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Peru Debuts Discovery of Ancient City Dating Back 3,800 Years Ago and Ready for Visitors https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/peru-debuts-discovery-of-ancient-city-dating-back-3800-years-ago-and-ready-for-visitors/

Peru Debuts Discovery of Ancient City Dating Back 3,800 Years Ago and Ready for Visitors
Caral-Supe is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and oldest-known in the Americas, and Peñico likely inherited that legacy

HBO Max: "Harry Potter"-Serie geht in Produktion
Warner Bros. Discovery beginnt mit der Produktion der auf mehrere Jahre ausgelegten "Harry Potter"-Serie für HBO Max. Die erste Staffel soll 2027 erscheinen.

Model Discovery and Graph Simulation: A Lightweight Alternative to Chaos Engineering
Anatoly A. Krasnovsky, Alexander Zorkin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11176

Model Discovery and Graph Simulation: A Lightweight Alternative to Chaos Engineering
Microservice applications are prone to cascading failures because of dense inter-service dependencies. Ensuring resilience usually demands fault-injection experiments in production-like setups. We propose \textit{model discovery} -- an automated CI/CD step that extracts a live dependency graph from trace data -- and show that this lightweight representation is sufficient for accurate resilience prediction. Using the DeathStarBench Social Network, we build the graph, simulate failures via Monte-…

A new dwarf planet may have been found in the solar system | The Week
https://theweek.com/science/dwarf-planet-solar-system-space-discovery

Secure API-Driven Research Automation to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
Tyler J. Skluzacek, Paul Bryant, A. J. Ruckman, Daniel Rosendo, Suzanne Prentice, Michael J. Brim, Ryan Adamson, Sarp Oral, Mallikarjun Shankar, Rafael Ferreira da Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11950

Secure API-Driven Research Automation to Accelerate Scientific Discovery
The Secure Scientific Service Mesh (S3M) provides API-driven infrastructure to accelerate scientific discovery through automated research workflows. By integrating near real-time streaming capabilities, intelligent workflow orchestration, and fine-grained authorization within a service mesh architecture, S3M revolutionizes programmatic access to high performance computing (HPC) while maintaining uncompromising security. This framework allows intelligent agents and experimental facilities to dyn…

Discovery of Faint Nebulosity Around a Z Camelopardalis-type Cataclysmic Variable in Antlia: Nova Shell or Ancient Planetary Nebula?
Howard E. Bond (Penn State University, STScI), Dana Patchick (Deep Sky Hunters Consortium), Daniel Stern (MEA Observatory), Jonathan Talbot (Stark Bayou Observatory), John R. Thorstensen (Dartmouth)
https://

Discovery of Faint Nebulosity Around a Z Camelopardalis-type Cataclysmic Variable in Antlia: Nova Shell or Ancient Planetary Nebula?
We report our discovery of a faint nebula surrounding a previously little-studied 15th-mag variable star, ASASSN-19ds, in the southern-hemisphere constellation Antlia. Spectra verify that the star is a cataclysmic variable (CV). Using new and archival photometry, we confirm that ASASSN-19ds is an eclipsing binary with an orbital period of 0.139 days (3.34 hr). Moreover, its out-of-eclipse brightness shows a "sawtooth" light curve with an amplitude of $\sim$1~mag and an interval between peaks th…

AI is just another productivity tool and the productivity gains will be limited; for lasting economic expansion, AI must catalyze new industries and initiatives (Carl Benedikt Frey/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/55bc5876-254a-4daa-86f8-2cd0d939a866

AI alone cannot solve the productivity puzzle
Economic miracles stem from discovery, not repeating tasks at greater speed

The Discovery of Little Red Dots in the Local Universe: Signatures of Cool Gas Envelopes
Xiaojing Lin, Xiaohui Fan, Zheng Cai, Fuyan Bian, Hanpu Liu, Fengwu Sun, Yilun Ma, Jenny E. Greene, Michael A. Strauss, Richard Green, Jianwei Lyu, Jaclyn B. Champagne, Andy D. Goulding, Kohei Inayoshi, Xiangyu Jin, Gene C. K. Leung, Mingyu Li, Yichen Liu, Junjie Mao, Maria Anne Pudoka, Wei Leong Tee, Ben Wang, Feige Wang, Yunjing Wu, Jinyi Yang, Haowen Zhang, Yongda Zhu

The Discovery of Little Red Dots in the Local Universe: Signatures of Cool Gas Envelopes
JWST observations have revealed a population of high-redshift "little red dots" (LRDs) that challenge conventional AGN models. We report the discovery of three local LRDs at $z = 0.1-0.2$, initially selected from the SDSS database, with follow-up optical/near-IR spectroscopy and photometry. They exhibit properties fully consistent with those of high-redshift LRDs, including broad hydrogen and helium emission lines, compact morphologies, V-shaped UV-optical SED, declining near-IR continua, and n…

Discovery and dynamics of a Sedna-like object with a perihelion of 66 au: #TNO

About to go out to lunch at a new-to-me (and my lunching compadre) Filipino restaurant... a voyage of gastronomical discovery awaits! Hoping 🤞 it's a 'keeper'!

A New Method for the Discovery of the Distant Exoplanets II: Question of Signal-to-Noise Ratio
Peter B. Lerner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10764 https://

A New Method for the Discovery of the Distant Exoplanets II: Question of Signal-to-Noise Ratio
Exoplanets with a long orbital period are difficult to discover by extant methods. Our first publication (Lerner, P., A. Mayer, T. E. Sullivan. 2023. A new method for the discovery of the distant exoplanets. SPIE Proceedings 12680: 126802(M)) proposed a Hanbury-Brown-Twiss (HBT) interferometry-inspired method to find exoplanets with a very slow-changing influence on their host star. Traditional HBT interferometry measured the modulus of the correlation function. Slight modification of the HBT c…

HBO and HBO Max tops Emmy nominations with 142, a record for HBO, Disney gets 128 across all its platforms, Netflix lands 121, and Apple scores 79 (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/07/2025-emmy-nominations-analysis-hbo-netflix-1236457785/

HBO Lands Its Most Emmy Nominations Ever, Sailing Past Netflix, Helped By ‘The Penguin’, ‘The White Lotus’ & ‘The Last Of Us’
The Warner Bros. Discovery network scored 142 Emmy nominations, compared to 120 for Netflix.

TableCopilot: A Table Assistant Empowered by Natural Language Conditional Table Discovery
Lingxi Cui, Guanyu Jiang, Huan Li, Ke Chen, Lidan Shou, Gang Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08283

TableCopilot: A Table Assistant Empowered by Natural Language Conditional Table Discovery
The rise of LLM has enabled natural language-based table assistants, but existing systems assume users already have a well-formed table, neglecting the challenge of table discovery in large-scale table pools. To address this, we introduce TableCopilot, an LLM-powered assistant for interactive, precise, and personalized table discovery and analysis. We define a novel scenario, nlcTD, where users provide both a natural language condition and a query table, enabling intuitive and flexible table di…

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Phi‐Psonics:
🎵 Discovery
#PhiPsonics
https://open.spotify.com/track/7DYGMOrWSaVeqAJZThl8Fd

Causal Discovery for Linear Non-Gaussian Models with Disjoint Cycles
Mathias Drton, Marina Garrote-L\'opez, Niko Nikov, Elina Robeva, Y. Samuel Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10767

