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Games for Degrowth and a Viable Future | Steady State Manchester
https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/09/20/games-for-degrowth-and-a-viable-future/

Games for Degrowth and a Viable Future
by Carolyn Kagan Games as a tool for Awareness-raising Naomi Klein1 asks the question How do you change a world-view, an unquestioned ideology? Much of what we do in Steady State Manchester is to e…

How an open-source approach helped DeepSeek and other Chinese AI companies; Hugging Face: Alibaba's Qwen is now the world's largest open-source AI ecosystem (South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article

How open-source AI is helping China win hearts and market share
China’s free-for-all AI models, developed by firms like DeepSeek and Alibaba, present a viable alternative to US closed-source systems.

Games for Degrowth and a Viable Future
by Carolyn Kagan Games as a tool for Awareness-raising Naomi Klein1 asks the question How do you change a world-view, an unquestioned ideology? Much of what we do in Steady State Manchester is to endeavour to change world-views, unquestioned ideologies about economic growth and the exploitation of environmental resources. We seek to enable people to discuss, challenge and develop their ideas and thinking; to help others see that…

Games for Degrowth and a Viable Future
by Carolyn Kagan Games as a tool for Awareness-raising Naomi Klein1 asks the question How do you change a world-view, an unquestioned ideology? Much of what we do in Steady State Manchester is to e…

Evaluating sugarcane bagasse-based biochar as an economically viable catalyst for agricultural and environmental advancement in Brazil through scenario-based economic modeling
Sebastian G. Nosenzo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12454

Evaluating sugarcane bagasse-based biochar as an economically viable catalyst for agricultural and environmental advancement in Brazil through scenario-based economic modeling
The increasing global demand for sustainable agricultural practices and effective waste management has highlighted the potential of biochar as a multifaceted solution. This study evaluates the economic viability of sugarcane bagasse-based biochar in Brazil, focusing on its potential to enhance agricultural productivity and contribute to environmental sustainability. While existing literature predominantly explores the production, crop yield benefits, and carbon sequestration capabilities of bio…

Modular Multiparty Sessions with Mixed Choice
Franco Barbanera (DMI - University of Catania), Mariangiola Dezani-Ciancaglini (DI- University of Torino)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13616

Modular Multiparty Sessions with Mixed Choice
MultiParty Session Types (MPST) provide a useful framework for safe concurrent systems. Mixed choice (enabling a participant to play at the same time the roles of sender and receiver) increases the expressive power of MPST as well as the difficulty in controlling safety of communications. Such a control is more viable when modular systems are considered and the power of mixed choice fully exploited only inside loosely coupled modules. We carry over such idea in a type assignment approach to mul…

Slovakia, Hungary refuse to cut Russian energy imports without viable alternatives, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/18/slovakia-hungary-refuse-to-cut.html

Coherence of Microwave and Optical Qubit Levels in Neutral Thulium
Denis Mishin, Dmitry Tregubov, Nikolay Kolachevsky, Artem Golovizin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12887 https://

Coherence of Microwave and Optical Qubit Levels in Neutral Thulium
Hyperfine-encoded qubits in alkali atoms have established themselves as robust platforms for quantum computing, while alkaline-earth-like elements expand the state manipulation toolbox through their rich spectrum of optical transitions and metastable states. In this work, we demonstrate that thulium is a viable candidate for quantum computing, combining advantages of hyperfine qubit encoding with a rich energy-level structure of alkaline-earth-like atoms. We describe protocols for the initial s…

Automated Cervical Cancer Detection through Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid in Resource-Poor Settings with Lightweight Deep Learning Models Deployed on an Android Device
Leander Melroy Maben, Keerthana Prasad, Shyamala Guruvare, Vidya Kudva, P C Siddalingaswamy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13253

Automated Cervical Cancer Detection through Visual Inspection with Acetic Acid in Resource-Poor Settings with Lightweight Deep Learning Models Deployed on an Android Device
Cervical cancer is among the most commonly occurring cancer among women and claims a huge number of lives in low and middle-income countries despite being relatively easy to treat. Several studies have shown that public screening programs can bring down cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates significantly. While several screening tests are available, visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA) presents itself as the most viable option for low-resource settings due to the affordability and s…

🌰 Offsetting fossil fuel reserves by planting trees is not a viable strategy, analysis finds
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-offsetting-fossil-fuel-reserves-trees.html

Offsetting fossil fuel reserves by planting trees is not a viable strategy, analysis finds
New forests larger than the land area of North America would need to be planted to offset the potential carbon dioxide emissions from the fossil fuel reserves currently held by the world's 200 largest fossil fuel companies.

Hot, cold, and multi-component accretion flows around supermassive black hole binaries
Christopher Tiede, Daniel J. D'Orazio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11748 https://…

Hot, cold, and multi-component accretion flows around supermassive black hole binaries
We develop a model for supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) accreting below their Eddington limit, focusing on systems where hot, advection-dominated flows become viable. We specifically explore the spectral appearance of multi-component accretion flows where the solution can independently transition between cold, thin disks and hot, advection-dominated torii depending on the local accretion rate. Using a three-disk model, we compute spectral energy distributions for four possible accretio…

SGSimEval: A Comprehensive Multifaceted and Similarity-Enhanced Benchmark for Automatic Survey Generation Systems
Beichen Guo, Zhiyuan Wen, Yu Yang, Peng Gao, Ruosong Yang, Jiaxing Shen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11310

SGSimEval: A Comprehensive Multifaceted and Similarity-Enhanced Benchmark for Automatic Survey Generation Systems
The growing interest in automatic survey generation (ASG), a task that traditionally required considerable time and effort, has been spurred by recent advances in large language models (LLMs). With advancements in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and the rising popularity of multi-agent systems (MASs), synthesizing academic surveys using LLMs has become a viable approach, thereby elevating the need for robust evaluation methods in this domain. However, existing evaluation methods suffer fro…

Dynamic Decision Modeling for Viable Short and Long Term Production Policies: An HJB Approach
Achraf Bouhmady, Mustapha Serhani, Nadia Raissi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12205 ht…

Dynamic Decision Modeling for Viable Short and Long Term Production Policies: An HJB Approach
This study introduces a mathematical framework to investigate the viability and reachability of production systems under constraints. We develop a model that incorporates key decision variables, such as pricing policy, quality investment, and advertising, to analyze short-term tactical decisions and long-term strategic outcomes. In the short term, we constructed a capture basin that defined the initial conditions under which production viability constraints were satisfied within the target zone…

Interestingn post and replies.
I think that Apple’s incentives are just not aligned with developers in niche segments - purely a matter of scaling and managing the teams.
In most cases open source alternatives are vastly better.
But the question remains, how can you finance the maintenance and evolution in the long term - volunteer work is not sustainable.
It is remarkable that after 25 years we still haven’t found a viable and scalable funding model for this.

