Tootfinder

"IPBES report: Only 1% of companies reporting their nature impacts"
#Nature #Business #Environment

Gaze patterns during visual mental imagery reflect part-based generation https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35447-z "eye movements during mental imagery reflect a part-by-part generation process of the imagined content, independent of prior perceptual encoding"

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Naughty by Nature:
🎵 Hip Hop Hooray
#NaughtybyNature
https://djnos.bandcamp.com/track/naughty-by-nature-hip-hop-hooray
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SyQ6t9RdRBK0QUCS6a797

Mantle heterogeneity influenced Earth’s ancient magnetic field: #MagneticField for hundreds of millions of years: https://www.earth.com/news/deep-heat-has-guided-earths-magnetic-field-for-hundreds-of-millions-of-years/

This is the story of Weda Bay – and how nature is being sacrificed for mining https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/mar/11/how-mining-threatens-the-worlds-biodiversity-aoe

Will purchase: #music

130 Tracks of Guitar Per Song? Sunn O))) Is Back, and Going Big.
The hard-to-categorize duo recorded its new, self-titled album surrounded by nature. It’ll be the band’s first on the storied Seattle label Sub Pop.

I love a stickler for precision and a discussion about the true nature of things. But I can separate that from observed phenomena. I wonder if during the early days of flight, people said, "Well akshually Mr Wright, you didn't really *fly*". (Yes, this is a GenAI post.)

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Naughty by Nature:
🎵 O.P.P.
#NaughtybyNature
https://miketempo.bandcamp.com/track/naughty-by-nature-o-p-p-mike-tempo-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1k28sDTLOz942qa3wEtMQE

Tailings dams
– repositories of mining waste that is often toxic and stored under water
– litter landscapes around the world.
Often, they hold huge quantities of poisonous, harmful material .
While tailings dams are theoretically built to last for ever, more extreme weather driven by the climate crisis has changed the risk profile of many structures.
Flooding, intense rainfall and other weather extremes mean that many of them are more unstable, according to ex…

Scarp-fronted deposits record the highest water level in Mars’ Valles Marineris: #Mars was half covered by an ocean: https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2026/media_releases_2026/mars_was_half_covered_by_an_ocean/index_eng.html

Video-call glitches trigger uncanniness and harm consequential life outcomes
Nature (2025)
#teamresopal

Video-call glitches trigger uncanniness and harm consequential life outcomes - Nature
Glitches in video calls can have a negative effect on the judgement of the people involved and correspond to worse outcomes in major areas of life such as job interviews and parole hearings.

"Once-in-a-Decade Superbloom Carpets Death Valley in Beautiful, Colorful Life (LOOK)"
#Environment #Nature

Once-in-a-Decade Superbloom Carpets Death Valley in Life, Beautiful, Colorful Life
In lower elevations the blooms are already bursting, and will continue to be vibrant until around late March.

"I’d interpret this as follows: this likely came down to a discussion involving Secretary of State Marco Rubio and a few other Iran hardliners. That’s where the decision was going to be made. There were probably people on the margins […]. But they would have known these buzzkill remarks weren’t what Trump or his inner ring of advisors wanted to hear. This is the nature of personalist rule. It’s down to the leader’s gut impulses. He doesn’t want to hear about problems."

From Nature
Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments
Katharina Seeger & Philip S. J. Minderhoud
The impacts of sea-level rise and other hazards on the coasts of the world are determined by coastal sea-level height and land elevation1. Correct integration of both aspects is fundamental for reliable sea-level rise and coastal hazard impact assessments2,3, but is often not carefully considered or properly performed.

Sea level much higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments - Nature
Meta-analyses on a global scale show that the measured coastal mean sea level is higher than assumed in most coastal hazard assessments.

Influenced by political unrest, human suffering, and the intrigue of melancholy and nature, she uses prepared piano, electronics, toys, and everyday objects to challenge traditional ways instruments are played.

