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OpenAI hires black hole physicist Alex Lupsasca, the first person to join the OpenAI for Science initiative led by Kevin Weil (Megan Morrone/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/16/openai-science-black-hole-physicist

Exclusive: OpenAI hires black hole physicist in broader science push
The ChatGPT maker wants to compete with Google DeepMind in the sciences.

WSJ restructures its health, science, and education teams, with the health group moving back under the business team, after separating during the pandemic (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/wsj-restructures-…

WSJ restructures health, science and education, makes layoffs - Talking Biz News
Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Wednesday: Dear all, Today we are announcing changes to how we structure our health, science and education teams at The Wall Street Journal. The health group is returning to the business team after becoming a separate coverage area during the Covid-19 pandemic. Coverage of […]

Worried about turning 60? Science says that’s when many of us actually peak https://theconversation.com/worried-about-turning-60-science-says-thats-when-many-of-us-actually-peak-267215
Well, this is fucking go…

Worried about turning 60? Science says that’s when many of us actually peak
Perhaps it’s time we stopped treating midlife as a countdown and started recognising it as a peak.

The Open Science Retreat is my favorite event of the year and next year I get to go to not only one but two?! 2026 will be the best year ever.
Want to join me? Here are your options:
#osr26uk: The much loved regular global retreat will take place in Wales

Science Lab: Cowboys simply need better-than-worst https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/science-lab-cowboys-simply-need-better-than-worst

Evaluation using in-situ observations from national governments and Citizen Scientists suggests nadir #altimeters can accurately measure water level changes regardless of lake area: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15481603.2025.2543521 -> Volunteers Help NASA Test Lake Monitoring From Space: https://science.nasa.gov/get-involved/citizen-science/how-small-is-too-small-volunteers-help-nasa-test-lake-monitoring-from-space/

MatSciBench: Benchmarking the Reasoning Ability of Large Language Models in Materials Science
Junkai Zhang, Jingru Gan, Xiaoxuan Wang, Zian Jia, Changquan Gu, Jianpeng Chen, Yanqiao Zhu, Mingyu Derek Ma, Dawei Zhou, Ling Li, Wei Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12171

MatSciBench: Benchmarking the Reasoning Ability of Large Language Models in Materials Science
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable abilities in scientific reasoning, yet their reasoning capabilities in materials science remain underexplored. To fill this gap, we introduce MatSciBench, a comprehensive college-level benchmark comprising 1,340 problems that span the essential subdisciplines of materials science. MatSciBench features a structured and fine-grained taxonomy that categorizes materials science questions into 6 primary fields and 31 sub-fields, and includes …

Northwest researchers find 6-million-year-old ice
— the oldest on Earth
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/12/16/all-science-no-fiction-northwest-researchers-6-million-year-old-ice/

Northwest researchers find 6-million-year-old ice — the oldest on Earth
To find the oldest ice on the planet researchers had to go somewhere that’s been cold for a long time — where the ice builds up in layers instead of melting away.

netscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection

I just ran across this smart and well written/edited site. They've been there a while--I'd just never heard of them. They're free. They have top-notch personnel.
Undark is a great science website and podcast. Check em out. (Orion browser worked better than Safari for me.)
https://undark.org/
I…

Undark: Truth, Beauty, Science.
Undark is a nonprofit, editorially independent digital magazine exploring the intersection of science and society.

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/15/bored-aliens-has-intelligent-life-stopped-bothering-trying-to-contact-earth?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/oct/15/bored-aliens-has-intelligent-life-stopped-bothering-trying-to-contact-earth?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Les chimpanzés sont presque aussi rationnels que nous, selon une série d'expériences menées par l'anthropologue évolutionniste Jan Engelmann.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/11/the-evolution-of-rationality-h…

#ChatGPT Will Soon Have #Erotic Chats With Verified #Adults

"Countries that neglect #science become dependent on those that don’t. U.S. post-WWII dominance came from basic science investments (OSRD, NSF, NIH, DOE labs). After WWII ended, the UK slashed science investment which allowed the U.S. to commercialize the British inventions made during the war.
...[USSR failed] to convert science into sustained innovation...during the same time that U.…

Steve Blank No Science, No Startups: The Innovation Engine We’re Switching Off
Tons of words have been written about the Trump Administrations war on Science in Universities. But few people have asked what, exactly, is science? How does it work? Who are the scientists? What d…

