A young planet named HIP 67522 causes violent eruptions on its star, dramatically accelerating the loss of its own atmosphere.
>Because the planet’s orbit is just seven days long, the gravitational forces from this orbital path tug at the star until plasma erupts from the surface...Heat causes the air to swell, increasing the cross‑section that stellar ultraviolet rays can hit, and leading to a vicious cycle that accelerates mass loss.
>If the current pace holds, HIP 67522 b could shed enough hydrogen and helium to shrink into a mini‑Neptune within 100 million years.
>It may even become a bare, rocky core after that. Such transformations explain why many mature planetary systems harbor small sub‑Neptunes while very close giant planets are rarer.
>Similar run‑away erosion may have sculpted planets like CoRoT‑7 b, where today only a scorched super‑Earth remains...
Greenland’s ice-covered landscape looks like an immovable block on satellite maps. Yet the story beneath its center suggests a different past
>“We now have direct evidence that not only was the ice gone, but that plants and insects were living there,”...Near‑complete melting of Greenland’s ice over the next centuries to a few millennia would lead to some 23 feet of sea‑level rise.
Production capacity is expected to increase from the current 20,000 shells to 150,000–180,000 large-caliber shells annually.
Its a good start, but won't be enough on its own.
According to War on the Rocks, Russia has been producing 250,000 shells per MONTH.
Almost sounds like its designed to cause a crime spree by and within the Republican base, who will be hit harder than anyone else, and perhaps that can be spun into a Reichstag Fire moment by the administration.
The tariffs directly cause prices to go up. The inflation-like effect isn't caused by too-rapid growth of currency supply, so lowering the currency supply growth rate & decoupling it from productivity growth risks stagflation . . . unless productivity growth itself is negatively impacted by tariffs, which if true would be repudiation of using tariffs alone as a strategy for growing domestic production.
Defining the minimal genetic requirements for cellular life remains a fundamental question in biology. Genomic exploration continually reveals novel microbial lineages, often exhibiting extreme genome reduction, particularly within symbiotic relationships. Here, we report the discovery of Candidatus...
>Defining the minimal genetic requirements for cellular life remains a fundamental question in biology...Here, we report the discovery of Candidatus Sukunaarchaeum mirabile, a novel archaeon with an unprecedentedly small genome of only 238 kbp —less than half the size of the smallest previously known archaeal genome...lacking virtually all recognizable metabolic pathways, and primarily encoding the machinery for its replicative core: DNA replication, transcription, and translation. This suggests an unprecedented level of metabolic dependence on a host, a condition that challenges the functional distinctions between minimal cellular life and viruses...
>...when atacamite is exposed to a magnetic field, its temperature changes, a rare and valuable behavior that could help shape the future of cooling technologies...
Journal article: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.216701
IN A NUTSHELL 🌋 An active underwater volcano near Vancouver Island revealed thousands of giant eggs from the elusive Pacific white skate. 🔥 The volcanic warmth acts as a natural incubator, speeding up the four-year gestation period of these massive eggs. 🐟 Adult Pacific white skates grow up to 6....
>...This warmth acts as a natural incubator for the giant eggs, which span 18 to 20 inches in width and require an extended gestation period of four years.
>This unique environment accelerates the development of young Pacific white skates, giving them a vital advantage in the harsh conditions of the deep sea. The interaction between the volcano and marine life demonstrates the profound influence geological features can have on biological processes...
>Conventional robots can easily be modeled as rigid links connected by joints, but it remains an open challenge to model and control biologically inspired robots that are often soft or made of several materials, lack sensing capabilities and may change their material properties with use. Here, we introduce a method that uses deep neural networks to map a video stream of a robot to its visuomotor Jacobian field (the sensitivity of all 3D points to the robot’s actuators). Our method enables the control of robots from only a single camera, makes no assumptions about the robots’ materials, actuation or sensing, and is trained without expert intervention by observing the execution of random commands...Because it enables robot control using a generic camera as the only sensor, we anticipate that our work will broaden the design space of robotic systems and serve as a starting point for lowering the barrier to robotic automation.
The new planet TWA 7b is also the lightest exoplanet ever to be directly imaged.
>...With an estimated mass of around 100 times that of Earth or 0.3 times the mass of Jupiter, TWA 7b is ten times lighter than any exoplanet previously directly imaged.
>TWA 7b was discovered in the debris rings that surround the low-mass star CE Antilae, also known as TWA 7, located around 111 light-years from Earth.
Sounds like an improvement over trying to communicate past a language barrier and accents so thick that the actively-hostile human CSR is neigh unintelligible.
Verizon customer service has been terrible for many years, and somehow their business to business service is even worse than residential.
unsent emails kept in the gmail drafts folder allows syncing notes across devices, and its searchable
>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed sweeping legislation Sunday to slap warning labels on potentially tens of thousands of food and beverage packages...containing 44 dyes or additives commonly found in the country’s food supply...
>...the effort from Texas — a deep-red state — is particularly striking, food safety experts said. Policies cracking down on the nation’s food supply have often come from big blue states, such as California...
>...GOP lawmakers and the first Trump administration decried measures such as stricter school lunch standards as overregulation by the nanny state...The bill passed the Texas legislature this year with bipartisan support...
>The law applies to a food product label “developed or copyrighted” on or after Jan. 1, 2027. This essentially means that companies would only need to add the labels to their packaging when they redesign or update labels, such as when new ingredients are added to a product...
>In 2023, California passed a law prohibiting food containing red dye No. 3 from being sold in the state after Jan. 1, 2027. This year, West Virginia’s Republican governor signed sweeping legislation banning foods containing any of seven dyes from being served in school nutrition programs starting in August, and from being sold in the state starting in 2028.
