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Late fluid flow in a primitive asteroid revealed by Lu–Hf isotopes in #Ryugu: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09483-0.epdf?sharing_token=VL8QMH3tVOhYxVKrJmTozdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NPQK0_mk8K7IgOT-Cto7Eo7Wz9oQUxzQKpjpaa2UdwuGYA71rDYG1QYVuwa4CBanwmb6BgPdujtT03FRKF28qp9SvV40dGHc0Iym5wGaWv9y5L1cy7JRyggjQSwsNVGH3F-1iVtnCEQSNlhTHKNgPPvBXSpsvARNlTBSiShsCbG-LtNUXW4tLcBP54GvJC6VQ=&tracking_referrer=www.space.com -> Scientists find evidence of flowing water on Ryugu’s ancient parent asteroid: https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/scientists-find-evidence-of-flowing-water-on-ryugus-ancient-parent-asteroid-it-was-a-genuine-surprise

"Do your own research" is counter productive when you don't know how to research...
https://www.vice.com/en/article/scientists-explain-why-doing-your-own-research-leads-to-buying-conspiracies/

Scientists Explain Why ‘Doing Your Own Research’ Leads to Believing Conspiracies
Researchers found that people searching misinformation online risk falling into “data voids” that increase belief in conspiracies.

"In the budget speech this year, commission president Ursula von der Leyen made a bold statement that AI is expected to approach human reasoning by next year."
Die Nächste, nach (bzw. vor) Wildberger.
"Surprised by this statement, I asked the commission to provide me with documents .."
"The commission’s response was not filled with references to the scientific literature. Instead, the Commission referred to the essays and books by tech CEOs."

Sandwich Construction of Symmetry TFTs for the Centre Symmetries of Chern-Simons, Yang-Mills, and Einstein Gravity
Leron Borsten, Dimitri Kanakaris, Hyungrok Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08819

Sandwich Construction of Symmetry TFTs for the Centre Symmetries of Chern-Simons, Yang-Mills, and Einstein Gravity
We construct symmetry topological field theories (SymTFTs) using the sandwich construction of Pulmann-Ševera-Valach that manifest the centre symmetries of Chern-Simons theory and Yang-Mills theory as well as general relativity in the MacDowell-Mansouri formulation. The 'filling' of the sandwich is an AKSZ sigma model whose target space is a Weil algebra, augmented with discrete degrees of freedom given by a choice of topological boundary condition.

"In the budget speech this year, commission president Ursula von der Leyen made a bold statement that AI is expected to approach human reasoning by next year."
How the #EU commission is basing its #AI policy (and funding) on the wishful thinking of tech bros. Those, which currently use circu…

#Upcoming Framed around the language of filmmaking, “Achlys” finds Jon Porras (aka Barn Owl) moving further into texture, erosion, and weight. Available via #ShelterPress, October 24th.

Raiders’ True Feelings on Geno Smith Leaked to Insider https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/geno-smith-true-feelings-espn/?adt_ei=[email]

🦾 Bird-like robot with novel wing system achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight
#robots

Bird-like robot with novel wing system achieves self-takeoff and low-speed flight
In 2021, a group of scientists from China engineered the RoboFalcon—a bird-inspired flapping-wing robot with a newly engineered mechanism made to drive bat-style morphing wings capable of flight. While this bio-inspired robot performed well at a cruising speed, it was not capable of flying at lower speeds or achieving takeoff without assistance.

A Scoping Review of Machine Learning Applications in Power System Protection and Disturbance Management
Julian Oelhaf, Georg Kordowich, Mehran Pashaei, Christian Bergler, Andreas Maier, Johann J\"ager, Siming Bayer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09053

A Scoping Review of Machine Learning Applications in Power System Protection and Disturbance Management
The integration of renewable and distributed energy resources reshapes modern power systems, challenging conventional protection schemes. This scoping review synthesizes recent literature on machine learning (ML) applications in power system protection and disturbance management, following the PRISMA for Scoping Reviews framework. Based on over 100 publications, three key objectives are addressed: (i) assessing the scope of ML research in protection tasks; (ii) evaluating ML performance across …