On CP-violation and quark masses: reducing the number of free parameters
A. Kleppe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11081 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.11081…

On CP-violation and quark masses: reducing the number of free parameters
A physically viable ansatz for quark mass matrices must satisfy certain constraints, like the constraint imposed by CP-violation. In this article we study a concrete example, by looking at some generic matrices with a nearly democratic texture, and the implications of the constraints imposed by CP-violation, specifically the Jarlskog invariant. This constraint reduces the number of parameters from six to five, implying that the six mass eigenvalues of the up-quarks and the down-quarks are inter…

ACT inflation and its influence on reheating era in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
Sergei D. Odintsov, Tanmoy Paul
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.11377 https://…

ACT inflation and its influence on reheating era in Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet gravity
We investigate the observational viability of non-minimally coupled scalar-Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet (GB) gravity, during inflation and post-inflationary reheating dynamics, from the perspective of the latest ACT-DR6 combined with the Planck 2018 and BAO data. It turns out that the ACT result considerably affects the inflationary e-fold number compared to the case where only Planck 2018 data is taken into account. The viable parameter spaces corresponding to the inflationary ACT-DR6+Planck18+BAO su…

Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) wants Microsoft to provide longer support for Windows 10.
The group indicated that Windows 10's death will lead to "the single biggest jump in junked computers ever."
https://www.windowscentral.com/mi…

For the first time we got fruit (2!) on the Akebia quinata ('chocolate vine"). We planted a different clone last year for pollination and although the flowering time overlap is small, at least we got these.
Pleasant vanilla pulp (bitter seeds) a bit like cherimoya and relatives. Worth growing? A nice plant but hardly a viable fruit crop in Manchester.

@… What's your view on this?
https://www.newscientist.com/article/24950

Why solar power is the only viable power source in the long run
Not only is solar more than capable of supplying all the world’s energy, in the long term it is the only power source that won’t fry the planet

Rather than assuming the war can be ended through a comprehensive battlefield victory or a negotiated compromise,
Ukraine and its allies must plan to build a viable, sovereign, and secure state under constant military pressure.
This reality demands a redefinition of what a successful outcome looks like.
In this context, the objective should not be to defeat Russia outright or expect its regime to end the war because of economic or diplomatic pressure
-- but to syste…

Ukraine’s New Theory of Victory Should be Strategic Neutralization
By ensuring that Russia’s war is operationally pointless, Ukraine can survive, adapt, and achieve success, no matter how prolonged the war.

personally i'm not planning to migrate from github any time soon. the people who i'd've lost on ethical grounds have self-selected out long ago, i have basically no lock-in besides very heavy reliance GH Actions (which have no viable replacement besides gitlab maybe) and i'm counting on the process of corporate death to take a few years until it starts to cause actual immediate problems

Partial Secrecy Analysis in Wireless Systems: Diversity-Enhanced PLS over Generalized Fading Channels
Henry Carvajal Mora, Nathaly Orozco, Fernando Almeida Garc\'ia, Jos\'e Vega-S\'anchez, Felipe Grijalva, Edgar Benitez Olivo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12359

Partial Secrecy Analysis in Wireless Systems: Diversity-Enhanced PLS over Generalized Fading Channels
Securing information in future mobile networks is challenging, especially for devices with limited computational resources. Physical layer security (PLS) offers a viable solution by leveraging wireless channel randomness. When full secrecy is unattainable, the partial secrecy regime provides a realistic alternative. This work analyzes partial secrecy performance under the generalized multicluster fluctuating two-ray (MFTR) fading model, which subsumes many classical fading cases. We study a sys…

Narrowing the Gap: Supervised Fine-Tuning of Open-Source LLMs as a Viable Alternative to Proprietary Models for Pedagogical Tools
Lorenzo Lee Solano, Charles Koutcheme, Juho Leinonen, Alexandra Vassar, Jake Renzella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05305

Narrowing the Gap: Supervised Fine-Tuning of Open-Source LLMs as a Viable Alternative to Proprietary Models for Pedagogical Tools
Frontier Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini can decipher cryptic compiler errors for novice programmers, but their computational scale, cost, and tendency to over-assist make them problematic for widespread pedagogical adoption. This work demonstrates that smaller, specialised language models, enhanced via Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), present a more viable alternative for educational tools. We utilise a new dataset of 40,000 C compiler error explanations, derived from real in…

Reducing Temperature Swing and Rectifying Radiative Heat Transfer for Passive Dynamic Space Thermal Control with Variable-Emittance Coatings
Liping Wang, Neal Boman, Sydney Taylor, Chloe Stoops
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13794

Reducing Temperature Swing and Rectifying Radiative Heat Transfer for Passive Dynamic Space Thermal Control with Variable-Emittance Coatings
Dynamic radiative thermal control is crucial for normal operation and energy saving of spacecraft that copes with changing thermal environment involving heat dissipation to cold deep space, external heating from the Sun and nearby planet, and internal heating from onboard electronics. Variable-emittance coatings, whose infrared emittance can be tuned passively by temperature or actively by external stimuli, could provide a viable solution. In this work, we experimentally demonstrate self-adapti…

CRAFT: Latency and Cost-Aware Genetic-Based Framework for Node Placement in Edge-Fog Environments
Soheil Mahdizadeh, Amir Mahdi Rasouli, Mohammad Pourashory, Sadra Galavani, Mohsen Ansari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12445

CRAFT: Latency and Cost-Aware Genetic-Based Framework for Node Placement in Edge-Fog Environments
Reducing latency in the Internet of Things (IoT) is a critical concern. While cloud computing facilitates communication, it falls short of meeting real-time requirements reliably. Edge and fog computing have emerged as viable solutions by positioning computing nodes closer to end users, offering lower latency and increased processing power. An edge-fog framework comprises various components, including edge and fog nodes, whose strategic placement is crucial as it directly impacts latency and sy…

Lab-grown sperm and eggs just a few years away, scientists say;
Quest to create viable human sex cells in lab progressing rapidly, with huge implications for reproduction
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/05/lab-grown-sperm-and-…

I continue to be amazed that anyone uses Amazon AWS, or Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Services. Only someone who's very happy to completely lock their business into a 3rd party proprietary stack they don't control, and loves paying 20x (2000%!) more than reasonable commodity infrastructure rates would do so. I'm amazed that these businesses are even viable. Just goes to show how much flab most corporations have. They're ripe for disruption and displacement.