The rocket age - a return..
The Chinese rocket industry takes off
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/12/03/the-chinese-rocket-industry-takes-off?giftId=NWM2OTZlNDItNmRkYS00M2E3LTkxMDYtMjZhZWJhNmZlY2Mw&utm_campaign=gifted_article

There is more than enough to go around. We just need to organise that.
This is how a matriarchal world order would arrange things:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800925003027

COSTAR-A: A prompting framework for enhancing Large Language Model performance on Point-of-View questions
Nzubechukwu C. Ohalete (School of Data Science and Analytics, Kennesaw State University, GA, USA), Kevin B. Gittner (School of Data Science and Analytics, Kennesaw State University, GA, USA), Lauren M. Matheny (School of Data Science and Analytics, Kennesaw State University, GA, USA)

COSTAR-A: A prompting framework for enhancing Large Language Model performance on Point-of-View questions
Large Language Models (LLMs) are highly sensitive to prompt design, and making optimized prompting techniques is crucial for generating consistent, high-quality outputs. In this study, we introduce COSTAR-A, a novel prompt engineering framework that enhances the existing COSTAR method, which stands for Context, Objective, Style, Tone, Audience, and Response, by adding the 'Answer' component at the end. We demonstrate that while the original COSTAR framework improves prompt clarity and aligns ou…

A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian's Vault (John Schwartz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/science/kryptos-cia-solution-sanborn-auction.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251016/p23#a251016p23

There's a word at the beginning and end of Dawn of Everything that feels self-referential right now: Kairos.
> We began this book with a quote which refers to the Greek notion of kairos as one of those occasional moments in a society’s history when its frames of reference undergo a shift – a metamorphosis of the fundamental principles and symbols, when the lines between myth and history, science and magic become blurred – and, therefore, real change is possible. Philosophers sometimes like to speak of ‘the Event’ – a political revolution, a scientific discovery, an artistic masterpiece – that is, a breakthrough which reveals aspects of reality that had previously been unimaginable but, once seen, can never be unseen. If so, kairos is the kind of time in which Events are prone to happen.
> Societies around the world appear to be cascading towards such a point. This is particularly true of those which, since the First World War, have been in the habit of calling themselves ‘Western’. On the one hand, fundamental breakthroughs in the physical sciences, or even artistic expression, no longer seem to occur with anything like the regularity people came to expect in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Yet at the same time, our scientific means of understanding the past, not just our species’ past but that of our planet, has been advancing with dizzying speed. Scientists in 2020 are not (as readers of mid-twentieth-century science fiction might have hoped) encountering alien civilizations in distant star systems; but they are encountering radically different forms of society under their own feet, some forgotten and newly rediscovered, others more familiar, but now understood in entirely new ways.
Reading this as I write something very inspired by this work feels especially serendipitous, especially at this time. When they wrote the book, I think that kairos felt more serendipitous itself. But as the frequency of opportunity increases, the veil between realities feels more malleable... that perhaps we can poke a finger through and open a portal to a completely different future than the one we've felt locked into for such a long time.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/the-coordinated-swarm-lyhr

Science in Action will finish at the end of this month! I will miss it dearly.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/roland-pease-10678a59_private-eye-has-picked-up-on-the-news-that-activity-7303433572315508736-Pq3k

Private Eye has picked up on the news that Science in Action is to be dropped later this year from the BBC World Service, just one of several wide-ranging cost-cutting changes. Obviously, we're… | Roland Pease | 50 comments
Private Eye has picked up on the news that Science in Action is to be dropped later this year from the BBC World Service, just one of several wide-ranging cost-cutting changes. Obviously, we're trying to push back. It's not just that I love working on the programme, there are new discoveries and critical issues aplenty each week to dig into, but we try hard always to fulfil a need for our global audience, representing research from across the planet, and to dig deeper into the science than (say…

The Summerhall complex has been such a focus for linking art and science in #Edinburgh, usually on a shoestring budget, but many thanks due to Robert McDowell et al. since 2011.
Now disaggregation seems to be underway for the collections that were hosted there, like the Artiscience Library and the Demarco archive ... HT @…
At least the brewery and the distillery are keeping up traditional science practices 😉, like the only bar with gin on tap.
➡️ https://bellacaledonia.org.uk/2025/12/15/a-cultural-evacuation-the-demarco-archive-leaves-scotland/