Muddled.
'Value' has specific meanings in Marxist political economy.
It isn't the appropriate term for what Boillier is discussing.
'Wealth' is closer but still not right.
It's a matter of standpoint: the abundance of nature isn't purely for human use, so those two terms don't apply well, or at all.
Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative - resilience

Toward a New Theory of Value (and Meaning): Living Systems as Generative
The bounty brought by rainfall, fertile soil, and biodiversity cannot truly be expressed through quantitative proxies, prices, algorithms, or markets because this “wealth” doesn’t exist in static, objectified forms or essentialist identities

A study finds LLMs from Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, and xAI can help with academic fraud, specifically helping non-researchers submit fabricated papers to arXiv (Elizabeth Gibney/Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00595-9

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

In a damning report, the OEP has found that seven of the 10 targets set in the Environment Act 2021 have little likelihood of being met by 2030, which is the deadline set in law.
The three remaining targets: clean air, reducing the harmful impact of environmental hazards, and improving the beauty of nature – are only partly on track.
Government’s wildlife targets will be missed in England, watchdog says | Environment | The Guardian

Recall the case of Indiana University Bloomington computer science professor XiaoFeng Wang who was abruptly terminated from the university along with this wife, and had his two homes searched by the FBI. The case is ongoing.
He is a co-author of a recently submitted report dated January 23, 2026 entitled "Trojans in Artificial Intelligence", for the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the depa…

Trojans in Artificial Intelligence (TrojAI) Final Report
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) launched the TrojAI program to confront an emerging vulnerability in modern artificial intelligence: the threat of AI Trojans. These AI trojans are malicious, hidden backdoors intentionally embedded within an AI model that can cause a system to fail in unexpected ways, or allow a malicious actor to hijack the AI model at will. This multi-year initiative helped to map out the complex nature of the threat, pioneered foundational detecti…

@… people complaining about the option of using a chatbot, in a sidebar of Firefox, caused me to occasionally experiment with chatbots in the sidebar.
When people make unreasonable demands: the listener will do the opposite of what's demanded.
Human nature.

By their very nature they will never and can never experience happiness.
They’re sad sacks of miserable shit who always want more and can never have enough.
And they’ll go to their graves feeling miserable and lonely.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Naughty by Nature:
🎵 Uptown Anthem
#NaughtybyNature
https://miketempo.bandcamp.com/track/naughty-by-nature-uptown-anthem-mike-tempo-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/6Kt62qyMR3uJ15Sb6XDAn3

Sonnet 127 - CXXVII
In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's successive heir,
And beauty slandered with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,
Fairing the foul with Art's false borrowed face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.
Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black,

The most resistant to committing fraud, when asked repeatedly, were all versions of Claude. Versions of Grok and early versions of GPT performed the worst.
Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026

Hey ChatGPT, write me a fictional paper: these LLMs are willing to commit academic fraud
Mainstream chatbots presented varying levels of resistance to deliberate requests for fabrication, study finds.

Gloom & Bloom ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

JWST interferometric imaging reveals the dusty torus obscuring the supermassive black hole of Circinus galaxy: #CircinusGalaxy: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-delivers-unprecedented-look-into-heart-of-circinus-galaxy/

Ausstellungs-TiPP #Basel
#Museum Tinguely Carl Cheng (geboren 1942): "Natur Never Loses" bis zum 10. Mai 2026. Grosse Retrospektive über sechs Jahrzehnte visionäre #Kunst des vielseitigen Künstlers

Here's a wild stat: We could power every car and truck as electric vehicles just by putting solar panels on land we currently use for biofuels.
Solar is vastly more efficient than biofuels for energy generation. The real question is how we use our land—solar for transport, biofuels for aviation, or letting some return to nature.

Putting solar panels on land used for biofuels would produce enough electricity for all cars and trucks to go electric
The world dedicates a Poland-sized area of land to liquid biofuels. Is there a more efficient way to generate energy?

