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Boiling oceans and compressional tectonics on emerging ocean worlds
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02713-5

Boiling oceans and compressional tectonics on emerging ocean worlds - Nature Astronomy
Several moons in the outer Solar System have oceans encased beneath an ice shell. If the ice shell thins, ocean pressure decreases. Modelling shows that on Mimas, Enceladus, and Miranda, the ocean can boil. On larger bodies, instead, compressional forces form tectonic features.

Cities missing out on nature-based solutions that could boost climate resilience, experts warn #nature

Cities missing out on nature-based solutions that could boost climate resilience, experts warn
With climate change expected to intensify heat waves, flooding and air pollution in cities worldwide, why are we not tapping into the full potential of nature-based solutions?

Ultra-conformable tattoo electrodes for providing sensory feedback via transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation #haptics

Ultra-conformable tattoo electrodes for providing sensory feedback via transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation - Scientific Reports
Electrical stimulation of the peripheral nervous system has been demonstrated to be effective in restoring somatotopic sensory information in subjects with amputations. It can be achieved using invasive electrodes, which require surgical implantation, or non-invasive electrodes, which are applied directly to the skin. Whereas less selective, non-invasive electrodes offer the advantage of avoiding surgical procedures. Additionally, commercially available wet Ag/AgCl electrodes lack adaptability …

https://rudhar.com/nature/contrail/ia.htm

Nice, I wanted to write about that topic. And there.. Someone wrote about it already.
That's the reason why I never recorded myself walnut walking into the scene.
Even though it looks really cool,it really disturbs my hiking experience and totally turns into filming.
https://blog.lauram…

People filming themselves in nature
A lot of hiking, camping, and cycling youtube video makers choose to film third-person footage of themselves alone in nature... sometimes with a drone, but s...

"Why Britain is one of the world's least 'nature-connected' nations"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

Why Britain is one of the world's least 'nature-connected' nations
Britain is one of the least "nature-connected" nations in the world, and new research has explored the reasons why.

Horizontal and vertical exoplanet thermal structure from a JWST spectroscopic eclipse map: #exoplanets into focus: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/now-3d-maps-begin-bring-exoplanets-focus

maybe i should have a website again
i've avoided it for years after deciding that i didn't like both the nature of my old writing and the reasons for writing
but i've worked on a lot of different things, and a lot of those are useful, and maybe it's good for there to be some unified repository of them that adds context

For all you nature lovers (especially herpetological sorts, i.e. lizards, and more specifically, geckos here in Aotearoa) get a load of this: https://www.nzgeo.com/stories/the-strange-beautiful-lizard-at-the-bottom-of-the-world/ Stunning. I tried t…

Oh the irony...

Discovery of multi-temperature coronal mass ejection signatures from a young solar analogue: #CoronalMassEjections at the dawn of the solar system: https://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/research-news/2025-10-28

Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely
starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said,
with some populations dropping by 95% in just eight years.
Fewer than 10,000 breeding pairs of the small, black and white African penguin are left globally,
according to scientists,
and the species was listed as critically endangered last year by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Two of the most important breedi…

Study says African penguins starved en masse off South Africa
Endangered penguins living off South Africa's coast have likely starved en masse due to food shortages, a study said, with some populations dropping by 95% in just eight years.

"Analysis: Just 28% of countries have released nature pledges a year after UN deadline"
#UN #UnitedNations #Nature

Analysis: Just 28% of countries have released nature pledges a year after UN deadline - Carbon Brief
Just 28% of countries have met a UN call to submit new plans on addressing nature loss – a year after the original deadline

#swissuniversities Negotiations with Springer Nature: No-deal Situation. #BigPub #cartels

fake genre bot we have to have a talk about the nature of reality https://musician.social/@fakegenrebot/115455709038967826

So Covid mRNA vax may increase your chances to survive (unrelated)cancer
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09655-y#ref-CR16