Das #Kryptos scheint gelöst worden zu sein. Zwei Nerds haben einen Seitenkanalangriff gestartet und den Klartext extrahiert.
Kryptos ist eine Skulptur vor der #cia mit geheimem Text. Seit Jahren wird versucht, den Text zu entschlüsseln.
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Solution to CIA’s Kryptos Sculpture Is Found in Smiths…

#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 09 - Sarcophagus
TARRANT: I'm sure you wouldn't. [Draws his gun and exits. Avon smiles.]
[Corridors. As Tarrant runs toward the flight deck he is intercut with visions of the conjured figure in scarlet doing the same things.]

This was written 50 years ago.
I wonder if in 25 years there will be situations like this in science about the Trump and AI years.
(Weizenbaum, Computer power and human reason, 1976)

Catalog and Characterization of Science Orbit Configurations for an Enceladus Orbiter
Spencer Boone, Joan Pau Sanchez Cuartialles, St\'ephanie Lizy-Destrez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12421

Catalog and Characterization of Science Orbit Configurations for an Enceladus Orbiter
Saturn's moon Enceladus is an exciting destination for future exploration missions due to the scientifically interesting geyser region located on its South pole. In this work, we compile the different types of science orbit configurations that have been proposed in the literature and present numerical methods to compute each of them in the Saturn-Enceladus circular restricted three-body problem (CR3BP). In addition, we explore the utility of the higher period dynamical structures found in the C…

A universal approach to saddle-point methods in attosecond science
Anne Weber, Job Feldbrugge, Emilio Pisanty
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12545 https://arxi…

A universal approach to saddle-point methods in attosecond science
Light-matter interactions within the strong-field regime, where intense laser fields can ionise a target via tunnelling, give rise to fascinating phenomena such as the generation of high-order harmonic radiation (HHG). On the atomic scale, these strong-field processes are described in terms of highly-oscillatory time integrals which are often approximated using saddle-point methods. These methods simultaneously simplify the calculations and let us understand the physical processes in terms of s…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kathrinpassig/115554872054837228
Kathrin schreibt die beste Science Fiction.

"The specific mechanism of action that underlies the curing of autism post RFK-Jr.-face-punch is not yet understood by science, but the conclusion could not be more clear: 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐮𝐧𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐑𝐅𝐊 𝐉𝐫. 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐦."
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/study-re

Study Reveals Autism Cure: Punching RFK Jr. in the Face
autism cure is surprisingly simple A joint study out of Shangri-La Polytechnic Institute and the University of Atlantis-Brigadoon has concluded that no cases of autism persist after patients punch Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in the face. We do not suggest people punch RFK Jr. without his consent. However, we do

Our realities are constantly diverging, and never completely shared. And we •want• that! It’s important for people to bring different experiences, different ways of seeing and thinking.
One person understands climate science. Another person understands the subculture of Southern Iowa. A third person knows what it’s like to live as a Black person in this society — and so on, to infinity. All these perspectives matter, and nobody gets to hold all infinity of them at once.
Nobody gets to be in full possession of absolute truth.
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Drei #Astronauten der aktuellen Shenzhou-21-Mission befinden sich derzeit ohne intaktes Rückkehrfahrzeug auf der chinesischen #Raumstation #Tiangong.
Ihr vorgesehenes

Three astronauts are stuck on China’s space station without a safe ride home
“This does not meet the release conditions for a safe manned return.”…

Jensen Huang, the CEO of supercomputer chip-maker Nvidia, is now loudly cozying up to U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, even though Wright is fully on board with the Trump administration’s climate denial policies.  
A so-called “climate science” report Wright’s Department of Energy released in July has been condemned by scores of scientists as “biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policymaking.” 
The report is part of the administration’s effort to overturnthe scientifi…

Nvidia CEO Praises Trump Energy Chief — a Climate Denier — and his 'Passion' for Science
Jensen Huang gives "a shout-out for Secretary Chris Wright" as Nvidia and Trump administration partner on a massive AI buildout.

Die Nasa braucht Hilfe: Bei diesen Projekten kann man mitforschen
Von Asteroiden bis Planet 9: Die Nasa sucht Unterstützung für ihre Citizen-Science-Projekte. Auch ohne wissenschaftlichen Hintergrund können Sie mitforschen.

