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Underwater turbine is a tidal energy breakthrough
Submerged in about 44 yards of water off Scotland’s coast,
a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides for electricity

— a durability mark that demonstrates the technology’s commercial viability.
Keeping a large,
or grid-scale, turbine in place in the harsh sea environment that long is a record that helps pave the way for bigger tidal energy farms
and mak…

A tidal energy turbine has generated for 6 years and this is a record that shows the technology is commercially viable.
https://apnews.com/article/tidal-energy-turbine-marine-meygen-scotland-ffff3a7082205b33b612a1417e1ec6d6

Underwater turbine spinning for 6 years off Scotland's coast is a breakthrough for tidal energy
Submerged in about 40 meters of water off Scotland’s coast, a turbine has been spinning for more than six years to harness the power of ocean tides and generate electricity. The trade association Ocean Energy Europe says keeping such a large turbine operating in the harsh sea environment that long is a record that demonstrates the technology's commercial viability. Tidal energy technologies are still in the early days of their commercial development, but their potential for generating clean e…

The $\alpha$-Attractor E-Model in Warm Inflation: Observational Viability from Planck 2018
Bhargabi Saha, Malay K. Nandy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06717 h…

The $α$-Attractor E-Model in Warm Inflation: Observational Viability from Planck 2018
We explore the inflationary evolution and observational viability of the $α$-attractor E-model in the framework of warm inflation, focusing on both weak and strong dissipative regimes, with a dissipation coefficient linear in temperature. In the strong regime, we account for the growth of inflaton fluctuations due to coupling with the radiation bath via two different forms for the dissipation enhancement function: one associated with plateau-like potentials, and another motivated by the warm l…

Neutron Star Radial Perturbations for Causal, Viscous, Relativistic Fluids
Daniel A. Caballero, Nicol\'as Yunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09149 https:…

Neutron Star Radial Perturbations for Causal, Viscous, Relativistic Fluids
Which of the multiple models of causal and stable relativistic viscous fluids that have been developed is best suited to describe neutron stars? The modeling of out-of-equilibrium effects in these relativistic, astrophysical objects must be one with care, as simple Newtonian intuition fails to remain causal. Radial stability of neutron stars is one of the primary conditions for the viability of such out-of-equilibrium models. In this paper, we study radial perturbations of neutron stars for the…

Long-term independent use of an intracortical brain-computer interface for speech and cursor control https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.26.661591v1
I just checked: at least one of the congenitally blind users of The vOICe has been using The vOICe for over…

Long-term independent use of an intracortical brain-computer interface for speech and cursor control
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) can provide naturalistic communication and digital access to people with severe paralysis by decoding neural activity associated with attempted speech and movement. Recent work has demonstrated highly accurate intracortical BCIs for speech and cursor control, but two critical capabilities needed for practical viability were unmet: independent at-home operation without researcher assistance, and reliable long-term performance supporting accurate speech and cursor…

How Viability Limits End Up Criminalizing Pregnancy – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/pregnancy-justice-karen-thompson-viability-limits-fetal-personhood-criminalizing-pregnancy/

Thermodynamics of dyonic black holes in non-linear electrodynamics
Lewis Croney, Ruth Gregory, Carlos J. Ram\'irez-Valdez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06437

Thermodynamics of dyonic black holes in non-linear electrodynamics
We investigate dyonic black holes in a weak field expansion of non-linear electrodynamics. The breadth of parameter space permits a rich thermodynamic structure, additional turning points and intricate phase phenomena. Energy conditions are employed to ensure the physical viability of solutions. Analytic special cases illustrate novel properties of black holes in non-linear electrodynamics, including modified extremal limit behaviour. Numerical solutions offer the most elaborate thermodynamic l…

