Thomas Rauscher

US Supreme Court declines to hear dispute over copyrights for AI-generated material The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up the ​issue of whether art generated by artificial intelligence can be copyrighted under U.S. law, turning ‌away a case involving a computer scienti...

The Supreme Court has declined to hear a case over AI's copyright eligibility, effectively backing the United States Copyright Office's stance that copyright only applies to human authored works 🔥

Liebe Leute aur Bluesky - dieser Account ist eine Brücke von Mastodon; wenn ihr eurerseits die Bridge nicht einschalten, kann ich euch leider nicht antworten. Geht ganz einfach.

Dear folks on bluesky - this account is bridged from mastodon; if you don't turn on the bridge, I can't reply to you […]

Once more straight out of the Nazi playbook for 1930s Germany. Decree by Heinrich Himmler, December 3, 1938, as Reichsführer SS und Chef der Deutschen Polizei: all driver's licenses of Jewish Germans are invalidated and required to be turned in.

YouTube video by hangingalice Peter Capaldi Performs It’s Friday I’m in Love by the Cure - Newcastle 2-24-26

Peter Capaldi performing It's Friday I'm in Love! (This time not linked to The Bad Place!) I can't even with how happy this makes me. www.youtube.com/shorts/pmLVY...

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

„Nicht alles glauben, was man im Internet sieht" - dieser Grundsatz gilt seit langem. Nur - was tun, wenn dank Künstlicher Intelligenz Fake-Inhalte kaum mehr von der Realität zu unterscheiden sind?

I'm sure we'll all agree that everything is now super clear 😵‍💫

High res version here: committees.parliament.uk/publications...

Christoph Gerber — a life devoted to the nanosciences

Happy Birthday #AFM!
To celebrate the first description of the atomic force microscope (AFM) in Physical Review Letters, we spoke to our longstanding honorary member Christoph Gerber, who, together with Carl Quate and Gerd Binnig, invented this groundbreaking instrument.
@unibas.ch bit.ly/4raqCOm

[Star-Trek-Fans heben eine Augenbraue]

Aber generell natürlich spannend, was da in Richtung Stärlung der #Wisskomm passiert!

Heute vor 286 Jahren - Schweizer werden zu Migranten und suchen eine bessere Zukunft in König Charles gelobtem Land in Amerika

New paper: "High-Precision Mass Measurements of Proton-Rich Rh, Pd, Cd isotopes in the vicinity of 100Sn and Impact on X-Ray Burst and Supernova Nucleosynthesis", link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.23776

Astrophysiker:innen aus aller Welt treffen sich in Rußbach Rußbach am Pass Gschütt wird aktuell wieder zum Treffpunkt der internationalen Wissenschaftswelt: Zum 21. Mal findet dort die „Rußbach Schule für Nukleare Astrophysik“ statt. Während die Expertinnen und Experten über die Entstehung des Universums brüten, profitiert der Ort von internationale...

Rußbach am Pass Gschütt wird aktuell wieder zum Treffpunkt der internationalen Wissenschaftswelt: Zum 21. Mal findet dort die „Rußbach Schule für Nukleare Astrophysik“ statt. Während die Expertinnen und Experten über die Entstehung des Universums brüten, profitiert der Ort von internationale...

Heute ist VOLLMOND - und zwar zu Mittag um 12:37:54 Uhr.

“My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors”: Gemini generates false records and fake screenshots of TNA website | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine The Gemini LLM generates fake records and screenshots from the UK National Archives, a family historian has revealed

Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'

www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/gemini-...

Top academics warn UK physics cuts threaten effort to boost economy More than 50 heads of departments tell science minister that changes risk undermining crucial tech growth fields

UKRI funding changes are raising serious concern across the UK science community. More than 50 university physics leaders including all 23 Russell Group universities with physics facilities have warned that proposed cuts risk undermining innovation-led economic growth.
🔗 www.ft.com/content/a235...

Trump kündigt an, so lange Krieg zu führen, bis er den Friedensnobelpreis bekommt Washington (dpo) - Dann eben so: Nach dem Angriff der Vereinigten Staaten und Israels auf den Iran hat Donald Trump heute angekündigt, dass der Krieg

Trump kündigt an, so lange Krieg zu führen, bis er den Friedensnobelpreis bekommt www.der-postillon.com/2026/03/trum...

„Days of Ash“: Das neue Album von U2 ist überraschend – weil politisch. Und gut Im vergangen Vierteljahrhundert gab es viele gute Gründe, über die irische Rockband U2 zu lästern. Dieses längst zum…

U2 haben erstmals seit 2017 neue Lieder veröffentlicht. Das Minialbum „Days of Ash“ erinnert daran, warum sie einst für ein Weilchen die größte Rockband der Welt waren ↓

Stellt euch vor, wir würden unsere Energie aus Wasser, Sonne und Wind daheim gewinnen und jemand schlägt vor, sie lieber aus Diktaturen herbeizuschaffen und uns von offenen Seewegen im Mittleren Osten abhängig zu machen.

