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Up to ten sources with readable evidence, ordered by their feed timestamp. These archive sources can be older than the live fourteen-day window. This list is a sample, not a measure of total activity. Dates distinguish paper publication, repository creation, model/dataset activity, Hacker News posts, and KEV catalog additions. “First archived” records when SYMTRI first stored the signal.
- arXiv · Published · First archived
MatLoom: Layered Text-to-Material Generation in a Compact Program Space ↗
Material generation should produce not only an appearance, but also the rules that construct it. We introduce MatLoom, a compact, layer-oriented language for text-to-material generation with pretrained language models. Each program composes alpha-masked layers whose shared spatial expressions define coverage and physically based rendering (PBR) channels, making dependencies between patterns, color, and relief explicit. A standalone interpreter evaluates the program into material maps, while the source retains named fields and layer parameters for subsequent authoring. Without task-specific fin…
- NASA · Source date · First archived
Star Trails ↗
NASA/Anil Menon This long-duration image shows star trails above Earth and the blue lights of fishing boats and the yellow lights of Indonesian cities stretching below the International Space Station as it orbited 258 miles above the Banda Sea on Sept. 20, 2026. Image credit: NASA/Anil Menon
- Hacker News · Posted on Hacker News · First archived
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- arXiv · Published · First archived
Two bits about lossy compression: On the limits of compression in cosmology ↗
Astronomy is in an era of enormous sky surveys and of the large simulation suites needed to interpret them, both costly to store and slow to share. Simulation outputs are stored as 32-bit floats, yet numerical noise and astrophysical uncertainties make better than percent-level pixel accuracy unnecessary. Because cosmological fields are statistically homogeneous with nearly Gaussian mode amplitudes, classic rate-distortion results apply directly, and non-Gaussian structure permits further compression. We use the scientific compression package SZ3, and a neural compressor that fixes the quantiz…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Interpreting the High-Recoil LUX-ZEPLIN Event with Bino-/Singlino-like and Higgsino Dark Matter ↗
The LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment has recently reported a nuclear-recoil candidate at $E_R\simeq248$ keV. We study two supersymmetric interpretations based on distinct neutralino couplings to the $Z$ boson. In the elastic case, a bino- or singlino-like neutralino scatters through a diagonal axial $Z$ coupling set by the Higgsino asymmetry $X=|N_{13}|^2-|N_{14}|^2$ rather than by the total Higgsino fraction. Since the spin-dependent blind spot does not coincide with the spin-independent one, Higgs-mediated scattering can be suppressed while retaining $X\sim10^{-2}$. In the MSSM this favors low $\t…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Is DESI Seeing Dynamical Dark Energy, or a Cosmic Glitch in Gravity? ↗
Combined baryon acoustic oscillation and cosmic microwave background data have begun to mildly favor departures from $Λ\mathrm{CDM}$. This is usually framed as 2-parameter dynamical dark energy. However, a 1-parameter "cosmic glitch in gravity" model, whose cosmological gravitational coupling differs from Newton's constant as in Hořava gravity, fits at least as well. $\textit{Planck}$+ACT+SPT and DESI~DR2 give $G_\mathrm{cosmo}/G_\mathrm{N}=0.9920\pm0.0025$, a $3.3\,σ$ preference for weaker cosmological gravity, robust to adding CMB lensing and supernovae. Fitted to the CMB alone, the glitch p…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Improved Constraints on Cosmic Microwave Background Circular Polarization with CLASS ↗
We present improved constraints on circular polarization in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) from the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) experiment using data at 90, 150, and 220 GHz to complement previous results based on 40 GHz data alone. We extend constraints on circular polarization from the atmosphere to all CLASS frequencies and compare with a model of the atmospheric circular polarization spectrum. The inclusion of data at all CLASS frequencies improves upper limits on circular polarization, Stokes $V$, in the CMB by a factor of $\sim 5$ at the largest angular scales (…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
A machine learning-based method for populating dark matter halos in N-body simulations with substructure ↗
Dark matter N-body simulations that resolve halo substructure (subhalos) with high accuracy can be used for generating reliable catalogs of central and satellite galaxies via galaxy-halo connection models. However, such simulations are computationally expensive, especially when large numbers of realizations are required for statistical analyses such as robust estimations of covariance matrices for (statistical) cosmological quantities. In this work, we present a fast method for populating dark matter halos in a given simulation box with subhalos extracted from a high-resolution simulation box…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
Flow dynamics of cryolava or impact melt on Titan's surface ↗
Titan, a unique body in the solar system, resembles a life-size Miller-Urey experiment where pockets of liquid water might interact with abundant organic matter. Its young surface (less than a billion years) shows signs of material exchange with the interior, and an isotopic signature is detected in the atmosphere. Cryovolcanism and meteor impacts represent potential high energy mechanism for these exchanges. Although cryolava or impact melt properties are largely unknown, Titan's internal structure makes a significant water content in these fluids highly probable. The temperature of these flu…
- arXiv · Published · First archived
When Streams Curve Away: a Test of Dark Matter from Extragalactic Stellar Stream Populations ↗
The nature of dark matter sets the shape of galactic halos: collisionless cold dark matter (CDM) predicts triaxial halos, while scattering in self-interacting dark matter (SIDM) rounds them toward sphericity. We show that a large catalog of projected stellar stream tracks can statistically constrain halo shapes, and therefore the particle nature of dark matter, without detailed modeling of any individual stream or gravitational potential. We develop a new geometric diagnostic for stellar streams: if the curvature of any segment along a stream points away from the host galaxy's projected center…
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