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Wildfires threaten water quality for up to eight years after they burn #environment

Wildfires threaten water quality for up to eight years after they burn
Wildfires don’t just leave behind scorched earth—they leave a toxic legacy in Western rivers that can linger for nearly a decade. A sweeping new study analyzed over 100,000 water samples from more than 500 U.S. watersheds and revealed that contaminants like nitrogen, phosphorus, organic carbon, and sediment remain elevated for up to eight years after a blaze.

The Pattern of Exotic Hidden-Heavy Hadrons Revealed
Roberto Bruschini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20821 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20821

The Pattern of Exotic Hidden-Heavy Hadrons Revealed
For more than twenty years, theory has failed to explain the pattern of the exotic heavy hadrons. We illustrate a simple solution to this longstanding puzzle using the Born-Oppenheimer approximation for QCD. Exotic hidden-heavy hadrons are bound states and resonances in potentials that are repulsive at short range and cross a heavy-hadron--pair threshold before approaching it. This explains the proximity of the exotic hidden-heavy hadrons to heavy-hadron--pair thresholds, identifies the thresho…

Invisible Injections: Exploiting Vision-Language Models Through Steganographic Prompt Embedding
Chetan Pathade
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22304 https://arx…

Invisible Injections: Exploiting Vision-Language Models Through Steganographic Prompt Embedding
Vision-language models (VLMs) have revolutionized multimodal AI applications but introduce novel security vulnerabilities that remain largely unexplored. We present the first comprehensive study of steganographic prompt injection attacks against VLMs, where malicious instructions are invisibly embedded within images using advanced steganographic techniques. Our approach demonstrates that current VLM architectures can inadvertently extract and execute hidden prompts during normal image processin…

Gamification of Immersive Cervical Rehabilitation Exercises in VR: An Exploratory Study on Chin Tuck and Range of Motion Exercises
Haitham Abdelsalam, Chanelle Montpetit, Arash Harirpoush, Maryse Fortin, Yiming Xiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18580

Gamification of Immersive Cervical Rehabilitation Exercises in VR: An Exploratory Study on Chin Tuck and Range of Motion Exercises
Chronic neck pain is a prevalent condition that affects millions of individuals worldwide, causing significant individual suffering and socioeconomic burdens. Although exercise rehabilitation is a staple in relieving pain and improving muscle function for the condition, traditional one-on-one rehabilitation sessions are costly and suffer from poor adherence and accessibility for the patients. Thanks to the increasing accessibility and recent advancements in sensing and display technology, virtu…

LOOK: Eagles' Super Bowl LIX rings revealed to have hidden surprise

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/look-eagles-super-bowl-lix-rings-revealed-to-have-hidden-…

Cyber Orbits of Large Scale Network Traffic
Jeremy Kepner, Hayden Jananthan, Chasen Milner, Michael Houle, Michael Jones, Peter Michaleas, Alex Pentland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16847

Cyber Orbits of Large Scale Network Traffic
The advent of high-performance graph libraries, such as the GraphBLAS, has enabled the analysis of massive network data sets and revealed new models for their behavior. Physical analogies for complicated network behavior can be a useful aid to understanding these newly discovered network phenomena. Prior work leveraged the canonical Gull's Lighthouse problem and developed a computational heuristic for modeling large scale network traffic using this model. A general solution using this approach …

So Builder . ai Mechanical Turked things and Microsoft (and others) were none the wiser.
Due diligence: boring stuff that when you skip it with catch up with you fast.
“Builder . ai’s platform relied on around 700 engineers based in India who manually wrote code based on customer requests. Despite the company marketing it as AI-generated, most of the work was done by humans behind the scenes.”

London AI startup Builder.ai collapses after 'human-powered' tech revelation
London AI startup Builder.ai collapses after 'human-powered' tech revelation

Clumpiness of galaxies revealed in the near-infrared with COSMOS-Web
Wilfried Mercier, Boris Sindhu Kalita, Marko Shuntov, Rafael C. Arango-Toro, Olivier Ilbert, Laurence Tresse, Yohan Dubois, Clotilde Laigle, Hossein Hatamnia, Nicolas McMahon, Andreas Faisst, Isa Cox, Maxime Trebitsch, Leo Michel-Dansac, Si-Yue Yu, Michaela Hirschmann, Marc Huertas-Company, Arianna Long, Anton Koekemoer, Gr\'egoire Aufort, Joseph Lewis, Ghassem Gozaliasl, R. Michael Rich, Jason Rhodes, Henry Joy M…

Clumpiness of galaxies revealed in the near-infrared with COSMOS-Web
Clumps in the rest-frame UV emission of galaxies have been observed for decades. Since the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a large population is detected in the rest-frame near-infrared (NIR), raising questions about their formation mechanism. We investigate the presence and properties of NIR over-densities (hereafter substructures) in star-forming and quiescent galaxies at 1 < z < 4 to understand their link to the evolution of their host galaxy. We identify substructures in JW…

A job-based assessment of economic complexity: from hidden to revealed
Antonio Russo, Pasquale Scaramozzino, Andrea Zaccaria
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05846

A job-based assessment of economic complexity: from hidden to revealed
Economic complexity measures aim to quantify the capability content or endowment of industries and territories; however, capabilities are not observable, and therefore cannot be directly used in the computations. We estimate such endowments by quantifying the quality and diversity of the skills in the occupations required in specific industries. We refer to this job-based assessment as the hidden complexity, in contrast with the usual revealed complexity, which is computed from economic outputs…

Is cheese secretly fueling your nightmares? Science weighs in #AnimalRights

Is cheese secretly fueling your nightmares? Science weighs in
Over a thousand students revealed a striking link between lactose intolerance and nightmare-filled nights, hinting that midnight stomach turmoil from dairy can invade dreams. Researchers suggest simple diet tweaks—especially ditching late-night cheese—could turn scary sleep into sweet rest, though more experiments are needed to decode the gut-dream connection.