MESA-QUEST: Modeling Quasi-Stars in MESA
Claire B. Campbell, Andrew D. Santarelli, Matthew E. Caplan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12651 https://

MESA-QUEST: Modeling Quasi-Stars in MESA
Supermassive black hole formation remains an unsolved problem. Quasi-stars have been suggested as a viable heavy-seeding mechanism. In this work, we implement methods for modeling quasi-stars previously used with the Cambridge STARS code into the 1D stellar evolution code MESA. The computational capabilities of MESA allow for more detailed simulations of quasi-star evolution due to its modularity and the ease of implementing of new physical processes and controls. Our implementation, the MESA Q…

Relativistic compact stars coupled with dark energy in Heintzmann spacetime
Susmita Sarkar, Nayan Sarkar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10930 https://arxiv.org…

Relativistic compact stars coupled with dark energy in Heintzmann spacetime
The literature suggests that dark energy is responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe due to its negative pressure, therefore, dark energy can be used as a possible option to prevent the gravitational collapse of compact objects into singularities. In this regard, there is a great possibility that dark energy can interact with the compact stellar matter configuration [Phys. Rev. D 103, 084042 (2021)]. In this article, we introduce a physically viable model for celestial compact…

Raiders training camp preview: Can young receivers make impact? https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/raiders-training-camp-preview-can-young-receivers-make-impact-3396172/

The Dark Energy Bedrock All-Sky Supernova Program: Motivation, Design, Implementation, and Preliminary Data Release
Nora F. Sherman, Maria Acevedo, Dillon Brout, Bailey Martin, Daniel Scolnic, Dingyuan Cao, Christopher Lidman, Noor Ali, Patrick Armstrong, K. Auchett, Rebecca C. Chen, Alex Drlica-Wagner, Peter S. Ferguson, Kenneth Herner, Gautham Narayan, Erik R. Peterson, Liana Rauf, Armin Rest, Adam G. Riess, Masao Sako, Brian Schmidt, Xianzhe TZ Tang, Brad E. Tucker

The Dark Energy Bedrock All-Sky Supernova Program: Motivation, Design, Implementation, and Preliminary Data Release
Precise measurements of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) at low redshifts ($z$) serve as one of the most viable keys to unlocking our understanding of cosmic expansion, isotropy, and growth of structure. The Dark Energy Bedrock All-Sky Supernovae (DEBASS) program will deliver the largest uniformly calibrated low-$z$ SN Ia data set in the southern hemisphere to date. DEBASS utilizes the Dark Energy Camera to image supernovae in conjunction with the Wide-Field Spectrograph (WiFeS) to gather comprehens…

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…

Searching for leptophilic composite asymmetric dark sector at $e^ e^-$ colliders
Chih-Ting Lu, Changbin Xi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12504 https://arxiv.o…

Searching for leptophilic composite asymmetric dark sector at $e^+e^-$ colliders
Composite asymmetric dark matter (ADM) models provide a well-motivated paradigm that simultaneously explains dark matter (DM) relic density and matter-antimatter asymmetry. In these models, the mass of the DM candidate (the lightest dark baryon) is generated through the dark confinement scale dynamics. Although the leptophilic composite ADM model offers a viable framework, comprehensive studies of its collider phenomenology are absent. This work systematically explores novel signatures from lep…

The only remaining survival strategy of a dying system is to keep us so transfixed by the horror that we are unable to construct a viable alternative to it.

My great failure in life is that I never put myself in a position to monetise being this embarrassingly incompetent.
#auspol #australia #government

Facilitating the Emergence of Assistive Robots to Support Frailty: Psychosocial and Environmental Realities
Angela Higgins, Stephen Potter, Mauro Dragone, Mark Hawley, Farshid Amirabdollahian, Alessandro Di Nuovo, Praminda Caleb-Solly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08510

Facilitating the Emergence of Assistive Robots to Support Frailty: Psychosocial and Environmental Realities
While assistive robots have much potential to help older people with frailty-related needs, there are few in use. There is a gap between what is developed in laboratories and what would be viable in real-world contexts. Through a series of co-design workshops (61 participants across 7 sessions) including those with lived experience of frailty, their carers, and healthcare professionals, we gained a deeper understanding of everyday issues concerning the place of new technologies in their lives. …

Can the NFL overcome Trump’s anti-Canada rhetoric? The Bills are banking on it https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6479455/2025/07/09/nfl-trump-buffalo-bills-canada/

@… Not really sure. The best thing about Seth was that he had pretty much one message and he kept phrasing it in many, many different ways to drive the point home.
The message is, in short: good marketing and strategy is about identifying the “smallest viable audience”, focusing on their needs, and ignoring everyone else.
This sums it up too, but the blog …

Branched Broomrape Detection in Tomato Farms Using Satellite Imagery and Time-Series Analysis
Mohammadreza Narimani, Alireza Pourreza, Ali Moghimi, Parastoo Farajpoor, Hamid Jafarbiglu, Mohsen Mesgaran
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10804

Branched Broomrape Detection in Tomato Farms Using Satellite Imagery and Time-Series Analysis
Branched broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa (L.) Pomel) is a chlorophyll-deficient parasitic plant that threatens tomato production by extracting nutrients from the host, with reported yield losses up to 80 percent. Its mostly subterranean life cycle and prolific seed production (more than 200,000 seeds per plant, viable for up to 20 years) make early detection essential. We present an end-to-end pipeline that uses Sentinel-2 imagery and time-series analysis to identify broomrape-infested tomato fie…

MK2 at PBIG Competition: A Prompt Generation Solution
Yuzheng Xu, Tosho Hirasawa, Seiya Kawano, Shota Kato, Tadashi Kozuno
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08335

MK2 at PBIG Competition: A Prompt Generation Solution
The Patent-Based Idea Generation task asks systems to turn real patents into product ideas viable within three years. We propose MK2, a prompt-centric pipeline: Gemini 2.5 drafts and iteratively edits a prompt, grafting useful fragments from weaker outputs; GPT-4.1 then uses this prompt to create one idea per patent, and an Elo loop judged by Qwen3-8B selects the best prompt-all without extra training data. Across three domains, two evaluator types, and six criteria, MK2 topped the automatic le…

"Ask any developer working on Cloud, Mobile, or Web apps whether they would consider Windows a viable choice for their work, and their gasp would be heard from the Pitcairn Islands. And let us not even start talking about LLMs, AI, or other golden nuggets in vogue these days."
https://

Why Wait For The Best When I Could Have You?
Billions of people in this planet instinctively associate the concept of "operating system" to Microsoft Windows by antonomasia. Through perhaps resignation, corporate coercion, laziness, or just sheer ignorance, most cannot fathom a world in which laptops do not boot without a "Start" menu or do not randomly display a Blue Screen of Death every time they plug a new device.

