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Strange ‘Little Red Dots’ in Space Have a Mind-Boggling Explanation, Scientists Discover https://www.404media.co/strange-little-red-dots-in-space-have-a-mind-boggling-explanation-scientists-discover/

Crypto casinos have become online gambling havens for teens and problem gamblers, propped up by operators who turn social media influencers into recruiters (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/1

How Online Crypto Casinos Use Celebrities and Livestreamers to Recruit Gamblers
Using exploitative marketing strategies, the illicit gambling websites have profited and lured in a young generation of gamblers.

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Eruptive mass loss less than a year before the explosion of superluminous supernovae. II. A systematic search for pre-explosion eruptions with VLT/X-shooter
A. Gkini, C. Fransson, R. Lunnan, S. Schulze, J. Sollerman K. Tsalapatas, N. Sarin, M. Nicholl, C. Angus, U. Burgaz, S. J. Brennan, T. -W. Chen, A. Gal-Yam, A. Gangopadhyay, Y. Hu, M. M. Kasliwal, R. R. Laher, P. J. Pessi, B. Rusholme, E. Russeil, A. Singh, C. Skoglund, R. Smith, B. van Baal, S. L. West, L. Yan

Eruptive mass loss less than a year before the explosion of superluminous supernovae. II. A systematic search for pre-explosion eruptions with VLT/X-shooter
We present X-shooter observations of a sample of 21 hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I), spanning a redshift range of z=0.13-0.95, aimed at searching for shells of circumstellar material (CSM). Specifically, we focus on identifying broad Mg II absorption features that are blueshifted by several thousand kilometers per second and have previously been interpreted as arising from resonance line scattering of the SLSN continuum by rapidly expanding CSM ejected shortly before explosion.…

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Catalog and Characterization of Science Orbit Configurations for an Enceladus Orbiter
Spencer Boone, Joan Pau Sanchez Cuartialles, St\'ephanie Lizy-Destrez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12421

Catalog and Characterization of Science Orbit Configurations for an Enceladus Orbiter
Saturn's moon Enceladus is an exciting destination for future exploration missions due to the scientifically interesting geyser region located on its South pole. In this work, we compile the different types of science orbit configurations that have been proposed in the literature and present numerical methods to compute each of them in the Saturn-Enceladus circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP). In addition, we explore the utility of the higher period dynamical structures found in the C…

Complementarity of gravitational wave analyses and di-Higgs production in the exploration of the Electroweak Phase Transition dynamics in the RxSM
Johannes Braathen, Sven Heinemeyer, Carlos Pulido Boatella, Alain Verduras Schaeidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12569

Complementarity of gravitational wave analyses and di-Higgs production in the exploration of the Electroweak Phase Transition dynamics in the RxSM
The real singlet extension of the Standard Model (SM), RxSM, is one of the simplest Beyond-the-Standard Model (BSM) theories that can accommodate a strong first-order electroweak phase transition (SFOEWPT). We survey the possible thermal histories of the early Universe in the RxSM, and find that a SFOEWPT can occur in this model as single- or two-step phase transitions. We investigate complementary approaches to probe such scenarios experimentally: either via searches for a stochastic backgroun…

Wiedemann-Franz behavior at the Weyl points in compressively strained HgTe
Abu Alex Aravindnath, Yi-Ju Ho, Fabian Schmitt, Dongyun Chen, Johannes Kleinlein, Wouter Beugeling, Hartmut Buhmann, Stanislau U. Piatrusha, Laurens W. Molenkamp
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12339

Wiedemann-Franz behavior at the Weyl points in compressively strained HgTe
Weyl semimetals, with their unique electronic band structure, have drawn significant interest for their potential to explore quantum anomalies in condensed matter systems. In this study, we investigate the large positive magneto-thermal conductance associated with the gravitational anomaly -- one of the predicted anomalies -- for a Weyl semimetal based on a compressively strained HgTe layer. We clearly identify the Weyl regime in our device and accurately extract the thermal conductance by perf…

Spatial Forcing: Implicit Spatial Representation Alignment for Vision-language-action Model
Fuhao Li, Wenxuan Song, Han Zhao, Jingbo Wang, Pengxiang Ding, Donglin Wang, Long Zeng, Haoang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12276

Spatial Forcing: Implicit Spatial Representation Alignment for Vision-language-action Model
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have recently shown strong potential in enabling robots to follow language instructions and execute precise actions. However, most VLAs are built upon vision-language models pretrained solely on 2D data, which lack accurate spatial awareness and hinder their ability to operate in the 3D physical world. Existing solutions attempt to incorporate explicit 3D sensor inputs such as depth maps or point clouds, but these approaches face challenges due to sensor nois…