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London-based Definely, whose AI tools help law firms draft and review legal contracts, raised a $30M Series B led by Revaia, with Clio and others participating (Cate Lawrence/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/06/09/uk-legaltech-de…

UK legaltech Definely secures $30M to boost global reach and AI development
UK legaltech company Definely has raised $30 million in Series B funding to accelerate its global expansion and AI product roadmap. This additional funding brings the total amount raised by Definely since its inception to $40 million. Launched in 2020 by Nnamdi Emelifeonwu and Feargus MacDaei, Definely was born from lived experience, including that of co-founder MacDaeid, who is registered blind after being diagnosed with a degenerative eye condition at age 11. Throughout his life, he consiste…

Britain, France the necessary relationship - https://on.ft.com/4nEOcSV
"Some other European countries have the martial culture but not the scale. Some have the scale but not the martial culture. Until that changes, sheer necessity forces Britain and France together"

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 forecasting framework for galactic cosmic ray flux in space weather applications
David Pelosi, Fernando Bar\~ao, Bruna Bertucci, Francesco Faldi, Emanuele Fiandrini, Alejandro Reina Conde, Miguel Orcinha, Nicola Tomassetti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07616

A forecasting framework for galactic cosmic ray flux in space weather applications
The intensity and energy spectrum of galactic cosmic rays in the heliosphere are significantly influenced by the 11-year solar cycle, a phenomenon known as solar modulation. Understanding this effect and its underlying physical mechanisms is essential for assessing radiation exposure and associated risks during space missions. Starting from a previously developed effective predictive model of solar modulation, validated using cosmic ray flux measurements from space-based detectors such as PAMEL…

Membrane-mediated force transduction: Stick-slip motion of vesicles with fluid membranes
Paula Magrinya, Arin Escobar Ortiz, Juan L. Aragones, Laura R. Arriaga
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07880

Membrane-mediated force transduction: Stick-slip motion of vesicles with fluid membranes
How internal forces are transduced into motion through soft, fluid membranes remains a fundamental question in the study of active systems. To investigate this coupling, we develop a minimal system consisting of a single ferromagnetic particle encapsulated within a lipid vesicle with controlled membrane composition and phase behavior. An external rotating magnetic field actuates the particle, which rotates and translates along the inner membrane leaflet. This motion generates local slip in the …

Velocity-modulated drag-trapping of nanoparticles by moving fringe pattern in hollow-core fiber
Soumya Chakraborty, Gordon K. L. Wong, Philip St. J. Russell, Nicolas Y. Joly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04770

Velocity-modulated drag-trapping of nanoparticles by moving fringe pattern in hollow-core fiber
We report optical trapping and transport at atmospheric pressure of nanoparticles in a moving interference pattern in hollow-core photonic crystal fiber. Unlike in previous work at low pressure, when the viscous drag forces are weak and the particles travel at the fringe velocity, competition between trapping and drag forces causes the particle velocity to oscillate as it is momentarily captured and accelerated by each passing fringe, followed by release and deceleration by viscous forces. As a…

Efficiency through Evolution, A Darwinian Approach to Agent-Based Economic Forecast Modeling
Martin Jaraiz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04074 https://…

Efficiency through Evolution, A Darwinian Approach to Agent-Based Economic Forecast Modeling
This paper presents a novel Darwinian Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) methodology formacroeconomic forecasting that leverages evolutionary principles to achieve remarkablecomputational efficiency and emergent realism. Unlike conventional DSGE and ABM approachesthat rely on complex behavioral rules derived from large firm analysis, our framework employssimple "common sense" rules representative of small firms directly serving final consumers. Themethodology treats households as the primary drivers of…

Good Morning #Canada
The Battle of Jumonville Glen, OTD in 1754, between French Canadian and American military forces, was notable because it was the opening battle of the French and Indian War, the 1st combat action for 21 year old George Washington, and ultimately led England and France into conflict in the global Seven Years’ War. The assassination of the French-Canadian commander would also darken Washington's reputation for life.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Colonialism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jumonville_Glen

Iran warned the US, UK and France that their military bases and ships will be targeted
if they help block the Iranian missile and drone retaliation for Israel’s attack,
threatening to widen an already bloody war over Tehran’s nuclear programme.
Donald Trump has said the US will help defend Israel,
and American officials have been quoted in news reports saying that US forces have already helped shoot down Iranian drones and missiles as they approached Israel.
Fran…

Wieso quietscht Halloumi eigentlich wie ein Meerschweinchen?
Das Schweizer Fernsehen liefert eine Antwort auf die Frage, die mich schon lange quält!
https://www.srf.ch/sendungen/kassensturz-espresso/espress…

Grillkäse: Warum quietscht Halloumi beim Essen?
Das Geräusch hat damit zu tun, dass Halloumi ein Frischkäse ist. Online rätseln Grillfans, was das Quietschen reduziert.