Causal Discovery for Linear Non-Gaussian Models with Disjoint Cycles
The paradigm of linear structural equation modeling readily allows one to incorporate causal feedback loops in the model specification. These appear as directed cycles in the common graphical representation of the models. However, the presence of cycles entails difficulties such as the fact that models need no longer be characterized by conditional independence relations. As a result, learning cyclic causal structures remains a challenging problem. In this paper, we offer new insights on this p…

Interpretable representation learning of quantum data enabled by probabilistic variational autoencoders
Paulin de Schoulepnikoff, Gorka Mu\~noz-Gil, Hendrik Poulsen Nautrup, Hans J. Briegel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11982

Interpretable representation learning of quantum data enabled by probabilistic variational autoencoders
Interpretable machine learning is rapidly becoming a crucial tool for scientific discovery. Among existing approaches, variational autoencoders (VAEs) have shown promise in extracting the hidden physical features of some input data, with no supervision nor prior knowledge of the system at study. Yet, the ability of VAEs to create meaningful, interpretable representations relies on their accurate approximation of the underlying probability distribution of their input. When dealing with quantum d…

Discovery of a 10:1 Resonator with a Novel Libration State: #202VN40

Warner Bros. Discovery: Aufspaltung angekündigt
In einer umfassenden Umstrukturierung trennt der US-Konzern seine Filmstudios samt Streaming vom klassischen Kabelsender-Geschäft.
https://www.

Personal Memories of 50 Years of Quarkonia
John Ellis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10643 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.10643

Personal Memories of 50 Years of Quarkonia
The world of particle physics was revolutionised in November 1974 by the discovery of the J/psi particle, the first particle to be identified as a quarkonium state composed of charm quarks and antiquarks. The charmonium interpretation of the J/psi was cemented by the subsequent observations of a spectrum of related c \bar c states, and finally by the discovery of charmed particles in 1976. The discovery of charmonium was followed in 1977 by the discovery of bottomonium mesons and particles cont…

The latest example of AI-hallucinated citations in court cases comes from... an Anthropic employee:
https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2025/05/13/anthropics-own-data-scientist-submits-de…

The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI
Barbara Oakley, Michael Johnston, Ken-Zen Chen, Eulho Jung, Terrence J. Sejnowski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11015

The Memory Paradox: Why Our Brains Need Knowledge in an Age of AI
In the age of generative AI and ubiquitous digital tools, human cognition faces a structural paradox: as external aids become more capable, internal memory systems risk atrophy. Drawing on neuroscience and cognitive psychology, this paper examines how heavy reliance on AI systems and discovery-based pedagogies may impair the consolidation of declarative and procedural memory -- systems essential for expertise, critical thinking, and long-term retention. We review how tools like ChatGPT and calc…

Discovery of an HI 21 cm absorption system at z=2.327 with CHIME
CHIME Collaboration, Mandana Amiri, Arnab Chakraborty, Simon Foreman, Mark Halpern, Alex S. Hill, Gary Hinshaw, Carolin Hofer, Albin Joseph, Joshua MacEachern, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Juan Mena-Parra, Arash Mirhosseini, Ue-Li Pen, Tristan Pinsonneault-Marotte, Alex Reda, J. Richard Shaw, Seth R. Siegel, Yukari Uchibori, Rik van Lieshout, Haochen Wang, Dallas Wulf

Discovery of an HI 21 cm absorption system at z=2.327 with CHIME
We report the detection of a new HI absorption system associated with the radio source NVSS J164725+375218 at a redshift of z=2.327, identified through a blind survey conducted by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME). This marks the fifth detection of an associated system at z > 2. By analyzing a subset of available data, we conducted a blind survey for HI absorption systems within the redshift range of 0.78 to 2.55 along 202 lines of sight in the declination range of 35 t…

Holistic approach and Advanced Color Singlet Identification for physics measurements at high energy frontier
Yongfeng Zhu, Hao Liang, Yuexin Wang, Yuzhi Che, Hengyu Wang, Chen Zhou, Huilin Qu, Manqi Ruan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11783

Holistic approach and Advanced Color Singlet Identification for physics measurements at high energy frontier
To enhance the discovery power of high-energy colliders, we propose a holistic approach and Advanced Color Singlet Identification (ACSI), both of which utilize inclusive reconstructed information as input. The holistic approach is designed to simultaneously classify physics events, while ACSI focuses on associating final-state particles with their parent massive bosons. Implemented using state-of-the-art artificial intelligence architectures and applied to benchmark analyses with simulated data…

Upgrade or Switch: Do We Need a New Registry Architecture for the Internet of AI Agents?
Ramesh Raskar, Pradyumna Chari, Jared James Grogan, Mahesh Lambe, Robert Lincourt, Raghu Bala, Abhishek Singh, Ayush Chopra, Rajesh Ranjan, Shailja Gupta, Dimitris Stripelis, Maria Gorskikh, Sichao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12003

Upgrade or Switch: Do We Need a New Registry Architecture for the Internet of AI Agents?
The emerging Internet of AI Agents challenges existing web infrastructure designed for human-scale, reactive interactions. Unlike traditional web resources, autonomous AI agents initiate actions, maintain persistent state, spawn sub-agents, and negotiate directly with peers: demanding millisecond-level discovery, instant credential revocation, and cryptographic behavioral proofs that exceed current DNS/PKI capabilities. This paper analyzes whether to upgrade existing infrastructure or implement…

Dienstag: Warner Bros. Discovery wird aufgespalten, Neuheiten bei Apple
WBD trennt Streaming- und Kabel-Sparte "Liquid Glass"-Design Altersgrenze für Social Media Durchbruch für E-Flugzeuge Leitlinien für Datenübermittlung

Data-driven approaches to inverse problems
Carola-Bibiane Sch\"onlieb, Zakhar Shumaylov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11732 https://

Data-driven approaches to inverse problems
Inverse problems are concerned with the reconstruction of unknown physical quantities using indirect measurements and are fundamental across diverse fields such as medical imaging, remote sensing, and material sciences. These problems serve as critical tools for visualizing internal structures beyond what is visible to the naked eye, enabling quantification, diagnosis, prediction, and discovery. However, most inverse problems are ill-posed, necessitating robust mathematical treatment to yield m…

Raman signature of cation vacancies in rare-earth nitrides
M. Markwitz, K. Van Koughnet, K. Kneisel, W. F. Holmes-Hewett, F. Natali, E. X. M. Trewick, L. Porteous, B. J. Ruck, H. J. Trodahl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10796

Raman signature of cation vacancies in rare-earth nitrides
We report a coordinated Raman/computation study of the rare-earth nitrides, a series of intrinsic ferromagnetic semiconductors, to reveal the presence of cation vacancies. Their presence is signaled by a Raman-active vibrational mode at 1100-1400 cm$^{-1}$, rising steadily as the lattice contracts across the series. The mode's frequency is in excellent agreement with the computed breathing-mode vibration of the six nitrogen ions surrounding cation vacancies. The discovery of such cation vacanci…

Anyon dispersion from non-uniform magnetic field on the sphere
Mina-Lou Schleith, Tomohiro Soejima, Eslam Khalaf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11211 https://

Anyon dispersion from non-uniform magnetic field on the sphere
The discovery of fractional quantum anomalous Hall states in moiré systems has raised the interesting possibility of realizing phases of itenerant anyons. Anyon dispersion is only possible in the absence of continuous magnetic translation symmetry (CMTS). Motivated by this, we consider anyons on the sphere in the presence of a non-uniform magnetic field which breaks the ${\rm SU}(2)$ rotation symmetry, the analog of CMTS on the sphere, down to a ${\rm U}(1)$. This allows us to study the energy…

