Tootfinder

The discipline with which they are implementing Project 2025 chapter by chapter and point by point is quite impressive

🪤 Young forests could help to capture carbon in climate change fight
(... leave old forests alone, leave young forests alone!)
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-young-forests-capture-carbon-climate.html

Young forests could help to capture carbon in climate change fight
Young forests regrowing from land where mature woodlands have been cut down have a key role to play in removing billions of tons of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and combating climate change, a new study reveals.

Triggering Electron Capture Supernovae: Dark Matter Effects in Degenerate White-Dwarf-like Cores of Super-Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars
Vishal Parmar, Domenico Scordino, Ignazio Bombaci
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19320

Triggering Electron Capture Supernovae: Dark Matter Effects in Degenerate White-Dwarf-like Cores of Super-Asymptotic Giant Branch Stars
Electron-capture supernovae (ECSNe) have emerged as a compelling formation channel for low-mass neutron stars, bolstered by decades of theoretical work and increasingly supported by observational evidence, including the recent identification of SN~2018zd. Motivated by this, we investigate the influence of fermionic asymmetric dark matter (ADM) on the equilibrium structure of progenitor cores and the formation of their neutron star remnants. Using a general relativistic two-fluid formalism, we m…

Just re-read the first chapter of a book I am probably not gonna finish writing.
11 years have passed, and oddly some of it feels more topical now.
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/avocado-katz-and-the-battle-for-mars/

Avocado Katz and the Battle for Mars
by David August

Winning the NFC West: Reasons the 49ers, Rams, Seahawks and Cardinals can capture the division crown

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/winning

Q&A with SandboxAQ CEO Jack Hidary on the Alphabet spinoff's partnership with Aramco, how quantum AI can help turn captured CO2 into valuable products, and more (Divsha Bhat/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/saudi-aramco-carbon-emissions…

Saudi Aramco wants a Google spinoff to turn its waste into wealth
The world’s biggest crude producer is partnering with SandboxAQ to turn captured carbon into profitable products.

Measurement of production branching ratio after muon nuclear capture reaction of Al and Si isotopes
R. Mizuno, M. Niikura, T. Y. Saito, T. Matsuzaki, S. Abe, H. Fukuda, M. Hashimoto, A. Hillier, K. Ishida, N. Kawamura, S. Kawase, T. Kawata, K. Kitafuji, F. Minato, M. Oishi, A. Sato, K. Shimomura, P. Strasser, S. Takeshita, D. Tomono, Y. Watanabe
https://…

Measurement of production branching ratio after muon nuclear capture reaction of Al and Si isotopes
Background: Muon nuclear capture is a reaction between a muon and a proton inside a nucleus through weak interactions. This reaction results in the formation of an excited nucleus, which subsequently de-excites by emitting several particles. Examination of the excited state allows for an investigation of the properties of nuclear excitation and particle emission in highly excited nuclei. Purpose: This study investigates muon nuclear capture of 27Al and 28,29,30Si, focusing on determining the ab…

tree-of-life: Protein interactomes across the tree of life (2019)
Protein-protein iteraction networks ("interactome") for 1,840 species. An interactome captures all physical protein-protein interactions within one species, from direct biophysical protein-protein interactions to regulatory protein-DNA and metabolic interactions. .
This network has 813 nodes and 2611 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions

Probabilistic Collision Risk Estimation through Gauss-Legendre Cubature and Non-Homogeneous Poisson Processes
Trent Weiss, Madhur Behl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18819 https://

Probabilistic Collision Risk Estimation through Gauss-Legendre Cubature and Non-Homogeneous Poisson Processes
Overtaking in high-speed autonomous racing demands precise, real-time estimation of collision risk; particularly in wheel-to-wheel scenarios where safety margins are minimal. Existing methods for collision risk estimation either rely on simplified geometric approximations, like bounding circles, or perform Monte Carlo sampling which leads to overly conservative motion planning behavior at racing speeds. We introduce the Gauss-Legendre Rectangle (GLR) algorithm, a principled two-stage integratio…