SCIENCE WARRIORS: From Antarctica — STRAIGHT INTO BATTLE! Polar defenders showed their double front: https://benborges.xyz/2025/11/13/science-warriors-from-antarctica-straight.html

Guardian: Face transplants promised hope. Patients were put through the unthinkable https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/nov/27/face-transplant-patients-results-outcomes "negative data is often buried, driven by funding battles and inst…

The first step on the road to #TNC26 starts today… with the opening of the Call for Proposals!
Next year, our community will gather in Helsinki 🇫🇮 under the theme Digital Sisu—inspired by the Finnish word “sisu,” which embodies inner strength, tenacity, and determination in the face of adversity.
💡 If you have a story to share, or a vision that can shape the conversation—we want to hear f…

The framing of digital pollution does mirror environmental pollution, e.g. in rivers and streams in many ways: In those, pollution can be coming from concentrated "point-sources" as well from more diffuse "non-point" sources. Including the problem of "too much of a good thing", where an excess of matter creates an eutrophication of an ecosystem that ultimately asphyxiates it.
Beyond being an apt metaphor, can we learn something from environmental science for online communities?
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Today, a customer lost some changes due to git stach drop. This meant that they were no longer accessible with git reflog. As a last resort, git fsck came to our rescue: https://www.python4data.science/en/latest/productive/git/review.html#fsck

Review
log: Filter and sort:$ git log [-n COUNT], lists the commit history of the current branch.--n, limits the number of commits to the specified number.,.,,$ git log [--after=" YYYY-MM-DD"] [...

Science Weekly: The brain’s 5 eras, the vaccine that protects against dementia, altruistic ants
Episode webpage: https://www.theguardian.com/science/series/science
Media file:

A carbon-rich atmosphere on a windy pulsar planet: #Exoplanet Whose Composition Defies Explanation: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-observes-exoplanet-whose-composition-defies-explanation/#hds-sidebar-nav-5

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
[1/1]:
- First Order Logic and Twin-Width in Tournaments and Dense Oriented Graphs
Colin Geniet, St\'ephan Thomass\'e

Verification and experimental validation of neutral atom beam source produced by L-PBF
Vineet Kumar (Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Dept. of Surface and Plasma Science, Prague 8, Czech Republic), Niklas V. Lausti (Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Dept. of Surface and Plasma Science, Prague 8, Czech Republic), Peter K\'u\v{s} (Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Dept. of Surface and Plasma Science, Prague 8, Czech R…

"The Securing American Funding and Expertise from Adversarial Research Exploitation (SAFE) Act would deny federal funding to any U.S. scientist who collaborates with anyone “affiliated with a hostile foreign entity,” a category that includes four countries: China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea. The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding."
https://www.science.org/content/article/u-s-congress-considers-sweeping-ban-chinese-collaborations

Adaptive Science Operations in Deep Space Missions Using Offline Belief State Planning
Grace Ra Kim, Hailey Warner, Duncan Eddy, Evan Astle, Zachary Booth, Edward Balaban, Mykel J. Kochenderfer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08812

Adaptive Science Operations in Deep Space Missions Using Offline Belief State Planning
Deep space missions face extreme communication delays and environmental uncertainty that prevent real-time ground operations. To support autonomous science operations in communication-constrained environments, we present a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP) framework that adaptively sequences spacecraft science instruments. We integrate a Bayesian network into the POMDP observation space to manage the high-dimensional and uncertain measurements typical of astrobiology missions…

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
Since 2011, millions of tons of a brown algae called Sargassum has washed onto beaches in the Caribbean. The rotting seaweed releases toxic hydrogen sulfide, smelling of rotten eggs, impacting tourism and shore access. It was initially thought Saharan iron dust was the cause, but new #science

#RoteListe: Für #Raubfliegen-Arten feucht-kühler Lebensräume wird es schwerer
Fast die Hälfte aller Raubfliegenarten Deutschlands, nämlich 40 von 83 in Deutschland etablierten Arten, sind bestandsgefährdet oder bereits ausgestorben. Das zeigt die neue Rote Liste der Raubfliegen, die das Bundesamt …

Rote Liste: Für Raubfliegen-Arten feucht-kühler Lebensräume wird es schwerer - Rote-Liste-Zentrum Rote-Liste-Zentrum
Fast die Hälfte aller Raubfliegenarten Deutschlands, nämlich 40 von 83 in Deutschland etablierten Arten, sind bestandsgefährdet oder bereits ausgestorben. Das zeigt die neue Rote Liste der Raubfliegen, die das Bundesamt für Naturschutz und das Rote-Liste-Zentrum jetzt veröffentlicht haben. Citizen Science hat zu einer umfangreicheren Datengrundlage beigetragen.

