnetic Field Forces and Control Barrier Functions for State and Input Constraints
Sumit S. Kamat, T. Michael Seigler, Jesse B. Hoagg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18501

Electromagnetic Formation Flying Using Alternating Magnetic Field Forces and Control Barrier Functions for State and Input Constraints
This article presents a feedback control algorithm for electromagnetic formation flying with constraints on the satellites' states and control inputs. The algorithm combines several key techniques. First, we use alternating magnetic field forces to decouple the electromagnetic forces between each pair of satellites in the formation. Each satellite's electromagnetic actuation system is driven by a sum of amplitude-modulated sinusoids, where amplitudes are controlled in order to prescribe the tim…

I'm not the target audience, but that second paragraph hit me in the gut
"But for many of us, the first real injustices that mattered to us, that ripped our hearts out, weren't the failings of our parents' relationships, or the boys we crushed on who didn't love us, but the Black girls who we wanted to see us and be- friend us instead either ignored or bullied us."

i do fedi by just putting shit into drafts and firing one im feeling off before i start disliking it again. scrolling thru my large collection, i feel like its too easy to tell which clumps of drafts i was manic during lol

Optimal Hamiltonian for a quantum state with finite entropy
M. E. Shirokov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16575 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16575

Optimal Hamiltonian for a quantum state with finite entropy
We consider the following task: how for a given quantum state $ρ$ to find a grounded Hamiltonian $H$ such that $\mathrm{Tr}Hρ\leq E_0<+\infty$ in such a way that the von Neumann entropy of the Gibbs state $γ_H(E)$ corresponding to a given energy $E>0$ be as small as possible. We show that for any mixed state $ρ$ with finite entropy and any $E>0$ there is a unique solution $H(ρ,E_0,E)$ of the above problem which we call optimal Hamiltonian for this state. Explicit expressions for $H(ρ,E_…

Der Zug von Hamburg nach Kiel, beziehungsweise nach Flensburg, wird immer in Neumünster geteilt. Für Menschen, die diese Verbindung das erste Mal nutzen, ist es wie ein Persönlichkeitstest. Die anderen Fahrgäst:innen können sehr klar erkennen, was für einen Typ Mensch vor einem steht. Und heute habe ich festgestellt, nicht zum ersten Mal, dass sich manche Menschen besser nicht reproduzieren sollten.

FLAMES: Improving LLM Math Reasoning via a Fine-Grained Analysis of the Data Synthesis Pipeline
Parker Seegmiller, Kartik Mehta, Soumya Saha, Chenyang Tao, Shereen Oraby, Arpit Gupta, Tagyoung Chung, Mohit Bansal, Nanyun Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16514

FLAMES: Improving LLM Math Reasoning via a Fine-Grained Analysis of the Data Synthesis Pipeline
Recent works improving LLM math reasoning with synthetic data have used unique setups, making comparison of data synthesis strategies impractical. This leaves many unanswered questions about the roles of different factors in the synthetic data pipeline, such as the impact of filtering low-quality problems. To address this gap, we introduce FLAMES, a Framework for LLM Assessment of Math rEasoning Data Synthesis, and perform a systematic study of 10 existing data synthesis strategies and multiple…

Frank Price, the writer-producer who presided over the TV and movie divisions at Universal and served two terms as the head of Columbia Pictures, dies at 95 (Mike Barnes/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/m

Frank Price, Studio Chief at Columbia (Twice) and Universal, Dies at 95
He first made his mark as a producer on NBC's 'The Virginian' and greenlighted films including 'Gandhi,' 'Tootsie,' 'Back to the Future' and 'Boyz n the Hood.