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy
Alice P. Curtin, Shion Andrew, Sunil Simha, Alice Cai, Kenzie Nimmo, Shami Chatterjee, Amanda M. Cook, Fengqiu Adam Dong, Yuxin Dong, Tarraneh Eftekhari, Wen-fai Fong, Emmanuel Fonseca, Jason W. T. Hessels, Ronniy C. Joseph, Victoria Kaspi, Calvin Leung, Robert Main, Kiyoshi W. Masui, Ryan Mckinven, Daniele Michilli, Mason Ng, Ayush Pandhi, Aaron B. Pearlman, Ziggy Pleunis, Mawson W. Sammons, K…

Discovery and Localization of the Swift-Observed FRB 20241228A in a Star-forming Host Galaxy
On 2024 December 28, CHIME/FRB detected the thus-far non-repeating FRB 20241228A with a real-time signal-to-noise ratio of $>50$. Approximately 112~s later, the X-ray Telescope onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory was on source, the fastest follow-up to-date of a non-repeating FRB (Tohuvavohu et al. in prep.). Using CHIME/FRB and two of the three CHIME/FRB Outriggers, we obtained a Very Long Baseline Interferometry localization for FRB 20241228A with a 1$σ$ confidence ellipse of 11$^{\pr…

Exotic superconducting states in altermagnets
Kirill Parshukov, Andreas P. Schnyder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10700 https://arxiv.or…

Exotic superconducting states in altermagnets
The interplay between magnetism and superconductivity is one of the central topics of condensed matter physics, which has recently been put into new light by the discovery of altermagnets. Here, we study this interplay from a fundamental symmetry perspective using irreducible co-representations of the altermagnetic spin-point groups. We construct and tabulate all symmetry-allowed pairing functions for altermagnets, which uncovers numerous exotic pairing states. We focus on three of them, namely…

BioScore: A Foundational Scoring Function For Diverse Biomolecular Complexes
Yuchen Zhu, Jihong Chen, Yitong Li, Xiaomin Fang, Xianbin Ye, Jingzhou He, Xujun Zhang, Jingxuan Ge, Chao Shen, Xiaonan Zhang, Tingjun Hou, Chang-Yu Hsieh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10877

BioScore: A Foundational Scoring Function For Diverse Biomolecular Complexes
Structural assessment of biomolecular complexes is vital for translating molecular models into functional insights, shaping our understanding of biology and aiding drug discovery. However, current structure-based scoring functions often lack generalizability across diverse biomolecular systems. We present BioScore, a foundational scoring function that addresses key challenges -- data sparsity, cross-system representation, and task compatibility -- through a dual-scale geometric graph learning f…

Internal Heat Flux and Energy Imbalance of #Uranus: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025GL115660 -> Discovery is Unlocking Planetary Mysteries to Advance Space Exploration and Earth Science: https://uh.edu/news-events/stories/2025/july/07142025-uranus-internal-heat-study.php

Price Discovery in Cryptocurrency Markets
Juan Plazuelo Pascual, Carlos Tardon Rubio, Juan Toro Cebada, Angel Hernando Veciana
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08718

Price Discovery in Cryptocurrency Markets
This document analyzes price discovery in cryptocurrency markets by comparing centralized and decentralized exchanges, as well as spot and futures markets. The study focuses first on Ethereum (ETH) and then applies a similar approach to Bitcoin (BTC). Chapter 1 outlines the theoretical framework, emphasizing the structural differences between centralized exchanges and decentralized finance mechanisms, especially Automated Market Makers (AMMs). It also explains how to construct an order book fro…

Open Source Planning & Control System with Language Agents for Autonomous Scientific Discovery
Licong Xu, Milind Sarkar, Anto I. Lonappan, \'I\~nigo Zubeldia, Pablo Villanueva-Domingo, Santiago Casas, Christian Fidler, Chetana Amancharla, Ujjwal Tiwari, Adrian Bayer, Chadi Ait Ekiou, Miles Cranmer, Adrian Dimitrov, James Fergusson, Kahaan Gandhi, Sven Krippendorf, Andrew Laverick, Julien Lesgourgues, Antony Lewis, Thomas Meier, Blake Sherwin, Kristen Surrao, Francisco Villaescu…

Open Source Planning & Control System with Language Agents for Autonomous Scientific Discovery
We present a multi-agent system for automation of scientific research tasks, cmbagent. The system is formed by about 30 Large Language Model (LLM) agents and implements a Planning & Control strategy to orchestrate the agentic workflow, with no human-in-the-loop at any point. Each agent specializes in a different task (performing retrieval on scientific papers and codebases, writing code, interpreting results, critiquing the output of other agents) and the system is able to execute code locally.…

A Practical Guide to using Pauli Path Simulators for Utility-Scale Quantum Experiments
Hrant Gharibyan, Siddharth Hariprakash, Mohammed Zuhair Mullath, Vincent P. Su
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10771

A Practical Guide to using Pauli Path Simulators for Utility-Scale Quantum Experiments
In this this paper we present an inexpensive protocol to perform runtime and memory estimation for large-scale experiments with Pauli Path simulators (PPS). Additionally, we propose a conceptually simple solution for studying whether PPS can be used as a scientific discovery tool, rather than reproducing existing answers. We start by analyzing the dynamics of the Pauli coefficients tracked in the Heisenberg picture. In addition to surprisingly generic convergence features of the Pauli coefficie…

discovery and analysis of centuries-old dna reveals the meline origins of people who type in lowercase

Quiescence wins: The Discovery Of Slowness
Leonard Braun, Noah Risse, Aur\'elien Tellier, Johannes M\"uller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08732 https…

Quiescence wins: The Discovery Of Slowness
We investigate the evolution of quiescence within the framework of Adaptive Dynamics for an SIQS (Susceptible - Infected - Quiescent) model with constant environment. In the first part of the paper, the competition of two strains which have the same basic fitness (same reproduction number) but different timing in quiescence is analyzed. Thereto, the complexity of the model is reduced: By a time scale argument, we approximate the SQIS model by an SIS model under the assumption of rapid switching…

Co-DETECT: Collaborative Discovery of Edge Cases in Text Classification
Chenfei Xiong, Jingwei Ni, Yu Fan, Vil\'em Zouhar, Donya Rooein, Lorena Calvo-Bartolom\'e, Alexander Hoyle, Zhijing Jin, Mrinmaya Sachan, Markus Leippold, Dirk Hovy, Mennatallah El-Assady, Elliott Ash
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05010

Co-DETECT: Collaborative Discovery of Edge Cases in Text Classification
We introduce Co-DETECT (Collaborative Discovery of Edge cases in TExt ClassificaTion), a novel mixed-initiative annotation framework that integrates human expertise with automatic annotation guided by large language models (LLMs). Co-DETECT starts with an initial, sketch-level codebook and dataset provided by a domain expert, then leverages the LLM to annotate the data and identify edge cases that are not well described by the initial codebook. Specifically, Co-DETECT flags challenging examples…

The Impact of Event Data Partitioning on Privacy-aware Process Discovery
Jungeun Lim, Stephan A. Fahrenkrog-Petersen, Xixi Lu, Jan Mendling, Minseok Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06008

The Impact of Event Data Partitioning on Privacy-aware Process Discovery
Information systems support the execution of business processes. The event logs of these executions generally contain sensitive information about customers, patients, and employees. The corresponding privacy challenges can be addressed by anonymizing the event logs while still retaining utility for process discovery. However, trading off utility and privacy is difficult: the higher the complexity of event log, the higher the loss of utility by anonymization. In this work, we propose a pipeline …