Terrestrial atmospheric ion implantation occurred in the nearside lunar regolith during the history of Earth’s dynamo: #moon is eating up molecules from Earth’s atmosphere: https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/13/science/moon-stealing-earth-atmosphere-magnetic-field

Food for thought:
“Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed—and why it matters.”
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08141-1
This compelling perspective shows how openness alone fails to challenge AI’s power concentration.
As r…

"Study finds biodiversity credits could boost rewilding, but fall far short"
#Environment #Biodiversity #Nature

Study finds biodiversity credits could boost rewilding, but fall far short
Payments that enable landowners to rewild ecologically degraded land—in the form of biodiversity credits bought by investors wishing to offset their impact on nature—could be an effective component of the emerging market for nature recovery, but will not work as a standalone approach.

Machine Learning techniques are upending multiple scientific fields. Operational 5-day forecasting of air quality in 1 minute in this paper from Chinese researchers.
This is awesome work with very clear public health implications.
EDIT for clarity: I am.not suggesting LLMs have anything to do with this work, but many people hear AI and imagine LLMs. And many of them.are perhaps rightly sceptical of AI as a result.
But AI or ML techniques can be useful for lots of things, not just chatbots. And we should probably invest more in those.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10234-y

Culture, nature, community
#SilentSunday

YAY! Excellent resource. Site Renewables Right: A Clean and Green Energy Future
https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/tackle-climate-change/climate-change-stories/site-wind-right/
And it…

Site Renewables Right: Accelerating a Clean and Green Energy Future
To help tackle climate change, we must accelerate deployment of clean energy sources, like wind and solar power. So, how can we do that in ways that ensure that allows people and nature to thrive? This online map will help.

YAY! Excellent resource. Site Renewables Right: A Clean and Green Energy Future
https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-priorities/tackle-climate-change/climate-change-stories/site-wind-right/
And it…

Site Renewables Right: Accelerating a Clean and Green Energy Future
To help tackle climate change, we must accelerate deployment of clean energy sources, like wind and solar power. So, how can we do that in ways that ensure that allows people and nature to thrive? This online map will help.

Republican Leaders Used to Camp and Hunt. Now They Golf and Meme. (Stephen Lezak/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/opinion/republicans-hunting-wilderness-nature.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260208/p11#a260208p11

How falcon thieves are targeting the UK’s protected birds https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/08/wildlife-matters-and-it-may-be-causing-untold-harm-upon-nature-in-the-uk

Today is MAR 10, aka Mario day. It is also extremely close to the spring equinox.
This implies a cycle of Wario Day (fall equinox), Luigi Day (summer solstice), and Waluigi Day (winter solstice).
Luigi's height and generosity represents the wheat stalk; when we feast upon the harvest we embody Wario's girth and greed.
Waluigi stands for the lean times that come during winter. As the snows melt he is replaced by Mario, whose plumber nature blesses the fixing of pipe…

Brain Waves Defining The Limits of 'You'
Parietal alpha frequency shapes sense of body ownership by modulating temporal integration of bodily sensory signals
Parietal alpha frequency shapes own-body perception by modulating the temporal integration of bodily signals🧪
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025…

This is nature on the island of #Norderney as me, @…, and @… visited it du…

Pavel Richter – Mother Nature
https://poli5.bandcamp.com/album/mother-nature
https://www.

Broad generalisation of the ventriloquism aftereffect across sound frequencies https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-40873-0

Eine neue Analyse zeigt, dass tropische #Wälder stark unter kleinen #Rodungen leiden.
Obwohl Flächen unter zwei Hektar nur einen kleinen Teil der Störungen ausmachen, verursachen sie mehr als die Hälfte der

Kleine Rodungsflächen führen zu massiven Kohlenstoffverlusten in tropischen Wäldern
Kleine Rodungsflächen führen zu massiven Kohlenstoffverlusten in tropischen Wäldern. Das zeigt eine Studie im Fachmagazin Nature unter Beteiligung des GFZ, in der die Kohlenstoffbilanz aller tropischen Wälder zwischen 1990 und 2020 kartiert wurde.

