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Titan’s strong tidal dissipation precludes a subsurface ocean: #Titan May Not Have Global Ocean: https://www.nasa.gov/solar-system/planets/saturn/saturn-moons/titan/nasa-study-suggests-saturns-moon-titan-may-not-have-global-ocean/

Dank KI: Erstmals komplette Milchstraße inklusive aller Sterne simuliert
Unsere Milchstraße besteht aus 100 Milliarden Sternen. Bisher konnten Simulationen sie nicht einzeln einbeziehen – dank KI ist das jetzt erstmals gelungen.

UCLA study: among the most-watched streaming series in 2024, 80% of lead actors were white and white men accounted for 79% of all show creators, vs. 77% in 2023 (Payton Turkeltaub/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/streaming/news/hollywood-diversi…

Hollywood Diversity Report: Underrepresented Stories Grow on Streaming
The Hollywood Diversity Report for 2024 streaming TV from UCLA reported fewer leading roles for women and women of color than in 2023.

Luminate 2025 report: the global music industry hit 5.1T streams, up 9.6% YoY and a single-year record; AI artist Xania Monet had 125M on-demand audio streams (Maria Sherman/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/music-listen…

Global music streams hit 5 trillion in 2025
The global music industry hit 5.1 trillion streams in 2025. That’s a new single-year record, up 9.6% from 2024. That’s according to a 2025 Year-End Report from Luminate. They are an industry data and analytics company that provides insight into changing behaviors across music listenership. In the U.S., on-demand audio streams hit 1.4 trillion. That’s a 4.6% increase from last year. But attention is on older music. Less than half all U.S. on-demand audio streams were from tracks released i…

Strong winds topple Brazil's
Statue of Liberty replica
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-12-16/Strong-winds-topple-Statue-of-Liberty-replica-in-Brazil--1J9N9EgK8ve/p.html

Strong winds topple Statue of Liberty replica in Brazil
A replica of the Statue of Liberty collapsed during a powerful storm in Guaiba, Brazil, on Monday. The replica, nearly 24 meters tall, was installed in 2020 as a promotional symbol for a Brazilian retail store chain called Havan. No injuries were reported,

Starnberger Bürger können sich vom 25. November bis 7. Dezember finanziell am geplanten #Windpark im Forstenrieder Park beteiligen.
Über Nachrangdarlehen an die Energiegenossenschaften BENG und EGF sollen 2,4 Millionen Euro zusammenkommen.
Geplant sind sechs #Windräder, die ab En…

Climbing onto a bar stool, a piece of string asked for a beer.
"Wait a minute. Aren't you a string?"
"Well, yes, I am."
"Sorry. We don't serve strings here."
The determined string left the bar and stopped a passer-by. "Excuse,
me," it said, "would you shred my ends and tie me up like a pretzel?" The
passer-by obliged, and the string re-entered the bar. "May I have a beer,
please?" …

Interessant om door de projecten heen te browsen die funding hebben ontvangen.
https://www.openscience.nl/en/news/45-projects-strengthen-dutch-open-science-infrastructure

Von Schwarzem Loch zerstört: Erklärung für mysteriöse blaue Sternenexplosion
Seit Jahren finden Teleskope extrem energiereiche blaue Explosionen von Sternen, die bisher nicht erklärt werden konnten. Jetzt gibt es angeblich eine Antwort.

Discovery of the Second Y Y Dwarf Binary System, CWISEP J193518.59-154620.3: #BrownDwarf Gets Stranger: https://aasnova.org/2025/10/17/a-strange-brown-dwarf-gets-stranger/