Conformal Link Prediction with False Discovery Rate Control
Wenqin Du, Wanteng Ma, Dong Xia, Yuan Zhang, Wen Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07025 https://…

Conformal Link Prediction with False Discovery Rate Control
We propose a new method for predicting multiple missing links in partially observed networks while controlling the false discovery rate (FDR), a largely unresolved challenge in network analysis. The main difficulty lies in handling complex dependencies and unknown, heterogeneous missing patterns. We introduce conformal link prediction ({\tt clp}), a distribution-free procedure grounded in the exchangeability structure of weighted graphon models. Our approach constructs conformal p-values via a …

Mastodon 4.4, now available, has a small setting that’s a big deal. See Administration/Server Settings/Discovery, “Allow external sites to see your Mastodon server as a traffic source”.
It means that every time you post a link to a site, that site is going to see as many hits as the number of instances that you have followers on, and those hits are going to be labeled as coming from Mastodon.
This is going to seriously increase Fediverse visibility. Get your instance admin to tur…

HMS Endeavour confirmed found in Rhode Island!
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/06/discovery-of-hms-endeavor-wreck-confirmed/

Discovery of HMS Endeavour wreck confirmed
“The timbers are British timbers. The size of all the timber scantlings are almost identical to Endeavour.”…

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/discovery-space-shuttle-smithsonian-texas-trump-bill-b2782278.html

Space Shuttle is set to be moved out of Smithsonian and to Texas thanks to Trump’s tax bill
President Donald Trump’s bill will allocate $85 million to transport the Discovery space shuttle from the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum to Space Center Houston

WBD says David Zaslav will be CEO of the new Streaming & Studios business, and current WBD CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels will become CEO of the Global Networks business (Jacob Pramuk/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/09/warner-bro

Warner Bros. Discovery to split into two public companies by next year
The move comes as consumers cut cords from their cable plans and companies focus on streaming.

Reconstructing Heterogeneous Biomolecules via Hierarchical Gaussian Mixtures and Part Discovery
Shayan Shekarforoush, David B. Lindell, Marcus A. Brubaker, David J. Fleet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09063

Reconstructing Heterogeneous Biomolecules via Hierarchical Gaussian Mixtures and Part Discovery
Cryo-EM is a transformational paradigm in molecular biology where computational methods are used to infer 3D molecular structure at atomic resolution from extremely noisy 2D electron microscope images. At the forefront of research is how to model the structure when the imaged particles exhibit non-rigid conformational flexibility and compositional variation where parts are sometimes missing. We introduce a novel 3D reconstruction framework with a hierarchical Gaussian mixture model, inspired in…

This is absolutely fucked.. there's a public discovery feed of people talking to Meta AI.
How's that thing even existing
https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-chatbot-discover-feed-depressing-why-20…

An Earth-Sized Planet in a 5.4h Orbit Around a Nearby K dwarf
Kaya Han Ta\c{s}, Gudmundur Stefansson, Syarief N. M. Fariz, Esha Garg, Juan I. Espinoza-Retamal, Elise Koo, David Bruijne, Jacob Luhn, Eric B. Ford, Suvrath Mahadevan, Sarah E. Logsdon, Caleb I. Ca\~nas, Te Han, Mark E. Everett, Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes, Cullen Blake, William D. Cochran, Jiayin Dong, Rachel B. Fernandes, Mark R. Giovinazzi, Samuel Halverson, Shubham Kanodia, Daniel Krolikowski, Michael McElwain, Joe Ninan, …

An Earth-Sized Planet in a 5.4h Orbit Around a Nearby K dwarf
We present the discovery and confirmation of the ultra-short period (USP) planet TOI-2431 b orbiting a nearby ($d\sim36$ pc) late K star ($T_{\mathrm{eff}}$ = $4109 \pm 28 \, {\rm K}$) using observations from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), precise radial velocities with the NEID and the Habitable-zone Planet Finder (HPF) spectrographs, as well as ground-based high contrast imaging from NESSI. TOI-2431 b has a period of 5 hours and 22 minutes, making it one of the shortest-per…

SatelliteFormula: Multi-Modal Symbolic Regression from Remote Sensing Imagery for Physics Discovery
Zhenyu Yu, Mohd. Yamani Idna Idris, Pei Wang, Yuelong Xia, Fei Ma, Rizwan Qureshi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06176

SatelliteFormula: Multi-Modal Symbolic Regression from Remote Sensing Imagery for Physics Discovery
We propose SatelliteFormula, a novel symbolic regression framework that derives physically interpretable expressions directly from multi-spectral remote sensing imagery. Unlike traditional empirical indices or black-box learning models, SatelliteFormula combines a Vision Transformer-based encoder for spatial-spectral feature extraction with physics-guided constraints to ensure consistency and interpretability. Existing symbolic regression methods struggle with the high-dimensional complexity of…

GW231123 - a Binary Black Hole Merger with Total Mass 190-265 M_Sun: #BlackHole binary detected through gravitational waves: https://ligo.org/science-summaries/gw231123/ -> event: https://ligo.org/detections/gw231123 / conference slides: https://scicomm.xyz/@LIGO/114852330415127843 / Gravitational waves from massive black holes challenge current astrophysical models: https://ligo.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Press-release-for-GW231123-discovery-paper-final.pdf

MCPmed: A Call for MCP-Enabled Bioinformatics Web Services for LLM-Driven Discovery
Matthias Flotho (Chair for Clinical Bioinformatics, Center for Bioinformatics, Saarland University, Germany, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland), Ian Ferenc Diks (Chair for Clinical Bioinformatics, Center for Bioinformatics, Saarland University, Germany, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland), Philipp Flotho (Chair for Clinical Bioinformatics, Center for Bioinfor…

MCPmed: A Call for MCP-Enabled Bioinformatics Web Services for LLM-Driven Discovery
Bioinformatics web servers are critical resources in modern biomedical research, facilitating interactive exploration of datasets through custom-built interfaces with rich visualization capabilities. However, this human-centric design limits machine readability for large language models (LLMs) and deep research agents. We address this gap by adapting the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to bioinformatics web server backends - a standardized, machine-actionable layer that explicitly associates webse…

Uncovering High-Order Cohesive Structures: Efficient (k,g)-Core Computation and Decomposition for Large Hypergraphs
Dahee Kim, Hyewon Kim, Song Kim, Minseok Kim, Junghoon Kim, Yeon-Chang Lee, Sungsu Lim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08328

Uncovering High-Order Cohesive Structures: Efficient (k,g)-Core Computation and Decomposition for Large Hypergraphs
Hypergraphs, increasingly utilised to model complex and diverse relationships in modern networks, have gained significant attention for representing intricate higher-order interactions. Among various challenges, cohesive subgraph discovery is one of the fundamental problems and offers deep insights into these structures, yet the task of selecting appropriate parameters is an open question. To address this question, we aim to design an efficient indexing structure to retrieve cohesive subgraphs …

Graph Neural Networks in Modern AI-aided Drug Discovery
Odin Zhang, Haitao Lin, Xujun Zhang, Xiaorui Wang, Zhenxing Wu, Qing Ye, Weibo Zhao, Jike Wang, Kejun Ying, Yu Kang, Chang-yu Hsieh, Tingjun Hou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06915

Graph Neural Networks in Modern AI-aided Drug Discovery
Graph neural networks (GNNs), as topology/structure-aware models within deep learning, have emerged as powerful tools for AI-aided drug discovery (AIDD). By directly operating on molecular graphs, GNNs offer an intuitive and expressive framework for learning the complex topological and geometric features of drug-like molecules, cementing their role in modern molecular modeling. This review provides a comprehensive overview of the methodological foundations and representative applications of GNN…