"Is academic research becoming too competitive?
Nature examines the data Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition."
Sobering numbers from funding institutions in Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025

Is academic research becoming too competitive? Nature examines the data
Applications for European research grants increased in 2025. Scientists say they’re feeling the competition.

A Fox Squirrel, about to jump to another branch. LA Arboretum, Arcadia, California, USA. February, 2026. OM System OM-1 M.Zuiko 300mm F4 #laarboretum #squirrels #nature

Fraudulent papers written by AI are becoming a serious problem. Guess which AI is most willing to cooperate with this sort of dishonest fraud?
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00595-9

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 378 nodes and 3267 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

The East Coast Mainline crossing the river Trent at Newark-on-Trent (Nottinghamshire), July 2025
#photography #documentingplace #documentingspace

"Inside the National Trust’s ten-year plan for 250,000 hectares of nature"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

#TIL about Benford's law where for some data sets of numbers, the first digit is usually 1 and rarely 9 (with descending probability in between). It's especially common in data sets following the power law (which is common in nature).
Seems a useful consideration when generating random numbers shown directly to players (like a multiple choice) -- even if they're unfamiliar, …

2026 Shipboard Immersion - Waterfronts Past & Present: Learning How Engineers Design with Nature
"Opportunity to learn about the #GreatLakes and coastal engineering in Milwaukee."
For "formal or nonformal educators who teach at the middle or high-school level that are experienced or new to the Great Lakes Literacy Principles"
STIPENDS Will be provided to o…

2026 Shipboard Immersion - Waterfronts Past & Present: Learning How Engineers Design with Nature
Thank you for taking time to complete the application for our FREE 2026 Shipboard Science Professional Learning opportunity, brought to you by the Center for Great Lakes Literacy, Wisconsin Sea Grant, and UW-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences. WHAT The workshop will explore how coastal engineering can shape and strengthen our coasts and shorelines, using Milwaukee and its Lake Michigan shoreline as our case study. It will include time aboard R/V Neeskay giving a unique perspective to the…

A bunch of professors (who mostly don't really have strong credentials in the field) argue that "AI" is already as intelligent as humans (https://archive.ph/2026.02.03-055607/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00285-6) .

The ephemeral nature of digital music and "albums" is a bit annoying. You can listen to an album today that has more or fewer songs than it had two days ago.
Also, artists can republish the same song on the same album, effectively replacing the original over time. Next thing you know, your folk album is a dubstep nightmare (hyperbole).

New Study: Evidence shows how X’s algorithmic feed is radicalizing its users toward the Right. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10098-2

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared with those remaining on a chronological feed, whereas switching the feed setting in the opposite direction, from algorithmic to chronological, had no effect.

The nature of ASASSN-24fw’s #occultation - modelling the event as dimming by optically thick rings around a substellar companion: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/546/3/staf2251/8471205?login=false -> Unseen planet or brown dwarf may have hidden 'rare' fading star: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/unseen-planet-or-brown-dwarf-may-have-hidden-rare-fading-star

https://www.aaronmate.net/p/noam-chomskys-wife-responds-to-epstein

Noam Chomsky's wife responds to Epstein controversy
"Noam’s overly trusting nature, in this specific case, led to severe poor judgment on both our parts... we express our unrestricted solidarity with the victims."

An Open Access article in Nature details how data can now be written in borosilicate glass hard drives so it can last 10,000 years.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w
Now, scientists are figuring out which memes and cat pictures to keep that long.

Laser writing in glass for dense, fast and efficient archival data storage - Nature
An optical archival storage technology based on femtosecond laser direct writing in glass addresses the practical demands of archival storage.

"Scientists named 190 new plants and fungi species in 2025 – including gruesome spider-killing fungus"
#Plants #Fungi

Gruesome fungus and a ‘demon’ plant: The new species named in 2025
Scientists warn that human activities are “eroding nature to the point of extinction” after releasing a list of new species named in 2025.