Exoplanet Atmospheric Refraction Effects in the #Kepler Sample: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02126 -> "We present an analysis on the detection viability of refraction effects in Kepler's exoplanet atmospheres using binning techniques for their light curves in order to compare against simulated refraction effects. We split the Kepler exoplanets into sub-populations according to orbital period and planetary radius, then search for out-of-transit changes in the relative flux associated with atmospheric refraction of starlight. The presence of refraction effects - or lack thereof - may be used to measure and set limits on the bulk properties of an atmosphere, including mean molecular weight or the presence of hazes.
In this work, we use the presence of refraction effects to test whether exoplanets above the period-radius valley have H/He atmospheres, which high levels of stellar radiation could evaporate away, in turn leaving rocky cores below the valley. We find strong observational evidence of refraction effects for exoplanets above the period-radius valley based on Kepler photometry, however those related to optically thin H/He atmospheres are not common in the observed planetary population. This result may be attributed to signal dampening caused by clouds and hazes, consistent with the optically thick and intrinsically hotter atmospheres of Kepler exoplanets caused by relatively close host star proximity."

GW170817 Viable Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Inflation Compatible with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data
S. D. Odintsov, V. K. Oikonomou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08193

GW170817 Viable Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet Inflation Compatible with the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data
In this work we investigate several Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet models that are compatible with the GW170817 event, the Atacama Cosmology Telescope data and the BICEP/Keck updated Planck constraints on the tensor-to-scalar ratio. We consider two distinct classes of Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet theories, which are equally successful for GW170817-compatible model building and we examine their viability against the Atacama Cosmology Telescope data and the updated Planck constraints on the tensor-to-scalar rati…

Radiation-Reaction on the Straight-Line Motion of a Point Charge accelerated by a constant applied Electric Field in an Electromagnetic Bopp-Land\'e-Thomas-Podolsky vacuum
Ryan J. McGuigan, Michael K. -H. Kiessling
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08799

Radiation-Reaction on the Straight-Line Motion of a Point Charge accelerated by a constant applied Electric Field in an Electromagnetic Bopp-Landé-Thomas-Podolsky vacuum
The radiation-reaction problem of standard Lorentz electrodynamics with point charges is pathological, standing in contrast to Bopp--Landé--Thomas--Podolsky (BLTP) electrodynamics where it is in fact well-defined and calculable, as reported in a previous publication. To demonstrate the viability of BLTP electrodynamics, we consider the BLTP analogue of the radiation reaction of a classical point charge accelerated from rest by a static homogeneous capacitor plate field, and calculate it up to …

European countries have been growing increasingly wary of relying on Microsoft for critical government and public sector services.
Concerns about data privacy, digital sovereignty, and potential governmental surveillance have led many to question the viability of depending on an American tech giant for sensitive infrastructure.
Many worry that dependence on Microsoft could leave them vulnerable to sudden service interruptions or the risk of sensitive data being accessed without …

French City of Lyon Kicks Out Microsoft
Microsoft faces growing rejection in Europe whereas open source software sees growing adaption.

Exoplanet Atmospheric Refraction Effects in the Kepler Sample
Dereck-Alexandre Lizotte, Jason Rowe, James Sikora, Michael R. B. Matesic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02126

Exoplanet Atmospheric Refraction Effects in the Kepler Sample
We present an analysis on the detection viability of refraction effects in Kepler's exoplanet atmospheres using binning techniques for their light curves in order to compare against simulated refraction effects. We split the Kepler exoplanets into sub-populations according to orbital period and planetary radius, then search for out-of-transit changes in the relative flux associated with atmospheric refraction of starlight. The presence of refraction effects - or lack thereof - may be used to me…

Constraint on Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity with Different Dark energy Parametrizations from DESI DR2 BAO Data
Rajdeep Mazumdar, Mrinnoy M. Gohain, Kalyan Bhuyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05975

Constraint on Symmetric Teleparallel Gravity with Different Dark energy Parametrizations from DESI DR2 BAO Data
We investigate the cosmological viability of symmetric teleparallel gravity, specifically the $f(Q)$ gravity model with a power-law form $f(Q) = αQ^n$, in combination with two widely used dark energy parameterizations: Chevallier Polarski Linder (CPL) and Barboza Alcaniz (BA). Employing the most recent DESI DR2 Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (BAO) dataset along with previous BAO measurements, we constrain the model parameters through a robust Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) analysis. We examine t…

