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Netflix used AI tools for the first time in one of its TV shows, for a VFX sequence; Ted Sarandos says the VFX costs would have been too high otherwise (Osmond Chia/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vr4rymlw9o

Netflix uses AI effects for first time to cut costs
The streaming firm says AI allowed The Eternaut to complete a sequence faster and cheaper.

Earth as a potential source of life For Europa's subsurface ocean
Zaza N. Osmanov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17027 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17027

Earth as a potential source of life For Europa's subsurface ocean
The paper discusses the possibility of dust particles containing living bacteria ejected from Earth, reaching Europa and landing on its surface. It is shown that, taking certain factors into account, over a period of (30-80) Myr (the estimated age of Europa's ocean), Jupiter's moon would have been impacted by approximately $3\times 10^{23}$ to $8\times 10^{23}$ particles in total, within which a bacterium could have survived. In this paper we discuss the possibility of dust grains entering liqu…

Electron impact ro-vibrational transitions and dissociative recombination of H2 and HD : Rate coefficients and astrophysical implications
Riyad Hassaine, Emerance Djuissi, Nicolina Pop, Felix Iacob, Michel D. Ep\'ee Ep\'ee, Ousmanou Motapon, Vincenzo Laporta, Razvan Bogdan, Mehdi Ayouz, Mourad Telmini, Carla M. Coppola, Daniele Galli, Janos Zs. Mezei, Ioan F. Schneider

Electron impact ro-vibrational transitions and dissociative recombination of H2+ and HD+: Rate coefficients and astrophysical implications
Context. Molecular hydrogen and its cation H+2 are among the first species formed in the early Universe, and play a key role in the thermal and chemical evolution of the primordial gas. In molecular clouds, H+2 ions formed through ionization of H2 by particles react rapidly with H2 to form H+3 , triggering the formation of almost all detected interstellar molecules. Aims. We present a new set of cross sections and rate coefficients for state-to-state ro-vibrational transitions of the H+2 and HD…