"Study maps tree-planting risks and rewards for climate and biodiversity"
#Biodiversity #Climate #ClimateChange

Study maps tree-planting risks and rewards for climate and biodiversity
Establishing forests can capture carbon and boost biodiversity — but some biomes are a better bet than others, a recent study finds. Forest restoration has emerged as a top nature-based solution to mitigate climate change, with numerous high-profile initiatives launched over the past few decades. And while there’s enthusiasm for replanting degraded forest areas, or […]

For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report #nature

For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report
For every US$1 the world invests in protecting nature, it spends US$30 on destroying it. This stark imbalance is the central finding of a new UN Environment Program (UNEP) report released today. It calls for a major shift in global financing of nature-based solutions and phasing out harmful investments to deliver high returns, reduce risk exposure, and enhance resilience.

The development of spatial perception with and without visual experience #blindness

The development of spatial perception with and without visual experience - Nature Reviews Psychology
In sighted adults, spatial perception relies on information integrated across sensory modalities. In this Review, Gori and colleagues consider spatial perception in visually impaired infants, children and adults to clarify how it develops and the role of sensory information in the process.

Really good piece from @… on #TheClimateBrink about #ElNino - we have been thinking a lot about this in the @… #PISCO project - there are important ENSO related effects on #Antarctic ice sheet.
Interestingly I think all the models here are classic numerical models, a Chinese deep learning model also shows a strong El Nino (#AI #DeepLearning
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatebrink/p/the-el-nino-cometh

"Pesticides found in 70% of European soils, harming beneficial life: Study"
#Europe #Pesticides #Soil

Pesticides found in 70% of European soils, harming beneficial life: Study
For farmers, sometimes the easiest way to save a crop or prevent catastrophic insect damage is to spray a pesticide. But this common practice is wreaking havoc on the soil, according to new research published recently in the journal Nature. The study examined soil from 26 European countries, finding that pesticide contamination is widespread beyond […]

Just had the talk with Kid2. She should now be able to explain to anyone who's interested consumer complicity in the exploitative nature of capitalism using food delivery apps as an illustration.

Been listening to old episodes of Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal's Odd Lots. This episode from 2017 about the Diner's Club, where they interview a *media studies* professor, is fascinating: "The stuff of money is the same as the stuff of communications".

Radar-based observation of a lava tube on Venus: #Venus may have an underground tunnel carved by volcano eruptions: https://www.space.com/astronomy/venus/venus-may-have-an-underground-tunnel-carved-by-volcano-eruptions

Ammonites made it through the K-Pg extinction event according to this paper! #FossilFriday 🤯
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-34479-1

Ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary confirmed by new data from Denmark - Scientific Reports
We provide a reassessment of the hypothesis of ammonite survival across the Cretaceous–Paleogene (Maastrichtian–Danian) boundary, based on new data from the lower Danian Cerithium Limestone Member at Stevns Klint, eastern Denmark. The occurrence of this unit in disjunct basins between eroded crests of uppermost Maastrichtian bryozoan mounds prompts a reconsideration of ammonite redeposition as an alternative to the survival hypothesis. We describe new ammonite specimens from the Cerithium L…

Wild Garden 2025 #nature #environment

Possible identification of the Luna 9 Moon landing site using a novel machine learning algorithm: #Luna9 Spacecraft, 60 Years After It Vanished: https://www.iflscience.com/nasas-lunar-orbiter-may-have-spotted-long-lost-luna-9-spacecraft-60-years-after-it-vanished-82507

Nature: OpenAI's brain implant would use ultrasound to read minds. Does the science stand up? #ultrasound

OpenAI’s brain implant would use ultrasound to read minds. Does the science stand up?
Spin-out Merge Labs aims to rival Elon Musk’s firm Neuralink. But researchers say the technology is still at an early stage.

