Tootfinder

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…

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

"EU seeks to exploit nature-based products for competitiveness push, green groups say"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Nature

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.

Apocalypse Not: Science Journal 'Nature' Retracts Catastrophic Climate Change Study (Jameson Mitrovich/The Washington Free Beacon)
https://freebeacon.com/latest-news/apocalypse-not-science-journal-nature-retracts-catastrophic-climate-change-study/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251204/p106#a251204p106

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) .

Out-of-season water escape during Mars' northern summer triggered by a strong localized dust storm: #Mars lost some of its water: https://blogs.esa.int/to-mars-and-back/2026/02/02/an-unusual-dust-storm-reveals-how-mars-lost-some-of-its-water/

WildLeaks is the world’s first whistleblowing initiative dedicated to environmental crime. #nature #environment

WildLeaks
WildLeaks is the World's First Wildlife Crime Whistleblower Initiative

“There he sat, his very indifference speaking a nature in which there lurked no civilized hypocrisies and bland deceits.”
(Yes, reading Moby Dick right now.)

Enhancing grasping ability with vibrational guidance for individuals who are blind or partially sighted https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-21720-0 "Tactile sensory substitution, like auditory substitution, effectively compensates for lost vision by engaging cross-modal r…

Enhancing grasping ability with vibrational guidance for individuals who are blind or partially sighted - Scientific Reports
This study investigates the effectiveness of a vibrotactile bracelet in supporting goal-directed hand movements and grasping tasks for visually conditioned individuals. The research addresses the challenge of object manipulation without visual feedback, comparing tactile to auditory cues. The primary research question explores whether vibrotactile signals delivered via a wrist-worn device can accurately guide hand movements and improve grasping precision. Forty-one participants with varying deg…

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

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

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear that he’d prefer we all quit the term "AI Slop".
“We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication,”
Nadella wrote in a rambling post flagged by Windows Central, arguing that humanity needs to learn to accept AI as the
“new equilibrium” of human nature.
Going on, Nadella said that we now know enough about
“riding the exponentials of model capabilities”
as well as managing AI’s
“‘jagged’ …

Microsoft CEO Begs Users to Stop Calling It “Slop”
In a year-end writeup on the state of AI, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella made it clear he'd really like us to stop saying "slop."

Pangram Labs: ~21% of the 75,800 peer reviews submitted for ICLR 2026, a major ML conference, were fully AI-generated, and 50% contained signs of AI use (Miryam Naddaf/Nature)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6

Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.

how could she

Alteration history of aluminum-rich rocks at Jezero crater, #Mars: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02856-3 -> Findings suggest red planet was warmer, wetter millions of years ago: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/2025/Q4/findings-suggest-red-planet-was-warmer-wetter-millions-of-years-ago/ - evidence of rain-driven climate on Mars found in bleached rocks scattered in Jezero crater.

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…

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.

Sonnet 122 - CXXII
Thy gift, thy tables, are within my brain
Full charactered with lasting memory,
Which shall above that idle rank remain,
Beyond all date, even to eternity:
Or, at the least, so long as brain and heart
Have faculty by nature to subsist;
Till each to razed oblivion yield his part
Of thee, thy record never can be missed.
That poor retention could not so much hold,
Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score;
Ther…

#Caturday #Nature
“The Curious Six” by Amit Eshel
from the Nature InFocus Awards 2025

Satellite #megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09759-5 -> Planned satellite constellations may swamp future orbiting telescopes: https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/12/planned-satellite-constellations-may-swamp-future-orbiting-telescopes/ - planned orbital observatories would see satellites cross nearly all of their images.

#SilentSunday #nature

Different Corners IV ▶️
不同的角落 IV ▶️
📷 ZEISS IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

A rainbow in a waterfall off a rock house ledge. Happy 2026 #tennessee #nature

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.

A major concept guides the Missionaria Protectiva: Purposeful instruction of the masses. This is firmly seated in our belief that the aim of argument should be to change the nature of truth. In such matters, we prefer the use of power rather than force.
—The Coda
#dunequotes

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...

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.

