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"Humans Are Wiping Out Water Bodies That Life Depends On, New Report Says"
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Humans Are Wiping Out Water Bodies That Life Depends On, New Report Says - Inside Climate News
A landmark report for the global agreement on wetlands paints a dire picture of the state of the world’s water bodies that underpin all life on Earth.  The report, released Tuesday by the secretariat of the Convention on Wetlands, says that since 1970 more than one-fifth of wetlands have been lost, meaning they have shrunk […]

CodeFuse-CR-Bench: A Comprehensiveness-aware Benchmark for End-to-End Code Review Evaluation in Python Projects
Hanyang Guo, Xunjin Zheng, Zihan Liao, Hang Yu, Peng DI, Ziyin Zhang, Hong-Ning Dai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14856

CodeFuse-CR-Bench: A Comprehensiveness-aware Benchmark for End-to-End Code Review Evaluation in Python Projects
Automated code review (CR) is a key application for Large Language Models (LLMs), but progress is hampered by a "reality gap": existing benchmarks evaluate models on isolated sub-tasks using simplified, context-poor data. This fails to reflect the holistic context-rich nature of real-world CR. To bridge this gap, we introduce CodeFuse-CR-Bench, the first comprehensiveness-aware benchmark for repository-level CR evaluation. CodeFuse-CR-Bench comprises 601 high-quality instances from 70 Python pr…

Snail Homing and Mating Search Algorithm for Weight Optimization of Stepped-Transmission Shaft
Kaustav Saha, Ishaan R Kale, Vivek Patel, Anand J Kulkarni, Puskaraj D Sonawwanay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13721

Snail Homing and Mating Search Algorithm for Weight Optimization of Stepped-Transmission Shaft
In this paper, the steeped-transmission shaft design problem is proposed for weight optimization. The bio-inspired search-based Snail Homing and Mating Search (SHMS) algorithm is utilized to solve the problem. It is inspired by the social behaviour of snails and their inherent nature of finding better homes, and mate. The proposed steeped-transmission shaft design problem is modelled considering the fatigue loading, combined bending, torsion loads, and the principle of Modified Goodman criteria…

Layer-specific changes in sensory cortex across the lifespan in mice and humans #7T

Layer-specific changes in sensory cortex across the lifespan in mice and humans - Nature Neuroscience
The principal layer architecture of the sensory cortex is altered with aging. The authors show that overall thinning of the primary somatosensory cortex is driven by deep layer degeneration but that layer IV is more pronounced in old age.

The Making of a Community Dark Matter Dataset with the National Science Data Fabric
Amy Roberts, Jack Marquez, Kin Hong NG, Kitty Mickelson, Aashish Panta, Giorgio Scorzelli, Amy Gooch, Prisca Cushman, Matthew Fritts, Himangshu Neog, Valerio Pascucci, Michela Taufer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13297…

The Making of a Community Dark Matter Dataset with the National Science Data Fabric
Dark matter is believed to constitute approximately 85 percent of the universes matter, yet its fundamental nature remains elusive. Direct detection experiments, though globally deployed, generate data that is often locked within custom formats and non-reproducible software stacks, limiting interdisciplinary analysis and innovation. This paper presents a collaboration between the National Science Data Fabric (NSDF) and dark matter researchers to improve accessibility, usability, and scientific …

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- Symphony of the Wild
Music is said to be unique to humans. But does it echo deeper into the story of life on earth? Ben Garrod is on a mission to uncover unexpected rhythms and melodies across nature.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002j69n

How Surface Make-Up and Receding Electrokinetics Determine the Sign and Magnitude of Electrification at Water-Hydrophobe Interfaces?
Yinfeng Xu, Himanshu Mishra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09930

How Surface Make-Up and Receding Electrokinetics Determine the Sign and Magnitude of Electrification at Water-Hydrophobe Interfaces?
It has been widely reported that as water contacts hydrophobic materials such as air or hydrocarbons (liquid or solid), the interfaces acquire a negative charge. It is not entirely clear whether this occurs due to the nature of water, or the hydrophobe, or purely the interface. Here, we probe the effects of surface chemistry and the speed of liquid-solid contact formation and separation on electrification. Glass capillaries grafted with mixed self-assembled monolayers of octadecyltrichlorosilan…

😮‍💨 Carbon 'offsets' aren't working: Researchers offer a 'roadmap' to improve nature-based climate solutions
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-carbon-offsets-roadmap-nature-based.html

Carbon 'offsets' aren't working: Researchers offer a 'roadmap' to improve nature-based climate solutions
A lot of the climate-altering carbon pollution humans release into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels gets drawn into the Earth's oceans and landscapes through natural processes, mostly through photosynthesis, as plants turn atmospheric carbon dioxide into biomass.

HiPhO: How Far Are (M)LLMs from Humans in the Latest High School Physics Olympiad Benchmark?
Fangchen Yu, Haiyuan Wan, Qianjia Cheng, Yuchen Zhang, Jiacheng Chen, Fujun Han, Yulun Wu, Junchi Yao, Ruilizhen Hu, Ning Ding, Yu Cheng, Tao Chen, Lei Bai, Dongzhan Zhou, Yun Luo, Ganqu Cui, Peng Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07894

HiPhO: How Far Are (M)LLMs from Humans in the Latest High School Physics Olympiad Benchmark?
Recently, the physical capabilities of (M)LLMs have garnered increasing attention. However, existing benchmarks for physics suffer from two major gaps: they neither provide systematic and up-to-date coverage of real-world physics competitions such as physics Olympiads, nor enable direct performance comparison with humans. To bridge these gaps, we present HiPhO, the first benchmark dedicated to high school physics Olympiads with human-aligned evaluation. Specifically, HiPhO highlights three key …

Personas within Parameters: Fine-Tuning Small Language Models with Low-Rank Adapters to Mimic User Behaviors
Himanshu Thakur, Eshani Agrawal, Smruthi Mukund
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09689

Personas within Parameters: Fine-Tuning Small Language Models with Low-Rank Adapters to Mimic User Behaviors
A long-standing challenge in developing accurate recommendation models is simulating user behavior, mainly due to the complex and stochastic nature of user interactions. Towards this, one promising line of work has been the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) for simulating user behavior. However, aligning these general-purpose large pre-trained models with user preferences necessitates: (i) effectively and continously parsing large-scale tabular user-item interaction data, (ii) overcoming pre-…