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"Scientists Make Clean Hydrogen from Dirty Water Using Simple Acid Treatment"
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Scientists Make Clean Hydrogen from Dirty Water Using Simple Acid Treatment | Happy Eco News
Scientists produce clean hydrogen from dirty water by acidifying treated wastewater, cutting treatment costs by 47%. The Princeton University breakthrough makes green hydrogen more affordable and sustainable.

January 8, 2026 -- On MS NOW today, columnist Philip Bump broke down when talking ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-8-2026
http://www.memeorandum.com/260109/p47#a260109p47

FLEET: Formal Language-Grounded Scheduling for Heterogeneous Robot Teams
Corban Rivera, Grayson Byrd, Meghan Booker, Bethany Kemp, Allison Gaines, Emma Holmes, James Uplinger, Celso M de Melo, David Handelman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07417

FLEET: Formal Language-Grounded Scheduling for Heterogeneous Robot Teams
Coordinating heterogeneous robot teams from free-form natural-language instructions is hard. Language-only planners struggle with long-horizon coordination and hallucination, while purely formal methods require closed-world models. We present FLEET, a hybrid decentralized framework that turns language into optimized multi-robot schedules. An LLM front-end produces (i) a task graph with durations and precedence and (ii) a capability-aware robot--task fitness matrix; a formal back-end solves a ma…

For all the haters: I still love Apple Music auto mixing

Surface band-selective moir\'e effect induces flat band in mixed-dimensional heterostructures
Shuming Yu, Zhentao Fu, Dingkun Qin, Enting Li, Hao Zhong, Xingzhe Wang, Keming Zhao, Shangkun Mo, Qiang Wan, Yiwei Li, Jie Li, Jianxin Zhong, Hong Ding, Nan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07704

Surface band-selective moiré effect induces flat band in mixed-dimensional heterostructures
In this work, we reveal a curious type of moiré effect that selectively modifies the surface states of bulk crystal. We synthesize mixed-dimensional heterostructures consisting of a noble gas monolayer grow on the surface of bulk Bi(111), and determine the electronic structure of the heterostructures using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. We directly observe moiré replicas of the Bi(111) surface states, while the bulk states remain barely changed. Meanwhile, we achieve control over …

Quantum Filtering of Hydrogen Isotopes through Graphene
Joshua Hale, Theja N. De Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07461 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07461

Quantum Filtering of Hydrogen Isotopes through Graphene
Driven by the growing demand in the energy, medical, and industrial sectors, we investigate a hydrogen isotope separation technique that offers both a high separation factor and economic feasibility. Our findings reveal that filtering isotopes through two-dimensional graphene layers provides an exceptionally efficient quantum-mechanical method for isotope separation. Using a recently developed analytical pairwise potential between hydrogen isotopes and carbon atoms in graphene, we examine the c…

Isotope effects (Cl, O, C) of heterogeneous electrochemistry induced by Martian dust activities: #Mars

Thermal one-loop self-energy correction for hydrogen-like systems: relativistic approach
M. Reiter, D. Solovyev, A. Bobylev, D. Glazov, T. Zalialiutdinov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.06828 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.06828 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.06828
arXiv:2512.06828v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Within a fully relativistic framework, the one-loop self-energy correction for a bound electron is derived and extended to incorporate the effects of external thermal radiation. In a series of previous works, it was shown that in quantum electrodynamics at finite temperature (QED), the description of effects caused by blackbody radiation can be reduced to using the thermal part of the photon propagator. As a consequence of the non-relativistic approximation in the calculation of the thermal one-loop self-energy correction, well-known quantum-mechanical (QM) phenomena emerge at successive orders: the Stark effect arises at leading order in $\alpha Z$, the Zeeman effect appears in the next-to-leading non-relativistic correction, accompanied by diamagnetic contributions and their relativistic refinements, among other perturbative corrections. The fully relativistic approach used in this work for calculating the SE contribution allows for accurate calculations of the thermal shift of atomic levels, in which all these effects are automatically taken into account. The hydrogen atom serves as the basis for testing a fully relativistic approach to such calculations. Additionally, an analysis is presented of the behavior of the thermal shift caused by the thermal one-loop correction to the self-energy of a bound electron for hydrogen-like ions with an arbitrary nuclear charge $Z$. The significance of these calculations lies in their relevance to contemporary high-precision experiments, where thermal radiation constitutes one of the major contributions to the overall uncertainty budget.
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A breakthrough for solar durability: UNSW researchers discovered that thicker aluminum oxide layers protect TOPCon solar cells from UV damage by blocking hydrogen migration.
The culprit? High-energy UV photons break chemical bonds, releasing hydrogen that degrades performance. But 7nm AlOx layers act as an effective barrier.

Thicker alumunium oxide layers can reduce ultraviolet-induced degradation in TOPCon solar cells
UNSW researchers developed an experimentally validated model linking UV-induced degradation in TOPCon solar cells to hydrogen transport, charge trapping, and permanent structural changes in the passivation stack. They show that thicker aluminum oxide layers significantly improve UV resilience by limiting hydrogen migration, offering clear guidance for more robust TOPCon designs.

Japan is building the world's largest liquefied hydrogen carrier — a massive 40,000 cubic meter vessel set to revolutionize clean energy transport by the 2030s.
Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Japan Suiso Energy are teaming up on this groundbreaking ship, which will run on both diesel and hydrogen fuel. It features specialized tanks and advanced insulation to keep the super-cold liquid hydrogen stable during ocean voyages.

Japanese companies to build world’s largest liquefied hydrogen carrier
Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Japan Suiso Energy will construct a 40,000 cubic meter vessel designed to meet global hydrogen demand in the 2030s.