Thinking about attending Berlin Buzzwords? Don't miss out! #bbuzz provides many resources and perks, especially for newcomers in data science, AI, and search.
Find out why and register for June 7-9: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/join-bbuzz-rhd/

China Wants Foreign Scientists.
The Public Says No, Thanks.
Since Beijing announced a new visa to attract young science and technology graduates,
a backlash has erupted online, forcing the government to respond
https://www.

China Wants Foreign Scientists. The Public Says No, Thanks.
Since Beijing announced a new visa to attract young science and technology graduates, a backlash has erupted online, forcing the government to respond.

GAR: Generative Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Formal Theorem Proving
Ruida Wang, Jiarui Yao, Rui Pan, Shizhe Diao, Tong Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11769 https://

GAR: Generative Adversarial Reinforcement Learning for Formal Theorem Proving
Solving math problems through verifiable languages such as Lean has significantly impacted both the mathematics and computer science communities. Current state-of-the-art models are often trained with expensive online Reinforcement Learning (RL) or expert iteration. However, these approaches rely on fixed problem sets, which causes inefficient training and limits the model to tackle complex problems. To overcome these limitations, we propose GAR: Generative Adversarial Reinforcement learning, a…

Replaced article(s) found for cs.GT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GT/new
[1/1]:
- PPA-Game: Characterizing and Learning Competitive Dynamics Among Online Content Creators
Renzhe Xu, Haotian Wang, Xingxuan Zhang, Bo Li, Peng Cui

webkb: WebKB graphs (1998)
Web graphs crawled from four Computer Science departments in 1998, with each page manually classified into one of 7 categories: course, department, faculty, project, staff, student, or other. All graphs included in a single .zip; also included are 'co-citation' graphs, which links i and j if they both point to some k. Edge weights count the number of links from i to j.
This network has 334 nodes and 32988 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web gr…

Cyclability in London: Associations between the quality of the local cycling environment, cycling participation, and perceptions of the cycling environment
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966692325004004

Cyclability in London: Associations between the quality of the local cycling environment, cycling participation, and perceptions of the cycling environment
Increasingly, researchers are exploring how multiple factors affect the quality of the cycling environment (here “cyclability”), relating this to perc…

from my link log —
Stephen Hawking’s floppy disks: an interview with Leontien Talboom.
https://www.aip.org/library/ex-libris-universum/stephen-hawkings-floppy-disks-the-digital-legacy-of-scie…

Stephen Hawking’s Floppy Disks & the Digital Legacy of Science: An Interview with Leontien Talboom

Are science exhibitions for everyone? Accessibility aspects of the CERN Science Gateway exhibitions
Tamara Caldas Cifuentes, Jemma Harris, Patricia Verheyden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08584

Are science exhibitions for everyone? Accessibility aspects of the CERN Science Gateway exhibitions
CERN's new flagship education and outreach centre, Science Gateway, opened its doors to the public in autumn 2023. Through a combination of immersive scenography with interactive exhibits and real scientific objects, its permanent exhibitions address the organisation's particle physics research and how this knowledge applies to other scientific fields and the visitor's everyday life. While in Discover CERN visitors learn about the accelerator and detector technologies at CERN, Our Universe cove…

Personalized and Constructive Feedback for Computer Science Students Using the Large Language Model (LLM)
Javed Ali Khan, Muhammad Yaqoob, Mamoona Tasadduq, Hafsa Shareef Dar, Aitezaz Ahsan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11556

Personalized and Constructive Feedback for Computer Science Students Using the Large Language Model (LLM)
The evolving pedagogy paradigms are leading toward educational transformations. One fundamental aspect of effective learning is relevant, immediate, and constructive feedback to students. Providing constructive feedback to large cohorts in academia is an ongoing challenge. Therefore, academics are moving towards automated assessment to provide immediate feedback. However, current approaches are often limited in scope, offering simplistic responses that do not provide students with personalized …

