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A class of their own - Sade

TOI-1743 b, TOI-5799 b, TOI-5799 c and TOI-6223 b: TESS discovery and validation of four super-Earth to Neptune-sized planets around M dwarfs
S. Yal\c{c}{\i}nkaya, K. Barkaoui, \"O. Ba\c{s}t\"urk, M. Gillon, F. J. Pozuelos, M. Timmermans, B. V. Rackham, A. J. Burgasser, P. Mistry, A. Pel\'aez-Torres, G. Morello, E. K. Pass, A. Bieryla, D. W. Latham, K. A. Collins, F. Akar, Z. Benkhaldoun, A. Burdanov, J. Brande, D. R. Ciardi, C. A. Clark, E. Ducrot, J. de Wit, B. O. Demor…

TOI-1743 b, TOI-5799 b, TOI-5799 c and TOI-6223 b: TESS discovery and validation of four super-Earth to Neptune-sized planets around M dwarfs
We present the discovery by the TESS mission of one transiting Neptune-sized planet, TOI-6223 b and two transiting super-Earths, TOI-1743 b and TOI-5799 b. We validate these planets using a statistical validation method, multi-color light curves and other ancillary observations. We combined TESS and ground-based photometric data to constrain the physical properties of the planets. TOI-6223-b is slightly larger than Neptune ($R_p=5.12^{+0.24}_{-0.25}$ $R_\oplus$) orbiting an early M dwarf in 3.8…

Finished “I’m Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom” by Jason Pargin. A Lyft driver is asked by a woman to drive her and a mysterious box across the country for $200k. The rules are that he cannot look inside, nor ask about the contents. Everything comes undone along the way in a mostly fun, pulpy thriller kind of way.
Some dark satire about anxiety, the web, social media, public discourse, incels, etc.
3.5/5 stars, rounded up to 4/5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Leech (2022) by Hiron Ennes is a post-post-apoc novel told from the POV of a hive-mind parasite that's eliminated any human who has medical knowledge, except for the humans it inhabits. This is rationalized as a survival tactic.
The story begins with a mystery: the parasite has no memory of the death of its host who was doctor to a tyrant in the bleak north, so it sends another of itself to investigate. It discovers the dead host has a different parasite. A dog eats that. Some peop…

FRB 20250316A - A Brilliant and Nearby One-off #FastRadioBurst Localized to 13 pc Precision: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adf62f -> Physical properties provided by Keck Observatory data reveals surprising FRB environment / Origin of Mysterious Radio Signal Possibly Discovered: https://keckobservatory.org/rbfloat/ / https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/origin-mysterious-radio-signal-possibly-discovered

Million-Year-Old Evidence of Epic Journey Near ‘Hobbit’ Island Discovered by Scientists https://www.404media.co/indonesian-island-sulawesi-early-humans-hobbits-calio/

AlloyInter: Visualising Alloy Mixture Interpolations in t-SNE Representations
Benedikt Kantz, Peter Waldert, Stefan Lengauer, Tobias Schreck
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19202 htt…

GRB 250702B: Discovery of a Gamma-Ray Burst from a Black Hole Falling into a Star
Eliza Neights, Eric Burns, Chris L. Fryer, Dmitry Svinkin, Suman Bala, Rachel Hamburg, Ramandeep Gill, Michela Negro, Megan Masterson, James DeLaunay, David J. Lawrence, Sophie E. D. Abrahams, Yuta Kawakubo, Paz Beniamini, Christian Aa. Diget, Dmitry Frederiks, John Goldsten, Adam Goldstein, Alexander D. Hall-Smith, Erin Kara, Alison M. Laird, Gavin P. Lamb, Oliver J. Roberts, Ryan Seeb, V. Ashley Villar,…

GRB 250702B: Discovery of a Gamma-Ray Burst from a Black Hole Falling into a Star
Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous electromagnetic events in the universe. Their prompt gamma-ray emission has typical durations between a fraction of a second and several minutes. A rare subset of these events have durations in excess of a thousand seconds, referred to as ultra-long gamma-ray bursts. Here, we report the discovery of the longest gamma-ray burst ever seen with a ~25,000 s gamma-ray duration, GRB 250702B, and characterize this event using data from four instruments in the Int…

Modulated deuteron spectra observed with the Magnetic Recoil neutron Spectrometer at the National Ignition Facility
Bao Nguyen, Yousef Lawrence, Christopher Wink, Timothy Mark Johnson, Niels Vanderloo, Benjamin Reichelt, Amber Hennessy, Daniel Thomas Casey, Dave Schlossberg, Nathan Masters, Jose Milovich, Ari Le, Stephen Craxton, Maria Gatu Johnson, Johan Frenje

Modulated deuteron spectra observed with the Magnetic Recoil neutron Spectrometer at the National Ignition Facility
The Magnetic Recoil Spectrometer (MRS) on the National Ignition Facility is used to measure the neutron spectrum from deuterium-tritium fueled inertial confinement fusion implosions via n-d elastic scattering and magnetic dispersion of recoil deuterons. From the MRS-determined neutron spectrum, the yield ($Y_n$), apparent ion temperature ($T_i$) and areal density ($ρR$) are determined. However, anomalous energy modulations in recoil deuterons have been observed in several high-yield indirect d…

Seems like AI is a bit like the discovery of radioactive materials. At first that was used for all sorts of magical applications without understanding the implications. The future seemed to be bright and radiating with radioactive use cases in every household appliance.
Then slowly reality crept in and revealed the dangers. Now it's a highly regulated and contained domain.
Now think about AI and how it's advertised and what casualties we already witness.