Replaced article(s) found for quant-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/quant-ph/new
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- Quantifying the Energy Relaxation Rate of Quantum States Using D-Wave Device and the Discovery of...
Takashi Imoto, Yuki Susa, Ryoji Miyazaki, Yuichiro Matsuzaki

Behaviour Space Analysis of LLM-driven Meta-heuristic Discovery
Niki van Stein, Haoran Yin, Anna V. Kononova, Thomas B\"ack, Gabriela Ochoa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03605

Behaviour Space Analysis of LLM-driven Meta-heuristic Discovery
We investigate the behaviour space of meta-heuristic optimisation algorithms automatically generated by Large Language Model driven algorithm discovery methods. Using the Large Language Evolutionary Algorithm (LLaMEA) framework with a GPT o4-mini LLM, we iteratively evolve black-box optimisation heuristics, evaluated on 10 functions from the BBOB benchmark suite. Six LLaMEA variants, featuring different mutation prompt strategies, are compared and analysed. We log dynamic behavioural metrics in…

Intermediate-valence behavior in U2Rh2Sb
D. Legut, M. Krnel, P. Ko\v{z}elj, Yu. Prots, M. Juckel, U. Burkhardt, A. Ormeci, Yu. Grin, A. Leithe-Jasper, J. Koloren\v{c}, E. Svanidze, U. D. Wdowik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10720

Intermediate-valence behavior in U2Rh2Sb
Intermediate-valence behavior is sometimes observed in lanthanide-based materials containing Ce, Yb, Sm or Eu. However, the number of actinide-based systems that exhibit this type of behavior is rather limited. In this work, we present the discovery and characterization of a uranium compound U2Rh2Sb, which turns out to be a candidate for the intermediate-valencebehavior. The material shows a characteristic feature in the magnetic susceptibility around T = 50 K, which can be described within the…

Evolution of QPO During Discovery Outburst of MAXI J1834-021: Estimation of Intrinsic Parameters from Spectro-Temporal Study
Dipak Debnath, Hsiang-Kuang Chang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10267

Evolution of QPO During Discovery Outburst of MAXI J1834-021: Estimation of Intrinsic Parameters from Spectro-Temporal Study
The Galactic transient black hole candidate (BHC) MAXI~J1834-021 was detected for the first time by MAXI/GSC on February 05, 2023 and it was active for next $\sim 10$~months. A monotonic evolution of low-frequency QPOs from higher to lower frequencies is observed in the middle-phase of the outburst. We study this evolution of the QPO with the propagating oscillatory shock (POS) model, and it suggests the presence of a receding shock. The POS model fit also estimates the mass of the source to be…

Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation Agents for Autonomous Scientific Discovery in Astrophysics
Xueqing Xu, Boris Bolliet, Adrian Dimitrov, Andrew Laverick, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Licong Xu, \'I\~nigo Zubeldia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07155

Evaluating Retrieval-Augmented Generation Agents for Autonomous Scientific Discovery in Astrophysics
We evaluate 9 Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) agent configurations on 105 Cosmology Question-Answer (QA) pairs that we built specifically for this purpose.The RAG configurations are manually evaluated by a human expert, that is, a total of 945 generated answers were assessed. We find that currently the best RAG agent configuration is with OpenAI embedding and generative model, yielding 91.4\% accuracy. Using our human evaluation results we calibrate LLM-as-a-Judge (LLMaaJ) system which can…

ADPv2: A Hierarchical Histological Tissue Type-Annotated Dataset for Potential Biomarker Discovery of Colorectal Disease
Zhiyuan Yang, Kai Li, Sophia Ghamoshi Ramandi, Patricia Brassard, Hakim Khellaf, Vincent Quoc-Huy Trinh, Jennifer Zhang, Lina Chen, Corwyn Rowsell, Sonal Varma, Kostas Plataniotis, Mahdi S. Hosseini
https://ar…

ADPv2: A Hierarchical Histological Tissue Type-Annotated Dataset for Potential Biomarker Discovery of Colorectal Disease
Computational pathology (CoPath) leverages histopathology images to enhance diagnostic precision and reproducibility in clinical pathology. However, publicly available datasets for CoPath that are annotated with extensive histological tissue type (HTT) taxonomies at a granular level remain scarce due to the significant expertise and high annotation costs required. Existing datasets, such as the Atlas of Digital Pathology (ADP), address this by offering diverse HTT annotations generalized to mul…

I’m back to trying the #PuzzlePraise hashtag when I reply to the puzzle results of a fellow puzzler.
In my mind, this is kind of a reverse discovery tool. I, like many mutual follows, prefer to comment on the puzzles of others. No matter how unoriginal or rote it may seem, it just feels like more of a connection to me.
So, if you’re annoyed by all the back and forth that you see by v…

JWST Discovery of Warm Dust in the Circumgalactic Medium of the Makani Galaxy
Sylvain Veilleux, Steven D. Shockley, Marcio Melendez, David S. N. Rupke, Alison L. Coil, Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic, James E. Geach, Ryan C. Hickox, John Moustakas, Gregory H. Rudnick, Paul H. Sell, Christy A. Tremonti, Hojoon Cha
https://arxiv.org/…

JWST Discovery of Warm Dust in the Circumgalactic Medium of the Makani Galaxy
We report the detection of near- and mid-infrared emission from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) out to ~ 35 kpc in the Makani Galaxy, a compact massive galaxy with a record-breaking 100-kpc scale starburst-driven wind at redshift z = 0.459. The NIRCam and MIRI observations with JWST take advantage of a coincidental match between the PAH spectral features at 3.3, 7.7, and (11.3 + 12.2) microns in Makani and the bandpasses of the MIRI and NIRCam filters. The warm dust is not only detected…

Generating Proto-Personas through Prompt Engineering: A Case Study on Efficiency, Effectiveness and Empathy
Fernando Ayach, Vitor Lameir\~ao, Raul Le\~ao, Jerfferson Felizardo, Rafael Sobrinho, Vanessa Borges, Patr\'icia Matsubara, Awdren Font\~ao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08594

Generating Proto-Personas through Prompt Engineering: A Case Study on Efficiency, Effectiveness and Empathy
Proto-personas are commonly used during early-stage Product Discovery, such as Lean Inception, to guide product definition and stakeholder alignment. However, the manual creation of proto-personas is often time-consuming, cognitively demanding, and prone to bias. In this paper, we propose and empirically investigate a prompt engineering-based approach to generate proto-personas with the support of Generative AI (GenAI). Our goal is to evaluate the approach in terms of efficiency, effectiveness,…

Sources: WBD initiates a round of layoffs in its cable TV divisions, affecting well under 100 employees and largely impacting the Discovery side of the company (Peter White/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/06/warner-bros-discovery-layoffs-tv-d…

Warner Bros. Discovery Initiates More Layoffs In Cable TV Divisions
Deadline understands that the company is set to layoff a number of people, particularly on the cable television side of its business.