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CE/new
[1/1]:
- Time Travel is Cheating: Going Live with DeepFund for Real-Time Fund Investment Benchmarking
Li, Shi, Wang, Duan, Ruan, Huang, Long, Huang, Tang, Luo

Heute vor 65 Jahren: Am 15. November 1960 lief die USS George Washington (SSBN-598), ein nuklearbetriebenes Raketen-U-Boot, zum ersten mal bestückt mit 16 strategischen Mittelstreckenraketen vom Typ Polaris A1 zu einer Patrouillenfahrt aus.

Replaced article(s) found for cond-mat.mtrl-sci. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.mtrl-sci/new
[1/1]:
- Lattice Instabilities Along the Transformation from Hexagonal to Cuboidal Structures in Hard- and...
Robles-Navarro, Cooper, Hauser, Zehetmair, Smits, Schwerdtfeger

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/science/why-the-green-cheese-turned-white.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sk8.SkVc.sk84opl69pxV&smid=url-share

Why the Green Cheese Turned White
The cheesemakers didn’t mind that their prized product was changing color, but they were curious about the cause.

When people say they need hope about climate change, what are they really asking for?
New piece breaks down why hope collapses so easily and what stronger feelings can replace it.
Not prediction. Participation.
Read it here: [link]
https://www.b…

How to Stay Hopeful About Climate Change: A Scientific Look at the Brain’s Hope Circuit
A science-backed exploration of why hope collapses during the climate crisis. Learn the neuroscience behind fragile hope, the psychology of despair, and the durable alternatives—like agency, imagination, and possibility—that truly sustain long-term climate engagement.

Next week I will participate with the @… @… @… Horizon funded research projects in a policy briefing in Brussels, with MEP Group on Climate Change, Biodiversity & Sustainable Development @eupolarcluster.bsky.social
Remote participation possible if you're interested in what we have to say about Polar Science for Global Action and Strengthening Climate Preparedness through EU Leadership
https://polarres.eu/polarresevents/polar-science-for-global-action/

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.LO. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LO/new
[1/1]:
- Operational methods in semantics
Roberto M. Amadio
https://

A look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces (Oliver Whang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/scien…

At the Cybathlon, May the Best Brain-Computer Interface Win
Every four years at the Cybathlon, teams of researchers and technology “pilots” compete to see whose brain-computer interface holds the most promise.

Total #SolarEclipse triggers dawn behavior in birds: Insights from acoustic recordings and community science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx3025 -> "Compiling more than 10,000 community observations and artificial intelligence analyses of nearly 100,000 vocalizations, we found that bird behavior was substantially affected by these few minutes of unexpected afternoon darkness. More than half of wild bird species changed their biological rhythms, with many producing a dawn chorus in the aftermath of the eclipse. This natural experiment underscores the power of light in structuring animal behavior: Even when 'night' lasts for just 4 minutes, robust behavioral changes ensue." -> "Variation in species response also informs us about variation in sensitivity to light, with implications for the impacts of artificial light."

I have a rough plan for a location already. I hope it isn't too crowded.
"Catalonia proposes 27 safe sites to host over 85,000 people for 2026 total solar eclipse"
https://www.catalannews.com/society-scienc

Catalonia proposes 27 safe sites to host over 85,000 people for 2026 total solar eclipse
Meteorological phenomenon takes place on August 12 at 8:30 pm, with most selected sites located in southern Catalonia

The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science https://research-reviewer.blogspot.com/2025/10/publish-or-perish-research.html

The Paper Factory: How Academia Turned Research into Production — From publish-or-perish pressure to the erosion of creativity in modern science
An in-depth reflection on how the ‘publish or perish’ culture, precarious work, and academic metrics have turned research into a paper factory — an...