On Drug Delivery System Parameter Optimisation via Semantic Information Theory
Milica Leki\'c, Mohammad Zoofaghari, Ilangko Balasingham, Mladen Veleti\'c
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22137

On Drug Delivery System Parameter Optimisation via Semantic Information Theory
We investigate the application of semantic information theory to drug delivery systems (DDS) within the molecular communication (MC) framework. To operationalise this, we observe a DDS as a molecular concentration-based channel. Semantic information is defined as the amount of information required for a DDS to achieve its therapeutic goal in a dynamic environment. We derive it by introducing interventions, defined as modifications to DDS parameters, a viability function, and system-environment …

🥳 Hooray – the CVE Foundation has been set up to secure the future of the CVE programme: #ITSecurity

CVE Foundation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 16, 2025 CVE Foundation Launched to Secure the Future of the CVE Program [Bremerton, Washington] – The CVE Foundation has been formally established to ensure the long-term viability, stability, and independence of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program, a

Resilient Communication For Avalanche Response in Infrastructure-Limited Environments
Joshua Goulton, Milena Radenkovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22148 ht…

Resilient Communication For Avalanche Response in Infrastructure-Limited Environments
Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) offer a promising paradigm for maintaining communication in infrastructure limited environments, such as those encountered during natural disasters. This paper investigates the viability of leveraging an existing national transport system - the Swiss rail network - as a data mule backbone for disseminating critical avalanche alerts. Using The Opportunistic Network Environment (ONE) simulator, we model the entire Swiss rail network and conduct a rigorous comparativ…

A Review on Improving PSC Performance through Charge Carrier Management: Where We Stand and What's Next?
Dilshod Nematov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21645

A Review on Improving PSC Performance through Charge Carrier Management: Where We Stand and What's Next?
Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) represent a breakthrough in photovoltaic technology, combining high power conversion efficiencies (PCEs), ease of fabrication, and tunable optoelectronic properties. However, their commercial viability is limited by critical issues such as charge carrier recombination, interfacial defects, instability under environmental stress, and toxicity of lead-based components. This review systematically examines recent advancements in charge carrier management strategies aim…

Applied Supersymmetry
V. P. Berezovoj, A. J. Nurmagambetov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02081 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.02081

Applied Supersymmetry
Supersymmetry is one of the most important and indispensable ingredients of modern theoretical physics. However, the absence, at least at the time of publishing this review, of experimental verification of supersymmetry in elementary particle/high-energy physics casts doubt on the viability of this concept at the energies achievable at the LHC. The more unexpected are either already experimentally verified or proposed for verification manifestations of supersymmetry at the level of low (condens…

Starship seemed promising at first if you didn’t ask too many questions.
But, after back-to-back failures and having never come close to completing its design brief
(including actually landing Starship and making the spacecraft fully reusable),
as well as a litany of painful design flaws, such as only being able to take 50% of its promised payload capacity to orbit,
many are starting to question the viability of this idiotic machine
and its “iterative design pr…

Starship Was Doomed From The Beginning
The fatal flaw SpaceX can't overcome.

Leveraging Machine Learning for Accurate and Fast Stellar Mass Estimation of Galaxies
Vahid Asadi, Akram Hasani Zonoozi, Hosein Haghi, Fatemeh Abedini, Atousa Kalantari, Marziye Jafariyazani, Nima Chartab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21067

Leveraging Machine Learning for Accurate and Fast Stellar Mass Estimation of Galaxies
Unveiling the evolutionary history of galaxies necessitates a precise understanding of their physical properties. Traditionally, astronomers achieve this through spectral energy distribution (SED) fitting. However, this approach can be computationally intensive and time-consuming, particularly for large datasets. This study investigates the viability of machine learning (ML) algorithms as an alternative to traditional SED-fitting for estimating stellar masses in galaxies. We compare a diverse r…