‘Ghost resorts’: as hundreds of ski slopes lie abandoned, will nature reclaim the Alps?
#klimaatverandering https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/27/alps-france-skiing-snow-warming-resorts-closing-ceuze-landscape?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Not the first thought that comes to mind, but this is an #environmental problem, not just about skiing or a local economy:
"Ropes once used to mark out the piste hang in tatters and bits of plastic are falling off a pylon. The old sheds at each end of the ski lifts often still contain transformers, asbestos, motor oils and greases. Over time, these substances seep into the soil and…

The Internet is broken and the inventor of the World Wide Web wants to fix it
Tim Berners-Lee is calling for a return to a decentralized Internet and stronger data privacy, but his arguments could be more inspiring.
😡 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03859-y

The Internet is broken and the inventor of the World Wide Web wants to fix it
Tim Berners-Lee is calling for a return to a decentralized Internet and stronger data privacy, but his arguments could be more inspiring.

Not the first thought that comes to mind, but this is an #environmental problem, not just about skiing or a local economy:
"Ropes once used to mark out the piste hang in tatters and bits of plastic are falling off a pylon. The old sheds at each end of the ski lifts often still contain transformers, asbestos, motor oils and greases. Over time, these substances seep into the soil and…

I was cleaning up my desktop and I found this image. I had forgotten about it. It is a Brenna Quinlan image and comes from David Holmgren's 'Retrosuburbia'. I'm happy to see my position - towards the rational end of the rational/intuitive spectrum (I always think you need to thoroughly, skeptically question your own beliefs, lest you find wishful thinking or prejudices amongst them), and midway along the "leave nature do it's thing/use design to keep your elbows in&…

Sometimes you have a #dream that leaves you pondering. This time the middle segment involved freeing a certain harmless creature. It wasn't imprisoned in a physical jail but rather barred from leaving by another stronger creature. I've said that I'll keep said guardian busy for half an hour, so the victim could escape. The guardian turned out demonic in nature, and turned into an iron C-shaped bracket that tightened against my right side painfully. So my fight was mostly an attempt to get it off me, or at least stop it from tightening even more.
Since I woke up, I'm wondering if it was just an oddly specific dream, or if my right side actually ached through the night.

Thank you, Professor. It IS time to change. https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115790431920149801

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Unclassified
Modern Nature:
🎵 Source
#ModernNature
https://open.spotify.com/track/2fqFFOjrzV4mojoB1flXhv

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sudan Archives:
🎵 THE NATURE OF POWER
#SudanArchives
https://sudanarchives.bandcamp.com/track/the-nature-of-power
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zYkhzGEC4hlpV3sK19Dpy

Monumental 🪦
纪念 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Bat For Lashes:
🎵 A Wall
#NowPlaying #BatForLashes
https://othernature.bandcamp.com/track/bat-for-lashes-a-wall-official-other-nature-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/7IC3bJVfqUbVa9eMAH5bZ3

Dynamic Dual-level Defense Routing for Continual Adversarial Training
Wenxuan Wang, Chenglei Wang, Xuelin Qian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21392 https://arx…

Dynamic Dual-level Defense Routing for Continual Adversarial Training
As adversarial attacks continue to evolve, defense models face the risk of recurrent vulnerabilities, underscoring the importance of continuous adversarial training (CAT). Existing CAT approaches typically balance decision boundaries by either data replay or optimization strategy to constrain shared model parameters. However, due to the diverse and aggressive nature of adversarial examples, these methods suffer from catastrophic forgetting of previous defense knowledge after continual learning.…

Spectral peak picking improves tactile speech perception https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-28930-6 "The algorithm is suitable for real-time use in wearable sensory substitution devices and could aid the development of effective haptic hearing aids."

Redesigning GROMACS Halo Exchange: Improving Strong Scaling with GPU-initiated NVSHMEM
Mahesh Doijade, Andrey Alekseenko, Ania Brown, Alan Gray, Szil\'ard P\'all
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21527

Redesigning GROMACS Halo Exchange: Improving Strong Scaling with GPU-initiated NVSHMEM
Improving time-to-solution in molecular dynamics simulations often requires strong scaling due to fixed-sized problems. GROMACS is highly latency-sensitive, with peak iteration rates in the sub-millisecond, making scalability on heterogeneous supercomputers challenging. MPI's CPU-centric nature introduces additional latencies on GPU-resident applications' critical path, hindering GPU utilization and scalability. To address these limitations, we present an NVSHMEM-based GPU kernel-initiated rede…

