Ethereal photos of life’s building blocks, Earth’s toughest creature and a close-up of a gem win Olympus Global Image of the Year Life Science Light Microscopy Award regional prizes Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532760-300-incredible-close-up-images-of-the-natural-world-recognised-with-awards/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Tag: Natural World
Save the giants, save the planet
Protecting large animals such as elephants and whales, and large plants like the sequoias, has a disproportionate positive impact on the health of the planet and resilience to climate change. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/why-to-conserve-large-animals-trees…
Here’s how we can learn from other animals to create a better Earth
The exhibition Animalesque celebrates what we share with Earth’s other species – and offers hope for reforming our relationship with the natural world Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24532650-400-heres-how-we-can-learn-from-other-animals-to-create-a-better-earth/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
The Internet Is Coming To the Rest of the Animal Kingdom
Wave723 shared this article from September’s issue of IEEE Spectrum about an usual project by a leading group of cognitive biologists and computer scientists:
Dubbed the Interspecies Internet, the project aims to provide intelligent animals such as elephants, dolphins, magpies, and great apes with a means to communicate among each other and with people online. And through artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and…
Ultracold quantum particles break classical symmetry
Many phenomena of the natural world evidence symmetries in their dynamic evolution which help researchers to better understand a system’s inner mechanism. In quantum physics, however, these symmetries are not always achieved. In laboratory experiments with ultracold lithium atoms, researchers from the Center for Quantum Dynamics at Heidelberg University have proven for the first time the theoretically predicted deviation from classical…
Stunning ISS pass above Rome
The International Space Station passing over Rome’s city lights on April 30, 2019. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/iss-over-rome-april2019-photo…
Smoking Psychedelic Toad Milk May Help Depression
No, you’re not going to need a really small stool to sit on while you milk them, but you may want to check with a medical professional before trying to smoke the milk of psychedelic toads … which a new study claims can alleviate depression for up to a month. How? Take a deep, non-toad-milk… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/05/smoking-psychedelic-toad-milk-may-help-depression/…
Greta Thunberg became a climate activist not in spite of her autism, but because of it
Source: https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/5/6/18531551/autism-greta-thunberg-speech…
Curious Tales of Mysterious Scottish Water Spirits
When people think of Scotland and strange things in the water, they are likely going to envision the famous Loch Ness Monster of Loch Ness. This is the common image of strange aquatic anomalies in the country, and it has been a mainstay of the world of the paranormal for a very long time. Yet,… Read more » Source: https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/04/curious-tales-of-mysterious-scottish-water-spirits/…
Wilderness Birthed the Mind
As the Earth radically changes, what happens to the wisdom that it has to offer us?
The post Wilderness Birthed the Mind appeared first on Tricycle: The Buddhist Review. Source: https://tricycle.org/trikedaily/nature-and-mind/…