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Patterns on mammoth tusks help to retell history of writing Scientists believe they have found evidence of written thoughts of Stone Age people on ancient objects.

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'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.

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AI agents are hiring human 'meatspace workers' — including some scientists Biologists, physicists and computer scientists have joined a platform called https://go.nature.com/4ah8LA9 to advertise their skills.

This platform allows people - or 'meatspace workers' - to advertise their time and skills to AI agents

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Schematic illustration of the conceptual framework of black carbon secondary organic coating formation in the total particle population under biogenic–anthropogenic interactions

⚒️ Article: Urban black carbon radiative heating intensified by biogenic-anthropogenic interactions

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Concerned about the Point of No Return? Today we published a paper on the risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory. You can read it here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1mbW49C~Iu...

Fungi mining and giant waste piles: How to get rare earths without mining rock

Can the clean-energy revolution save us from climate catastrophe? Seven charts show the remarkable growth in renewable power and the challenges to ending the fossil-fuel age.

The transition to cleaner forms of energy are not happening fast enough to avoid dangerous climate change

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I inhaled traffic fumes to find out where air pollution goes in my body BBC health correspondent James Gallagher gets his blood analysed to understand how air pollution is killing us.

The other reason to stop using the car:

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This Hillside City in South America Rebuilt Itself Around Nature — and Got Healthier In Loja, Ecuador, creating a unified system that connects nature with city infrastructure not only created green spaces for its residents, but made both the city and its citizens healthier.

Nachahmenswert: Loja, eine Stadt in den Anden #Ecuadors, hat mit grünen Korridoren die Flut- und Hitzegefahr verringert, die Lebensqualität verbessert, Autos zurückgedrängt und den sozialen Zusammenhalt gestärkt. Schöne Reportage vom World Resources Institute www.wri.org/insights/loj...

SPP 2299 Research & Future Directions YouTube video by Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs

The DFG Priority Programme “Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs” (SPP 2299) has released a new video highlighting the programme’s current research activities and outlining upcoming scientific priorities.

Check out the new video on our YouTube channel:
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When two years of academic work vanished with a single click Nature - After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts

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Cow astonishes scientists with rare tool use The discovery suggests cows may have far greater cognitive abilities than previously assumed.

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New paper shows:
Sediment resuspension and reductive dissolution of terrigenous Fe-Mn oxides control dissolved neodymium and hafnium inputs from the Amazon shelf

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New map reveals landscape beneath Antarctica in unprecedented detail Scientists believe the map could shed light on how Antarctica's vast ice sheet will respond to climate change.

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New study demonstrates conservative behaviour of seawater neodymium isotopes in the S Pacific.

Himalayan winters are seeing less snowfall as more ice melts Experts say dwindling snowfall during winter will impact the lives and livelihoods of millions.

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Is there a name for a picture made combining real fossils like this? A fossil collage or fossil wall don’t seem to do this art form justice. Visit the Natural History Museum in Oslo to see this wonderful piece of geological art.

Schematic illustration of a conceptual framework of the permafrost–fire–climate feedback in northern high latitudes

⚒️ Article: The Arctic-boreal fire regime is greatly affected by the biophysical and biological feedbacks from permafrost degradation

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NASA won’t bring Mars samples back to Earth: this is the science that will be lost A Congressional bill restores funding for most NASA space science missions, but there is no money for returning samples already collected on the red planet.

After years in limbo, NASA’s groundbreaking Mars Sample Return (MSR) programme, which was supposed to ferry Martian material collected by the Perseverance rover to Earth, looks set to be cancelled.

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World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam Richest 1% took 10 days while wealthiest 0.1% needed just three days to exhaust annual carbon budget, study shows

It’s likely society will have collapsed by the time our children are the age we are now because we’re allowing shit like this to happen.

AI models were given four weeks of therapy: the results shocked researchers Nature - Chatbots put through psychotherapy report trauma and abuse. Authors say models are doing more than role play, but researchers are sceptical.

Researchers who put major AI models through four weeks of psychoanalysis got haunting responses, from "abuse" to "fears of failure"

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Even microscopic foraminifera shells >20 million years old that recrystallised retain a reliable average Mg-Ca ratio

Assessing the Recrystallisation- Voigt - 2025 - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds Analysis marking 10 years since Paris climate agreement underscores effectiveness of strong government policies

It's been 10 years since the Paris agreement, where world leaders agreed to limit the global temperature rise to under 2 degrees. 🌡️🌍

There's still a way to go, but global collaboration IS working.

We need to keep this momentum going.

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This AI model ‘studied’ physics — and learnt to forecast extreme weather Combining artificial intelligence with a conventional climate model can predict heatwaves faster than the standard model alone.

Until now, AI models have struggled to forecast extreme weather events that they've never seen before

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Warming oceans made Asia’s deadly floods far worse, scientists say Sea surface temperatures over the North Indian Ocean were 0.2C higher than the average over the past three decades, researchers say

Warming oceans made Asia’s deadly floods far worse, scientists say

SSTs over the North Indian Ocean were 0.2C higher than the average over the past three decades

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Antarctic Intermediate Water Variability in the South Atlantic Over the Last 600,000 years - Soaga - 2025 - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology - Wiley Online Library

China’s scientific clout is growing as US influence wanes: the data show how An analysis of international research collaborations reveals the growing dominance of Chinese science.

China is redrawing the global science map

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Over a third of animals impacted in deep sea mining test - scientists The findings contribute to a controversial debate that pits green technology against the environment.

🌊 Deep-sea mining tests impact over a third of seabed animals - scientists

A 37% drop in deep-sea animal life from a single test. If that’s the trial run, imagine the real thing.

If we destroy ecosystems for short-term gains, what future are we even mining for?

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New GEOTRACES Science Highlight! 🌊

Lead isotopes reveal that hydrothermal variability is driven by Sea‐Level change and transient magmatism
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Paper first author: Sayantan De, CSIR-NIO, India
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Nasa astronaut films the Northern Lights from space Zena Cardman captured the footage of the display from the International Space Station on 17 November.

Amazing at first then all the cities shine brighter
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