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Polymarket says it is buying little-known derivatives exchange QCX, in a move to legally re-enter the US market; a source says Polymarket will pay $112M (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-21/cr…

Back in 1964, microbiologist Tom Brock received a grant from the National Science Foundation to study how life works at high temperatures,
a question that took him to Yellowstone’s hot springs in search of extremophiles.
There, he and his student discovered a bacteria they called Thermus aquaticus,
which had enzymes that could work at incredibly high temperatures.
Two decades later, this discovery paved the way for the development of a technique called polymerase ch…

What It Would Mean To Lose The National Science Foundation
In a companion piece to our previous article on the NIH, we discuss the importance of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and how the agency is currently being affected by political interference.

Das ging schnell ... - Posts gelöscht: Liebes-Drama bei Chelsea-Helden? #News #Nachrichten

The Property Trio (Formerly The Property Planner, Buyer And Professor)
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-property-planner-buyer-and-professor/

Competing Length Scales and Symmetry Frustration Govern Non-Universal Melting in 2D Core-softened Colloidal Crystals
Thiago Puccinelli, Alexandre V. Ilha, Jos\'e Rafael Bordin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13573

Competing Length Scales and Symmetry Frustration Govern Non-Universal Melting in 2D Core-softened Colloidal Crystals
We investigate the melting behavior of two-dimensional colloidal crystals stabilized by a core-softened potential featuring two competing interaction length scales. Using molecular dynamics simulations, we analyze three polymorphic solid phases -- low-density triangular, stripe, and kagome -- and uncover distinct melting pathways. The triangular and kagome crystals undergo abrupt first-order transitions, driven by the interplay between energetic frustration and structural reorganization. In par…

Automated Route-based Conflation Between Linear Referencing System Maps And OpenStreetMap Using Open-source Tools
Gibran Ali, Neal Feierabend, Prarthana Doshi, Whoibin Chung, Simona Babiceanu, Michael Fontaine
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13939

Automated Route-based Conflation Between Linear Referencing System Maps And OpenStreetMap Using Open-source Tools
Transportation researchers and planners utilize a wide range of roadway metrics that are usually associated with different basemaps. Conflation is an important process for transferring these metrics onto a single basemap. However, conflation is often an expensive and time-consuming process based on proprietary algorithms that require manual verification. In this paper, an automated open-source process is used to conflate two basemaps: the linear reference system (LRS) basemap produced by the …

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/17/clive-palmer-united-australia-party-trumpet-of-patriots-data-breach-documents/
I don’t know enough about Australian politics but it sounds like the country’s version of the MAG…

Clive Palmer’s political parties suffer data breach affecting ‘all emails … documents and records’
Identical statements from both parties say a ransomware attack has obtained ‘email address, phone number, identity records, banking records, employment history, documents (including those provided subject to confidentiality arrangements)'.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #BLOCKPARTYWithHueyMorgan
Hector Plimmer:
🎵 Into Harmony (feat. Julia Biel)
#HectorPlimmer
https://hector-plimmer.bandcamp.com/track/into-harmony-featuring-julia-biel-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/7FIbdqaluRbuigAQzE6d14

Just a little PSA to any trail bikers in the UK who find the https://stegra.io app interesting...
Many of the byways that they are highlighting on the map are actually illegal to ride - they are closed with a TRO. It seems Stegra didn’t take this into account at all 🤦‍♀️

ChatGPT Agent uses a virtual browser to do tasks such as filling online forms and calling public APIs, and generates downloadable PowerPoint and Excel files (Reece Rogers/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-chatgpt-agent-launch/

OpenAI’s New ChatGPT Agent Tries to Do It All
It’s a PowerPoint generator! It’s a date-night planner! It’s … another agent from OpenAI.