The US taking a 10% equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea and a dangerous turn for US industrial policy, but also the least bad idea to make Foundry viable (Ben Thompson/Stratechery)
https://stratechery.com/2025/u-s-intel/

U.S. Intel
The U.S. taking an equity stake in Intel is a terrible idea; it also happens to be the least bad idea to make Intel Foundry viable.

Esos momentos en los que peleas por ser parte de #buyfromeurope a nivel empresarial, pero la alternativa mšs viable cae muy por detršs de la competencia americana 😢 Zenkit VS ClickUp como gestor de proyectos y de empresa al final.

These things don’t /actually/ go together, they just look like it… I’m also missing a computer running MS-DOS in order to see if the disks are still viable; likely not, since v.2 of CorelDraw was released in 1991… And, even if I had a computer from that era, I’m pretty sure there would be no way to plug a USB into it.
I did also find a number of other disks during my clean-up today — helpfully labelled things like «Backup», «Miscellaneous», and «Fred’s disk». I might check them out som…

My NorthWest Bylines article, 'Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis', republished by Resilience.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-09-10/renewables-carbon-and-the-energy-crisis/

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
The road towards a viable net-zero world is long and full of obstacles, but all economies need to reduce their carbon footprint.

TIL that `| subl -` is a viable alternative to `| less`. #SublimeText

Shocked that PLDI 2026 will be in the US - I thought it would be blindingly obvious that the US are not a viable place for an international academic conference anymore. Just wrote an e-mail to the ICFP SC to that effect, just in case.

[disclaimer: not a political scientist, talking out of my ass]
For the two parties are going to divide up the electorate, if one is the fascist party, maybe the other •has• to be the anti-fascist party — not just philosophically, but for practical reasons. Maybe you just can’t maintain a viable coalition to oppose a fascist party without bringing everyone who opposes fascism into your coalition. Sure feels that way now.
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Progressive Facial Granularity Aggregation with Bilateral Attribute-based Enhancement for Face-to-Speech Synthesis
Yejin Jeon, Youngjae Kim, Jihyun Lee, Hyounghun Kim, Gary Geunbae Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.07376

Progressive Facial Granularity Aggregation with Bilateral Attribute-based Enhancement for Face-to-Speech Synthesis
For individuals who have experienced traumatic events such as strokes, speech may no longer be a viable means of communication. While text-to-speech (TTS) can be used as a communication aid since it generates synthetic speech, it fails to preserve the user's own voice. As such, face-to-voice (FTV) synthesis, which derives corresponding voices from facial images, provides a promising alternative. However, existing methods rely on pre-trained visual encoders, and finetune them to align with speec…

Polywell Revisited
Jaeyoung Park, Nicholas A. Krall, Giovanni Lapenta, Masayuki Ono
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06761 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06761

Polywell Revisited
The Polywell fusion concept, originally proposed by Robert W. Bussard in 1985, has been investigated for over four decades as a potential solution for achieving net fusion energy in a compact and economically viable reactor. It combines two distinct approaches: high-beta magnetic cusp confinement of electrons using polyhedral coil configurations and electrostatic ion confinement via a potential well formed by injected electron beams. While the hybrid nature of the Polywell system offers advanta…

This also points at the likely answer to the headscratcher of where some ancient people of the region found the water they needed. https://wandering.shop/@adapalmer/114773151081694915

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis The road towards a viable net-zero world is long and full of obstacles, but all economies need to reduce their carbon footprint by Mark H Burton Net zero, that is the government plan to reduce climate…

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE Renewables…

"L'UE et la Chine sont plus proches l'une de l'autre qu'on ne le pense. Toutes deux sont des importateurs nets de combustibles fossiles. Elles sont toutes deux de grands producteurs de technologies sans carbone et ont donc intérêt Š soutenir la demande mondiale de produits verts. Enfin, dans un contexte d'incertitude croissante, elles ont toutes deux parié sur la transition énergétique comme étant la voie la plus viable vers la compétitivité et l'innovation.&quot…

LLMs for LLMs: A Structured Prompting Methodology for Long Legal Documents
Strahinja Klem, Noura Al Moubayed
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02241 https://arxiv…

LLMs for LLMs: A Structured Prompting Methodology for Long Legal Documents
The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has had a profoundly transformative effect on a number of fields and domains. However, their uptake in Law has proven more challenging due to the important issues of reliability and transparency. In this study, we present a structured prompting methodology as a viable alternative to the often expensive fine-tuning, with the capability of tacking long legal documents from the CUAD dataset on the task of information retrieval. Each document is first split …

When CP requires $\bar\theta=0$, not $\bar\theta=\pi$
Luca Vecchi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10680 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.10680…

When CP requires $\barθ=0$, not $\barθ=π$
Imposing CP or P forces the QCD topological angle to be either $\barθ=0$ or $\barθ=π$. However, only the former is phenomenologically viable. This implies that the assumption of CP or P alone cannot provide a framework for unambiguously solving the Strong CP problem. We show that $\barθ=0$ is naturally selected when the assumption of CP is combined with the hypothesis that the Standard Model is embedded in a suitable gauge group.