Der wär doch komisch.

Top academics warn UK physics cuts threaten effort to boost economy More than 50 heads of departments tell science minister that changes risk undermining crucial tech growth fields

"Planned cuts to physics and astronomy funding threaten to undermine a core UK government strategy to harness innovation to boost economic growth, leading researchers have warned ministers."

Thanks @financialtimes.com for covering this really important story

🗞️: www.ft.com/content/a235...

Dr. Sally Ride in orbit aboard the space shuttle Challenger

For #WomensHistoryMonth: Let us celebrate the life and accomplishments of Sally Ride (1951-2012), Ph.D. physicist, educator, and the first U.S. woman in space. As a member of the Rogers Commission, she helped bring to light the O-ring failure that led to the Challenger disaster. 🎢⚛️⭐️🔭🧪🪐 1/3

Here, in a nutshell, is why using AI for military purposes is worse than dangerous:

If you ask it for a plan to attack something, it will never respond "that's bad idea, don't do it."

Margaret Burbidge (1919–2020), pioneering British-American astrophysicist and lead author of the 1957 B²FH paper that proved stars forge nearly all chemical elements beyond hydrogen and helium through stellar nucleosynthesis; her work provided the foundational evidence that we are made of "star stuff." The black-and-white photograph shows her as an woman standing indoors at an event, smiling warmly at the camera with a gentle, confident expression; she has short wavy gray hair, wears a patterned top or dress with a bold abstract floral design, layered with multiple strands of pearl necklaces, and a dark tailored coat or jacket over it, set against a plain brick wall and a partial sign in the background. #astrophysics #physics #WomenInScience

DYK the iron in your blood was forged the heart of a supernova? 🌟

Astrophysicist Margaret Burbidge was the lead author of the famous 1957 "B²FH" paper. Along with her colleagues, she proved how stars create the majority of elements of the periodic table.

We are made of "star stuff." 🔭 #WomenInSTEM

OpenClaw und wie KI-Agenten das Internet verändern KI-Agenten beginnen, das Internet, wie wir es kennen, grundlegend zu verändern. Populäre Vorbilder einer Machtübernahme der Maschinen lenken davon ab, wie banal so etwas in der Realität ablaufen könnt...

Ich habe für die FAS über OpenClaw und AI Agents geschrieben und über die völlig banale aber nicht weniger perfide Art und Weise, wie gerade das Internet kaputt gemacht wird.

A spacetime diagram showing position x on the horizontal axis and time t on the vertical axis. Two hyperbola worldlines show ships that initiate the same constant acceleration at t=0. Each maintains a constant proper distance from a specific point on the x-axis. Purple lines and dots mark exchanged light rays and events where they are emitted or received. An orange dot marks the event where the trailing ship falls behind the lead ship's Rindler horizon. Light rays emitted after that point never reach the lead ship.

They will like this one. Two ships that begin at rest and then undergo the same uniform acceleration will experience unusual phenomena. For example, the trailing ship will drop behind the lead ship's Rindler horizon, and will no longer be able to contact it, despite firing its rockets the same way.

Astrophysical reaction rates for charged-particle induced reactions on proton-rich nuclides - The European Physical Journal A Astrophysical reaction rates for reactions with proton-rich isotopes of Ne to Bi from stability to the proton dripline were calculated with an updated version of the SMARAGD statistical model (Hauser-...

#paper #published
Astrophysical Reaction Rates for Charged-Particle Induced Reactions on Proton-Rich Nuclides

T. Rauscher

Europ. Phys. J. A 62 (2026) 35
doi.org/10.1140/epja...
doi.org/10.48550/arX...

(On AI companies creating products for students to use to do their work for them)

This cosmologist studies dark matter, an invisible part of the universe Katie Mack started out building solar-powered LEGO cars as a kid. Now she studies dark matter to better understand how galaxies form and evolve.

Katie Mack, Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at Perimeter Institute, spoke with ScienceNewsExplores about her journey to becoming a cosmologist, misconceptions about her work, and challenges in her field.

Read the full interview: www.snexplores.org/article/cosm...

Call for Editors at the Open Journal of Astrophysics The number of papers submitted to the Open Journal of Astrophysics continues to rise, as demonstrated by this nice graphic which shows the stats for new submissions for the last five years: It's very clear that the thicket is getting thicker! The increasing number of articles is of course very welcome indeed, but it is increasing the load on our Editorial Board and that includes me!

Call for Editors at the Open Journal of Astrophysics

The number of papers submitted to the Open Journal of Astrophysics continues to rise, as demonstrated by this nice graphic which shows the stats for new submissions for the last five years: It's very clear that the thicket is getting thicker!…