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The Trump administration found
“no viable path” forward
to complete California’s high-speed rail project
following a nearly four-month investigation that jeopardizes
$4 billion in federal funding.
In a 310-page compliance review released Wednesday,
the Department of Transportation cited budget shortfalls,
missed deadlines and a misleading projected ridership to connect San Francisco to Los Angeles via fast rail.
The review targets federal gran…

Trump administration moves to pull funding on high-speed rail
The Trump administration could pull $4 billion in federal funding from California's high-speed rail project within 37 days, following a Department of Transportation compliance review.

"'We moved because there was no water': Climate change forces ancient Himalayan village to relocate"
#Climate #ClimateChange

Climate change uproots a Himalayan village as glaciers vanish
After generations of herding and harvesting in the mountains, villagers in Samjung have been forced to relocate as snow fails, rains flood, and water sources disappear.

While I'm copying yesterday's photos to my computer, I'll just share some more photos from my recent blog post.
I tried to put the bushes at the lake as framing elements into the #photos. I think it worked out quite okay. -- And while we were on this walk I imagined all the time where and how this could look at sunset or with fog.
Maybe I should go there a again a couple o…

Green functions for positive-depth Deligne--Lusztig induction
Charlotte Chan, Masao Oi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04449 https://arxiv…

Green functions for positive-depth Deligne--Lusztig induction
Under a largeness assumption on the size of the residue field, we give an explicit description of the positive-depth Deligne--Lusztig induction of unramified elliptic pairs $(T,θ)$. When $θ$ is regular, we show that positive-depth Deligne--Lusztig induction gives a geometric realization of Kaletha's Howe-unramified regular $L$-packets. This is obtained as an immediate corollary of a very simple "litmus test" characterization theorem which we foresee will have interesting future applications t…

Machine-learning-driven modelling of amorphous and polycrystalline BaZrS$_{3}$
Laura-Bianca Pa\c{s}ca, Yuanbin Liu, Andy S. Anker, Ludmilla Steier, Volker L. Deringer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01517

Machine-learning-driven modelling of amorphous and polycrystalline BaZrS$_{3}$
The chalcogenide perovskite material BaZrS$_{3}$ is of growing interest for emerging thin-film photovoltaics. Here we show how machine-learning-driven modelling can be used to describe the material's amorphous precursor as well as polycrystalline structures with complex grain boundaries. Using a bespoke machine-learned interatomic potential (MLIP) model for BaZrS$_{3}$, we study the atomic-scale structure of the amorphous phase, quantify grain-boundary formation energies, and create realistic-s…

Detection of Molecular Hydrogen in a Proton Trap
J. Caylor (Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility, Newport News USA), R. Biswas (Tulane University, New Orleans USA), B. Crawford (Gettysburg College, Gettysburg USA), M. S. Dewey (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg USA), N. Fomin (University of Tennessee, Knoxville USA), G. L. Greene (University of Tennessee, Knoxville USA, Tulane University, New Orleans USA), S. F. Hoogerheide (National Institute of St…

Detection of Molecular Hydrogen in a Proton Trap
One method of determining the free neutron lifetime involves the absolute counting of neutrons and trapped decay protons. In such experiments, a cold neutron beam traverses a segmented proton trap inside a superconducting solenoid while the neutron flux is continuously monitored. Protons that are born within the fiducial volume of the trap are confined radially by the magnetic field and axially by the electrostatic potential supplied by trap electrodes. They are periodically released and counte…

Hey! Just a quick snap from today's walk (okay about 4:30h) near #kirchseeon and #ebersberg.
It's been warm but really beautiful. A lot of shade, quite some old trees, lots of green 😊
I'm curious how the photos will turn out. - Now I'm thinking about tomorrow's a…

Kurdish Militant Group Agrees to Swap Guns for Ballots and End 40-year Insurgency with Turkey https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/kurdish-militant-group-agrees-to-swap-guns-for-ballots-and-end-40-year-insurgency-…

Kurdish Militant Group Agrees to Swap Guns for Ballots and End 40-year Insurgency with Turkey
Imprisoned founder of the group, Abdullah Öcalan, released a statement from prison calling on the group to convene a conference and dissolve.

Ex-Raiders Star QB Delights Oakland, Las Vegas Fans With Video https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/derek-carr-top-5-moments-raiders/?adt_ei=[email]

"UK ministers reopen door to drilling at two North Sea oilfields as new guidance released"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NorthSea