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As Russia wages its full-scale war against Ukraine, one of its most important missile plants is quietly expanding -- bypassing international sanctions.
The Votkinsk Plant, also known as the Votkinskiy Plant,
— a strategic, state-owned facility serving Russia’s nuclear forces
— has hired thousands of new workers,
added new buildings,
and brought in advanced machinery to significantly increase its missile production.
Ukrainians have felt it firsthand.
Is…

Investigation: Russia expands strategic plant producing ICBMs — with China’s help
Key findings: * Despite international sanctions, Russia's strategic missile plant was able to import complex machinery to dramatically increase missile production. * The Kyiv Independent has identified the equipment supplied to the plant, as well as the supply chains, mostly from China. * We located the plant's new premises, built to house the new machinery. * We obtained a document confirming that the plant received an order to produce intercontinental missiles capable of reaching the U.S.

some guy is putting placards all over the Mission labeling sidewalk plants with their common and scientific name and a QR code to his vibe-coded AI landscaping service.
not only does he seem to have nothing to do with the planting of the plants, he can't tell which ones are weeds and has faithfully labeled a "Spiny sowthistle (Sonchus asper)" ahaha

Sonchus asper - Wikipedia

And in spite of massive amount of money, Microsoft Teams is still the biggest heap of junk I'm required to use by my employer.
I have resorted to using @… for communication with the team...
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/114636321276154824
Ruth_Mottram - The big winnners so far under Trump are
Microsoft, Meta, Netflix, Palantir, Tencent, Broadcom and Philip Morris according to analysis by @financialtimes - In tempted to add Burns' ever relevant epigram: "What a parcel o' rogues in a nation"
Triumphing under Trump: the corporate winners and losers  - https://on.ft.com/43N2RCb

Planets similar in size are often dissimilar in interior
E. Mamonova, Y. Shan, P. Hatalova, S. C. Werner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05089 https://

Planets similar in size are often dissimilar in interior
Recent works have found evidence of significant intrasystem uniformity in planet properties such as radius, mass, and orbital spacing, collectively termed 'peas in a pod' trends. In particular, correlations in radius and mass have been interpreted as implying uniformity in planet bulk density and composition within a system. However, the samples used to assess trends in mass tend to be small and biased. In this paper, we re-evaluate correlations in planet properties in a large sample of systems…

Running cars on E-Fuels, made with CO2 from the air and green Hydrogen?🚗⛽🌿⚡
E-Fuels, so the story goes, could allow using existing cars and infrastructure like gas stations. However, E-Fuels are extremely inefficient.
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and the Chilean company HIF inaugurated the Haru Oni pilot plant in Chile's windy Magallanes region, which turns CO2 and Hydrogen into Methanol and small amounts of Gasoline. How's it going? 🧵

What's up with the Production of E-Fuels in Chile?
In 2022, Siemens Energy, Porsche, and HIF inaugurated a pilot plant for the production of E-Methanol and E-Gasoline in southern Chile. The Haru Oni plant was intended to be just the beginning — with plans for large-scale production just a few years later. However, it does not look like that will ever happen.

Ich habe das #planted #Steak heute ergebnisoffen verkostet. Ich muss das nicht mehr haben. Weder schmeckt das nach Fleisch, noch wäre der Geschmack für sich geeignet, es noch einmal zuzubereiten. Dann lieber gewürzte Zucchinistreifen oder eine feine Grillpaprika.

plant_pol_vazquez: Vazquez & Simberloff plant-pollinator webs
Eight bipartite networks of plants and pollinators, from the Nahuel Huapi National Park and surrounding areas in Rio Negro, Argentina, from September 1999 to Feburary 2000. Edge weights represent the frequency of species interaction, and there is a common set of vertices across all eight webs.
This network has 144 nodes and 47 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food web, Weighted, Multilayer

A 130,000-year-old archaeological site in southern California, USA
The Cerutti Mastodon site is, to our knowledge, the oldest in situ, well-documented archaeological site in North America and, as such, substantially revises the timing of arrival of Homo into the Americas.
https://www.…

Searching for helium escape and a low density atmosphere around the 120 Myr old sub-Neptune HIP94235b using CRIRES
Ava Morrissey, George Zhou, Chelsea X. Huang, Duncan Wright, Neale Gibson, Keighley E. Rockcliffe, Elisabeth R. Newton, James Kirk, Daniel Bayliss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04605

Searching for helium escape and a low density atmosphere around the 120 Myr old sub-Neptune HIP94235b using CRIRES+
Atmospheric mass loss is thought to induce the bimodality in the small planet population as we observe it today. Observationally, active mass loss can be traced by excess absorption in spectral lines of lighter species, such as the hydrogen Ly-alpha line and the metastable helium triplet. We search for helium escape from the young (120Myr old) sub-Neptune HIP94235b. We obtained two transit observations of HIP94235b using the CRyogenic InfraRed Echelle Spectrograph (CRIRES+) on the Very Large Te…

Paper plants can emit as much CO2 as oil refineries.
They’re flying under the radar.
Environmental Protection Agency accounting loopholes and aging equipment
have helped fuel pollution that may be undercounted by 350 percent.
https://grist.org/clima…

Paper plants can emit as much CO2 as oil refineries. They’re flying under the radar.
Environmental Protection Agency accounting loopholes and aging equipment have helped fuel pollution that may be undercounted by 350 percent.