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According to the latest annual Nature Index, which tracks research institutions by their contributions to leading science journals,
the single remaining U.S. institution among the top 10 is Harvard,
in second place, far behind the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
A decade ago, C.A.S. was the only Chinese institution to figure in the top 10.
Now eight of the 10 leaders are in China.
If this does not constitute a Sputnik moment, it is hard to imagine what would.

Opinion | We Are Watching a Scientific Superpower Destroy Itself
As China threatens to overtake U.S. leadership in science and technology, America has responded by sabotaging its own engines of progress.

Good things come to those who wait: Watching donor stars evolve towards a mass-transfer instability
Karel D. Temmink, Onno R. Pols, Stephen Justham, Nadia Blagorodnova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09492 …

Good things come to those who wait: Watching donor stars evolve towards a mass-transfer instability
Unstable mass transfer in binary systems can lead to transients such as luminous red novae (LRNe). Observations of such transients are valuable for understanding and testing models of mass transfer. For donor stars in the Hertzsprung gap, there can be a long phase of mass-transfer evolution before instability sets in. Only few case studies of such delayed dynamical instability (DDI) mass transfer exist. None consider the full pre-instability evolution and the effects thereof on the observable p…

Them: "check out this asshole legislator getting heckled!"
Me: "Ooh that's a nice protected bike lane with.. is that a bus island? In-lane stops? Sweet!"
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile…

One feels a disturbing fascination watching the Trump administration’s handling of U.S. foreign policy.
We have front-row seats to the greatest voluntary liquidation of a great power’s status and geopolitical influence in modern history:
The results are dramatic and alarming, but it’s almost impossible to look away.
And it’s been less than eight months

The Top 10 Trump Administration Foreign-Policy Mistakes
So far.

Zwei Tote im Gebiet Charkiw nach russischem Angriff
Bei einem russischen Drohnenangriff sind in der Nähe von Wowtschansk im ostukrainischen Gebiet Charkiw zwei Menschen getötet worden. Der Mann und die Frau seien auf einem Moped unterwegs gewesen, als sie von der Drohne getroffen wurden, teilte die Polizei des Gebiets bei Telegram mit.
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Selenskyj besucht Front in der Region Charkiw ++
Der ukrainische Präsident Selenskyj hat die Front in der nordöstlichen Region Charkiw besucht. Russland soll nach ukrainischen Angaben einen Fliegerhorst in der Westukraine mit "Kinschal"-Hyperschallraketen angegriffen haben.

Trump is attending the U.S. Open on Sunday as a guest of Rolex despite imposing steep tariffs on the Swiss watchmaker’s home country
-- and with organizers seeking to keep any audience booing of him from being seen on the TV broadcast.
Trump has built the bulk of his second term’s domestic travel around attending major sports events rather than hitting the road to make policy announcements or address the kind of large rallies he so relished as a candidate
⭐️Let's make th…

Trump's US Open visit lead to boos, long security lines
President Donald Trump attended the U.S. Open on Sunday, drawing boos from the crowd. His presence delayed the men's final due to heightened security, causing long lines for many people who didn't make it in before play started. Trump briefly appeared before the event, receiving mixed reactions from the then-mostly empty Arthur Ashe Stadium. During the National Anthem, he was shown on the big screen, which increased the volume of boos. Boos got more intense later in the match. Organizers delaye…

Hold on a moment, you can't call something
"One Big Beautiful Bill"...mainly cause then you just cemented that the real world is Real Idiocracy!
Goddamit, now I gotta watch the movie again, no human should ever name anything with a name like that again!(oh who am I kidding)
Looks like I'm going to be watching both fictional stupidity plus real stupidity and you'll witness my stupidity!
Ain't hell beautiful?

Many are closely watching to see whether Representative
David Valadao, Republican of California
and one of the most politically vulnerable Republicans in the country,
votes to advance the procedural rule.
Almost no other member serves a district that relies as heavily on Medicaid as his,
where nearly two-thirds of the population depends on the program for health care.
This bill was always going to bring about a tough vote for Valadao,
and earlier th…

Live Updates: Trump’s Policy Bill Faces Final House Vote After Senate Approval

Troops in Los Angeles marked a dramatic new turn in the Trump authoritarian rollout. Yet American protesters are making the turn towards a national mobilization in defense of freedom and democracy.
http://woborders.blog/2025/06/13/resistance-to-trump-reac…

Resistance to Trump reaches its first turning point
“The Whole World Is Watching.” It’s been decades since American protesters chanted this sentence at American police in an effort to deter violence and brutality. But it has perhaps neve…

Some of the stuff that this guy is saying sounds like the mumbo jumbo you hear in the final act of some animes. GITS part 2 or „Stand-Alone Complex“ for example, where the bad guy is dumping exposition about the universe. You wonder what the author was smoking and can’t follow but you keep watching because of cool mecha action and explosions.
„The non-governmental system isolates you, mirrors you…“ „It lives in soft compliance delays“… yadda yadda. Your brain on ChatGPT.