Have you ever wondered to what extend LLMs are used to support writing of scientific publications? Here is a chart indicating the fraction of LLM-modified sentences in scientific publications over time.
c.f. Liang et al, Mapping the Increasing Use of LLMs in Scientific Papers (2024)
https://arxiv.org/html/2404.01268v1

Maya Hawke narrates docuseries 'Nightmares of Nature', a two season series that follows three animal characters facing all the real-life horrors and monsters nature can throw at them.
The first season titled Cabin in the Woods (follows a mouse, raccoon, and frog) is on Netflix now, and the second season is titled Lost in the Jungle (follows an opossum, iguana, and spider) and will be on Netflix on October 28.

Bats are one of the few animals that I genuinely don't enjoy being around.... but I still want them to thrive!
This is really great news that a Canadian researcher might have found a treatment for white-nose syndrome!
" B.C.-based scientist Cori Lausen, nicknamed Bat Lady by her peers, believes a probiotic formula may be capable of saving them. This cocktail is a blend of four bacterial strains that suppress the fungus. These bacteria are naturally found in some bats, but not all. ”
#Bats #health #nature
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bats-white-nose-syndrome-probiotic-9.6948885

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#20thCenturyRadicals
- Daphne Oram: Nature and machine are one
Radio 3's series shining new light on the 'modern' music of the 20th century. This week, Kate Molleson studies composer and co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Daphne Oram.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002npsk

For a moment I was afraid I'd missed the Nordic Adventure Film Festival - but it's on next week.
This new film by Yann Bertrand looks exceptional #NAFF25
https://adventurefilmfest.dk/portfolio/nature-the-call-for-reconciliation/

The Devil at the Canadian Historical Association #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20129995/devil-canadian-historical-association…

Open-Access Scientific Game-Theory Paper Shows Religion Worth a Damn
Fear of supernatural PUNISHMENT can harmonize human societies with nature: an evolutionary game-theoretic approach
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-025-05734-7?ref=404media.co
…

Fear of supernatural punishment can harmonize human societies with nature: an evolutionary game-theoretic approach - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Human activities largely impact the natural environment negatively and radical changes in human societies would be required to achieve their sustainable relationship with nature. Although frequently overlooked, previous studies have suggested that supernatural beliefs can protect nature from human overexploitation via beliefs that supernatural entities punish people who harm nature. Studies of folklore and ethnology have shown that such supernatural beliefs are widely found. However, it remains…

Sea level rise and flooding of hazardous sites in marginalized communities across the United States (Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65168-2
http://www.memeorandum.com/251120/p76#a251120p76

Die weltweite #Entwaldung ist rückläufig: Zwischen 2015 und 2025 lag die Rate laut UN-Bericht 38 Prozent unter dem Niveau von 1990 bis 2000.
In #Brasilien sank die #Abholzung im

Seven quiet wins for climate and nature in 2025
Here are the year's breakthroughs for the climate and nature you might have missed.

Even #Nature now uses #AI to generate content: Sensory substitution devices and perception https://www.

"‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement"
#Environment #Rewilding

#TuneTuesday #VerdantVoices
(songs with a connection to green and/or nature)
Second Nature / Rush
https://www.youtube…

"Rachel Reeves, boasted to corporate executives that she has “unblocked” a large housing development in Sussex being held up by “some snails … a protected species or something … microscopic snails that you cannot even see”. .. The very rare little whirlpool ramshorn snail, by no means microscopic, is an indicator of fresh water not affected by sewage pollution"

Moody Urbanity - Metro Consistency 🗿
情绪化城市 - 都市质地 🗿
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

‘It fully changed my life!’ How young rewilders transformed a farm – and began a movement | Rewilding | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/25/it-fully-changed-my-life-how-young…

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 409 nodes and 8557 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

It's been a while since I last posted to my "Thinking out loud" series on #FineArtsPedagogy. Right now, I've been delving into the nature of creativity, which brings together both my work at The Norwegian Film School and the emerging work at MishMash - Centre for AI & Creativity.
I have been troubled by understandings of creativity that emphasize product and …