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

#Blakes7 Series B, Episode 09 - Countdown
BLAKE: [To Jenna] Get a locator fix on the signal.
CALLY: It's already pinpointed.
BLAKE: Well done. Alright, Avon, get kitted up. You too, Vila.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/2…

From the article: "In this century, the émigré fraction of U.S. Nobels in physics, chemistry and medicine now stands at 40 percent." https://mastodon.social/@ScienceScholar/115701386822807521

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.GT. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.GT/new
[1/1]:
- Edge-weighted Online Stochastic Matching: Beating $1-\frac1e$
Shuyi Yan
https://…

Autonomous Legged Mobile Manipulation for Lunar Surface Operations via Constrained Reinforcement Learning
Alvaro Belmonte-Baeza, Miguel Cazorla, Gabriel J. Garc\'ia, Carlos J. P\'erez-Del-Pulgar, Jorge Pomares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12684

Autonomous Legged Mobile Manipulation for Lunar Surface Operations via Constrained Reinforcement Learning
Robotics plays a pivotal role in planetary science and exploration, where autonomous and reliable systems are crucial due to the risks and challenges inherent to space environments. The establishment of permanent lunar bases demands robotic platforms capable of navigating and manipulating in the harsh lunar terrain. While wheeled rovers have been the mainstay for planetary exploration, their limitations in unstructured and steep terrains motivate the adoption of legged robots, which offer super…

Of the 202 Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine this century,
fewer than 70 percent hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03247-6

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CE/new
[1/1]:
- Proceedings of the International Workshop on Verification of Scientific Software
Stephen F. Siegel, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan

arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 8361 nodes and 15751 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration…

Science Lab: The Houston variable, Cowboys' D-line awakened? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/science-lab-the-houston-variable-cowboys-d-line-awakened

Crosslisted article(s) found for cond-mat.mtrl-sci. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.mtrl-sci/new
[1/1]:
- Multi-objective Bayesian Optimization with Human-in-the-Loop for Flexible Neuromorphic Electronic...
Benius Dunn, Javier Meza-Arroyo, Armi Tiihonen, Mark Lee, Julia …

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
SHAD: [On screen] Yes, madam.
[Launch platform]
GUARD: Instructions from the Captain. You are to wait for the next shuttle.
CARLON: But there isn't another.
GUARD: One will be sent for you tomorrow.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/214

Constraining Earth’s orbital capacity via operational feasibility: #LEO ist voll - neue Studie zeigt, wo der Orbit seine Belastungsgrenze erreicht hat: https://t3n.de/news/neue-studie-leo-orbit-erreicht-belastungsgrenze-1712012/

[2025-10-15 Wed (UTC), 8 new articles found for cs.LO Logic in Computer Science]
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arxiv_collab: Scientific collaborations in physics (1995-2005)
Collaboration graphs for scientists, extracted from the Los Alamos e-Print arXiv (physics), for 1995-1999 for three categories, and additionally for 1995-2003 and 1995-2005 for one category. For copyright reasons, the MEDLINE (biomedical research) and NCSTRL (computer science) collaboration graphs from this paper are not publicly available.
This network has 8361 nodes and 15751 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration…

We report the first calculation of light scattering on heavy dark matter (DM) particles: #DarkMatter, the substance that makes up most of the Universe, could potentially be detected as a red or blue light ‘fingerprint’, new research shows: https://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/2025/research/dark-matter-light-colour/

Series B, Episode 01 - Redemption
AVON: Exactly. You have just made a prediction based on the known facts. A computer works on precisely the same principle.
BLAKE: But all you're saying is that prediction is not immutable fact.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/201/23 B7B4

Series A, Episode 03 - Cygnus Alpha
AVON: I have to get rid of Blake first. You're next on my list.
JENNA: That would have been very disarming, if I didn't know that you meant it.
[Jenna begins to leave. She turns at the bottom of the stairs]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/103/358

Series C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
KERRIL: Right. What are you expecting him to do?
VILA: I'm expecting him to try and kill us.
KERRIL: What?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/332 B7B4

Dust devil migration patterns reveal strong near-surface winds across #Mars: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adw5170 -> Dancing dust devils trace raging winds on Mars / Raging winds on Mars / How fast winds sweep across Mars: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Dancing_dust_devils_trace_raging_winds_on_Mars / https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2025/media_releases_2025/raging_winds_on_mars/index_eng.html / https://www.dlr.de/en/latest/news/2025/how-fast-winds-sweep-across-mars

A young woolly mammoth now known as Yuka
was frozen in the Siberian permafrost for about 40,000 years
before it was discovered by local tusk hunters in 2010.
The hunters soon handed it over to scientists,
who were excited to see its exquisite level of preservation,
with skin, muscle tissue, and even reddish hair intact.
Later research showed that,
while full cloning was impossible,
Yuka’s DNA was in such good condition that some cell nuclei co…

World’s oldest RNA extracted from Ice Age woolly mammoth
Sequencing an ancient creature’s RNA opens up a new window into extinct life.