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Deciphering Solar Cycle Influence on Long-Term Orbital Deterioration of Low-Earth Orbiting Space Debris
The rapid increase in the number of space debris represents a substantial threat to the sustained viability of space operations and underscores the importance of understanding long-term drivers of orbital decay. This first of its kind study examines the long-term impact of solar activity on the orbital decay of 17 LEO debris objects across Solar Cycles 22, 23, and 24 using Two-Line Element (TLE) data spanning these three cycles. Analysis of TLE-derived decay profiles, in conjunction with sunspo…

Techno-economic optimization of hybrid steam-electric energy systems with excess heat utilization and reserve market participation
Olav Galteland, Jacob Hadler-Jacobsen, Hanne Kauko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14252

Techno-economic optimization of hybrid steam-electric energy systems with excess heat utilization and reserve market participation
This study investigates the economic viability and optimal configuration of a hybrid industrial energy system combining an electrode boiler, steam accumulator, and battery energy storage system (BESS). This study optimizes system operation for a specific configuration to minimize net energy costs, defined as energy costs minus profits from price arbitrage and reserve markets. The optimization uses load shifting, peak shaving, and frequency containment reserve market participation with hourly 20…

A Machine Learning Framework for Climate-Resilient Insurance and Real Estate Decisions
Lang Qin, Yuejin Xie, Daili Hua, Xuhui Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14638

A Machine Learning Framework for Climate-Resilient Insurance and Real Estate Decisions
Extreme weather events increasingly threaten the insurance and real estate industries, creating conflicts between profitability and homeowner burdens. To address this, we propose the SSC-Insurance Model, which integrates SMOTE, SVM, and C-D-C algorithms to evaluate weather impacts on policies and investments. Our model achieves 88.3% accuracy in Zhejiang and 79.6% in Ireland, identifying a critical threshold (43% weather increase) for insurance viability. Additionally, we develop the TOA-Preser…

Observational viability of fractional holographic dark energy in LRS Bianchi type-I cosmological model
Shivangi Rathore, Elangbam Chingkheinganba Meetei, S. Surendra Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16004

Observational viability of fractional holographic dark energy in LRS Bianchi type-I cosmological model
We scrutinized the Locally Rotational Symmetry (LRS) Bianchi type-I cosmological model in the presence of fractional holographic dark energy. We calculate the value of the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ using the field equations. After that, we fit the model by employing the MCMC techniques to observational data, which includes Hubble, Hubble+BAO, Hubble+Pantheon+Shoes, and Hubble+BAO+Pantheon+Shoes datasets. With the help of these datasets, we calculate the model parameters, viz. $H_{0}(z), α,$ and …

Theoretical novel medical isotope production with deuterium-tritium fusion technology
Lee J. Evitts, Philip W. Miller, Chiara Da Pieve, Andrew Turner, Stefano Borini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16817

Theoretical novel medical isotope production with deuterium-tritium fusion technology
Background: The emergence and growth of fusion technology enables investigative studies into its applications beyond typical power production facilities. This study seeks to determine the viability of medical isotope production with the neutrons produced in an example large fusion device. Using FISPACT-II (a nuclear inventory code) and a simulated fusion spectrum, the production yields of a significant number of potentially clinically relevant (both in use and novel) medical isotopes were calcu…

Runaway electron-induced plasma facing component damage in tokamaks
S. Ratynskaia, M. Hoelzl, E. Nardon, P. Aleynikov, F. J. Artola, V. Bandaru, M. Beidler, B. Breizman, D. del-Castillo-Negrete, M. De Angeli, V. Dimitriou, R. Ding, J. Eriksson, O. Ficker, R. S. Granetz, E. Hollmann, M. Hoppe, M. Houry, I. Jepu, H. R. Koslowski, C. Liu, J. R. Martin-Solis, G. Pautasso, Y. Peneliau, R. A. Pitts, G. I. Pokol, C. Reux, U. Sheikh, S. A. Silburn, T. Tang, R. A. Tinguely, P. Tolias, E. Tomeso…

