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Safe underground carbon storage would only reduce warming by 0.7°C, analysis finds #environment

Safe underground carbon storage would only reduce warming by 0.7°C, analysis finds
For the first time, a study maps safe areas that can practically be used for underground carbon storage, and estimates that using them all would only cut warming by 0.7°C. The result is almost ten times lower than previous estimates of around 6°C, which considered the total global potential for geological storage, including in risky zones, where storing carbon could trigger earthquakes and contaminate drinking water supplies. The researchers say the study shows that geological storage is a sc…

StyliTruth : Unlocking Stylized yet Truthful LLM Generation via Disentangled Steering
Chenglei Shen, Zhongxiang Sun, Teng Shi, Xiao Zhang, Jun Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04530

StyliTruth : Unlocking Stylized yet Truthful LLM Generation via Disentangled Steering
Generating stylized large language model (LLM) responses via representation editing is a promising way for fine-grained output control. However, there exists an inherent trade-off: imposing a distinctive style often degrades truthfulness. Existing representation editing methods, by naively injecting style signals, overlook this collateral impact and frequently contaminate the model's core truthfulness representations, resulting in reduced answer correctness. We term this phenomenon stylization-…

Legend is Rome decided not to have kings anymore, and so created the first modern-ish republic, because of a sex crime by someone close to their king.
Our entire system of government has a history of not having sex crimes be acceptable.
But the felon in chief thinks pretending sex criminal close friends of his don’t implicate and contaminate him.
Legend is Romans exiled their last king.
#USpol

Flares on TRAPPIST-1 reveal the spectrum of magnetic features on its surface
Valeriy Vasilyev, Nadiia Kostogryz, Alexander I. Shapiro, Astrid M. Veronig, Benjamin V. Rackham, Christoph Schirninger, Julien de Wit, Ward Howard, Jeff Valenti, Adina D. Feinstein, Olivia Lim, Sara Seager, Laurent Gizon, Sami K. Solanki
https://arxiv.org/abs/250…

Flares on TRAPPIST-1 reveal the spectrum of magnetic features on its surface
TRAPPIST-1 is an M8 dwarf hosting seven known exoplanets and is currently one of the most frequently observed targets of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). However, it is notoriously active, and its surface is believed to be covered by magnetic features that contaminate the planetary transmission spectra. The radiative spectra of these magnetic features are needed to clean transmission spectra, but they currently remain unknown. Here, we develop a new approach for measuring these spectra us…

Extracting the photon indistinguishability error from measurable quantum observables
Franciscus H. B. Somhorst, Jason Saied, Eleanor G. Rieffel, Jelmer J. Renema
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01731

Extracting the photon indistinguishability error from measurable quantum observables
We present a method to extract the photon indistinguishability error from Hong-Ou-Mandel interference measurements, accounting for the combined effects of loss and multiphoton noise that contaminate the single-photon Hilbert space. Our analysis resolves apparent inconsistencies in previous interpretations of such measurements. The reported method applies to a wide range of single-photon sources, including quantum dots.

When brewing kombucha, make sure to end fermentation at the right time! Yeasts produce alcohol as a byproduct of fermentation, and the alcohol level can get high enough that they will pop out for a cheeky nando's and contaminate the brew with piri piri flavor

Regression of Suspension Violin Modes in KAGRA O3GK Data with Kalman Filters
Lucas Moisset, Marco Meyer-Conde, Christopher Allene, Yusuke Sakai, Dan Chen, Nobuyuki Kanda, Hirotaka Takahashi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20658

Regression of Suspension Violin Modes in KAGRA O3GK Data with Kalman Filters
Suspension thermal modes in interferometric gravitational-wave detectors produce narrow, high-Q spectral lines that can contaminate gravitational searches and bias parameter estimation. In KAGRA, cryogenic mirrors are held by thick suspension fibers, designed to sustain such low-temperature environment, which may further affects inharmonicity modes, fiber dimensions, and mechanical behavior compared to typical interferometers. Remaining a prominent source of narrowband contamination, we impleme…