I've been at my little "link blog" for my website long enough now it was time to figure out how to make it paginate: #Jekyll, there didn't seem to be a default way to create paginated lists that are based on `_data` files. So I did the minimum viable edits to the jekyll-paginate gem to make it work – which it does reasonably okay.
Now I wonder if it's worth to actually still make a gem out of it?
https://codeberg.org/gedankenstuecke/pages-source/commit/5702ceb7ae339520813c6f3bed9ca31cb57c49e0

Universal relations for fast rotating neutron stars without equation of state bias
Christian J. Kr\"uger, Mariachiara Celato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11882 https://

Universal relations for fast rotating neutron stars without equation of state bias
We provide a summary of several parametrisations for the nuclear equation of state that have been proposed over the past decades and list viable ranges for their parameters. Based on these parametrisations, we construct a large database of rotating neutron star models, which are arranged in sequences of constant central energy density. After filtering these sequences with respect to generous astrophysical constraints, we discover tight universal relations for various bulk quantities of uniforml…

Point of Interest Recommendation: Pitfalls and Viable Solutions
Alejandro Bellog\'in, Linus W. Dietz, Francesco Ricci, Pablo S\'anchez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13725

Point of Interest Recommendation: Pitfalls and Viable Solutions
Point of interest (POI) recommendation can play a pivotal role in enriching tourists' experiences by suggesting context-dependent and preference-matching locations and activities, such as restaurants, landmarks, itineraries, and cultural attractions. Unlike some more common recommendation domains (e.g., music and video), POI recommendation is inherently high-stakes: users invest significant time, money, and effort to search, choose, and consume these suggested POIs. Despite the numerous researc…

Replaced article(s) found for astro-ph.HE. https://arxiv.org/list/astro-ph.HE/new
[1/2]:
- Neutron-quark stars: Discerning viable alternatives for the higher-density part of the equation o...
Hensh, Huang, Kojo, Baiotti, Takami, Nagataki, Sotani

Strategically, most would prefer to attack England on the right, away from Bronze and Williamson. But Spain might now consider either side viable. Let Pina test the mobility on the left.
#engesp #EURO2025 #fedifc

I get why browsers don’t support native markdown — then where would all the ads and tracking go? But it kind of makes me want to make a minimal little browser that registers for mdtp:// and just renders markdown fetched via http. Probably wouldn’t be viable without the ability to detect the presence of an installed app that handles it and a graceful fallback path, sadly.

SPEAR: Structured Pruning for Spiking Neural Networks via Synaptic Operation Estimation and Reinforcement Learning
Hui Xie, Yuhe Liu, Shaoqi Yang, Jinyang Guo, Yufei Guo, Yuqing Ma, Jiaxin Chen, Jiaheng Liu, Xianglong Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02945

SPEAR: Structured Pruning for Spiking Neural Networks via Synaptic Operation Estimation and Reinforcement Learning
While deep spiking neural networks (SNNs) demonstrate superior performance, their deployment on resource-constrained neuromorphic hardware still remains challenging. Network pruning offers a viable solution by reducing both parameters and synaptic operations (SynOps) to facilitate the edge deployment of SNNs, among which search-based pruning methods search for the SNNs structure after pruning. However, existing search-based methods fail to directly use SynOps as the constraint because it will d…

Agentic-AI based Mathematical Framework for Commercialization of Energy Resilience in Electrical Distribution System Planning and Operation
Aniket Johri, Divyanshi Dwivedi, Mayukha Pal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04170

Agentic-AI based Mathematical Framework for Commercialization of Energy Resilience in Electrical Distribution System Planning and Operation
The increasing vulnerability of electrical distribution systems to extreme weather events and cyber threats necessitates the development of economically viable frameworks for resilience enhancement. While existing approaches focus primarily on technical resilience metrics and enhancement strategies, there remains a significant gap in establishing market-driven mechanisms that can effectively commercialize resilience features while optimizing their deployment through intelligent decision-making.…

Supervised Machine Learning Methods with Uncertainty Quantification for Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals from Transmission Spectroscopy
Roy T. Forestano, Konstantin T. Matchev, Katia Matcheva, Eyup B. Unlu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04982

Supervised Machine Learning Methods with Uncertainty Quantification for Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals from Transmission Spectroscopy
Standard Bayesian retrievals for exoplanet atmospheric parameters from transmission spectroscopy, while well understood and widely used, are generally computationally expensive. In the era of the JWST and other upcoming observatories, machine learning approaches have emerged as viable alternatives that are both efficient and robust. In this paper we present a systematic study of several existing machine learning regression techniques and compare their performance for retrieving exoplanet atmosp…

Can Generated Images Serve as a Viable Modality for Text-Centric Multimodal Learning?
Yuesheng Huang, Peng Zhang, Riliang Liu, Jiaqi Liang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17623

Can Generated Images Serve as a Viable Modality for Text-Centric Multimodal Learning?
A significant ``modality gap" exists between the abundance of text-only data and the increasing power of multimodal models. This work systematically investigates whether images generated on-the-fly by Text-to-Image (T2I) models can serve as a valuable complementary modality for text-centric tasks. Through a comprehensive evaluation framework on text classification, we analyze the impact of critical variables, including T2I model quality, prompt engineering strategies, and multimodal fusion arch…

Transport coefficients of charged Gauss-Bonnet black holes with arbitrary topology
Mois\'es Bravo-Gaete, Luis Guajardo, Daniel F. Higuita-Borja, Julio A. M\'endez-Zavaleta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03838

Transport coefficients of charged Gauss-Bonnet black holes with arbitrary topology
In this study, we present a novel family of exact black hole solutions constructed in the context of five-dimensional Gauss-Bonnet gravity. These solutions add a non-linear charge to the Bañados-Teitelboim-Zanelli-like configurations known to exist with arbitrary Thurston horizon geometry. We establish constraints on the parameter space defining physically viable black holes, aligning with the standard energy conditions. An explicit proof of the first law of thermodynamics within our scenario …

This years #fusion industry association reports are out; 5 of the member companies expect to ''operate a commercially viable pilot plant' by 2030, another 35 expect to be able to do it by 2035, with slightly lower numbers for that being 'deliver power to the grid' - 'commercial viability' seems to skew a little later; but still, Fusion only being *10* years away is pro…

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Colts already in trouble at quarterback after latest Anthony Richardson injury, shaky Daniel Jones debut

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Evaluating the Economic Feasibility of Labor Replacement Through Robotics and Automation in Qatar
Tariq Eldakruri, Edip Senyurek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10152 https://…

Evaluating the Economic Feasibility of Labor Replacement Through Robotics and Automation in Qatar
This paper investigates the economic feasibility of replacing human labor with robotics and automation in Qatar's manufacturing and service sectors. By analyzing labor costs, productivity gains, and implementation expenses, the study assesses the potential financial impact and return on investment of robotic integration. Results indicate the sectors where automation is economically viable and identify challenges related to workforce adaptation, policy, and infrastructure. These insights provide…