Chlorine and potassium enrichment in the Cassiopeia A #SupernovaRemnant: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02714-4 -> Where the elements come from: https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1107792

Against the odds, the business journal Forbes has good coverage of the Climate and Nature Emergency Briefing.
BBC apparently didn't bother.
UK Security, Food And Economy At Risk Without Climate Action, Experts Say
https://www.forbes…

UK Security, Food And Economy At Risk Without Climate Action, Experts Say
Experts at the U.K.’s first national emergency briefing on climate and nature shared risks in a world being rapidly destabilised by climate and biodiversity breakdown

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

The headline should be: ❝AI vendor’s AI-generated analysis claims AI generated reviews for AI-generated papers at AI conference❞
To be clear, I give great credence to the claims of the humans in the article who thought they’d received an AI-generated review. I bet •they’re• correct. It’s Nature I’m coming after here.
A journalistic institution would investigate that claim, track down the reviewer in question, get to the bottom of the story. A PR outlet would just repeat some vendor’s product claims as fact and click “publish.”
Which one is Nature?
/end

Learning visual to auditory sensory substitution reveals flexibility in image to sound mapping https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-025-00385-4 The vOICe
"Mapping pixel position onto spectral-temporal acoustic axes appears flexible, rather than anchored to cross-modal co…

TIL: in the late 1800s, department stores/buildings were colloquially know as "beehives" due to their busy nature. Hence the Beehive building in Albury, which originally had a saddler, shoe shop, chemist and a stock agent.

"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.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Gab Ferreira:
🎵 Law of Nature
#GabFerreira
https://open.spotify.com/track/53224tFqkyerl1ZQA3l8FB

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

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.

Accept
Harmony is only in following the Way.
The Way is without form or quality,
But expresses all forms and qualities;
The Way is hidden and implicate,
But expresses all of nature;
The Way is unchanging,
But expresses all motion.
Beneath sensation and memory
The Way is the source of all the world.
How can I understand the source of the world?
By accepting.
-- Lao Tse, "Tao Te Ching"

The new Dutch coalition agreement talks a lot about nitrogen. By delaying measures for many years, we've now run into severe limitations on nitrogen deposition in nature areas. And the outgoing right-far-right coalition only made matters worse.
But: I'm not so sure we're taking the next big environmental problem seriously. The EU Water Framework Directive has 2027 goals for water quality, and - guess what - the Netherlands is not on track to meet those.

Nachtmerrie die vogelgriep heet: hoe één veertje een hele Twentse industrie lamlegt
#vogelgriep

An April 2025 study published in the prominent journal Nature found tantalizing evidence that the herpes zoster – or #shingles – #vaccine
👍could lower the risk of #dementia in the general population by as much as 20%❗️
A …

Vaccines hold tantalizing promise in the fight against dementia
A prominent Nature study and related research raise the possibility that vaccines may have a broader role in experimental therapeutics outside the realm of infectious diseases.

CFP: Democracy and the Nature of Familial and Unaccompanied Mobilities in the 21st Century https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/24/cfp-democracy-and-the-nature-of-familial-and-unaccompanied-mobiliti…

Un Momento 🕰️
一瞬 🕰️
📷 Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 291 nodes and 5535 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

Great call to action by Dariusz Jemielniak in Nature: academics should contribute to Wikipedia, and such work should be recognized.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00075-0

The academic community failed Wikipedia for 25 years — now it might fail us | Nature
Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the planet. Artificial-intelligence systems are feeding on Wikipedia without giving back, and academic indifference is threatening the survival of what is arguably the most widely used reference work on the planet.

Disentangling the functional roles of pre-stimulus oscillations in crossmodal associative memory formation via sensory entrainment https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-33761-6#Sec7 "externally induced pre-stimulus alpha entrainment boosts audiovisual associative encod…

Disentangling the functional roles of pre-stimulus oscillations in crossmodal associative memory formation via sensory entrainment - Scientific Reports
The state of neural dynamics prior to the presentation of an external stimulus significantly influences its subsequent processing. This neural preparatory mechanism might be of particular importance for crossmodal memory formation. The integration of stimuli across different sensory modalities is a fundamental mechanism underlying the formation of episodic memories. However, the causal role of pre-stimulus neural activity in this process remains largely unclear. In this preregistered study, we …

"Revised UK environmental plan sets new goals for nature, pollution and farming"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Environment

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?

