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Researchers find sodium-ion batteries using hard carbon anodes can intrinsically charge faster

Researchers at Tokyo University of Science showed that sodium-ion batteries with hard carbon anodes can charge faster than lithium-ion batteries by using a diluted electrode method that reveals sodium insertion is intrinsically quicker than lithium.

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How Did the Dutch Become the Tallest People on Earth?

Ross Pomeroy, RCScience If you find yourself in Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, paper statistics quickly become apparent in the real-world: The Dutch are really tall.
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KAN-Matrix: Visualizing Nonlinear Pairwise and Multivariate Contributions for Physical Insight

arXiv:2512.15755v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Interpreting complex datasets remains a major challenge for scientists, particularly due to high dimensionality and collinearity among variables. We introduce a novel application of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) to enhance interpretability and par…

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A train-sized tunnel is now carrying electricity under South London

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Psychedelics Research in Rodents Has a Big Problem

Calli McMurray, Transmitter For the past two and a half years, a team of five labs in the San Francisco Bay Area have endeavored to nail down how psilocybin affects the way mice...

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Spotlight on a Gage: Lake Champlain, Burlington, Vermont

While most USGS surface water monitoring stations are situated alongside riverbanks, some are located on the shores of much larger water bodies, like lakes, reservoirs, and bays.

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Quantitative Verification of Fairness in Tree Ensembles

arXiv:2512.16386v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This work focuses on quantitative verification of fairness in tree ensembles. Unlike traditional verification approaches that merely return a single counterexample when the fairness is violated, quantitative verification estimates the ratio of all cou…

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Earth Has Two North Poles. How Does Santa Know Which One Is Home?

No, seriously, there's some good science here.

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UnifyBio: Power Tools for Translational Data Science - Benjamin Kamphaus

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How the 'delayed choice quantum eraser' experiment got us to rethink reality

Does the universe notice that we're paying attention to a quantum experiment? The answer goes against everything we thought we knew.

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Comprehensive AI Literacy: The Case for Centering Human Agency

arXiv:2512.16656v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The rapid assimilation of Artificial Intelligence technologies into various facets of society has created a significant educational imperative that current frameworks are failing to effectively address. We are witnessing the rise of a dangerous litera…

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Investigation of Profile Shifting and Subpulse Movement in PSR J0344-0901 with FAST

H. M. Tedila et al 2024 ApJ 965 144 Researchers have identified four emission modes in PSR J0344−0901 for the first time, finding that each emission mode has its own subpulse behavior.
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A Survey of Cassini Images of Spokes in Saturn’s Rings: Unusual Spoke Types and Seasonal Trends

S. R. Callos et al 2025 Planet. Sci. J. 6 17 Particle clouds called spokes in the outer parts of Saturn’s rings show a variety of intriguing behaviors, including seasonal variations and switching from appearing darker and lighter than the ring material.
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Insights into Galaxy Evolution from Interpretable Sparse Feature Networks

John F. Wu 2025 ApJ 980 183 A novel neural network architecture produces interpretable features that can be combined to estimate galaxy properties such as metallicity from pixel-level features.
The post Insights into Galaxy Evolution from Interpretable Sparse Feature Networks appeared first on AAS N…

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R4: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning for Vision-Language Models in 4D Spatio-Temporal Space

arXiv:2512.15940v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Humans perceive and reason about their surroundings in four dimensions by building persistent, structured internal representations that encode semantic meaning, spatial layout, and temporal dynamics. These multimodal memories enable them to recall pas…

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On The Hidden Biases of Flow Matching Samplers

arXiv:2512.16768v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We study the implicit bias of flow matching (FM) samplers via the lens of empirical flow matching. Although population FM may produce gradient-field velocities resembling optimal transport (OT), we show that the empirical FM minimizer is almost neve…

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Tight Analysis of a One-Shot Quantum Secret Sharing Scheme

arXiv:2511.04399v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Quantum communication protocols can be designed to detect eavesdropping attacks, something that classical technologies are unable to do since classical information can be replicated in a non-destructive manner. Eavesdropping detection is, th…

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Optimizing tiny colorless feedback delay networks

arXiv:2402.11216v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: A common bane of artificial reverberation algorithms is spectral coloration in the synthesized sound, typically manifesting as metallic ringing, leading to a degradation in the perceived sound quality. In delay network methods, coloration is…

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Exploration v.s. Exploitation: Rethinking RLVR through Clipping, Entropy, and Spurious Reward

arXiv:2512.16912v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This paper examines the exploration-exploitation trade-off in reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR), a framework for improving the reasoning of Large Language Models (LLMs). Recent studies suggest that RLVR can elicit strong mathematic…

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Implementing a Sharia Chatbot as a Consultation Medium for Questions About Islam

arXiv:2512.16644v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: This research presents the implementation of a Sharia-compliant chatbot as an interactive medium for consulting Islamic questions, leveraging Reinforcement Learning (Q-Learning) integrated with Sentence-Transformers for semantic embedding to ensure co…