Search for in situ signatures of electric activity on Mars: #Mars / Electric discharges detected on Mars for the first time / This is what lightning on Mars sounds like: https://www.natureasia.com/en/info/press-releases/detail/9162 / https://www.cnrs.fr/en/press/electric-discharges-detected-mars-first-time / https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03896-7

First Nature Reserve to Record 10,000 Species in UK–Thanks to Moth That Looks Like a Wasp https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/first-nature-reserve-to-record-10000-species-in-uk-thanks-to-moth-that-looks-like-a-wasp/…

First Nature Reserve to Record 10,000 Species in UK–Thanks to Moth That Looks Like a Wasp
The Wicken Fen nature reserve became the first in UK to record 10,000 species, after finding a unique moth that imitates a wasp.

🎍 Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-bamboo-based-plastic-biodegrade-quickly.html

Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions
A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stability but can biodegrade in soil within 50 days, presenting a new pathway toward sustainable plastic alternatives.

Israel-based Second Nature, whose conversational AI helps train sales teams, raised a $22M Series B led by Sienna VC, taking its total raised to $80M (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bj0cciralg

Zoom-backed Second Nature raises $22 million Series B to expand AI sales training platform
The Israeli startup uses conversational AI to transform how companies coach sales teams. 

Super intéressant, quoiqu'un peu flippant :
https://www.futura-sciences.com/planete/actualites/nature-cecite-botanique-ce-phenomene-invisible-fragilise-notre-lien-nature-126086/

Cécité botanique : ce phénomène invisible qui fragilise notre lien à la nature
C’est comme si les végétaux faisaient partie du décor : tellement présents, statiques, ils s’effacent du regard. Ce filtrage mental s’appelle la « cécité botanique ». Le phénomène s’explique par certains biais culturels, renforcés par l’urbanisation et l’artificialisation des sols. Cette invisibilisation du végétal accélère la perte de l’expertise botanique, appauvrit notre rapport au vivant… et menace l’équilibre de notre Planète. Des leviers d'actions existe…

Weird how we build houses to escape the harshness and dangers of nature and then once a year we move trees inside the house

It's been a day with a lot of input. The absolute opposite of this where I was completely alone.
#FootpathFriday #photography #nature

What The Duck?!
The show with a mission to explore the mysteries of nature – especially the ones that make you go What the Duck...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/what-the-duck/

"Scientists Create Durable Biodegradable Bamboo Plastic That’s Stronger Than Petroleum-Based Materials"
#Bamboo #Plastic #Plastics

Scientists Create Durable Biodegradable Bamboo Plastic That’s Stronger Than Petroleum-Based Materials | Happy Eco News
Chinese researchers created biodegradable bamboo plastic with 110 MPa tensile strength that decomposes in soil within 50 days. Published in Nature Communications (October 2025), the material outperforms petroleum-based plastics in terms of strength and stability, while maintaining 90% of its original strength after recycling. This makes it a renewable and recyclable alternative for industrial use.

Des scientifiques ont identifié du ribose (utilisé dans l’ARN) et du glucose Š la surface d’une comète !
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-025-01838-6

Nature commits no errors; right and wrong are human categories.
-Pardot Kynes, Arrakis Lectures
#dunequotes

Effects of eye closure on the spiking activity of human lateral geniculate neurons #LGN

Effects of eye closure on the spiking activity of human lateral geniculate neurons - Nature Communications
The LGN is a critical stage between the retina and visual cortex, but the properties of human LGN neurons are not fully understood. Here the authors report that they closely resemble those in monkeys and that closure of one eye increases the activity of putative inhibitory neurons connected to that eye.

