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We inherited an Asian plum tree with our house. For the first couple of years, it produced nothing. Last year it started producing some tart plums, perfect for jams. This year looks to be a bumper crop. This was just my first 30 minutes of harvesting from what I could reach on the ground! #gardening

China’s president, Xi Jinping, has reportedly told his generals to be ready by 2027 to conquer the self-governing island of Taiwan,
which he regards as stolen sovereign territory.
US officials warned last week that China already has sufficient capability to invade now,
with amphibious landing craft,
D-day-style floating docks, paratroopers and expanded air combat and missile forces in a constant state of readiness.
Recent intimidating offshore military exercises…

The clocks have gone forward and we can cycle in the light in the evenings again! Read my blog:#mtb

Laser-driven ion acceleration in long-lived optically shaped gaseous targets enhanced by magnetic vortices
I. Tazes, S. Passalidis, G. Andrianaki, A. Skoulakis, C. Karvounis, D. Mancelli, J. Pasley, E. Kaselouris, I. Fitilis, M. Bakarezos, E. P. Benis, N. A. Papadogiannis, V. Dimitriou, M. Tatarakis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24…

Laser-driven ion acceleration in long-lived optically shaped gaseous targets enhanced by magnetic vortices
This research demonstrates high-repetition-rate laser-accelerated ion beams via dual, intersecting, counterpropagating laser-driven blast waves to precisely shape underdense gas into long-lived near-critical density targets. The collision of the shock fronts compresses the gas and forms steep density gradients with scale lengths of a few tens of microns. The compressed target persists for several nanoseconds, eliminating laser synchronization constraints. Measurements of multi-MeV ion energy sp…

Competing Mechanisms at Vibrated Interfaces of Density-Stratified Fluids
Tianyi Chu, Benjamin Wilfong, Timothy Koehler, Ryan M. McMullen, Spencer H. Bryngelson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23578

Competing Mechanisms at Vibrated Interfaces of Density-Stratified Fluids
Fluid--fluid interfacial instability and subsequent fluid mixing are ubiquitous in nature and engineering. Two hydrodynamic instabilities have long been thought to govern the interface behavior: the pressure gradient-driven long-wavelength Rayleigh--Taylor (RT) instability and resonance-induced short-wavelength Faraday instability. However, neither instability alone can explain the dynamics when both mechanisms act concurrently. Instead, we identify a previously unseen multi-modal instability e…

Stopped off in town, Broadmarsh area. Sat on a rock for a bit and read my book.
I don't often go into town these days, but I was reminded of this nice little garden area when the May Day march met round the corner the other week, and I thought I would have a rest there today before coming home.
Lovely to see the flowers growing there now. I really like that the city council went in that direction for that bit of the land.
#Nottingham #BloomScrolling

My latest historical analysis, this time about the craze for Japanese gardens in the US, how they got here and why we should look at the thought behind the Japanese garden, not just the plants and furniture. It can be found in two places, depending on your reading preference.
https://varnelis.substack.com…

Interminable Flights | Kazys Varnelis | Substack
architecture, art, technology, and their intersections. native plants too. Click to read Interminable Flights, by Kazys Varnelis, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Updated baseline design for HALHF: the hybrid, asymmetric, linear Higgs factory
C. A. Lindstr{\o}m, E. Adli, J. B. B. Chen, P. Drobniak, E. E. H{\o}rlyk, D. Kalvik, K. N. Sjobak, T. Barklow, S. Gessner, M. Hogan, M. Berggren, A. Laudrain, B. List, J. List, V. Maslov, K. P\~oder, M. Th\'evenet, N. Walker, J. Wood, S. Boogert, P. N. Burrows, V. Cilento, R. D'Arcy, B. Foster, S. Farrington, X. Lu, G. Moortgat-Pick, A. Seryi

Updated baseline design for HALHF: the hybrid, asymmetric, linear Higgs factory
Particle physicists aim to construct a electron-positron Higgs factory as the next major particle collider. However, the high associated costs motivate the development of more affordable collider designs. Plasma-wakefield acceleration is a promising technology to this end. HALHF is a proposal for a Higgs factory that utilizes beam-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration to accelerate electrons to high energy with high gradient, while using radio-frequency acceleration to accelerate positrons to a …

my flowers bring all the bugs to the yard
#photography #bloomScrolling #insects #bugs