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Deep sea mining identified as biggest threat to known and unknown deep-sea creatures https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/07/deep-sea-mining-identified-as-biggest-threat-to-known-and-unknown-deep-sea-crea…

Deep sea mining identified as biggest threat to known and unknown deep-sea creatures
The IUCN warns deep-sea mining is the greatest threat to hydrothermal vent species, more than 60% of known vent mollusks are now at risk of extinction.

Smoke & Soul Project
An eight week national BBQ tour across Australia. Dave, together with his wife and two young daughters, will travel with a custom BBQ trailer to partner with local charities and serve free BBQ meals to people in need...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greata…

"44 Miles of Major Balkan River Freed from Wartime Concrete Obstruction – LOOK"
#Conservation #Environment

44 Miles of Major Balkan River Freed from Wartime Concrete Obstruction – LOOK
More than 40 miles of its path were interrupted by a mound of concrete built to allow battle tanks to cross the river during World War II.

„Körpernahe Dienstleistungen“

More than 17,000 people were under evacuation orders in southern California on Tuesday as a wildfirethreatened suburban homes.
The wind-driven #Sandy fire was reported Monday in the hills above Simi Valley, about 30 miles (48km) north-west of Los Angeles.
By Tuesday morning, it had consumed more than 2 sq miles of dry brush and destroyed at least one home, according to the Ventura county fire dep…

„Die De-Qualifizierung der Gesellschaft ist in vollem Gange – wir werden zu Prompt-Eingebern, zu digitalen Tagelöhnern." Sascha Pallenberg @… liest Fritz Langs Metropolis als Blaupause für 2026: KI nicht als Werkzeug der Befreiung, sondern der Entwertung menschlicher Arbeit. #KI

Metropolis 2026: Willkommen im KI-Moloch
Waehrend die Tech-Elite in den "Ewigen Gaerten" des Silicon Valley den neuen KI-Gott anbetet, frisst sich eine Industrie im Inzest ihrer eigenen Milliarden gerade selbst auf. Turmbau auf heisser Luft... waehrend die "Maschinen-Maria" uns eine Erloesung vorgaukelt, die nur der Entwertung des Menschen dient. Finden wir das Herz zwischen Code

KI-generierte Kataloge von Mondkratern nur oberflächlich so gut wie herkömmliche
Krater verraten viel über andere Himmelskörper, dafür müssen sie aber präzise katalogisiert sein. KI-Technik kann das viel schlechter als bislang angenommen.

KI-generierte Kataloge von Mondkratern nur oberflächlich so gut wie herkömmliche
Krater verraten viel über andere Himmelskörper, dafür müssen sie aber präzise katalogisiert sein. KI-Technik kann das viel schlechter als bislang angenommen.

The Large Magellanic Cloud through the lens of the James Webb Space Telescope: Binaries and the mass function in the galaxy's outskirts
M. V. Legnardi, F. Muratore, A. P. Milone, G. Cordoni, E. Dondoglio, L. N. Gorza, A. Bellini, F. Calura, S. Jang, H. Jerjen, A. Karakas, E. P. Lagioia, C. Li, A. Mastrobuono-Battisti, M. Tailo, E. Vesperini, E. Bortolan, A. F. Marino, S. Di Stefano
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19260 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.19260 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.19260
arXiv:2607.19260v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Nearby galaxies such as the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) offer an ideal laboratory to test the initial mass function under different physical conditions, but previous works have been limited by photometric depth and have therefore poorly constrained the low-mass regime. Here, we analyze ultra-deep James Webb Space Telescope observations of a field in the LMC outskirts, near the intermediate-age and massive star cluster NGC 1846. Using the $m_{\rm F322W2}$ versus $m_{\rm F115W}-m_{\rm F322W2}$ color-magnitude diagram, we derive the mass function (MF) down to unprecedentedly low masses ($M=0.17 M_{\odot}$), explicitly accounting for the contribution of unresolved binaries, whose fraction is constrained directly from the data. For systems with mass ratios $q>0.6$, we measure a binary fraction of $f_{\rm bin}^{q>0.6}=0.15\pm0.01$, implying a total binary fraction of $f_{\rm bin}^{\rm TOT}=0.34\pm0.02$ for a flat mass-ratio distribution. This is consistent with values in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and in the Milky Way field, suggesting similar binary formation efficiency across low-density environments. We also derive the MF over the mass interval 0.17-0.82 $M_{\odot}$ and fit it with a power law, obtaining a slope of $\alpha = -1.49 \pm 0.16$. This slope is shallower than the canonical Salpeter value ($\alpha=-2.35$) and slightly shallower than that measured in the SMC field, while remaining consistent with determinations for Galactic open clusters and for several clusters in the Magellanic Clouds and the Milky Way. Together, these results support a scenario in which both binary formation efficiency and the shape of the low-mass MF depend only weakly on the environment.
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Heute habe ich Biberkosten gegoogelt und diese dämliche Google-KI-Zusammenfassung verweist mich u.a. aufs Fediverse. Der Link geht direkt zu
https://ruhr.social/@hipdrop/116518410849556631
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They always were plasticy and blurry.