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As Amazon's 'flying rivers' weaken with tree loss, scientists warn of worsening droughts #Amazon

As Amazon's 'flying rivers' weaken with tree loss, scientists warn of worsening droughts
Droughts have withered crops in Peru, fires have scorched the Amazon and hydroelectric dams in Ecuador have struggled to keep the lights on as rivers dry up. Scientists say the cause may lie high above the rainforest, where invisible "flying rivers" carry rain from the Atlantic Ocean across South America.

Wildfire paradox: Decreased burned area but increased human exposure. Study highlights growing risk and importance of proactive mitigation strategies. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

Scientists uncover wildfire paradox that’s putting 440 million people in danger
A massive global study uncovered a striking paradox: even as total burned land has dropped by more than a quarter since 2002, human exposure to wildfires has skyrocketed. Africa accounts for a staggering 85% of these exposures, while California stands out as an extreme hotspot despite its relatively small share of burned land. Climate change is fueling more intense fire weather, population growth is pushing communities into fire-prone landscapes, and the overlap between people and flames is gro…

BALLAST: Bayesian Active Learning with Look-ahead Amendment for Sea-drifter Trajectories under Spatio-Temporal Vector Fields
Rui-Yang Zhang, Henry B. Moss, Lachlan Astfalck, Edward Cripps, David S. Leslie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26005

BALLAST: Bayesian Active Learning with Look-ahead Amendment for Sea-drifter Trajectories under Spatio-Temporal Vector Fields
We introduce a formal active learning methodology for guiding the placement of Lagrangian observers to infer time-dependent vector fields -- a key task in oceanography, marine science, and ocean engineering -- using a physics-informed spatio-temporal Gaussian process surrogate model. The majority of existing placement campaigns either follow standard `space-filling' designs or relatively ad-hoc expert opinions. A key challenge to applying principled active learning in this setting is that Lagra…

Strain-induced Dynamic Spin-Phonon Coupling in Epitaxial RuO2 Films
In Hyeok Choi, Seung Gyo Jeong2, Jae Hyuck Lee, San Kang, Sreejith Nair, Changyoung Kim, Dirk Wulferding, Bharat Jalan, Jong Seok Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23969

Strain-induced Dynamic Spin-Phonon Coupling in Epitaxial RuO2 Films
Magnetic order parameters in altermagnets can couple to quantized lattice vibration via both piezomagnetic and magnetoelastic effects, leading to the renormalization of phonon dispersion. Here, we demonstrate photo-induced dynamic frequency modulation of THz phonons excited in anisotropically-strained epitaxial RuO2 thin films using ultrafast coherent phonon spectroscopy and time-resolved magneto-optic Kerr effect measurement. A coherent oscillation of a transverse acoustic phonon appears in th…

Non-explosive pre-supernova feedback in the COLIBRE model of galaxy formation
Alejandro Ben\'itez-Llambay, Sylvia Ploeckinger, Joop Schaye, Alexander J. Richings, Evgenii Chaikin, Matthieu Schaller, James W. Trayford, Carlos S. Frenk, Filip Hu\v{s}ko, Camila Correa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25309

Non-explosive pre-supernova feedback in the COLIBRE model of galaxy formation
We present the implementation and testing of a subgrid non-explosive pre-supernova (NEPS) feedback module for the COLIBRE model of galaxy formation. The NEPS module incorporates three key physical processes sourced by young, massive stars that act immediately following star formation: momentum injection from stellar winds and radiation pressure, and thermal energy from photoheating in HII regions. The age- and metallicity-dependent energy and momentum budgets are derived from BPASS stellar popu…

Super Bowl odds: Eagles, Ravens, Bills favored, but Packers surge after Micah Parsons trade https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6584150/2025/08/29/super-bowl-odds-eagles-packers-parsons/

Super Bowl odds: Eagles, Ravens, Bills favored, but Packers surge after Micah Parsons trade https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6584150/2025/08/29/super-bowl-odds-eagles-packers-parsons/

Filmfestival in #Ludwigshafen
Der Regisseur Edgar Reitz (92) wurde in Ludwigshafen für sein Lebenswerk ausgezeichnet. #Film #Alter

Edgar Reitz bekommt Ehrenpreis bei Filmfestival
Mehr als 50 Jahre umfasst das Lebenswerk des "Heimat"-Regisseurs Edgar Reitz. Das wurde auf dem Festival des deutschen Films gewürdigt.

Filing: Shein reports 2024 UK sales up 32.3% YoY to £2.05B, making the UK its third largest market after the US and Germany, as it works toward a Hong Kong IPO (Helen Reid/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-co

Inverse design of drying-induced assembly of multicomponent colloidal-particle films using surrogate models
Mayukh Kundu, Michaela Bush, Chris A. Kieslich, Michael P. Howard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10645

Inverse design of drying-induced assembly of multicomponent colloidal-particle films using surrogate models
The properties of films assembled by drying colloidal-particle suspensions depend sensitively on both the particles and the processing conditions, making them challenging to engineer. In this work, we develop and test an inverse-design strategy based on surrogate modeling to identify conditions that yield a target film structure. We consider a two-component hard-sphere colloidal suspension whose designable parameters are the particle sizes, the initial composition of particles, and the drying r…