The chemical #habitability of Earth and rocky planets prescribed by core formation: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-026-02775-z -> Researchers from ETH Zurich have demonstrated why only a small number of planets have the chemical requirements for life – and why the Earth is so fortunate: https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2026/02/why-only-a-small-number-of-planets-are-suitable-for-life.html

"7 hopeful wildlife sightings that researchers celebrated in 2025"
#Environment #Nature #Wildlife

7 hopeful wildlife sightings that researchers celebrated in 2025
Once in a while, an animal shows up where it’s least expected, including places from where it was thought to have gone extinct. These rare sightings bring hope — but also fresh concerns. These are some of the wildlife sightings Mongabay reported on in 2025. Colossal squid recorded for the first time in its deep-sea […]

"Scientists sound alarm over Europe's forests as 216,000 hectares at risk - even if warming halts"
#Europe #Environment #Nature

‘Unprecedented’: Scientists sound climate alarm over Europe’s forests
More than 200,000 hectares of European forests could be disturbed annually by 2100, according to a new study.

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses (in mice) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-026-02217-z "After daily sound exposure, neural habituation in the primary auditory cortex (A1) was reversed by inactivating the OFC."

Orbitofrontal cortex drives predictive filtering of sensory responses - Nature Neuroscience
Top-down projections from the orbitofrontal cortex carry predictive signals that grow with sound experience and suppress the auditory cortex via inhibitory circuits, revealing a predictive mechanism for sensory habituation.

Australia spends $18b more on harming nature than protecting it: Study https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/02/australia-spends-18b-more-on-harming-nature-than-protecting-it-study/

Australia spends $18b more on harming nature than protecting it: Study
The Australian government spends more money on activities that harm biodiversity than those that protect biodiversity, a new study suggests. Australia is a biodiversity hotspot, home to more than two-thirds of the world’s marsupials and a high rate of endemic species, but the country has suffered significant species extinctions since European arrival. Under Target 18 […]

Observation of a mixed close-packed structure in superionic water: #ice just got weirder: https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01-08-exotic-form-ice-just-got-weirder - multiple atomic stacking patterns coexisting in overlapping configurations never seen before in this phase of water.

Brain-aligning of semantic vectors improves neural decoding of visual stimuli #BCI

A young progenitor for the most common #PlanetarySystems in the Galaxy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09840-z -> We finally know how the most common types of planets are created / Cotton Candy Worlds Evolve into Rock Candy Worlds: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/we-finally-know-how-the-most-common-types-of-planets-are-created / https://www.nao.ac.jp/en/news/science/2026/20260108-abc.html

"‘Cities need nature to be happy’: David Attenborough seeks out London’s hidden wildlife"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature

Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains? #aphantasia are offering brain scient…

Audio long read: Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?
Listen to an audio version of a recent Nature Feature.

"Feeling chirpy: how listening to birdsong can boost your wellbeing"
#Birds #Nature #Environment

Chronic 40 Hz light flicker mitigates epileptogenesis through a visual pathway associated with the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus shell (in epileptic mice) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-64269-2

Chronic 40 Hz light flicker mitigates epileptogenesis through a visual pathway associated with the dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus shell - Nature Communications
Whether and how gamma entrainment using sensory stimuli (GENUS) has a role in antiepileptogenesis is not fully understood. Here authors show that GENUS reduces seizure susceptibility in male mice. These effects are mediated via specific visual neural pathway.

"Even if warming is limited to 2°C, wildfires, storms and beetles may boost Europe forest loss"
#Europe #Nature #Climate

Even if warming is limited to 2°C, wildfires, storms and beetles may boost Europe forest loss
Forest damage in Europe caused by wildfires, storms and bark beetle outbreaks is projected to increase compared to recent decades under all analyzed climate scenarios, according to a new international study, published in Science, with contributions from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

Dynamical development of strength and stability of #asteroid material under 440 GeV proton beam irradiation: #impact – and reveals the hidden strength of space rocks, a breakthrough with direct implications for #PlanetaryDefence strategies: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01-08-new-study-simulates-asteroid-impact-and-reveals-hidden-strength-space-rocks

"Climate change is messing with tropical plants’ flowering times, study shows"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Nature

Climate change is messing with tropical plants’ flowering times, study shows
The flowering time for tropical plants is shifting with climate change, a new study finds.