💖 ✨ 🌈 :bisexual_pride: 🏳️‍⚧️ :genderfluid_flag: :nonbinary_flag: :heart_trans: 🏳️‍🌈
Hey y'all, just a little reminder for those who already know and a heads‑up for anyone new, I’m non‑binary and out here living my best self!
#LGBTQIA #NonBinary

more and more, I think some people could really use an Emergency Management Hologram who just pops up and says "Please state the nature of this management emergency — actually nevermind, that won't change my advice: please go talk to a therapist, and then talk to this person you were about to tell me about"

Laws typically are not retroactive in nature, so good luck with that, boys...
Two Oklahoma Cops Who Shot Unarmed Black Man Holding a Hat ‘In Cold Blood’ Try to Appeal Based on New ‘Justifiable Homicide’ Law for Police
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/12/23/two-oklahoma-cops-who-shot-unarmed-black-man-try-to-appeal-based-on-new-law-for-police/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Sudan Archives:
🎵 THE NATURE OF POWER
#SudanArchives
https://sudanarchives.bandcamp.com/track/the-nature-of-power
https://open.spotify.com/track/1zYkhzGEC4hlpV3sK19Dpy

Economy crashing when?
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09430-z

Analog optical computer for AI inference and combinatorial optimization - Nature
An analog optical computer that combines analog electronics, three-dimensional optics, and an iterative architecture accelerates artificial intelligence inference and combinatorial optimization in a single platform, paving a promising path for faster and sustainable computing.

Social-media influencers and anti-ageing entrepreneurs
mingled with top US government officials,
including the head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), at an exclusive event steps from the White House last week.
The meeting’s purpose was to discuss the future of health in the United States.
Organizers called it the MAHA Summit,
referring to US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s signature ‘Make America Healthy Again’ movement.
Attendees inclu…

Psychedelics and immortality: Nature went to a health summit starring RFK and JD Vance
The Make America Healthy Again summit, attended by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr and vice-president JD Vance, gave a sense of what’s driving US health policy.

Mit dem Inkrafttreten des #HighSeasTreaty im September 2025 sollen künftig 30 Prozent der #Hochsee als #Meeresschutzgebiete ausgewiesen werden.
Bislang war nur 1 Prozent dieser …

Seven quiet wins for climate and nature in 2025
Here are the year's breakthroughs for the climate and nature you might have missed.

"World’s landscapes may soon be ‘devoid of wild animals’, says nature photographer"
#Animals #Environment

ONLINE SEMINAR: Nature and Boundaries: Water, Space, and the Sensory Experience of the Rus'-Steppe Frontier (1050s–1100s) https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20135270/online-seminar-nature-and-boundaries-water-spac…

By Rory Blank

A pretty blistering report on UK airport expansion - from the House of Commons Audit Committee.
-No evidence of net benefits.
-Will impair net zero.
-Decisions being taken without the benefit of updated policy.
Airport expansion and climate and nature targets https://

Unequal access to nature: Few outdoor spaces in Europe and the U.S. accommodate sensory, mental disabilities https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/unequal-access-to-nature-few-outdoor-spaces-in-europe-and-the-…

Unequal access to nature: Few outdoor spaces in Europe and the U.S. accommodate sensory, mental disabilities
Sprawled along the Pacific coastline near San Francisco, Golden Gate National Recreation Area is full of wildflowers, beaches, and old-growth coastal redwoods, shrouded with a thin layer of marine fog that dissipates in sunlight. Visitors fish, hike, camp, and surf, the temperate climate and ocean views providing a boost to their mental and physical health. […]

Of the 202 Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine this century,
fewer than 70 percent hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03247-6

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

"UK campaigners launch bill to give nature legal rights"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature #Environment…

'Eisige Zeiten' #FotoVorschlag 'icy times'
Oh I have a couple of frosty photos, but this might be one of my best. I spent quite a while there to capture the cold feeling.
Packed in multiple layers, I really spent quite a while around that spot in order to really see the right motives.
It just reminds me that I could post more of my winter photos! :)
…

Impact of a transient neonatal visual deprivation on the development of the ventral occipito-temporal cortex in humans https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-65468-7 "while EVC is permanently affected by early deprivation, categorical coding in VOTC shows resilience"; <…

Impact of a transient neonatal visual deprivation on the development of the ventral occipito-temporal cortex in humans - Nature Communications
This study shows that transient blindness at birth leaves lasting effects on early visual functions, while higher visual regions encoding categories remain unaffected, revealing different sensitive periods for different functions in vision.