"The Hague Declaration on Knowledge Discovery in the Digital Age" was published around 10 years ago. Very interesting, how things have changed since then. TDM for research is still in its infancy, and reuse in the context of #ai has caused a backlash against most of the 6 principles of the Declaration. Tellingly, the Declaration is only accessible via the internet archive:

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEarlyMusicShow
- Joan Cererols - a Requiem discovery
Hannah French presents a concert given in Barcelona by the Cererols Choir. The concert includes the modern premiere of Joan Cererols' recently rediscovered Requiem for 4 Voices.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002fm1n

First images of Antares photosphere from spectropolarimetry
Quentin Pilate, Eric Josselin, Agn\`es L\`ebre, Arturo L\'opez Ariste, Philippe Mathias, Alexis Lavail
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08614

First images of Antares photosphere from spectropolarimetry
Antares is the closest red supergiant (RSG) to Earth. The discovery of linear polarization in the atomic lines of the star opens the path to produce direct images of the photosphere, hence probing the dynamics at the surface. We analyze this linear polarization signals following the same scheme as has been previously done for the RSG Betelgeuse, and find that they are comparable in all its details. This allows us to use the same models for the analysis of these polarization signals in both star…

AKEGEN: A LLM-based Tabular Corpus Generator for Evaluating Dataset Discovery in Data Lakes
Zhenwei Dai, Chuan Lei, Asterios Katsifodimos, Xiao Qin, Christos Faloutsos, Huzefa Rangwala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04687

AKEGEN: A LLM-based Tabular Corpus Generator for Evaluating Dataset Discovery in Data Lakes
How to generate a large, realistic set of tables along with joinability relationships, to stress-test dataset discovery methods? Dataset discovery methods aim to automatically identify related data assets in a data lake. The development and evaluation of such solutions for customers from a wide range of business domains, relies on diverse, high quality and domain-specific tabular benchmarks. Large language models (LLMs) are trained on a wide variety of text data, which can provide a strong foun…

Conditional Local Independence Testing with Application to Dynamic Causal Discovery
Mingzhou Liu, Xinwei Sun, Yizhou Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07844 …

Conditional Local Independence Testing with Application to Dynamic Causal Discovery
In this note, we extend the conditional local independence testing theory developed in Christgau et al. (2024) to Ito processes. The result can be applied to causal discovery in dynamic systems.

The Kinematic Age of 3I/ATLAS and its Implications for Early Planet Formation
Aster G. Taylor, Darryl Z. Seligman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08111 https://…

The Kinematic Age of 3I/ATLAS and its Implications for Early Planet Formation
The recent discovery of the third interstellar object (3I/ATLAS) expands the known census from two to three and significantly improves statistical inferences regarding the underlying galactic population. 3I/ATLAS exhibits detectable activity that may increase as the object approaches perihelion. In this paper, we argue that the cometary activity likely significantly contributes to 3I/ATLAS's brightness, since the nuclear size of 3I/ATLAS assuming an asteroidal reflectance implies an untenable i…

LATIS: A Sample of IGM-selected Protoclusters and Protogroups at $z \sim 2.5$
Andrew B. Newman, Mahdi Qezlou, Gwen C. Rudie, Nima Chartab, Guillermo A. Blanc, Daniel D. Kelson, Simeon Bird, Caitlin Casey, Enrico Congiu, Olga Cucciati, Denise Hung, Brian C. Lemaux, Victoria P\'erez, Jorge Zavala
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.109…

LATIS: A Sample of IGM-selected Protoclusters and Protogroups at $z \sim 2.5$
The Ly$α$ Tomography IMACS Survey (LATIS) has produced large 3D maps of the intergalactic medium (IGM), providing a new window on the cosmic web at $z\sim2.5$. A key advantage of Ly$α$ tomography is that it enables the discovery of overdense regions without the need to detect their galaxy members in spectroscopic surveys, circumventing possible selection biases. We use these maps to identify 37 IGM-selected overdensities as regions of strong and spatially coherent Ly$α$ absorption. Simulatio…

Daydream, which raised a $50M seed in June 2024 to build a generative AI shopping agent for fashion, launches in beta, with an app expected later this summer (Hilary Milnes/Vogue Business)
https://www.voguebusiness.com/story/techno

Is Daydream’s AI platform the answer to fashion’s discovery problem?
Founder Julie Bornstein raised $50 million last year to create the ultimate AI shopping experience. Today, it launches in beta.

$\varphi$-Adapt: A Physics-Informed Adaptation Learning Approach to 2D Quantum Material Discovery
Hoang-Quan Nguyen, Xuan Bac Nguyen, Sankalp Pandey, Tim Faltermeier, Nicholas Borys, Hugh Churchill, Khoa Luu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05184

$φ$-Adapt: A Physics-Informed Adaptation Learning Approach to 2D Quantum Material Discovery
Characterizing quantum flakes is a critical step in quantum hardware engineering because the quality of these flakes directly influences qubit performance. Although computer vision methods for identifying two-dimensional quantum flakes have emerged, they still face significant challenges in estimating flake thickness. These challenges include limited data, poor generalization, sensitivity to domain shifts, and a lack of physical interpretability. In this paper, we introduce one of the first Phy…

Discovery of High-Temperature Charge Order and Time-Reversal Symmetry-Breaking in the Kagome Superconductor YRu3Si2
P. Kr\`al, J. N. Graham, V. Sazgari, I. Plokhikh, A. Lukovkina, O. Gerguri, I. Bialo, A. Doll, L. Martinelli, J. Oppliger, S. S. Islam, K. Wang, M. Salamin, H. Luetkens, R. Khasanov, M. v. Zimmermann, J. -X. Yin, Ziqiang Wang, J. Chang, B. Monserrat, D. Gawryluk, F. O. von Rohr, S. -W. Kim, Z. Guguchia

Discovery of High-Temperature Charge Order and Time-Reversal Symmetry-Breaking in the Kagome Superconductor YRu3Si2
The identification of high-temperature unconventional charge order and superconductivity in kagome quantum materials is pivotal for deepening our understanding of geometrically frustrated and correlated electron systems, and for harnessing their exotic properties in future quantum technologies. Here, we report the discovery of a remarkably rich phase diagram in the kagome superconductor YRu$_{3}$Si$_{2}$, uncovered through a unique combination of muon spin rotation ($μ$SR), magnetotransport, X…

Hunting in the Dark: Metrics for Early Stage Traffic Discovery
Max Gao, Michael Collins, Ricky Mok, kc Claffy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05213 https://

Hunting in the Dark: Metrics for Early Stage Traffic Discovery
Threat hunting is an operational security process where an expert analyzes traffic, applying knowledge and lightweight tools on unlabeled data in order to identify and classify previously unknown phenomena. In this paper, we examine threat hunting metrics and practice by studying the detection of Crackonosh, a cryptojacking malware package, has on various metrics for identifying its behavior. Using a metric for discoverability, we model the ability of defenders to measure Crackonosh traffic as …

WBD plans to shut down its linear multiplex channels HBO Family, ThrillerMax, MovieMax, and OuterMax on August 15, 2025; HBO Family launched in December 1996 (Luke Bouma/Cord Cutters News)
https://cordcuttersnews.com/hbo-is-shutting-do…

HBO Is Shutting Down Multiple Channels Including HBO Family & More | Cord Cutters News
In a significant shakeup for the television industry, HBO, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery, has confirmed plans to shut down several of its linear channels, including HBO Family, ThrillerMax, MovieMax, and OuterMax. The announcement, verified by Spectrum on August 15, 2025, marks a strategic pivot for the premium network as it continues to adapt […]

A transiting giant planet in orbit around a 0.2-solar-mass host star: #planet orbiting tiny star challenges theories on planet formation: https://warwick.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/discovery_of_giant_planet_orbiting_tiny_star_challenges_theories_on_planet_formation and https://www.news.uliege.be/cms/c_20434166/en/a-giant-planet-around-a-tiny-star-a-discovery-that-challenges-planet-formation-theories