A language processing time window of around three seconds https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-026-…

"For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report"
#Nature #Climate #ClimateChange

For every dollar we spend protecting nature, we spend $30 destroying it: Report
For every US$1 the world invests in protecting nature, it spends US$30 on destroying it. This stark imbalance is the central finding of a new UN Environment Program (UNEP) report released today. It calls for a major shift in global financing of nature-based solutions and phasing out harmful investments to deliver high returns, reduce risk exposure, and enhance resilience.

"Northumberland nature recovery project takes shape with biggest land sale in 30 years"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Northumberland

Little to no active faulting likely at Europa’s seafloor today: #Europa: https://www.reuters.com/science/study-casts-doubt-potential-life-jupiters-moon-europa-2026-01-06/

"Ocean Conservation Debt-for-Nature Bonds Unlocks $1.4B for Marine Protection"
#Oceans #Conservation #Nature

Ocean Conservation Debt-for-Nature Bonds Unlocks $1.4B for Marine Protection | Happy Eco News
Ocean conservation debt-for-nature bonds have unlocked more than $1.4 billion for marine protection across multiple nations.

"Species Slowdown: Is Nature’s Ability to Self-Repair Stalling?"
#Nature #Environment
https://e360.yale…

Species Slowdown: Is Nature’s Ability to Self-Repair Stalling?
When scientists recently analyzed hundreds of studies of ecosystems, they were surprised to see a marked slowing in the rate of species turnover. If new species don’t replace old ones, they say, ecosystems may have less flexibility to respond to habitat loss and climate change.

Sunyaev–Zeldovich detection of hot intracluster gas at redshift 4.3: #GalaxyCluster in the early universe is 10 times hotter than it ought to be, which may reshape how we think these enormous structures formed.

"Plant sex life is more complicated than you probably imagine"
#Plants #Nature
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Plant sex life is more complicated than you probably imagine
The amazing variety of plant reproductive systems.

DEX in near Earth orbit in light of #Venus Orbiter Dust Experiment: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21988-2 -> India’s Cosmic Dust Experiment - Ground-breaking Hunt for Interplanetary Secrets: https://www.isro.gov.in/Indias_Cosmic_Dust_Experiment.html

"Portugal fined £8.7m by EU court for failing to protect biodiversity"
#Portugal #Nature #Biodiversity

"Paying attention to birdsong while walking in nature can boost wellbeing, my research shows"
#Nature #Environment

Paying attention to birdsong while walking in nature can boost wellbeing, my research shows
Listening to birdsong while walking in nature reduced both psychological and physiological markers of stress.

The dramatic transition of the extreme red supergiant WOH G64 to a yellow hypergiant: #stars

Martian ionospheric response during the may 2024 solar #superstorm: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69468-z -> ESA’s Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Planet: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/ESA_s_Mars_orbiters_watch_solar_superstorm_hit_the_Red_Planet

"Plagued by Flooding, an African City Reengineers Its Wetlands"
#Africa #Wetlands #Environment

Plagued by Flooding, an African City Reengineers Its Wetlands
As climate change and urbanization intensify flooding in Rwanda, the hilly capital of Kigali has embraced nature-based solutions. The city is restoring and reshaping 18,000 acres of degraded wetlands, planting native species to filter and slow runoff and enhancing biodiversity.

"Can beavers help heal burn scars after wildfires? Researchers build their own dams to find out"
#Beavers #Animals #Nature

Can beavers help heal burn scars after wildfires? Researchers build their own dams to find out
High in the mountains west of Fort Collins, teams of scientists and engineers are pretending to be beavers.