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"Scientists have a dire new warning about the state of the planet"
#Climate #ClimateChange
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Scientists have a dire new warning about the state of the planet
Recent climatic developments "mark the beginning of a grim new chapter for life on Earth," but it's not too late for radical action.

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 11 - Bounty
GAN: Bounty hunters. They're going to sell us to the Federation.
BLAKE: But how did they get on board?
AVON: Gan?
VILA: It wasn't Gan's fault.
GAN: They used me and a voice synthesizer. It was very well planned.

"Three-in-one process recycles spent lithium batteries, captures CO₂ and generates catalysts—all at room temperature"
#Batteries #Recycling

Three-in-one process recycles spent lithium batteries, captures CO₂ and generates catalysts—all at room temperature
Scientists from China have developed a new way to recycle lithium batteries that is a triple win for the planet. It not only extracts nearly all the lithium for reuse but also traps carbon dioxide and converts the remaining metal waste into high-performance catalysts for generating green energy.

Oh goody, a LinkedIn connection request with a message!
Let’s break this down:
> …vc backed…
Focused on quarterly profits / RoI instead of outcomes.
> …invite-only…
NDAs and other gag agreements.
> …openAI browser…
Chromium that begs authors for ARIA to parse content.
> …seeing promising results…
Which aren’t genuine results.
> …goal is 100% WCAG testing…
Ah, snake oil.
> …with high capture rates.
Sales…

The third #AAS247 presser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDmYXvBbV4 about News from the High-Redshift Universe and Local Analogs dealt with the papers The ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey: JWST/IFU Optical Observations for 18 Main-sequence Galaxies at z = 4–6 (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae0928 with https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast and https://public.nrao.edu/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast/), A New Population of Point-like, Narrow-line Objects Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12177 with https://showme.missouri.edu/2026/scientists-discover-platypus-galaxies-in-the-early-universe/ and https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/scientists-identify-astronomys-platypus-with-nasas-webb-telescope/; slide), Supermassive Stars Match the Spectral Signatures of JWST's Little Red Dots (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12618 with https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/scientists-use-jwst-examine-ancient-monster-stars-may-reveal-birth-black-holes) and Discovery of SiC and Iron Dust around AGB Stars in the Very Metal-poor Sextans a Dwarf Galaxy with JWST: Implications for Dust Production at High Redshift & JWST Captures Growth of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Dust Particles in the Extremely Metal-poor Galaxy Sextans A (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf06a / https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04060 with https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-early-universe-analogs-unexpected-talent-for-making-dust/).

This report sounds quite plausible, exactly how I expect this would be going inside the Trump administration. Maybe Iran can distract Trump enough to forget about Greenland for a while 🤔.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1

Donald Trump 'orders army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland': US President emboldened by success of Maduro capture operation
Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.

(LinkedIn) #Paradromics: "A #BCI capable of capturing and delivering rich neural signals could stream visual information directly to the cortex, bypassing external displays and generating experiences indistinguishable from the physical world."

#bci #technology #biotech #augmentedreality #virtualreality #arvr #braincomputerinterfaces | Paradromics
Our daily mission is to restore independence for those living with severe motor impairment. But as our CEO Matt Angle and CSO Reema Khan (Green Sands Equity) discuss at the OPEN Silicon Valley Annual Forum, the long-term potential of high data rate BCIs extends even further.   A #BCI capable of capturing and delivering rich neural signals could stream visual information directly to the cortex, bypassing external displays and generating experiences indistinguishable from the physical world.   …

Series C, Episode 11 - Moloch
AVON: Right. Now, ask yourself why they should be shipping in men from a penal colony. [A beep sounds]
DAYNA: [Starting forward] The communicator! They're trying to get through!
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/311/281 B7B2

"5 unexpected animal behaviors we learned about in 2025"
#Animals
https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/5-unexpecte…

5 unexpected animal behaviors we learned about in 2025
Every year, researchers and people out in nature capture some aspect of animal behavior that’s unusual or unexpected in some way, changing how we understand the natural world. Here are five such examples that Mongabay reported on in 2025: Massive fish aggregation seen climbing waterfalls in Brazil For the first time, scientists observed a “massive […]