Series D, Episode 04 - Stardrive
AVON: We'll take it with us. [As Tarrant enters, Atlan trips him, grabs Soolin and uses her as a shield as he backs towards the door. He shoves her away and runs off.]
DAYNA: The door control. [Runs after Atlan.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/404/382

netscience: Scientific collaborations in network science (2006)
A coauthorship network among scientists working on network science, from 2006. This network is a one-mode projection from the bipartite graph of authors and their scientific publications.
This network has 1589 nodes and 2742 edges.
Tags: Social, Collaboration, Weighted, Projection

Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
CALLY: [Moves to stand next to him] Why?
AVON: All knowledge is valuable.
CALLY: [Touches her temple as if listening] Which are the forward detector links?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/105/40 B7B6

[Earth] Core [magnetic] field changes from eleven years of Swarm satellite observations: #MagneticField: https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/Swarm/Swarm_reveals_growing_weak_spot_in_Earth_s_magnetic_field

The abandoned English clay pit
at Barnham is
the oldest evidence in the world
that people (Neanderthal people, in this case)
had learned to not only use fire,
but also create it and control it.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/1

This is the oldest evidence of people starting fires
We didn’t start the fire. (Neanderthals did, at least 400,000 years ago.)…

cora: CORA citations (1998)
Citations among papers indexed by CORA, from 1998, an early computer science research paper search engine. If a paper i cites a paper j also in this data set, then a directed edge connects i to j. (Papers not in the data set are excluded.) Self-loops may be present. The dates of these snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 23166 nodes and 91500 edges.
Tags: Informational, Citation, Unweighted

Series C, Episode 03 - Volcano
TARRANT: They were gonna die anyway, remember.
VILA: Servalan's battle fleet's moving away.
TARRANT: Any damaged?
VILA: Hard to tell.
AVON: Zen, flight status.
ZEN: Energy banks are now at the lowest workable capacity
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/644

Series D, Episode 05 - Animals
JUSTIN: Probably by the cliff.
[Servalan's ship is on planet's surface. Servalan to three troopers]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/405/271 B7B4

Aeolian Sediment Lithification From Late-Stage Aqueous Activity in the Gale Crater - Implications for Habitability on #Mars: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024JE008804 -> Evidence of Ancient Underground Water Reveals Mars May Have Stayed Habitable Longer Than Believed: https://nyuad.nyu.edu/en/news/latest-news/science-and-technology/2025/november/nyuad-research-uncovers-mars-water-history.html. Meanwhile an early webcast for the ESCAPADE launch is already running at https://www.youtube.com/live/9sT4Hr-Il30

Series D, Episode 06 - Headhunter
TARRANT: That's right it is! [Points to teleport controls.]
VILA: A straightforward pickup job you said. As last words go, they're not likely to be famous.
TARRANT: You should worry.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/406/52 B7B6

Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
SOOLIN: [Searching Keiller.] He's clean.
KEILLER: Of course I'm clean, what do you take me for. Avon and I are old friends. It's good to see you, Avon.
DAYNA: Uh, nobody said move, Keiller. Just relax.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/6 B7B3…

A Science Strategy for the Human Exploration of Mars: #Mars, Says New Report: https://www.nationalacademies.org/news/search-for-life-should-be-top-science-priority-for-first-human-landing-on-mars-says-new-report -> In a major new report, scientists build rationale for sending astronauts to Mars: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/12/in-a-major-new-report-scientists-build-rationale-for-sending-astronauts-to-mars/

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
[Interior Xenon base lounge. Soolin sets out glasses on a tray. She stops, regards the tray and then takes another glass from the shelf. She begins to pour wine into the glasses. Dorian leads the group into the lounge. Dorian grabs her and kisses her.]
SOOLIN: Are you all right?
https://blake.torpi…

Series A, Episode 12 - Deliverance
TRAVIS: You sent for me?
SERVALAN: You've lost some of your fire, Travis. Whatever happened to your pride?
TRAVIS: My pride, Supreme Commander?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/112/227 B7B6