PFCS: Prime Factorization Cache System for Deterministic Data Relationship Discovery
Duy Le
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03919 https://…

PFCS: Prime Factorization Cache System for Deterministic Data Relationship Discovery
Cache systems fundamentally limit modern computing performance due to their inability to precisely capture data relationships. While achieving 85-92% hit rates, traditional systems rely on statistical heuristics that cannot guarantee relationship discovery, leading to suboptimal prefetching and resource waste. We present PFCS (Prime Factorization Cache System), which leverages the mathematical uniqueness of prime factorization to achieve deterministic relationship discovery with zero false posi…

DeepRetro: Retrosynthetic Pathway Discovery using Iterative LLM Reasoning
Shreyas Vinaya Sathyanarayana, Rahil Shah, Sharanabasava D. Hiremath, Rishikesh Panda, Rahul Jana, Riya Singh, Rida Irfan, Ashwin Murali, Bharath Ramsundar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07060

DeepRetro: Retrosynthetic Pathway Discovery using Iterative LLM Reasoning
Retrosynthesis, the identification of precursor molecules for a target compound, is pivotal for synthesizing complex molecules, but faces challenges in discovering novel pathways beyond predefined templates. Recent large language model (LLM) approaches to retrosynthesis have shown promise but effectively harnessing LLM reasoning capabilities for effective multi-step planning remains an open question. To address this challenge, we introduce DeepRetro, an open-source, iterative, hybrid LLM-based …

Online Discovery of Simulation Models for Evolving Business Processes (Extended Version)
Francesco Vinci, Gyunam Park, Wil van der Aalst, Massimiliano de Leoni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10049

Bi-Contextuality: A Novel Non-Classical Phenomenon in Bipartite Quantum Systems
Gabriel Ruffolo, Nigel Benjamin Lee Junsheng, Kim Mu Young, Dzmitry Matsukevich, Rafael Rabelo, Dagomir Kaszlikowski, Pawe{\l} Kurzy\'nski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08461

Bi-Contextuality: A Novel Non-Classical Phenomenon in Bipartite Quantum Systems
We present and experimentally demonstrate a novel non-classical phenomenon, bi-contextuality, observed in quantum systems prepared by two independent sources. This discovery plays a key role in the developing framework of network nonlocality, offering a new method for confirming the quantum nature of measurements within a single network node. Bi-contextuality acts as a reversed Bell scenario: while Bell scenarios involve splitting a system for independent measurements, our approach combines sys…

DrugMCTS: a drug repurposing framework combining multi-agent, RAG and Monte Carlo Tree Search
Zerui Yang, Yuwei Wan, Yinqiao Li, Yudai Matsuda, Tong Xie, Linqi Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07426

DrugMCTS: a drug repurposing framework combining multi-agent, RAG and Monte Carlo Tree Search
Recent advances in large language models have demonstrated considerable potential in scientific domains such as drug discovery. However, their effectiveness remains constrained when reasoning extends beyond the knowledge acquired during pretraining. Conventional approaches, such as fine-tuning or retrieval-augmented generation, face limitations in either imposing high computational overhead or failing to fully exploit structured scientific data. To overcome these challenges, we propose DrugMCTS…

CHIME/FRB Discovery of an Unusual Circularly Polarized Long-Period Radio Transient with an Accelerating Spin Period
Fengqiu Adam Dong, Kaitlyn Shin, Casey Law, Mason Ng, Ingrid Stairs, Geoffrey Bower, Alyssa Cassity, Emmanuel Fonseca, B. M. Gaensler, Jason W. T. Hessels, Victoria M. Kaspi, Bikash Kharel, Calvin Leung, Robert A. Main, Kiyoshi W. Masui, James W. McKee, Bradley W. Meyers, Obinna Modilim, Ayush Pandhi, Aaron B Pearlman, Scott M. Ransom, Paul Scholz, Kendrick Smith

CHIME/FRB Discovery of an Unusual Circularly Polarized Long-Period Radio Transient with an Accelerating Spin Period
We report the discovery of CHIME J1634+44, a Long Period Radio Transient (LPT) unique for two aspects: it is the first known LPT to emit fully circularly polarized radio bursts, and it is the first LPT with a significant spin-up. Given that high circular polarization ($>90$\%) has been observed in FRB~20201124A and in some giant pulses of PSR~B1937+21, we discuss the implications of the high circular polarization of CHIME J1634+44 and conclude its emission mechanism is likely to be ``pulsar-lik…

WBD's split is set to close in mid-2026; CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels says he assumes "the majority" of WBD's ~$37B debt will exist with the spun off Global Networks (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollyw…

“Majority” of Warner Bros. Discovery’s $37 Billion in Debt Will Be Spun Off With TV Networks, Its CEO Says
But “a not-insignificant portion” will remain with Streaming & Studios — and with David Zaslav.

Discovery of a 1D edge mode in a Magnetic Topological semimetal
Avior Almoalem, Rebecca Chan, Brinda Kuthanazhi, Juan Scmidt, Jose A. Moreno, Hermann Suderow, Paul Canfield, Taylor L. hughes, Vidya Madhavan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09041

Discovery of a 1D edge mode in a Magnetic Topological semimetal
In rare-earth monopnictides like NdBi, the interplay between magnetism and topology results in an extremely unusual topological semimetal phase which simultaneously hosts Weyl points with Fermi arcs as well as massive and massless Dirac cones. A central question in this class of materials is whether ferromagnetic surfaces with gapped Dirac cones can also host robust well-defined chiral edge states. In this study, we use spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy (SP-STM) and spectroscopy to i…

FAPS: A Fast Platform for Protein Structureomics Analysis
Lucas Wilken, Nihjum Paul, Troy Timmerman, Sara A. Tolba, Amara Arshad, Di Wu, Wenjie Xia, Bakhtiyor Rasulev, Rick Jansen, Dali Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10134

FAPS: A Fast Platform for Protein Structureomics Analysis
Protein quantification and analysis are well-accepted approaches for biomarker discovery but are limited to identification without structural information. High-throughput omics data (i.e., genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics) have become pervasive in cancer biology studies and reach well beyond more specialized areas such as metabolomics, epigenomics, pharmacogenomics, and interact-omics. However, large-scale analysis based on the structure of the biomolecules, namely structure-omics, is …

Comment on "Discovery and Preliminary Characterization of a Third Interstellar Object: 3I/ATLAS" [arXiv:2507.02757]
Abraham Loeb (Harvard)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05881

Comment on "Discovery and Preliminary Characterization of a Third Interstellar Object: 3I/ATLAS" [arXiv:2507.02757]
The interstellar object 3I/ATLAS shows a weak cometary activity. Its brightness suggests a maximum radius of ~10km (A/0.05)^{-1/2} for an asteroid with an albedo A. I show that interstellar objects with that radius would amount to an interstellar mass density that is well above the expected mass budget of interstellar comets or asteroids. Given this budget, the detection rate of objects like 3I/ATLAS implies that it is a comet with a small core radius <0.6km, or a member of a rare population wi…

Memo: David Leavy, who became CNN's COO in 2023, is leaving; sources say the longtime key lieutenant of David Zaslav is returning to Warner Bros. Discovery (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/david-leavy-cnn…

David Leavy, CNN's COO, Will Return to Warner Bros. Discovery
David Leavy will leave CNN and return to duties at corporate parent Warner Bros. Discovery, where he has long been a key aide to CEO David Zaslav