Yesterday and tomorrow 50 years ago #OTD German TV viewers saw the premiere of an extraordinary nature documentary in two parts: #spiders by #HorstStern was a towering triumph in #TV nature #documentaries, and I still recall being blown away seeing it back then.

"Governments must prioritize nature protection, former US senator Russ Feingold says"
#Nature #Environment

Governments must prioritize nature protection, former US senator Russ Feingold says
Bill Gates recently claimed that protecting nature or improving human health is an either-or choice, but former national leaders like Russ Feingold, a retired U.S. senator, and Mary Robinson, former Irish president, disagree. As chair of the Global Steering Committee of the Campaign for Nature, a nonprofit organization uniting prominent politicians in support of nature […]

At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban Gender Affirming Care,
they said trans people are
"at the root of the evils we face"
and are
"a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.”
Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.
-- Alejendro Caraballo

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net)
At the HHS announcement yesterday announcing proposed rules to ban GAC, they said trans people are "at the root of the evils we face" and are "a hatred for nature as God designed it and for life as it was meant to be lived.” Just in case you thought it was about concerns for proper healthcare.

A low-latency neural inference framework for real-time handwriting recognition from #EEG signals on an edge device https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-24972-y

A low-latency neural inference framework for real-time handwriting recognition from EEG signals on an edge device - Scientific Reports
Brain–computer interfaces (BCIs) hold significant promise for restoring communication in individuals with severe motor or speech impairments. Imagined handwriting, as a form of motor imagery, offers an intuitive paradigm for character-level neural decoding. While invasive techniques such as electrocorticography (ECoG) offer high decoding accuracy, their surgical requirements pose clinical risks and hinder scalability. Non-invasive alternatives like electroencephalography (EEG) are safer and m…

"First Nature Reserve to Record 10,000 Species in UK–Thanks to Moth That Looks Like a Wasp"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature

First Nature Reserve to Record 10,000 Species in UK–Thanks to Moth That Looks Like a Wasp
The Wicken Fen nature reserve became the first in UK to record 10,000 species, after finding a unique moth that imitates a wasp.

So ... which simulation of the large scale structure of the #Universe is this?
(Haven't found a way to hide the solution but not the image, to make it a quiz.)
This is from the press release "Observing synapses in action" - https://www.charite.de/en/service/press_reports/artikel/detail/observing_synapses_in_action - about the paper "Dynamic nanoscale architecture of synaptic vesicle fusion in mouse hippocampal neurons", https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67291-6 ;-)

hey! here are the last four #photos from our walk in the #schwarzwald . There were some pretty beautyful trails and - also a little blister-issue. But thanks to being prepared, it was easy to fix and we could enjoy the rest of the walk.
Some more photos and a short clip are on the blog:

A flexible photoacoustic retinal prosthesis https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67518-6 "These findings demonstrate the potential of photoacoustic stimulation for high-acuity visual restoration in blind patients."; retinal implant

"Nature recovery plan in England hit by clause allowing contracts to end with a year’s notice"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature

The COVID-19 mRNA-based vaccines that saved 2.5 million lives globally during the pandemic
could help spark the immune system to fight cancer.
This is the surprising takeaway of a new study published in the journal Nature.
While developing mRNA vaccines for patients with brain tumors in 2016, our team, led by pediatric oncologist Elias Sayour, discovered that mRNA can train immune systems to kill tumors – even if the mRNA is not related to cancer.
Based on this finding…

COVID-19 mRNA vaccines could unlock the next revolution in cancer treatment – new research
The researchers found that mRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines could potentially help patients whose tumors don’t respond well to traditional immunotherapy.

Aligned, Multiple-transient Events in the First #PalomarSkySurvey / Transients in the Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-I) may be associated with nuclear testing and reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ae0afe / https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21620-3 -> Unexpected patterns in historical astronomical observations: https://www.su.se/english/news/unexpected-patterns-in-historical-astronomical-observations-1.855042 -> summary of why these papers are doubtful: https://x.com/MickWest/status/1980690132543107204 - links to deep discussions.

