Category: Ecology
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Small little insects… Making the ocean move… Modern science… Shrimps laughing…
Scientists have demonstrated how some of the smallest creatures in the ocean could have the same outsized impact under the waves – with swarms of marine organisms inadvertently producing powerful currents that mix and churn a turbulent undersea environment. "Right now a lot of our ocean climate models don't include the effect of animals, or…
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Against ecology per se: Why the solution to a problem can never be the solution to that problem!
Chemicals in biodegradable food containers can leach into compost. (1) Trying to find the best solution. To a problem we generate on our own. And every time we find a “solution”… Another problem appears. Biodegradable plastic? More pollution due to plastic… dissolving into the environment. Electrical cars? More pollution due to the… electricity production to…
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Forest shapes... Platonic triangles… Forests dying...
Tropical forests have been called the lungs of the planet. And these hot ecosystems are being deeply altered by logging and other land use change. Using high-resolution satellite data from protected forests in the savanna region of the Brazilian Cerrado, scientists found that the shape of these natural forests follow a predictable mathematical relationship between…
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Causality debunked.
Researchers at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences develop a new theoretical framework to describe how causal structures in quantum mechanics transform. They analyze under which conditions quantum mechanics allows the causal structure of the world to become "fuzzy." In this case, a fixed order of events is not possible. The…
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Plants. Seeing.
Plants lack eyes and ears, but they can still see, hear, smell and respond to environmental cues and dangers. They do this with the aid of hundreds of membrane proteins that sense microbes or other stresses. Researchers now have created the first network map for 200 of these proteins. The map shows how a few…
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