Gravitational wave propagation in bigravity in the late universe
David Brizuela, Marco de Cesare, Araceli Soler Oficial
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11526 ht…

Gravitational wave propagation in bigravity in the late universe
We carry out a detailed analytical investigation of the propagation of gravitational waves in bimetric gravity in a late-time de Sitter epoch. In this regime, the dynamical equations for the massless and massive graviton modes can be decoupled and solved exactly. We provide uniform approximations for the modes in terms of elementary functions, which are valid on all scales and for all viable mass windows. We identify different dynamical regimes for the system, depending on the propagation prope…

From Canada to Japan: How 10,000 km Affect User Perception in Robot Teleoperation
Sim\'eon Capy, Thomas M. Kwok, Kevin Joseph, Yuichiro Kawasumi, Koichi Nagashima, Tomoya Sasaki, Yue Hu, Eiichi Yoshida
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05143

From Canada to Japan: How 10,000 km Affect User Perception in Robot Teleoperation
Robot teleoperation (RTo) has emerged as a viable alternative to local control, particularly when human intervention is still necessary. This research aims to study the distance effect on user perception in RTo, exploring the potential of teleoperated robots for older adult care. We propose an evaluation of non-expert users' perception of long-distance RTo, examining how their perception changes before and after interaction, as well as comparing it to that of locally operated robots. We have de…

ChemLog: Making MSOL Viable for Ontological Classification and Learning
Simon Fl\"ugel, Martin Glauer, Till Mossakowski, Fabian Neuhaus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13987

ChemLog: Making MSOL Viable for Ontological Classification and Learning
Despite its prevalence, in many domains, OWL is not expressive enough to define ontology classes. In this paper, we present an approach that allows to use monadic second-order formalisations for ontology classification. As a case study, we have applied our approach to 14 peptide-related classes from the chemistry ontology ChEBI. For these classes, a monadic second-order logic formalisation has been developed and applied both to ChEBI as well as to 119 million molecules from the chemistry databa…

Signal Prediction for Loss Mitigation in Tactile Internet: A Leader-Follower Game-Theoretic Approach
Mohammad Ali Vahedifar, Qi Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07692

Signal Prediction for Loss Mitigation in Tactile Internet: A Leader-Follower Game-Theoretic Approach
Tactile Internet (TI) requires achieving ultra-low latency and highly reliable packet delivery for haptic signals. In the presence of packet loss and delay, the signal prediction method provides a viable solution for recovering the missing signals. To this end, we introduce the Leader-Follower (LeFo) approach based on a cooperative Stackelberg game, which enables both users and robots to learn and predict actions. With accurate prediction, the teleoperation system can safely relax its strict de…

Quantum non-Gaussian high Fock states of light pulses and their superpositions
G. P. Teja, Chandan Kumar, Luk\'a\v{s} Lachman, Radim Filip
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04891 h…

Quantum non-Gaussian high Fock states of light pulses and their superpositions
The generation of high Fock states of light pulses and their superpositions with provable quantum non-Gaussian features is still very challenging, although the power of conditional methods to herald the approximate state from the available Gaussian states is growing. The atom-light interaction in the high-Q cavity has been considered a viable alternative to the heralded Fock states of the light pulses from nonlinear optics limited to three-photon Fock states for the last decade. Here, by optimi…

Extended Color Twin Higgs
Brian Batell, Thomas Cochran, Logan Page, Christopher B. Verhaaren
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10102 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10…

Extended Color Twin Higgs
We describe a novel variation of the mirror Twin Higgs model in which the color gauge group in both sectors is extended to SU(4$)_c$ and spontaneously broken to SU(3$)_c$ exclusively in the visible sector. Through this process, the mirror $Z_2$ symmetry is spontaneously broken, allowing for a phenomenologically viable electroweak vacuum alignment. This structure produces interesting collider signatures, including heavy vectors and fermions with fractional electric charges. The twin sector, with…

Physical black holes: spacetime and matter near trapping surfaces
Swayamsiddha Maharana, Rama Vadapalli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11578 https://arxiv.org/…

Physical black holes: spacetime and matter near trapping surfaces
Within a semiclassical framework, we investigate spherically symmetric solutions of the Einstein equations that (i) develop a trapped region within a finite time as measured by distant observers, and (ii) remain sufficiently regular at the apparent horizon. These requirements characterize the self-consistent approach, and it imposes specific constraints on the limiting form of the energy momentum tensor (EMT). Previous works argued that only certain EMT classes admit viable dynamical solutions,…

Power Law Plateau Inflation and Primary Gravitational Waves in the light of ACT
Abolhassan Mohammadi, Yogesh, Anzhong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06544

Power Law Plateau Inflation and Primary Gravitational Waves in the light of ACT
We investigate Power-Law Plateau (PLP) inflation in standard gravity and its consistency with ACT DR6 data. While many inflationary models, including the Starobinsky inflation, are disfavored by ACT observations, the PLP potential remains viable across a broad range of its parameters. Then, the dynamics of the reheating phase are investigated, where we mainly focus on the reheating temperature and its relationship with the inflationary phase and primordial gravitational waves. Incorporating the…

Lawmakers seek Constitutional Court review of law curtailing independence of Ukraine's anti-graft agencies: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/23/lawmakers-seek-constitutional-court-review.html

Are LLM Agents the New RPA? A Comparative Study with RPA Across Enterprise Workflows
Petr Pr\r{u}cha, Michaela Matou\v{s}kov\'a, Jan Strnad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04198 …

Are LLM Agents the New RPA? A Comparative Study with RPA Across Enterprise Workflows
The emergence of large language models (LLMs) has introduced a new paradigm in automation: LLM agents or Agentic Automation with Computer Use (AACU). Unlike traditional Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which relies on rule-based workflows and scripting, AACU enables intelligent agents to perform tasks through natural language instructions and autonomous interaction with user interfaces. This study investigates whether AACU can serve as a viable alternative to RPA in enterprise workflow automat…

The vocal right-wing critics are largely denying the impact of fossil fuels on emissions, and therefore on the future prospects for humanity, but the net zero lobby is pursuing strategies that are inadequate and simplistic. If we truly want net zero, then the only way forward is down, with far less overall energy use and less complex technology.
Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
The road towards a viable net-zero world is long and full of obstacles, but all economies need to reduce their carbon footprint