From Marcia Bjornerud's Reading The Rocks: Over geologic time, the specific rhythms and idioms change slowly, but the essential rules of the dance remain the same: interaction, restraint, reincarnation.
These rhythms of nature shape all the organisms that evolved under their influence. It is folly to think that we can sit out the dance or make our own rules ... without the force field of scarcity, a constant in our evolutionary past, we lose something of our full potential. Once we …

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…

How to grow a forest without planting a single tree
A collaboration between @… and Planet Wild https://www.youtube.com/@planet-wild)
It's happening in

Planet Wild
Planet Wild is a global community of people that deeply care about the planet. We're on a mission to bring back endangered species, clean up our waterways from plastic and to rewild entire forests to give them back to nature. How it works: 1. On a monthly basis, our team selects impactful environmental projects; 2. The contributions from our global community are used to fund these projects; 3. Community members get video reports from our environmental missions, seeing the impact that they are …

SOHO’s 30-year legacy of observing the Sun: #SOHO celebrates thirty years: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/SOHO/Sun-watcher_SOHO_celebrates_thirty_years and https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/heliophysics/nasa-esa-sun-observatory-marks-30-years/

"COP30: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Belém"
#UN #UnitedNations #Climate

COP30: Key outcomes for food, forests, land and nature at the UN climate talks in Belém - Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief breaks down the main COP30 outcomes on food, forests, land and nature.

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.

Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu: #Bennu Samples: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/osiris-rex/sugars-gum-stardust-found-in-nasas-asteroid-bennu-samples/

"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.

Past and Sapiens 🉐
过去和智人 🉐
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

spanish_highschools: Spanish high schools (2023)
Directed networks of friendships obtained through a social survey of spanish high school students.
This network has 105 nodes and 1426 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.de/net/spanish

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

That article is a giant PR puff piece for an AI detection company. Nature ought to know better and should be ashamed of itself.
That’s not to say initial accusation isn’t credible; it certainly is!
But…just look at this reporting. Note how •completely• credulous it is about the accuracy of Pangram’s product.
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Naughty by Nature:
🎵 Hip Hop Hooray
#NaughtybyNature
https://djnos.bandcamp.com/track/naughty-by-nature-hip-hop-hooray
https://open.spotify.com/track/1SyQ6t9RdRBK0QUCS6a797

Around 56 million years ago,
Earth suddenly got much hotter.
Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere drastically increased and global temperatures shot up by some 6°C.
As we show in new research published in Nature Communications,
one consequence was that many of the world’s plants could no longer thrive.
As a result, they soaked up less carbon from the atmosphere,
which may have contributed to another interesting thing about this pre…

56 million years ago, the Earth suddenly heated up – and many plants stopped working properly
It could be a sign of what’s to come.

This article https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-04064-7 is bad enough on its own, but you really have to consider it in the context of the Nature “Career” column

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

Feb 5 - Kurtis Schaeffer on How to Live in Hard Times: Examples from Buddhist Lives
https://ift.tt/XYfzisG
Member book announcement: Slaymaker, _Wild Lines and Poetic Travels, a Keijiro Suga Reader_ …
via Input 4 RELCFP

There's laws, there's permits, and there's Amsterdam Schiphol Airport. Outgoing double-failed Dutch government ignores judge, gives Schiphol another two years to operate without nature permit, and allows it even higher nitrogen emissions.
Conveniently arranged before the new coalition starts. In @… today.

"Peatland restoration can deliver climate mitigation benefits within a few decades"
#Nature #Environment #Climate

Peatland restoration can deliver climate mitigation benefits within a few decades
New research indicates that restoration of peatlands can result in climate mitigation within just a few decades. In Finland, some 60,000 hectares of previously forestry-drained peatlands have already been restored, comprising mainly nutrient-poor sites with weak tree growth. In such cases, peatland plants remain viable and react rapidly to restoration, resulting in the formation of a thick new layer of Sphagnum moss.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Kabaka Pyramid:
🎵 Show Love
#KabakaPyramid
https://justviberadio.bandcamp.com/track/show-love-kabaka-pyramid-irie-souljah-nature-makonnen-sickmix-intro-clean
https://open.spotify.com/track/20QUp5CWy1MIZPWUOTyxSg

Towards precise synthetic neural codes: high-dimensional stimulation with flexible electrodes #BCI

Towards precise synthetic neural codes: high-dimensional stimulation with flexible electrodes - npj Flexible Electronics
Neural representations arise from high-dimensional population activity, but current neuromodulation methods lack the precision to write information into the central nervous system at this complexity. In this perspective, we propose high-dimensional stimulation as an approach to better approximate natural neural codes for brain-machine interfaces. Key advancements in resolution, coverage, and safety are essential, with flexible microelectrode arrays offering a promising path toward precise synth…

"Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature #Environment

‘It sounds apocalyptic’: experts warn of impact of UK floods on birds, butterflies and dormice https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/01/storm-chandra-uk-floods-impact-wildlife-birds-butterflies-dormice-bea…

"Report: Climate change to become world’s biggest driver of nature loss by 2050"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Nature

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

The rolling grasslands and rocky beaches of
"Vandenberg Space Force Base",
— home to more than a dozen at-risk species,
easily could pass for a peaceful nature preserve
— but that's an illusion.
The nearly 100,000-acre base was a testing ground in the 1960s for early-generation ballistic missiles,
and today it's a launch site for satellites, classified missions and other payloads key to a new type of war: one fought far above the Earth.

