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"Does the cafe entrance look accessible? Where is the door?" Towards Geospatial AI Agents for Visual Inquiries
Jon E. Froehlich, Jared Hwang, Zeyu Wang, John S. O'Meara, Xia Su, William Huang, Yang Zhang, Alex Fiannaca, Philip Nelson, Shaun Kane
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15752

"Does the cafe entrance look accessible? Where is the door?" Towards Geospatial AI Agents for Visual Inquiries
Interactive digital maps have revolutionized how people travel and learn about the world; however, they rely on pre-existing structured data in GIS databases (e.g., road networks, POI indices), limiting their ability to address geo-visual questions related to what the world looks like. We introduce our vision for Geo-Visual Agents--multimodal AI agents capable of understanding and responding to nuanced visual-spatial inquiries about the world by analyzing large-scale repositories of geospatial …

A deep Search for Ethylene Glycol and Glycolonitrile in the V883 Ori Protoplanetary Disk
Abubakar M. A. Fadul, Kamber R. Schwarz, Tushar Suhasaria, Jenny K. Calahan, Jane Huang, Merel L. R. van 't Hoff
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14905

A deep Search for Ethylene Glycol and Glycolonitrile in the V883 Ori Protoplanetary Disk
Ethylene glycol ($\mathrm{(CH_2OH)_2}$, hereafter EG) and Glycolonitrile ($\mathrm{HOCH_2CN}$, hereafter GN) are considered molecular precursors of nucleic acids. EG is a sugar alcohol and the reduced form of Glycolaldehyde ($\mathrm{CH_2(OH)CHO}$, hereafter GA). GN is considered a key precursor of adenine formation (nucleotide) and can be a precursor of glycine (amino acid). Detections of such prebiotic molecules in the interstellar medium are increasingly common. How much of this complexity e…

Reverberation lags viewed in hard X-rays from an accreting stellar-mass black hole
Bei You, Wei Yu, Adam Ingram, Barbara De Marco, Jin-Lu Qu, Zong-Hong Zhu, Andrea Santangelo, Sai-En Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16608

Reverberation lags viewed in hard X-rays from an accreting stellar-mass black hole
Accreting black holes are thought to swallow matter in the form of a disk and a hot cloud of plasma that glows brightly in X-rays, known as the corona. The X-ray emitting region is far too small to be directly imaged, but rapid variability of the X-ray signal can be used to infer the geometry by measuring time lags caused by material propagating towards the black hole and by coronal X-rays reflecting off the disk to imprint a reverberation lag. Reverberation lags can be recognized by characteri…

Random Sampling over Spatial Range Joins
Daichi Amagata
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15070 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.15070

Random Sampling over Spatial Range Joins
Spatial range joins have many applications, including geographic information systems, location-based social networking services, neuroscience, and visualization. However, joins incur not only expensive computational costs but also too large result sets. A practical and reasonable approach to alleviating these issues is to return random samples of the join results. Although this is promising and sufficient for many applications involving spatial range joins, efficiently computing random samples …

Andra: meddelandet skickades till
representationen.bryssel@gov.se,
abir.alsahlani@europarl.europa.eu,
johan.danielsson@europarl.europa.eu,
adnan.dibrani@europarl.europa.eu,
sofie.eriksson@europarl.europa.eu,
dick.erixon@europarl.europa.eu,
helene.fritzon@europarl.europa.eu,
par.holmgren@europarl.europa.eu,
evin.incir@europarl.europa.eu,
karin.karlsbro@europarl.europa.eu,
arba.kokalari@europarl.europa.eu,
alice.kuhnke@europarl.europ…

Superconducting Dome in Ionic Liquid Gated Homoepitaxial Strontium Titanate Thin Films
Sushant Padhye, Jin Yue, Shivasheesh Varshney, Bharat Jalan, David Goldhaber-Gordon, Evgeny Mikheev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16408

Superconducting Dome in Ionic Liquid Gated Homoepitaxial Strontium Titanate Thin Films
In this work, we patterned a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) on the surface of a SrTiO$_3$ thin film grown homoepitaxially on SrTiO$_3$ by hybrid molecular beam epitaxy (hMBE). We explored the superconducting dome in this material system by tuning electron density with ionic liquid gating. We found superconducting transitions up to 503 mK near an optimal electron density of approximately 3 $\times$ 10$^{13}$ cm$^{-2}$. This is a meaningful increase from the typical optimal transition near 3…

Jaime Alanís died a day after a frenzied immigration raid of Glass House Farms in Ventura county
where authorities arrested at least 200 workers.
The 57-year-old, who was from the town of Huajúmbaro in Michoacšn, Mexico, is the first known person to die during the Trump administration’s enhanced immigration enforcement operations in southern California.
The federal government’s ramped up enforcement activities have brought chaos across southern California as Ice agents des…

Designing Culturally Aligned AI Systems For Social Good in Non-Western Contexts
Deepak Varuvel Dennison, Mohit Jain, Tanuja Ganu, Aditya Vashistha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16158

Designing Culturally Aligned AI Systems For Social Good in Non-Western Contexts
AI technologies are increasingly deployed in high-stakes domains such as education, healthcare, law, and agriculture to address complex challenges in non-Western contexts. This paper examines eight real-world deployments spanning seven countries and 18 languages, combining 17 interviews with AI developers and domain experts with secondary research. Our findings identify six cross-cutting factors - Language, Domain, Demography, Institution, Task, and Safety - that structured how systems were des…

"Labour’s economic strategy, if it can be called a strategy, is based upon growth delivering the tax income needed to fund our public services, with limited tax increases and the hope of ‘trickle down’ from wide-ranging deregulation of finance and planning."
John McDonnell still hanging in there it seems. A forlorn hope? Or a careful programmatic tactic?
Wasting a glorious political opportunity – 1 year of Labour in Government. John McDonnell exclusive

Wasting a glorious political opportunity – 1 year of Labour in Government. John McDonnell exclusive.
"There is no way the Chancellor’s existing economic strategy will be able to address the scale of the deep-seated problems our society faces."

A half-ring of ionized circumstellar material trapped in the magnetosphere of a white dwarf merger remnant
Andrei A. Cristea, Ilaria Caiazzo, Tim Cunningham, John C. Raymond, Stephane Vennes, Adela Kawka, Aayush Desai, David R. Miller, J. J. Hermes, Jim Fuller, Jeremy Heyl, Jan van Roestel, Kevin B. Burdge, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Ingrid Pelisoli, Boris T. G\"ansicke, Paula Szkody, Scott J. Kenyon, Zach Vanderbosch, Andrew Drake, Lilia Ferrario, Dayal Wickramasinghe, Viraj R. Karamb…

A half-ring of ionized circumstellar material trapped in the magnetosphere of a white dwarf merger remnant
Many white dwarfs are observed in compact double white dwarf binaries and, through the emission of gravitational waves, a large fraction are destined to merge. The merger remnants that do not explode in a Type Ia supernova are expected to initially be rapidly rotating and highly magnetized. We here present our discovery of the variable white dwarf ZTF J200832.79+444939.67, hereafter ZTF J2008+4449, as a likely merger remnant showing signs of circumstellar material without a stellar or substella…