CleanUpBench: Embodied Sweeping and Grasping Benchmark
Wenbo Li, Guanting Chen, Tao Zhao, Jiyao Wang, Tianxin Hu, Yuwen Liao, Weixiang Guo, Shenghai Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05543

CleanUpBench: Embodied Sweeping and Grasping Benchmark
Embodied AI benchmarks have advanced navigation, manipulation, and reasoning, but most target complex humanoid agents or large-scale simulations that are far from real-world deployment. In contrast, mobile cleaning robots with dual mode capabilities, such as sweeping and grasping, are rapidly emerging as realistic and commercially viable platforms. However, no benchmark currently exists that systematically evaluates these agents in structured, multi-target cleaning tasks, revealing a critical g…

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis The road towards a viable net-zero world is long and full of obstacles, but all economies need to reduce their carbon footprint by Mark H Burton Net zero, that is the government plan to reduce climate…

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
Article originally published at North West Bylines, 31 July, 2025 Based on a longer, fully referenced pamphlet, jointly published by Steady State Manchester and DegrowthUK available HERE Renewables…

At the 2025 RISC-V Summit in China, Nvidia says CUDA will now be compatible with RISC-V's instruction set architecture, making RISC-V a viable x86 and Arm rival (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.

Nvidia's CUDA platform now supports RISC-V — support brings open source instruction set to AI platforms, joining x86 and Arm
Yet another alternative.

Carnegie Supernova Project: Fast-Declining Type Ia Supernovae as Cosmological Distance Indicators
M. M. Phillips, Syed A. Uddin, Christopher R. Burns, Nicholas B. Suntzeff, C. Ashall, E. Baron, L. Galbany, P. Hoeflich, E. Y. Hsiao, Nidia Morrell, S. E. Persson, Maximilian Stritzinger, Carlos Contreras, Wendy L. Freedman, Kevin Krisciunas, S. Kumar, J. Lu, Anthony L. Piro, M. Shahbandeh

Carnegie Supernova Project: Fast-Declining Type Ia Supernovae as Cosmological Distance Indicators
In this paper, the suitability of fast-declining Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) as cosmological standard candles is examined utilizing a Hubble Flow sample of 43 of these objects observed by the Carnegie Supernova Project (CSP). We confirm previous suggestions that fast-declining SNe Ia offer a viable method for estimating distances to early-type galaxies when the color-stretch parameter, $s_{BV}$, is used as a measure of the light curve shape. As a test, we employ the Tripp (1998) method, which m…

Answer Matching Outperforms Multiple Choice for Language Model Evaluation
Nikhil Chandak, Shashwat Goel, Ameya Prabhu, Moritz Hardt, Jonas Geiping
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02856

Answer Matching Outperforms Multiple Choice for Language Model Evaluation
Multiple choice benchmarks have long been the workhorse of language model evaluation because grading multiple choice is objective and easy to automate. However, we show multiple choice questions from popular benchmarks can often be answered without even seeing the question. These shortcuts arise from a fundamental limitation of discriminative evaluation not shared by evaluations of the model's free-form, generative answers. Until recently, there appeared to be no viable, scalable alternative to…

New article from me, with link at bottom to longer, fully referenced pamphlet.
Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/environment/renewables-carbon-and-the-energy-crisis/

Renewables, carbon and the energy crisis
The road towards a viable net-zero world is long and full of obstacles, but all economies need to reduce their carbon footprint

LIQUIDating the Gallium Anomaly
Garv Chauhan, Patrick Huber
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07397 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07397

LIQUIDating the Gallium Anomaly
The gallium anomaly has a global significance of greater than $5σ$. Most viable BSM solutions quickly run into strong tensions with reactor and solar neutrino data. We propose to use indium (${}^{115}\text{In}$) as a target as it offers a low threshold and reasonably high cross section. The neutrino-indium charged current cross section can be calibrated using the well-constrained solar ${}^{7}\text{Be}$ neutrino flux that lies very close in energy to the ${}^{51}\text{Cr}$ neutrino lines. The …

The Magnetic Origin of Primordial Black Holes: A Viable Dark Matter Scenario
Subhasis Maiti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19217 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.192…

The Magnetic Origin of Primordial Black Holes: A Viable Dark Matter Scenario
Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are compelling candidates for explaining the present-day relic abundance of cold dark matter (CDM), yet their formation typically requires finely tuned early-universe dynamics. In this work, we propose a novel PBH formation mechanism within a well-established magnetogenesis framework. This scenario simultaneously accounts for the large-scale magnetic fields observed today and generates an enhanced curvature power spectrum at intermediate scales, leading to PBH form…

MultiGen: Using Multimodal Generation in Simulation to Learn Multimodal Policies in Real
Renhao Wang, Haoran Geng, Tingle Li, Feishi Wang, Gopala Anumanchipalli, Philipp Wu, Trevor Darrell, Boyi Li, Pieter Abbeel, Jitendra Malik, Alexei A. Efros
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02864

MultiGen: Using Multimodal Generation in Simulation to Learn Multimodal Policies in Real
Robots must integrate multiple sensory modalities to act effectively in the real world. Yet, learning such multimodal policies at scale remains challenging. Simulation offers a viable solution, but while vision has benefited from high-fidelity simulators, other modalities (e.g. sound) can be notoriously difficult to simulate. As a result, sim-to-real transfer has succeeded primarily in vision-based tasks, with multimodal transfer still largely unrealized. In this work, we tackle these challenge…

Illuminating Degenerate Dark Sector of Inert Doublet Model at Muon Collider
Anupam Ghosh, Partha Konar, Chandrima Sen, Bhavya Thacker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06289 https://…

Illuminating Degenerate Dark Sector of Inert Doublet Model at Muon Collider
The Inert scalar Doublet Model (IDM) presents a simple yet elegant framework for a scalar dark sector where the lightest mode functions as a viable dark matter candidate under a $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetry. With TeV-scale particles accessible to the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) or future colliders, probing different dark matter scenarios within IDM provides an exciting opportunity. While the Higgs portal dark matter scenario is extensively well-studied at the LHC, probing the degenerate scalar dark …

The Global Cosmic Ray Observatory -- Challenging next-generation multi-messenger astronomy with interdisciplinary research
Toshihiro Fujii (on behalf of the GCOS supporters)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04588