"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.

🇺🇦 #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

We need to stop this harmful practice. There are other ways to celebrate the new year which doesn't harm nature, environment or animals.
#NewYear #NewYear2026 #fireworks

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."

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.

The mass distribution in and around the Local Group: #MilkyWay is embedded in a ‘large-scale sheet’ and this explains the motions of nearby galaxies: https://www.astronomie.nl/nieuws/en/a-flat-surrounding-of-the-milky-way-explains-the-motion-of-nearby-galaxies-4796

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.

Slope lineae as potential indicators of recent volatile loss on Mercury: #Mercury show: that Mercury is not a "dead planet": https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/media_releases/2026/media_releases_2026/streaks_mercury/index_eng.html

"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 […]

Europa’s ice thickness and subsurface structure characterized by the Juno microwave radiometer: #Europa

"Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost"
#Animals #Nature

Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost
Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the global authority on species’ conservation status. We may never see another individual of these species ever again. Or will we? Slender-billed curlew This […]

LED lighting (350-650nm) undermines human visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (400-1500nm ) like daylight https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-35389-6

LED lighting (350-650nm) undermines human visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra (400-1500nm+) like daylight - Scientific Reports
Life evolved under broad spectrum sunlight, from ultraviolet to infrared (300–2500 nm). This spectrally balanced light sculpted life’s physiology and metabolism. But modern lighting has recently become dominated by restricted spectrum light emitting diodes (350–650 nm LEDs). Absence of longer wavelengths in LEDs and their short wavelength dominance impacts physiology, undermining normal mitochondrial respiration that regulates metabolism, disease and ageing. Mitochondria are light sensi…

Accretion bursts crystallize silicates in a #planet-forming disk: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09939-3.epdf?sharing_token=P58g4NqC9qaLvEBsuH4KetRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MYZdrCaKok5Y0PdtT8ktDCgnU-F4RtynU4IJFex5w48P9qDSOQ7uO_brP91R_9nxwjQ79afxwYMCIUqjb2PB9i762vxqcuUCgDqgmE9Oyu0fXR4S7O7ExDBu_B3-ZurJA= -> NASA Webb Finds Young Sun-Like Star Forging, Spewing Common Crystals: https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-young-sun-like-star-forging-spewing-common-crystals/

"How Scotland’s Landowner Biodiversity Legislation Could Transform Land Management Worldwide"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Scotland

How Scotland's Landowner Biodiversity Legislation Could Transform Land Management Worldwide | Happy Eco News
Scotland passes groundbreaking landowner biodiversity legislation, forcing large estates to publish nature protection plans. Learn how these new biodiversity requirements are creating jobs, restoring ecosystems, and positioning Scotland as the world's first Rewilding Nation.

"First of nine new river walks in England announced for north-west"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nature

An ultra-high-resolution map of (dark) matter: #DarkMatter on Universe: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-reveals-new-details-about-dark-matters-influence-on-universe/

"Once Wiped Out by Blight, Thousands of American Chestnut Trees are Thriving on Biologist’s Land in Maine"
#Trees #Environment #Nature

Once Wiped Out by Blight, Thousands of American Chestnut Trees are Thriving on Biologist’s Land in Maine
American chestnut trees, deemed functionally extinct decades ago, may already be mounting a quiet comeback in the northern forests of the US.

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.

"AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Nature

AI for Nature Restoration Tools: How Companies are Transforming Ecosystem Recovery Projects | Happy Eco News
AI for nature restoration tools are transforming environmental protection as companies deploy sensors, predictive models, and machine learning systems. Nearly 350 cities use AI to map tree coverage and combat heat, while organizations monitor wildlife and detect wildfires.

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

"Nature recovery plan in England hit by clause allowing contracts to end with a year’s notice"
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(PDF) Neural mechanisms underlying intracortical microstimulation for sensory restoration https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-025…

A binary-related origin mediated by environmental conditions for #BlueStraggler stars: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-68159-5 -> Hubble uncovers the secret of stars that defy ageing: https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Hubble_uncovers_the_secret_of_stars_that_defy_ageing

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…