Welcome back - been busy the last days with meeting friends etc 🙂
But I wanted to show some more #photos from the #Lotharsteig in the #nationalparkschwarzwald . Different from …

“Many researchers worry about the long-term effects of throttling the pipeline of trained scientists.
‘If this keeps up, it would be really devastating for the field, bc this is where the next generation of experts comes from,’
says Emily Levesque,
an astronomer at the Univ of WA in Seattle.”
https://

Author Bill Sullivan (@authorbillsullivan.com)
US PhD admissions shrink as fears over Trump’s cuts take hold Some doctoral programmes are admitting no students at all amid uncertainty about federal science funding. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03417-6

101 Dalmatians: a multimodal naturalistic fMRI dataset in typical development and congenital sensory loss #neuroscience

101 Dalmatians: a multimodal naturalistic fMRI dataset in typical development and congenital sensory loss - Scientific Data
In recent years, neuroscience has increasingly leveraged naturalistic stimuli, like movies and narratives, to investigate cognitive processes underlying real-world human behavior. Here, we present a functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) dataset featuring 50 participants, with and without congenital sensory loss (typical development, congenitally blind and deaf individuals), who were exposed to audiovisual, auditory, or visual versions of the live-action movie 101 Dalmatians. The dataset …

Extreme properties of a compact and massive accreting black hole host in the first 500 Myr: #BlackHole in the early Universe: https://esawebb.org/news/weic2522/

"Report: Sixfold increase in global nature finance needed to meet 2030 goal"
#Nature #Environment

“God gave us this incredible gift of an intellect and curiosity and an opportunity to explore how nature works,”
Dr Francis Collins, former director of National Institutes of Health said.
“And God gave us nature as well
and we get the chance through science to do that.
I think of science as glimpsing God’s mind.
Science is almost a form of worship because what you’re trying to do there is to be completely caught up in the awe of what we’ve been given in natu…

Francis Collins and Marc Siegel say medicine is a gift from God
“To have Christians be the group that was most resistant” to the Covid vaccine “really seems wrong here,” said former NIH Director Francis Collins.

"National Trust and TV wildlife expert team up on autumn nature campaign"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NationalTrust

Two-dimensional semiconductor-based active array for high-fidelity spatiotemporal monitoring of neural activities (in mice) #BCI

Two-dimensional semiconductor-based active array for high-fidelity spatiotemporal monitoring of neural activities - Nature Materials
Two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)-based active arrays made by growing wafer-scale trilayer MoS2 directly on a polyimidine substrate achieve high-fidelity spatiotemporal neuronal monitoring in vitro and in living mice.

Long-term unsupervised recalibration of cursor-based intracortical brain–computer interfaces using a hidden Markov model #BCI

Long-term unsupervised recalibration of cursor-based intracortical brain–computer interfaces using a hidden Markov model - Nature Biomedical Engineering
A hidden Markov model that uses probabilistic retrospective inference allows for up to one month of unsupervised recalibration in an online cursor-based intracortical brain–machine interface.

"EU seeks to exploit nature-based products for competitiveness push, green groups say"
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EU bets on nature-based products to increase domestic competitiveness
Nature-based products such as biofuels and bioplastics will be looked to as drivers of green growth under a recently announced bioeconomy strategy, but critics are wary of overexploitation.

Role of thalamus in human conscious perception revealed by low-intensity focused ultrasound neuromodulation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-66832-3 these findings "underscore the modulatory potential of thalamocortical networks in shaping visual experience";

"Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals"
#FossilFuels #Cliamte #ClimateChange

Experts urge canceling fossil fuel contracts to meet Paris climate goals
The countries participating in the UN Climate Change Conference (COP30), currently taking place in Brazil, must cancel fossil fuel concessions in order to keep the Paris Agreement alive. This is the main message of a paper published in the journal Nature and signed by experts Martí Orta, Gorka Muñoa and Marcel Llavero, from the Faculty of Biology and the Biodiversity Research Institute (IRBio) of the University of Barcelona, and Guillem Rius, from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (IS…

"Revealed: Europe losing 600 football pitches of nature and crop land a day"
#Europe #Environment #Nature