The Global Cosmic Ray Observatory -- Challenging next-generation multi-messenger astronomy with interdisciplinary research
The origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) is one of the most intriguing mysteries in astroparticle physics and high-energy physics. Since UHECRs with light mass compositions are less deflected by the Galactic and extragalactic magnetic fields, their arrival directions are more strongly correlated with their origins. Charged-particle astronomy with UHECRs is hence a potentially viable probe of extremely energetic phenomena in the universe. The Global Cosmic Ray Observatory (GCOS) is a…

Beyond the Cloud: Assessing the Benefits and Drawbacks of Local LLM Deployment for Translators
Peter Sandrini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23399 https://arxi…

Beyond the Cloud: Assessing the Benefits and Drawbacks of Local LLM Deployment for Translators
The rapid proliferation of Large Language Models presents both opportunities and challenges for the translation field. While commercial, cloud-based AI chatbots have garnered significant attention in translation studies, concerns regarding data privacy, security, and equitable access necessitate exploration of alternative deployment models. This paper investigates the feasibility and performance of locally deployable, free language models as a viable alternative to proprietary, cloud-based AI s…

It's mostly posturing . Shale gas won't be economically viable and will meet huge opposition from communities.
Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74172wlezwo

Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms
The party is serious about going after shale gas - but critics argue it's too difficult and costly.

Probing one-loop--induced decay channel $H^\pm \to W^\pm\gamma$ in the Two Higgs Doublet Models at muon-TeV colliders
Dzung Tri Tran (Duy Tan Uni.), Quang Hoang-Minh Pham (Duy Tan Univ.), Khoa Ngo-Thanh Ho (Duy Tan Univ.), Khiem Hong Phan (Duy Tan Univ.)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08417

Probing one-loop--induced decay channel $H^\pm \to W^\pmγ$ in the Two Higgs Doublet Models at muon-TeV colliders
In this work, we study the one-loop--induced decay channel $H^{\pm} \rightarrow W^{\pm}γ$ in the general $\mathcal{R}_ξ$ gauge within Two Higgs Doublet Models. We analytically verify the gauge invariance ($ξ$-independence), ultraviolet finiteness, and renormalization-scale independence of the one-loop form factors, thereby confirming the consistency of our calculations. On the phenomenological side, we perform a parameter scan of the Type-I THDM and, based on the viable parameter space, eval…

Rectifying Power-law $F(R)$ Gravity and Starobinsky Inflation Deformations in View of ACT
S. D. Odintsov, V. K. Oikonomou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06251 https://

Rectifying Power-law $F(R)$ Gravity and Starobinsky Inflation Deformations in View of ACT
In this work we aim to provide a consistent theoretical framework that revives the power-law $F(R)$ gravity inflation framework in the Jordan frame. It is known in the literature that the power-law $F(R)$ gravity inflation of the form $F(R)=R+βR^n$ is non-viable and produces a power-law evolution. We demonstrate that the standard approach in power-law $F(R)$ gravity inflation is flawed for many reasons and we introduce a new framework which elevates the role of power-law $F(R)$ gravity inflati…

Genesis--Starobinsky inflation can explain the ACT data
Han Gil Choi, Pavel Petrov, Seong Chan Park
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04832 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Genesis--Starobinsky inflation can explain the ACT data
We propose a novel non-singular cosmological scenario within the framework of Horndeski gravity, consisting of three successive stages: (i) a Genesis phase, in which the Universe slowly expands from an asymptotically flat spacetime; (ii) a brief transition stage restoring General Relativity; and (iii) a Starobinsky inflationary phase. This construction is fully consistent within a viable parameter space: it remains weakly coupled, free from ghost and gradient instabilities, with luminal tensor …

Electroweak Phase Transition, Gravitational Waves and Collider Probes in Multi-Scalar Dark Matter Scenarios
Tripurari Srivastava, Jaydeb Das, Anupam Ghosh, Arnab Chaudhuri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05917

Electroweak Phase Transition, Gravitational Waves and Collider Probes in Multi-Scalar Dark Matter Scenarios
We study scalar singlet extensions of the Standard Model (SM), focusing on scenarios where dark matter (DM) is stabilized by a \(\mathbb{Z}_2\) symmetry. In the minimal single-scalar extension of the SM, only a narrow region near the Higgs resonance remains viable, requiring small portal couplings in order to simultaneously satisfy the observed relic abundance and comply with the most recent direct detection limits from the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ-2024) and XENON1T experiments. To address this limitatio…

Effective Equation of State Oscillations at Matter-Radiation Equality and Primordial Gravitational Waves
S. D. Odintsov, V. K. Oikonomou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04571

Effective Equation of State Oscillations at Matter-Radiation Equality and Primordial Gravitational Waves
The theory controlling the Universe's evolution in the classical regime has to be motivated by particle physics reasoning and should also generate inflation and dark energy eras in a unified way. One such framework is $F(R)$ gravity. In this work we examine a class of exponential deformations of $R^2$ gravity motivated by fundamental physics of scalaron evolution in a de Sitter background. As we show this class of models describe both inflation and the dark energy era in a viable way compatible…

Neutrino mass generation via the inverse seesaw mechanism in a $U(1)_{B-L}$ gauge extension
Higo Barros Nogueira, Job Saraiva Furtado Neto, Raimundo Nogueira da Costa Filho, J\'ulio Rafael da Silva Leite
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03795

Neutrino mass generation via the inverse seesaw mechanism in a $U(1)_{B-L}$ gauge extension
We present anomaly-free solutions suitable for an inverse seesaw realization within a $U(1)_{B-L}$ extension. Implementing such a mechanism, in a phenomenologically viable way, requires the inclusion of at least four exotic fermions, assumed to be Standard Model singlets. In order to build anomaly-free models, the $B-L$ charges of these exotic fermions must satisfy two constraint equations, known as the anomaly equations. Here, we focus on solutions involving four to eight new right-handed ferm…

On the viability of minimal Ho\v{r}ava gravity
Ted Jacobson, Pranav Pulakkat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03106 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03106

On the viability of minimal Hořava gravity
Hořava gravity is a Lorentz-violating modification of general relativity (GR) with a preferred spacelike foliation. Observational evidence has put strong constraints on the parameter values in this model, so that the remaining viable sector is well-characterized by the Newton constant and a single additional parameter. We analyze this restricted theory, which is called minimal Hořava gravity ($\mathrm{mHg}$), from the Hamiltonian point of view. We find that in order to eliminate a pathologica…