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"Water Cremation" - also known as hydrolysis,
involves water, heat and an alkaline solution being applied to a body in a chamber similar to that used in cremation.
And while the current method of reducing a person’s remains to ashes requires enormously high temperatures,
those in favour of water cremation say it is far less energy intensive and therefore more environmentally friendly.

Scotland to be first part of UK to introduce water cremation
Changes to legislation have paved the way for a more environmentally friendly and ‘gentler’ option for body disposal

⚡ MXene current collectors could reduce size and improve recyclability of Li-ion batteries
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-10-mxene-current-collectors-size-recyclability.html

MXene current collectors could reduce size and improve recyclability of Li-ion batteries
The vast majority of consumer electronics use lithium-ion batteries, and with each generation, these devices are designed smaller, lighter and with longer battery life to meet the growing demands of consumers. Each new iteration also brings the batteries that power the devices closer to the limits of their size, weight and performance.

Gravity MHV amplitudes via Berends-Giele currents
Chanon Hasuwannakit, Kirill Krasnov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13943 https://arxiv.…

Gravity MHV amplitudes via Berends-Giele currents
Berends and Giele derived the Parke-Taylor formula for Yang-Mills MHV amplitudes by computing Berends-Giele currents involving gluons of all-plus and all-but-one-plus helicities. Remarkably, the all-plus current already encodes much of the Parke-Taylor formula structure. The all-but-one-plus current satisfies a more intricate recursion relation than the all-plus case, but one that can still be solved explicitly. This current turns out to be proportional to the all-plus current, which explains w…

AWS is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down major services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and Signal; AWS is investigating (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/802486/aws-outage-alexa-fortnite-snapchat-o…

Major AWS outage takes down Fortnite, Alexa, Snapchat, and more
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is currently experiencing a major outage that has taken down online services, including Amazon, Alexa, Snapchat, Fortnite, and more.

Current and former HHS staff respond to violent CDC attack: Kennedy and others to blame.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/anti-science/current-and-former-hhs-staff-respond-violent-cdc-attack

Information-Assisted Carnot Engine Surpasses Standard Thermodynamic Bounds
Yang Xiao, Qian Zeng, Jin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13412 https://

Information-Assisted Carnot Engine Surpasses Standard Thermodynamic Bounds
Information can improve heat engine performance, but the underlying principles are still not so clear. Here we introduce a Carnot information machine (CIE) and obtain a quantitative relationship between the engine performance and information. We demonstrate that the presence of information changes allows the CIE to operate as a heat engine in the regime where the standard Carnot cycle is prohibited, ensures that the efficiency of the CIE is greater than or equal to the standard Carnot efficienc…

Stephenson 2 DFK 52 - Discovery of an exotic red #supergiant in the massive stellar cluster RSGC2: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2025/08/aa55975-25/aa55975-25.html -> Supergiant star’s gigantic bubble surprises scientists: https://www.chalmers.se/en/current/news/see-supergiant-star-s-gigantic-bubble-surprises-scientists/

Filing: Shanghai-based self-driving company Banma aims to spin off from Alibaba via a Hong Kong IPO, reducing Alibaba's stake from the current 44.72% to 30% (Aileen Chuang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/business/ban…

Alibaba to spin off Banma self-driving business via Hong Kong IPO
Alibaba’s stake in Banma will drop to 30 per cent from the current 44.72 per cent after the IPO, the tech behemoth says.

Expect deep cuts in PhD admissions throughout the US, including biomedical programs.
The current model of PhD training and the current financial climate are simply not compatible.
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/21/fas-phd-admissions-cuts/…

Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for the next two years.

WEEKLY GOOD NEWS ROUNDUP: 10/19/25
Here’s a recap of the good things that have happened over the past week
in our battle to defend our country from the ravages of the current administration,
and to turn this ship around!
These are the headlines -- you can read the digest of the full articles (for free, you don't have to be a member) here:

Weekly Good News Roundup - 10/19/25
Here’s a recap of all of the good things that have happened over the past week in our battle to defend our country from the ravages of the current administration, and to turn this ship around!