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Jumping genes are causing genetic changes in polar bears | The Week
https://theweek.com/environment/jumping-genes-polar-bears-dna-climate-change-arctic-genetics

A Co-Design Framework for Energy-Aware Monoped Jumping with Detailed Actuator Modeling
Aman Singh, Aastha Mishra, Deepak Kapa, Suryank Joshi, Shishir Kolathaya
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05923

A Co-Design Framework for Energy-Aware Monoped Jumping with Detailed Actuator Modeling
A monoped's jump height and energy consumption depend on both, its mechanical design and control strategy. Existing co-design frameworks typically optimize for either maximum height or minimum energy, neglecting their trade-off. They also often omit gearbox parameter optimization and use oversimplified actuator mass models, producing designs difficult to replicate in practice. In this work, we introduce a novel three-stage co-design optimization framework that jointly maximizes jump height whil…

What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol
@https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/?id=JmnaAbNVz3nl

Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns (Apoorva Mandavilli/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/health/kennedy-vaccine-committee-vote-hepatitisb.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U8.4sGj.JsNmUpN9tBt9&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p52#a251205p52

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/world/asia/xi-jinping-china-south-korea-spying.html
“You can check if there’s a backdoor.” What a knee slapper.
That Time When China’s Leader Joked About Espionage

That Time Xi Jinping Joked About Espionage
Xi Jinping gave two cellphones to South Korea’s president, who asked how secure they were. “You can check if there’s a backdoor,” he said with a laugh.

It retrospect, I may have been wrong with my conclusion in my 7th grade essay about whether “ignorance was bliss.”
This is a really frustrating time to know even a little bit about international law and maritime law.
#law #uspol

ATOM: A Pretrained Neural Operator for Multitask Molecular Dynamics
Luke Thompson, Davy Guan, Dai Shi, Slade Matthews, Junbin Gao, Andi Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05482 http…

ATOM: A Pretrained Neural Operator for Multitask Molecular Dynamics
Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations underpin modern computational drug dis- covery, materials science, and biochemistry. Recent machine learning models provide high-fidelity MD predictions without the need to repeatedly solve quantum mechanical forces, enabling significant speedups over conventional pipelines. Yet many such methods typically enforce strict equivariance and rely on sequential rollouts, thus limiting their flexibility and simulation efficiency. They are also com- monly single-tas…

Evaluating LLM Safety Across Child Development Stages: A Simulated Agent Approach
Abhejay Murali, Saleh Afroogh, Kevin Chen, David Atkinson, Amit Dhurandhar, Junfeng Jiao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05484

Evaluating LLM Safety Across Child Development Stages: A Simulated Agent Approach
Large Language Models (LLMs) are rapidly becoming part of tools used by children; however, existing benchmarks fail to capture how these models manage language, reasoning, and safety needs that are specific to various ages. We present ChildSafe, a benchmark that evaluates LLM safety through simulated child agents that embody four developmental stages. These agents, grounded in developmental psychology, enable a systematic study of child safety without the ethical implications of involving real …

I’d never heard of the “commander’s lock” on the space shuttle program…
#NASA #Space
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