Revealing the Unseen: The Discovery of Long-Awaited Radiation from the Intermittent Pulsar PSR B1931 24
Abdujappar Rusul, Z. G. Wen, J. P. Yuan, Ali Esamdin, X. P. Zheng, Michael Kramer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04816

Revealing the Unseen: The Discovery of Long-Awaited Radiation from the Intermittent Pulsar PSR B1931+24
Pulsars are typically characterized by their stable, highly magnetized, and fast-rotating nature, which underpins their persistent radio emissions. However, the discovery of prolonged radio-quiet ("off") states in intermittent pulsars, such as PSR B1931+24, has challenged the most fundamental theory of pulsar magnetospheric emission. Despite long-term monitoring with several telescopes, continuous emission during these "off" states had not been detected in 20 years of observations. Fortunately,…

Observation of High-Order Quantum Pancharatnam-Berry Phase with Structured Photons
Shuang-Yin Huang, He Jiang, Zhi-Cheng Ren, Zi-Mo Cheng, Wen-Zheng Zhu, Jing Gao, Chang Liu, Xi-Lin Wang, Hui-Tian Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10692

Observation of High-Order Quantum Pancharatnam-Berry Phase with Structured Photons
When a quantum system evolves so that it returns to its initial state, it will acquire a geometric phase acting as a memory of the transformation of a physical system, which has been experimentally measured in a variety of physical systems. In optics, the most prominent example is the Pancharatnam-Berry (PB) phase. Recent technological advances in phase and polarization structure have led to the discovery of high-order PB phases with structured light fields. The study on the high-order PB phase…

A timelapse of #interstellar comet ATLAS in the sky from the VLT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXJ221XXPvM. And there are already three papers: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02757 (Discovery and Preliminary Characterization of a Third Interstellar Object: 3I/ATLAS), https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05252 (Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS: discovery and physical description) and https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05226 (Initial VLT/MUSE spectroscopy of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS).

Discovery of Odd Radio Circles and Other Peculiars in the First Year of the EMU Survey using Object Detection
Nikhel Gupta, Ray P. Norris, Zeeshan Hayder, Minh Huynh, Heinz Andernach, Andrew M. Hopkins, Stanislav Shabala, Lawrence Rudnick, Miroslav D. Filipovi\'c, B\"arbel S. Koribalski, Lars Petersson, X. Rosalind Wang
https://

Discovery of Odd Radio Circles and Other Peculiars in the First Year of the EMU Survey using Object Detection
We present a systematic search for Odd Radio Circles (ORCs) and other unusual radio morphologies using data from the first year of the EMU (Evolutionary Map of the Universe) survey. ORCs are rare, enigmatic objects characterized by edge-brightened rings of radio emission, often found in association with distant galaxies. To identify these objects, we employ a hybrid methodology combining supervised object detection techniques and visual inspection of radio source candidates. This approach leads…

In a filing, the Newhouse family, which owns Condé Nast, says it plans to sell 100M WBD shares worth around $1.1B total; $WBD falls 4% (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/warner-bros-discovery-stock-sale-newhouse-family/

Warner Bros. Discovery Stock Falls as Newhouse Family Sells $1.1 Billion in Shares
The media giant's shares tumbled over 4% during Tuesday's trading session after the Condé Nast owners sold 100 million shares

GOTO065054 593624 - an 8.5 mag amplitude dwarf nova identified in real time via Kilonova Seekers: #Kilonova Seekers - the GOTO project for real-time citizen science in time-domain astrophysics: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/533/2/2113/7735340?login=false -> A citizen science project has already identified 20 new astronomical discoveries: https://www.port.ac.uk/news-events-and-blogs/news/citizen-science-project-identifies-20-new-astronomical-discoveries

Warner Bros Discovery plans to launch HBO Max in 12 countries in July, mostly in Europe and some in Asia, bringing it to around 90 territories in total (Georg Szalai/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business…

HBO Max to Launch in 12 Countries in July as WBD Streamer Closes in on 100 Markets (Exclusive)
Europe has been the fastest-growing international region for the streaming service, which is getting ready to accelerate its global growth strategy with the latest market debuts.

Blowing Star Formation Away in AGN Hosts (BAH) -- IV. Serendipitous discovery of a $z\sim2.9$ star-forming galaxy lensed by the galactic bulge of CGCG\:012-070 using JWST NIRSpec
Rogemar A. Riffel, Carlos R. Melo-Carneiro, Gabriel Luan Souza-Oliveira, Rog\'erio Riffel, Cristina Furlanetto, Santiago Arriba, Marina Bianchin, Ana L. Chies-Santos, Jos\'e Henrique Costa-Souza, Mait\^e S. Z. de Mellos, Michele Perna, Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann, Nadia L. Zakamska

Blowing Star Formation Away in AGN Hosts (BAH) -- IV. Serendipitous discovery of a $z\sim2.9$ star-forming galaxy lensed by the galactic bulge of CGCG\:012-070 using JWST NIRSpec
We report the detection of a gravitationally lensed galaxy by the nearby spiral galaxy CGCG 012-070 ($z = 0.048$) using Integral Field Unit (IFU) observations with the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) instrument on board the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The lensed galaxy is identified through the flux distributions of emission lines in the rest-frame optical, consistent with a source located at a redshift of $z\sim2.89$. The system is detected in [O III]$λ\lambda4959,5007$, H$β$, an…

Astro-COLIBRI - a Comprehensive Platform for Real-Time #MultiMessenger Astrophysics: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06616 -> "Maximizing the discovery potential of multi-messenger and multi-wavelength follow-up observations, as well as serendipitous detections, requires a tool that rapidly compiles and contextualizes relevant information for each new event. We present Astro-COLIBRI, an advanced platform designed to meet this challenge."

Bob Iger says Disney will "probably" stop disclosing subscriber numbers like Netflix has "at some point" and says it doesn't plan to spin off its cable channels (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodrep…

Bob Iger Says Disney Unlikely to Follow Comcast and Warner Bros. Discovery In Exiting the TV Channel Business
The CEO also said that Disney+ will "probably" emulate Netflix and stop reporting subscriber numbers at some point, he noted during a CNBC appearance.

The presentations at the 2nd #AAS246 presser were about the papers https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adc911 (Discovery of the Seven-ring Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Cyanocoronene (C24H11CN) in GOTHAM Observations of TMC-1, also https://public.nrao.edu/news/cosmic-chemistry-breakthrough-largest-aromatic-molecule-found-in-deep-space/), https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05575 (A map of the outer gas disk of the Galaxy with direct distances from young stars, also https://www.uah.edu/news/items/uah-researcher-unveils-new-map-of-milky-way-galaxy-in-atomic-hydrogen-revealing-its-clumped-flocculent-nature-for-first-time) and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adbbd9 (Surveying the Giant H ii Regions of the Milky Way with SOFIA. VII. Galactic Center Regions Sgr B1, Sgr B2, and Sgr C, also https://www.seti.org/press-release/unusual-stellar-nurseries-near-our-galaxys-center-puzzle-scientists) plus two results with apparently neither papers nor press releases going with them.

Filing: WBD says it plans to "significantly reduce" CEO David Zaslav's annual pay, including his cash bonus, after shareholders rejected his 2024 pay package (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/warne

Warner Bros Discovery CEO David Zaslav Pay to Drop After Company Split
WBD CEO David Zaslav will see his pay package take a haircut after the proposed separation of Warner Bros. Discovery in 2026. The company granted him $225 million in stock option awards.

WBD splits itself into two publicly traded companies, one called Global Networks, with CNN and other cable channels, and the other called Streaming & Studios (Joe Flint/Wall Street Journal)
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