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TikTok launches its e-commerce platform, TikTok Shop, in Japan, marking its 17th market, following launches in the US, the UK, Malaysia, Thailand, and others (Danielle Popov/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

TikTok Shop launches in Japan as app faces uncertainty in US
The popular short-video app is seeking to diversify its global footprint while reducing its reliance on the US market.

Trade-Offs in EuBa2Cu3Oy Films containing Artificial Pinning Centers: Higher Critical Currents yet Faster Vortex Creep
Jiangteng Liu, Masashi Miura, Daisaku Yokoe, Takeharu Kato, Akira Ibi, Teruo Izumi, Serena Eley
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01119

Trade-Offs in EuBa2Cu3Oy Films containing Artificial Pinning Centers: Higher Critical Currents yet Faster Vortex Creep
The electromagnetic properties of type-II superconductors depend on vortices-magnetic flux lines whose motion introduces dissipation that can be mitigated by pinning from material defects. The material disorder landscape is tuned by the choice of materials growth technique and incorporation of impurities that serve as vortex pinning centers. For example, metal organic deposition (MOD) and pulsed laser deposition (PLD) produce high-quality superconducting films with uncorrelated versus correlate…

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A Casimir-like probe for 4D Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
Virtual transitions in a Casimir-like configuration are utilized to probe quantum aspects of four-dimensional Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (4D EGB) gravity. This study employs a quantum optics-based approach, wherein an Unruh-DeWitt detector (modeled as a two-level atom) follows a radial timelike geodesic, falling freely into an uncharged, nonrotating black hole described by 4D EGB gravity, becoming thermalized in the usual Unruh manner. The black hole, asymptotically Minkowskian, is enclosed by a Cas…

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

The Confidence Paradox: Can LLM Know When It's Wrong
Sahil Tripathi, Md Tabrez Nafis, Imran Hussain, Jiechao Gao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23464 https…

The Confidence Paradox: Can LLM Know When It's Wrong
Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) systems are increasingly deployed in real world applications, yet they remain ethically opaque-often producing overconfident answers to ambiguous questions or failing to communicate uncertainty in a trustworthy manner. This misalignment between model confidence and actual knowledge poses significant risks, particularly in domains requiring ethical accountability. Existing approaches such as LayoutLMv3, UDOP, and DONUT have advanced SOTA performance by…

"The most worrying possibility behind Earth’s [accelerating warming] is how the general nature of clouds may be changing in response to climbing temperatures. It’s a feedback loop that could potentially exacerbate warming and is one of the single biggest uncertainties in predicting future climate."

Global Warming Is Speeding Up and the World Is Feeling the Effects
Human-caused global warming has been increasing faster and faster since the 1970s.

Using Large Eddy Simulations to Study How Climate Change Influences Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
Hongwei Sun, Peter Blossey, Robert Wood, Ehsan Erfani, Sarah Doherty, Je-Yun Chun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01319

Using Large Eddy Simulations to Study How Climate Change Influences Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
Because aerosol-cloud interactions are the most uncertain climate forcing in the Earth system, it is important to better understand the aerosol-cloud interactions, especially how they will change with climate. This study carries out large eddy simulations (LES) of a 3-day stratocumulus-to-cumulus transition (SCT) along an airmass-following trajectory in the Northeast Pacific Ocean. By perturbing aerosol concentrations within the marine boundary layer (MBL) in the SCT simulations, we evaluate ae…

Pius XII and Decolonization: Catholicism in North Africa and the Levant, 1939-1958 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20069395/pius-xii-and-decolonization-catholicism-north-africa-and-levant-1939

Estimating Global Ejecta Mass Ratios in Tycho's SNR
Tyler Holland-Ashford, Patrick Slane, Brian Williams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23897 https://

Estimating Global Ejecta Mass Ratios in Tycho's SNR
In this work, as a follow-up to our similar analysis of Kepler's supernova remnant (SNR), we estimate total mass ratios of various ejecta elements in Tycho's SNR using Suzaku X-ray data. In our spectral analysis, we account for uncertainties arising from Suzaku's effective area calibration (5%-15%) and from the unknown filling factors of the various plasma components in our spectral model (1%-10%). We compare our calculated ejecta mass ratios to results from previous X-ray analyses of Tycho's S…

Marcus Meyer schafft Tierskulpturen mit Holz von Bäumen, die auf Grund von Krankheit am Sterben oder bereits tot waren. Seine Tiere habe Verletzungen - die Formen sind unvollständig. Er zeigt #DieLetztenIhrerArt und macht auf das Sterben unserer Umwelt aufmerksam.
Schweinswale, kleine Tümmler sehen wir heute auch in Kieler Förde. Aber unsere Kinder und Kindeskinder?