#naturenews — Public Fediverse posts

Exotic species appear off California due to a strong El Niño

California's strong El Niño is boosting fishing, pushing rarely sighted and exotic species like longfin bigeye fish, whale sharks and hammerheads closer to shore, as sea turtles nested on its beaches for the first time. #News #Reuters #Newsfeed #ElNino #California #WhaleShark #Hammerhead #Fishing #MarineLife #OceanNews #ExoticSpecies #CaliforniaCoast #SharkNews #WildlifeNews #Climate #NatureNews #2026…

http://fllics.com/zh/video/exotic-species-appear-off-california-due-to-a-strong-el-nino/

🦜✨BREAKING NEWS: #Cockatoos have body awareness! Meanwhile, Nature.com is still figuring out CSS like it's 2003. 😂 Who knew birds were more advanced than their website? 🖥️💥
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-026-57500-7 #BodyAwareness #NatureNews #CSSHumor #BirdIntelligence #WebDesignFails #HackerNews #ngated

https://www.europesays.com/it/682854/ Ansiosi, estroversi o coscienziosi? Il DNA influenza la personalità, e può incidere anche sulla salute #ambiente #BigFive #dna #GeneticaDellaPersonalità #GWAS #Health #IT #Italia #Italy #MedicinaDiPrecisione #nature #NatureNews #NatureResearchBriefing #Salute #SchwabaT

The Urban Standardization of Wild Behavior

Why are city animals becoming more aggressive and bold? A May 2026 study explains how urban living changes the behavior of 133 different animal species.

#wildlifebehavior, #urbanecology, #animalscience, #naturenews, #citywildlife

https://newsletter.tf/city-animals-bolder-than-country-animals-study/

A new study of 133 species shows city animals are now bolder and more aggressive than those in the wild. This is a major shift in how animals adapt to human cities.

#wildlifebehavior, #urbanecology, #animalscience, #naturenews, #citywildlife
https://newsletter.tf/city-animals-bolder-than-country-animals-study/

Rare Migrant Sighted in Northern Kerala Wetlands

A rare Kashmir Flycatcher was seen in Kasaragod, Kerala. This is the first time this bird has been spotted in this district, helping experts track migration.

#kerala, #kasaragod, #birdwatching, #kashmirflycatcher, #naturenews

https://newsletter.tf/rare-kashmir-flycatcher-spotted-in-kasaragod/

This is the first time this rare bird has been recorded in Kasaragod, bringing the district's total bird count to 414. It shows that northern wetlands are vital for birds moving south for winter.

#kerala, #kasaragod, #birdwatching, #kashmirflycatcher, #naturenews
https://newsletter.tf/rare-kashmir-flycatcher-spotted-in-kasaragod/

BEES ON THE MOVE: EARLY SWARM SEASON SPURS CONCERN

Why are honeybees swarming early in North America in May 2026? Learn how this affects local beekeepers and native bee populations in your area.

#honeybees, #beekeeping, #pollinators, #naturenews, #northamerica

https://newsletter.tf/early-2026-north-america-honeybee-swarm-season/

Honeybee swarms are appearing 3 weeks earlier than the 2025 average across North America. This change forces beekeepers to start hive inspections sooner to prevent colony loss.

#honeybees, #beekeeping, #pollinators, #naturenews, #northamerica
https://newsletter.tf/early-2026-north-america-honeybee-swarm-season/

🌸 Breaking news: Kyoto's cherry blossoms are now blooming earlier than ever before in the 1,200-year record! 🎉 Because, clearly, what the world was missing was definitive proof that even trees are as impatient as we are. 🙄 Climate change, meet cherry blossoms; you're both right on time. 🌳💨
https://jivx.com/kyoto-bloom #KyotoCherryBlossoms #EarlyBloom #ClimateChange #NatureNews #TreeImpacts #EnvironmentAwareness #HackerNews #ngated

🐋 Oh, look! Humpback whales are throwing their own rave and we humans are just the 🐢-paced spectators. BBC takes a break from saving the world to cover this breaking news: whales are apparently better at group projects than we ever were in college. 🎉
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260416-the-humpback-super-groups-swarming-the-seas #HumpbackWhales #WhaleRave #GroupProjects #NatureNews #BBCBreakingNews #HackerNews #ngated

📰 "Seeds Can ‘Hear’ the Rain–And the Sound Waves Make Them Grow Faster Shows MIT Study" 🌱🌧

🗒 "The sound of falling droplets effectively shook the seeds out of a dormant state, stimulating them to germinate at a faster rate compared with seeds that were not exposed to the same sound vibrations."

