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Continents have lost so much water to the ocean since 2002 that they have surpassed ice sheets as the biggest contributor to global sea level rise, a new study reveals.
Almost 70% of this loss is due to unchecked groundwater extraction,
which removes water from deep aquifers and eventually transfers it to the ocean, researchers found.
Together with rising rates of evaporation due to climate change, this has caused rapidly drying "hotspots" to merge into four &quo…

'Like a creeping mold that's spreading across the landscape': Separate dry areas around the world are merging into 'mega-drying' regions at an alarming rate, study finds
Unchecked groundwater extraction and climate change have dried continents significantly over the past 22 years, with 101 countries now losing fresh water to the ocean, research reveals.

Bayesian inference of antibody evolutionary dynamics using multitype branching processes
Athanasios G. Bakis, Ashni A. Vora, Tatsuya Araki, Tongqiu Jia, Jared G. Galloway, Chris Jennings-Shaffer, Gabriel D. Victora, Yun S. Song, William S. DeWitt, Frederick A. Matsen IV, Volodymyr M. Minin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09519

Bayesian inference of antibody evolutionary dynamics using multitype branching processes
When our immune system encounters foreign antigens (i.e., from pathogens), the B cells that produce our antibodies undergo a cyclic process of proliferation, mutation, and selection, improving their ability to bind to the specific antigen. Immunologists have recently developed powerful experimental techniques to investigate this process in mouse models. In one such experiment, mice are engineered with a monoclonal B-cell precursor and immunized with a model antigen. B cells are sampled from sac…

Stratified wind from a super-Eddington X-ray binary is slower than expected
XRISM collaboration, Marc Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki, Ralf Ballhausen, Aya Bamba, Ehud Behar, Rozenn Boissay-Malaquin, Laura Brenneman, Gregory V. Brown, Lia Corrales, Elisa Costantini, Renata Cumbee, Maria Diaz Trigo, Chris Done, Tadayasu Dotani, Ken Ebisawa, Megan Eckart, Dominique Eckert, Teruaki Enoto, Satoshi Eguchi, Yuichiro Ezoe, Adam Foster, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Yutaka Fujita, Yasushi Fukazawa, Kotaro Fukushi…

Stratified wind from a super-Eddington X-ray binary is slower than expected
Accretion discs in strong gravity ubiquitously produce winds, seen as blueshifted absorption lines in the X-ray band of both stellar mass X-ray binaries (black holes and neutron stars), and supermassive black holes. Some of the most powerful winds (termed Eddington winds) are expected to arise from systems where radiation pressure is sufficient to unbind material from the inner disc ($L\gtrsim L_{\rm Edd}$). These winds should be extremely fast and carry a large amount of kinetic power, which, …