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In a few days the #PlanetNine hypothesis - first published on 20 Jan 2016 in the paper https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-6256/151/2/22 ("EVIDENCE FOR A DISTANT GIANT PLANET IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM", yes, they shouted it in all caps) - will turn 10 years old. The proposed big outer solar system inhabitant has never been found: https://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/space-science/planet-9-x-y-edge-of-solar-system reviews the situation.

Erich von Däniken died today at the age of 90. I know, I know what most of you are going to say, but in my teenage years, his books had a profound influence on me (amusingly, I encountered it first in their Serbo-Croatian translation, maybe my first "real" book I read in Croatian). More than the ancient alien hypothesis, his books took me to many fascinating corners of the world, be it in the Americas, in India, Sub-Saharan Africa, or the English countryside. 1/3

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I think this is interesting, from "Frontiers in Neuroscience" mag. New "HYPOTHESIS AND THEORY article" by Joachim Keppler, head of Department of Consciousness …

Frontiers | Macroscopic quantum effects in the brain: new insights into the fundamental principle underlying conscious processes
Empirical findings indicate that conscious states are inextricably linked to long-range synchronized activity patterns that result from phase transitions and...

Det är nu över 10 år sedan dietboksförfattare och influensers påstod att de visste hur man fixade tarmfloran och med det en rad olika hälsoproblem.
Och än idag har vi i princip ingenting konkret från vetenskapen kring tarmfloran och behandling av olika besvär utanför just tarmproblem.
The Autism-Microbiome Hypothesis Is Falling Apart

The Autism-Microbiome Hypothesis Is Falling Apart
Why this new review paper should be required reading for every microbiome researcher

Ammonites made it through the K-Pg extinction event according to this paper! #FossilFriday 🤯
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-34479-1

Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark - Scientific Reports
We provide a reassessment of the hypothesis of ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (Maastrichtian–Danian) boundary, based on new data from the lower Danian Cerithium Limestone Member at Stevns Klint, eastern Denmark. The occurrence of this unit in disjunct basins between eroded crests of uppermost Maastrichtian bryozoan mounds prompts a reconsideration of ammonite redeposition as an alternative to the survival hypothesis. We describe new ammonite specimens from the Cerithium L…

Mathematical basis, phase transitions and singularities of (3 1)-dimensional phi4 scalar field model
Zhidong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.07439 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.07439 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.07439
arXiv:2511.07439v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The lambda phi4 scalar field model that can be applied to interpret pion-pion scattering and properties of hadrons. In this work, the mathematical basis, phase transitions and singularities of a (3 1)-dimensional (i.e., (3 1)D) phi4 scalar field model are investigated. It is found that as a specific example of topological quantum field theories, the (3 1)D phi4 scalar field model must be set up on the Jordan-von Neumann-Wigner framework and dealt with the parameter space of complex time (or complex temperature). The use of the time average and the topologic Lorentz transformation representing Reidemeister moves ensure the integrability, which takes into account for the contributions of nontrivial topological structures to physical properties of the many-body interacting system. The ergodic hypothesis is violated at finite temperatures in the (3 1)D phi4 scalar field model. Because the quantum field theories with ultraviolet cutoff can be mapped to the models in statistical mechanics, the (3 1)D phi4 scalar field model with ultraviolet cutoff is studied by inspecting its relation with the three-dimensional (3D) Ising model. Furthermore, the direct relation between the coupling K in the 3D Ising model and the bare coupling lambda0 in the (3 1)D phi4 scalar field model is determined in the strong coupling limit. The results obtained in the present work can be utilized to investigate thermodynamic physical properties and critical phenomena of quantum (scalar) field theories.
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Replaced article(s) found for q-bio.NC. https://arxiv.org/list/q-bio.NC/new
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- State-space kinetic Ising model reveals task-dependent entropy flow in sparsely active nonequilib...
Ken Ishihara, Hideaki Shimazaki
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15440 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/114057779012161849
- Mechanisms for anesthesia, unawareness, respiratory depression, memory replay and sleep: MHb > IP...
Karin Vadovi\v{c}ov\'a
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04454 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115167812677714466
- Meta-learning three-factor plasticity rules for structured credit assignment with sparse feedback
Dimitra Maoutsa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09366 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115699940165988688
- Prefrontal scaling of reward prediction error readout gates reinforcement-derived adaptive behavi...
Sang, Huang, Zhong, Wang, Yu, Li, Feng, Wang, Chai, Menon, Wang, Fang, Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09761 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbioNC_bot/115700046994546552
- Proof of a perfect platonic representation hypothesis
Liu Ziyin, Isaac Chuang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01098 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114788750477759162
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Edison, which last month released AI tool Kosmos to speed up and automate complex scientific hypothesis generation, raised $70M at a $250M valuation (Rachel Metz/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-…

Blazars as a Potential Origin of the KM3-230213A Event: #neutrino KM3-23021 3A could come from the diffuse neutrino emission of blazars: https://www.km3net.org/blazar-origin-of-km3-230213a/