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What if we could harvest critical minerals from seaweed instead of digging them out of the ground?
Scientists at NREL and the University of Alaska are studying how seaweed naturally absorbs rare earth elements near Alaska's Bokan Mountain. They're developing cost-effective extraction methods that could lead to large-scale seaweed farms producing these essential minerals—offering a cleaner, more sustainable alternative to traditional mining.

A Phyto Finish: Could Seaweed Be Mined for Critical Minerals? - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Some Seaweeds Accumulate Critical Minerals. NREL Scientists Are Studying Which Ones Do It Best Seaweed: the phyto(mining) frontier? Puns aside, seaweed is emerging as a surprising mining source. NREL chemist Stefanie Van Wychen and a team of five departed Juneau, ... [continued]

“After four universities rejected the Trump administration’s compact for higher education, the White House is planning to meet Friday afternoon with the remaining five that have yet to respond.
The source with knowledge of the White House’s plans said that the meeting “appears to be an effort to regain momentum by threatening institutions to sign even though it’s obviously not in the schools’ interest to do so.”
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/government/politics-elections/2025/10/17/white-house-meet-universities-regarding-compact

Uniform ergodicity of geodesic slice sampling
Mareike Hasenpflug
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06748 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06748

Uniform ergodicity of geodesic slice sampling
Geodesic slice sampling, introduced in Durmus et al., 2024, is a slice sampling based Markov chain Monte Carlo method for approximate sampling from distributions on Riemannian manifolds. We prove that it is uniformly ergodic for distributions with compact support that have a bounded density with respect to the Riemannian measure. The constants in our convergence bound are available explicitly, and we investigate their dependence on the hyperparameters of the geodesic slice sampler, the target d…

Embedding Sustainability in Software Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study
Ruzanna Chitchyan, Niki Mahmoudi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03321 https://arxiv.o…

Embedding Sustainability in Software Engineering Curriculum: A Case Study
Sustainability is increasingly recognized as a critical dimension of engineering education, yet its integration into Software Engineering curricula remains a challenge. This paper reports on a case study that examines how sustainability is being embedded across modules in the Software Engineering program at one university. The paper outlines the process through which academics and students co-identified opportunities for integration, guided by the five dimensions of the Sustainability Awareness…

Role of universal function of the nuclear proximity potential: A systematic study on the alpha-decay of heavy/super-heavy nuclei and {\alpha}-induced reactions
S. Mohammadi, R. Gharaei, S. A. Alavi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02764

Role of universal function of the nuclear proximity potential: A systematic study on the alpha-decay of heavy/super-heavy nuclei and α-induced reactions
The idea of the universal function is fundamental advantage of proximity potential model. We present a systematic study of the role of universal function of the proximity potential model on alpha decay process for 250 ground state to ground state transitions using WKB approximation. In order to realize this goal, five universal functions proposed in the proximity models gp 77, Guo 2013, Ngo 80, Zhang 2013 and Prox. 2010 have been incorporated into the formalism of Prox. 77. The obtained results…