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🌍🛰️ How do NRENs & RRENs support Earth Observation research?
At our April infoshare with the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), RedCLARA & ASREN, we explored how R&E networks enable Earth Observation research, supporting data access, policy, training, and cross-border collaboration.
Daniela Brauner also shared these insights at GEO Global Forum 2025 last week.
📅 Don’t miss Part 2 of the infoshare series on 27 May!
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Infoshare Series on Earth Observations Support Through NRENs - Part 2

China has suspended almost all exports since April 4 of seven kinds of #rare #earth metals,
as well as very powerful magnets made from three of them.
The halt has caused increasingly severe shortages that threaten to close many factories in the United States and Europe.

What to Know About China’s Halt of Rare Earth Exports
Since early April, China has stopped almost all shipments of critical minerals that are needed for cars, robots, wind turbines, jet fighters and other technologies.

I think the last time I bought a manga was in 2018ish. It was time to break the curse.

Physical properties of $R$Co$_{2}$Al$_{8}$ ($R=$ La, Ce, Pr, Nd and Sm) single crystals: an emerging structure-type for anisotropic Kondo lattice studies
Fernando A. Garcia, Sushma Kumari, Juan Schmidt, Cris Adriano, Aashish Sapkota, Paul C. Canfield, Rebecca Flint, Raquel A. Ribeiro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10905

Physical properties of $R$Co$_{2}$Al$_{8}$ ($R=$ La, Ce, Pr, Nd and Sm) single crystals: an emerging structure-type for anisotropic Kondo lattice studies
Systematic investigations of rare-earth ($R$) based intermetallic materials is a leading strategy to reveal the underlying mechanisms governing a range of physical phenomena, such as the formation of a Kondo lattice and competing electronic and magnetic anisotropies. In this work, the magnetic, thermal and transport properties of $R$Co$_{2}$Al$_{8}$ ($R=$ La, Ce, Pr, Nd and Sm) single crystals are presented. LaCo$_{2}$Al$_{8}$ is characterized as a Pauli paramagnet and transport measurements, w…

A composition-informed search for large-scale anisotropy with the Pierre Auger Observatory
G. Golup (for the Pierre Auger Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08564

A composition-informed search for large-scale anisotropy with the Pierre Auger Observatory
The large-scale dipolar structure in the arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with energies above $8\,$EeV observed by the Pierre Auger Collaboration is a well-established anisotropy measurement. This anisotropy is understood to be of extragalactic origin, as the maximum of the dipolar component is located ${\sim}115^\circ$ away from the Galactic Center. Cosmic rays interact with background radiation and magnetized regions on their path from their sources to Earth. These interact…

On the three laws of earthquake physics
A. V. Guglielmi, A. D. Zavyalov, O. D. Zotov, B. I. Klain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06504 https://

On the three laws of earthquake physics
The paper provides a synoptic overview of a series of works carried out by a group of researchers at the Institute of Physics of the Earth RAS with the aim of finding new approaches to the problems of earthquake physics. The fundamental laws of Omori, Gutenberg-Richter and Bath have served as a constant support and reference point in the course of many years of research. The concept of the tectonic earthquake triad as a natural trinity of foreshocks, main shocks and aftershocks is used in the a…

Went to the final dress rehearsal of Saul at Glyndebourne yesterday, and it was **amazing**: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euczL6jS8UA

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
The new Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite is crazy accurate. It can measure ocean altimetry to a mm, imaging internal waves and small sub eddies (rotating mixing zones). Tiny changes in height happen when water swirls (try it in a sink) with greater height at the edges due to centripetal force. These may be even more important for temperature &a…

If the strictly neutral International Red Cross says this, you know it is very bad...
Gaza worse than hell on Earth, International Red Cross chief tells BBC as aid centres close for day
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cvg5vyp33j1t?post=asse…

Gaza worse than hell on Earth, Red Cross chief tells BBC as aid centres close for day
The president of the ICRC tells the BBC's international editor Jeremy Bowen Palestinians have been stripped of human dignity.

Classification of high energy muon bundles and single muons from the southern sky in IceCube
Najia Moureen Binte Amin (for the IceCube Collaboration), David Seckel (for the IceCube Collaboration)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07408

Classification of high energy muon bundles and single muons from the southern sky in IceCube
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, located at the geographic South Pole, uses the glacial ice volume to detect astrophysical neutrinos. Detection of the neutrinos from the northern sky provides the opportunity to use a large effective volume. However, as the cross-section increases with energy, most high-energy neutrinos are absorbed by the Earth. On the other hand, probing down-going PeV neutrinos from the southern sky becomes challenging because of the large cosmic ray induced muon backgrounds…