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The Diversity of Exoplanetary Environments and the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth
Sara Seager, Janusz J. Petkowski, William Bains
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11690

The Diversity of Exoplanetary Environments and the Search for Signs of Life Beyond Earth
Thousands of exoplanets orbit nearby stars, showcasing a remarkable diversity in mass, size, and orbits. With the James Webb Space Telescope now operational, we are observing exoplanet atmospheres and aiming to reach down to small, habitable-zone exoplanets in search of signs of habitability and possibly even biosignature gases. Given the scarcity of targets, it is imperative to embrace the known diversity and consider the range of exoplanets that might host life. We review how Earth life inter…

"Colombia cuts deforestation by one-third as government targets Amazon and illegal mining"
#Colombia #Trees #Deforestation

Colombia cuts deforestation by one-third as government targets Amazon and illegal mining
Colombia’s environment ministry reported a 33% drop in deforestation during the first quarter of 2025, citing coordinated enforcement efforts and strengthened partnerships with local communities.Steven Grattan reports for The Associated Press.In short:Colombia’s deforestation fell from 40,219 hectar...

« Des coups de couteau » mortels : une touriste française soupçonnée d’avoir tué son époux et leur fille en Islande - Le Parisien
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/de…

« Des coups de couteau » mortels : une touriste française soupçonnée d’avoir tué son époux et leur fille en Islande
L’homme et sa fille ont été retrouvés morts dans un hôtel de luxe de la capitale Reykjavik ce samedi matin.

There has long been a quiet debate, currently drowned out but still very much happening, about human replacement vs human augmentation. Think of Gary Kasparov remarking years ago that he thought chess played by humans with computer assistance could be a far more interesting game than either human-only or computer-only chess.
Here’s an argument for augmentation over automation, and note how far it diverges from the current hype despite it being written from a very AI-friendly point of view:
https://digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/news/the-turing-trap-the-promise-peril-of-human-like-artificial-intelligence/

Differences in Neurovascular Coupling in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder: Evidence from Simultaneous Resting-State EEG-fNIRS
Feng Yan, Xiaobin Wang, Yao Zhao, Shuyi Yang, Zhiren Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11634

Differences in Neurovascular Coupling in Patients with Major Depressive Disorder: Evidence from Simultaneous Resting-State EEG-fNIRS
Neurovascular coupling (NVC) refers to the process by which local neural activity, through energy consumption, induces changes in regional cerebral blood flow to meet the metabolic demands of neurons. Event-related studies have shown that the hemodynamic response typically lags behind neural activation by 4-6 seconds. However, little is known about how NVC is altered in patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) and throughout the recovery process. In this study, we employed simultaneous res…

Foundation Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey on Scenario Generation and Scenario Analysis
Yuan Gao, Mattia Piccinini, Yuchen Zhang, Dingrui Wang, Korbinian Moller, Roberto Brusnicki, Baha Zarrouki, Alessio Gambi, Jan Frederik Totz, Kai Storms, Steven Peters, Andrea Stocco, Bassam Alrifaee, Marco Pavone, Johannes Betz
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Foundation Models in Autonomous Driving: A Survey on Scenario Generation and Scenario Analysis
For autonomous vehicles, safe navigation in complex environments depends on handling a broad range of diverse and rare driving scenarios. Simulation- and scenario-based testing have emerged as key approaches to development and validation of autonomous driving systems. Traditional scenario generation relies on rule-based systems, knowledge-driven models, and data-driven synthesis, often producing limited diversity and unrealistic safety-critical cases. With the emergence of foundation models, wh…

Mark Zuckerberg has created the saddest place on the internet with Meta AI's public feed https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerber…

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI is one of the most depressing places online
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI app has become the saddest place on the internet with its public feed of personal overshares.

ALMA millimetre-wavelength imaging of HD 138965: New constraints on the debris dust composition and presence of planetary companions
J. P. Marshall, S. Hengst, A. Trejo-Cruz, C. del Burgo, J. Milli, M. Booth, J. C. Augereau, E. Choquet, F. Y. Morales, P. Th\'ebault, F. Kemper, V. Faramaz-Gorka, G. Bryden
https://arxiv.org/ab…

ALMA millimetre-wavelength imaging of HD 138965: New constraints on the debris dust composition and presence of planetary companions
HD 138965 is a young A type star and member of the nearby young Argus association. This star is surrounded by a broad, bright debris disc with two temperature components that was spatially resolved at far-infrared wavelengths by Herschel. Here we present ALMA millimetre-wavelength imaging of the cool outer belt. These reveal its radial extent to be $150^{+10}_{-7}$ au with a width ($σ$) of 49$^{+7}_{-6}$ au ($ΔR/R$ = 0.77), at a moderate inclination of 49$\fdeg$9^{+3.3}_{-3.7}$. Due to the li…

Multi-Loco: Unifying Multi-Embodiment Legged Locomotion via Reinforcement Learning Augmented Diffusion
Shunpeng Yang, Zhen Fu, Zhefeng Cao, Guo Junde, Patrick Wensing, Wei Zhang, Hua Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11470

Multi-Loco: Unifying Multi-Embodiment Legged Locomotion via Reinforcement Learning Augmented Diffusion
Generalizing locomotion policies across diverse legged robots with varying morphologies is a key challenge due to differences in observation/action dimensions and system dynamics. In this work, we propose Multi-Loco, a novel unified framework combining a morphology-agnostic generative diffusion model with a lightweight residual policy optimized via reinforcement learning (RL). The diffusion model captures morphology-invariant locomotion patterns from diverse cross-embodiment datasets, improving…