.ml is an unserious instance that you should be proud of getting banned from
The first time they banned me it was for mentioning that the book "1984" was written by a socialist who didn't like tankies.
The next time it was for posting a link to a clip from the cartoon "Futurama". 🤡💩
The pawns just need to realize they're better of without a king and victory will be theirs.
Fox "News" and their malicious swarms of disinformation spreaders are concerned about losing their monopoly.
Floor 2 is a fucking mystery. Its too low to walk around the perimeter, but they didn't install a floor in the middle. There's not enough room for insulation between the sun-beaten roof and the living space, but that might be less of an issue because of the huge holes in the trim letting in a steady flow of outside air. That vaulted ceiling also means the house will lose all its heat in the Winter.
There's no window or exhaust fan in the bathroom.
It looks like there are holes in the outside wall where windows could be installed, but there are metal flaps there instead. Best case scenario is there is no wall insulation between those flaps and the interior drywall, getting wet and doing biology.
Futurama did it, S2E12 - The Deep South:
https://comb.io/pFCAib
What's Germany's plan to secure the EU merchant fleet against Iranian anti-ship missiles, fired by Iranian proxies in Yemen, without help from USA or Israel?
Fortunate son's don't need to paint it black because they don't get drafted to kill and die for the Senate's investment portfolio.
Although GLP-1 drugs offer many health benefits, their high cost has created an affordability crisis for patients. With a dose of common sense, we can solve this problem.
American healthcare is too expensive. This is particularly true of brand-name drugs. Although our nation accounts for 4.2% of the world’s population, we consume 13% of the world’s prescription drugs and pay half of the world’s costs for these products. GLP-1 drugs are a case in point...Drug companies need FDA approval before they can market a newly patented drug. Unlike other countries, the FDA can’t consider a new medication’s price or the existence of equally effective, lower-cost alternatives in reaching its decision...Once FDA approval is secured, Medicare typically covers the the drug’s cost because it is not allowed to negotiate with drug companies as other countries do...It’s the main reason the U.S. pays far higher prices than other countries...Rather than bankrupt the federal treasury or, alternatively, pass the costs on to states and tens of millions of American families, Congress should focus on lowering costs and improving the value of American healthcare.
>Trump signed an executive order saying the tie-up could move forward if the companies sign an agreement with the Treasury Department resolving national security concerns posed by the deal. The companies then announced they had signed the agreement, fulfilling the conditions of Trump's directive and effectively garnering approval for the merger... the agreement includes $11 billion in new investments to be made by 2028 as well as governance, production and trade commitments. Nippon Steel will buy a 100% stake in U.S. Steel...some Nippon Steel investors are concerned about short-term financial pressure due to the scale of the additional investment commitment...
Following the white rabbit is a theme in The Matrix, and the song features in one of the trailers.
Those rockets miss, but the plane in front dropped flares just prior, so the pilot may have believed a heat seeking missile was launched.
The wing breaks off at the engine. Was the engine hit with a missile?
Those engines are 50 years old and probably haven't been getting their regular maintenance on account of the 3 day special military operation going a bit over schedule. Maybe unmaintained SU-25s just randomly have their wings fall off sometimes?
Connection: Bad Vibrations is track 1 on the Phosphene Dream album. A phosphene dream is a hallucination. White Rabbit is also about a psychedelic experience.
Noem was in L.A. to address the ongoing protests against President Donald Trump's immigration policies. Federal agents handcuffed Padilla after his removal.
>Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., was forcibly removed from a news conference in Los Angeles on Thursday after trying to question Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a press conference related to immigration.
>"I am Sen. Alex Padilla. I have questions for the secretary," Padilla said to Noem, which prompted several men to physically push him out of the room. It was unclear who the men were, as several were dressed in plain clothes.
>Padilla's office shared a video of the incident with NBC News. The video shows Padilla being taken into a hallway outside and pushed face forward onto the ground as officers with FBI-identifying vests told the senator to put his hands behind his back. The officers then handcuffed him.
About a century ago, scientists were struggling to reconcile what seemed a contradiction in Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.
>It's easy to think about the creation of the Universe like exploding fireworks: Start with a big bang, and then all the galaxies in the Universe fly out in all directions from some central point.
>But that analogy isn't correct. Not only does it falsely imply that the expansion of the Universe started from a single spot, which it didn't, but it also suggests that the galaxies are the things that are moving, which isn't entirely accurate.
>It's not so much the galaxies that are moving away from each other – it's the space between galaxies, the fabric of the Universe itself, that's ever-expanding as time goes on. In other words, it's not really the galaxies themselves that are moving through the Universe; it's more that the Universe itself is carrying them farther away as it expands.
>A common analogy is to imagine sticking some dots on the surface of a balloon. As you blow air into the balloon, it expands. Because the dots are stuck on the surface of the balloon, they get farther apart.
>Though they may appear to move, the dots actually stay exactly where you put them, and the distance between them gets bigger simply by virtue of the balloon's expansion. ... >The thing we think of as the "center" of the balloon is a point somewhere in its interior, in the air-filled space beneath the surface.
>But in this analogy, the Universe is more like the latex surface of the balloon. The balloon's air-filled interior has no counterpart in our Universe, so we can't use that part of the analogy – only the surface matters.
>So asking, "Where's the center of the Universe?" is somewhat like asking, "Where's the center of the balloon's surface?" There simply isn't one. You could travel along the surface of the balloon in any direction, for as long as you like, and you'd never once reach a place you could call its center because you'd never actually leave the surface.
>In the same way, you could travel in any direction in the Universe and would never find its center because, much like the surface of the balloon, it simply doesn't have one.
The music in FFVI was ahead of its time.