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Dark Matter Search Results from $4.2\text{ }\text{ }\text{Tonne}\text{\ensuremath{-}}\text{Years}$ of Exposure of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment Seven metric tons of liquid xenon set some of the strictest constraints ever on dark matter candidates known as WIMPs.

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"Dark Matter Search Results from 4.2  Tonne−Years of Exposure of the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) Experiment"
by a LOT of people

doi.org/10.1103/4dyc...

tl;dr: No, they have found no trace of Dark Matter.

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"Training of Physical Neural Networks"
by a LOT of people (including @FMarquardtGroup and @sylvaingigan, who I think are the only ones with a presence here on bsky)

arxiv.org/pdf/2406.03372
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Model-free estimation of the Cramér–Rao bound for deep learning microscopy in complex media - Nature Photonics A convolutional network that approaches the fundamental Cramér–Rao bound is demonstrated to localize a reflective target hidden behind a dynamically fluctuating scattering medium, advancing algorithmi...

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"Model-free estimation of the Cramér–Rao bound for deep learning microscopy in complex media"
by I. Starshynov et al.

Nat. Photon. (2025)
doi.org/10.1038/s415...

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Temperature as joules per bit Editor's Note: Information is closely related to entropy, but information is measured in bits and entropy is measured in joules per kelvin. In this article, the

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"Temperature as joules per bit"
by C.A. Bédard, S. Berthelette, X. Coiteux-Roy, and S. Wolf

Am. J. Phys. 93, 390 (2025)
doi.org/10.1119/5.01...

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Direct observation of colloidal quasicrystallization - Nature Physics Quasicrystals, which lack translational symmetry but display rotational order, are difficult to make. Now an assembly method for the fabrication of colloidal quasicrystals that offers a high degree of...

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"Direct observation of colloidal quasicrystallization"
by Y. Gao, B. Sprinkle, DWM Marr, and N. Wu

Nat. Phys. (2025)
doi.org/10.1038/s41567-025-02859-z

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F. Diacu "The Solution of the n-body Problem"
Math. Intell. 18, 66 (1996)
doi.org/10.1007/BF03...

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Today a paper I contributed to!

S. Kendall et al. "Dynamically reconfigurable 2D polarization-agnostic image edge-detection using nonvolatile phase-change metasurfaces"

Optics Express 33, 8971 (2025)
doi.org/10.1364/OE.5...

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"Three-dimensional holographic imaging of incoherent objects through scattering media"
by Y. Baek, @hiltondeaguiar.bsky.social and @sylvaingigan.bsky.social
arXiv:2502.01475v1

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"Emergence of collective oscillations in massive human crowds"
by Francois Gu et al.
Nature 638, 112 (2025)

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The Tumultuous Birth of Quantum Mechanics The creation of modern quantum mechanics was a messy business in which many of the participants did not grasp the significance of their own discoveries.

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"The Tumultuous Birth of Quantum Mechanics"
by @philipcball.bsky.social

"quantum mechanics wasn’t created all at once. It took several decades and was a messy, confused process, during most of which the true nature of this revolution was obscure. In some ways it still is."
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"Anderson Transition for Light in a Three-Dimensional Random Medium"
by A. Yamilov, H. Cao, and S. Skipetrov
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 046302 (2025)

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"Blending Optimal Control and Biologically Plausible Learning for Noise-Robust Physical Neural Networks"
by S. Sunada et. al.
Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 017301 (2025)

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"Testing the necessity of complex numbers in traditional quantum theory with quantum computers"
by Jarrett L. Lancaster and Nicholas M. Palladino
Am. J. Phys. 93, 110 (2025)

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