Runaway electron-induced plasma facing component damage in tokamaks
This Roadmap article addresses the critical and multifaceted challenge of plasma-facing component (PFC) damage caused by runaway electrons (REs) in tokamaks, a phenomenon that poses a significant threat to the viability and longevity of future fusion reactors such as ITER and DEMO. The dramatically increased RE production expected in future high-current tokamaks makes it difficult to avoid or mitigate REs when a plasma discharge terminates abnormally. Preventing damage from the intense localise…

Higher co-dimension de Sitter branes
Florian Niedermann, Antonio Padilla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19515 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.…

Higher co-dimension de Sitter branes
We extend the arguments of Maldacena and Núñez to include higher co-dimension brane setups and derive a new no-go theorem. Specifically, we show that under reasonable assumptions on the energy-momentum conservation and the bulk curvature, co-dimension-two branes fail to support stable de Sitter solutions. For co-dimensions higher than two embedded in a compact internal space, we show that negative tension sources would be required. This result places strong constraints on the viability of hig…

Optimisation of Activator Solutions for Geopolymer Synthesis: Thermochemical Stability, Sequencing, and Standardisation
Ramon Skane, Franca Jones, Arie van Riessen, Evan Jamieson, Xiao Sun, William D. A. Rickard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12941

Optimisation of Activator Solutions for Geopolymer Synthesis: Thermochemical Stability, Sequencing, and Standardisation
Geopolymers present a sustainable alternative to conventional binders, however, their commercial viability is hindered by a lack of standardised methods for preparing stabile activator solutions; alkaline feedstocks critical to geopolymer synthesis. This study presents a combined experimental and modelling approach to evaluate the thermochemical stability, solubility constraints, and silica speciation behaviour of sodium silicate-based activators. Using quantitative 29Si NMR analysis, thermodyn…

$\alpha$-attractor inflation modified by GUP in light of ACT observations
Hana Heidarian, Milad Solbi, Soma Heydari, Kayoomars Karami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10547

$α$-attractor inflation modified by GUP in light of ACT observations
Here, the $α$-attractor inflation is investigated within a framework incorporating a minimal measurable length, as implemented by the Generalized Uncertainty Principle (GUP). The GUP modifications to the Friedmann equations and cosmological perturbation parameters are employed to assess the model observational viability against recent high-precision data, primarily from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope Data Release 6 (ACT DR6) combined with Planck, DESI BAO, and BICEP/Keck 2018 observations (P-…

Coupled reaction and diffusion governing interface evolution in solid-state batteries
Jingxuan Ding, Laura Zichi, Matteo Carli, Menghang Wang, Albert Musaelian, Yu Xie, Boris Kozinsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10944

Coupled reaction and diffusion governing interface evolution in solid-state batteries
Understanding and controlling the atomistic-level reactions governing the formation of the solid-electrolyte interphase (SEI) is crucial for the viability of next-generation solid state batteries. However, challenges persist due to difficulties in experimentally characterizing buried interfaces and limits in simulation speed and accuracy. We conduct large-scale explicit reactive simulations with quantum accuracy for a symmetric battery cell, {\symcell}, enabled by active learning and deep equiv…

Impact of Buchdahl metric potential on thin-shell gravastar framework in de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley like massive gravity
Meghanil Sinha, S. Surendra Singh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11171

Impact of Buchdahl metric potential on thin-shell gravastar framework in de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley like massive gravity
This paper presents a study on gravitational vacuum stars (gravastars) with an isotropic matter distribution in de Rham-Gabadadze-Tolley (dRGT) massive gravity incorporating Buchdahl metric function. Here we have conducted an analysis on thin-shell singularity-free gravastar configuration. The study demonstrates the viability of gravastars as alternatives to black holes (BHs) in this massive gravity. Our research yields singularity free analytical solutions for gravastar interior and without ev…