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/the-sound-of-rain-makes-seeds-grow-faster-mit/

#gardening #farming #science #sciencenews #naturenews #nature #plants

Girl, 10, finds rare Mexican axolotl under Welsh bridge

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9d4zgnqpqeo

#HackerNews #GirlAxolotl #RareFind #WelshBridge #WildlifeDiscovery #NatureNews

🍹 "Api e colibrì brindano alla vita... con alcol? Scopri cosa rivela l'ultimo studio!" #NatureNews #DrunkBirdsAndBees 🐝🌺

🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/scienze/api-e-colibri-bevono-alcol-la-scoperta-2026-03-26

Antimatter has been transported for the first time

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00950-w

#HackerNews #Antimatter #Transport #AntimatterScience #Breakthrough #Physics #Innovation #NatureNews

The largest acidic geyser has been putting on quite a show

https://www.usgs.gov/observatories/yvo/news/echinus-geyser-back-action-now

#HackerNews #largestgeyser #acidicgeyser #naturenews #geyserwatch #USGS

हाल ही में भारत के कई शहरों में शहरों के आसपास दिखने वाले गिद्धों (vultures) की संख्या में हल्की बढ़त दर्ज की गई है। विशेषज्ञों के अनुसार पशु चिकित्सा में diclofenac जैसे harmful drugs के नियंत्रित उपयोग और carcass disposal पर निगरानी बढ़ने से यह बदलाव दिख रहा है। गिद्ध मृत पशुओं को साफ़ कर बीमारियों के फैलाव को रोकते हैं, इसलिए उनकी वापसी urban ecosystem के लिए एक सकारात्मक संकेत मानी जा रही है।

#WildlifeUpdate #NatureNews #UrbanEcosystem #India

Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less agressive

https://phys.org/news/2025-12-italian-villages-evolved-smaller-aggressive.html

#HackerNews #ItalianBears #Evolution #WildlifeConservation #SmallerBears #LessAggressive #NatureNews

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨: #Anacondas have been long boys for 12 million years, and somehow this is shocking enough to deserve a whole article. 🌍💀 Thanks, global changes, for failing to downsize these noodle monsters! 🐍💪
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/twelve-million-years-of-giant-anacondas #LongBoys #GlobalChanges #NatureNews #ShockingFacts #HackerNews #ngated

In memory of the Christmas Island shrew

https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/in-memory-of-the-christmas-island-shrew/

#HackerNews #InMemoryOfShrew #ChristmasIslandShrew #Conservation #Wildlife #Extinction #NatureNews

A-23A is no longer the largest iceberg in the world.
Since 1986, it measured 4,000 kilometres and today it measures approximately 1,700 kilometres, losing 80% of its mass.
It is estimated that from second place in terms of size, it may quickly drop in the rankings.

#news #climate #climatechange #a23a #a23aiceberg #iceberg #nature #naturenews #world #mass #size #global #warming #globalwarming #future #data #stat #stats #mass #1986 #2025 #today #emergency #climateemergency #climatechangemergency

#arXiv AlphaEarth Foundations: An embedding field model for accurate and efficient global mapping from sparse label data https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22291 #NatureNews Google AI model mines trillions of images to create maps of Earth ‘at any place and time’ https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02412-1

#arXiv AlphaEarth Foundations: An embedding field model for accurate and efficient global mapping from sparse label data arxiv.org/abs/2507.22291 #NatureNews Google AI model mines trillions of images to create maps of Earth ‘at any place and time’ www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ancient DNA from the Green Sahara Reveals Ancestral North African Lineage

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08793-7

#HackerNews #AncientDNA #GreenSahara #NorthAfricanLineage #Archaeology #NatureNews

🚨 BREAKING: NSF grants terminated because apparently, science doesn't need money now that the director's gone! 🤷‍♂️ Meanwhile, Nature suggests you update your browser because CSS is the real victim here. 🖥️🔧
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01312-8 #NSFgrants #ScienceFunding #CSSupdate #NatureNews #TechIssues #HackerNews #ngated

High time to tackle drug-resistant fungal infections

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01177-x

#HackerNews #drugResistance #fungalInfections #healthResearch #publicHealth #antifungalAwareness #natureNews

🌳BREAKING NEWS: Trees don't hibernate! 🌱 A "groundbreaking" study discovered that roots stay awake in the winter...who knew? 🙄 Next up, scientists confirm water is wet! 💦
https://www.creaf.cat/en/articules/deciduous-trees-roots-remain-active-winter #GroundbreakingStudy #WinterRoots #NatureNews #ScienceHumor #HackerNews #ngated

#NatureNews article on the #Pubmed disruption a few days ago:
‘Omg, did PubMed go dark?’ Blackout stokes fears about database’s future

Apparently, "It’s still not clear what caused the problem" 🤔

California: CARNIVOROUS SQUIRRELS

First Evidence of Ground Squirrels Hunting and Eating Voles in Bay Area

“I could barely believe my eyes… Once we started looking, we saw it everywhere”

#NatureNews #Samara #SamaraNews
https://www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news/carnivorous-feeding-squirrels-documented-california

"Antarctica's Blood Falls: The crimson wonder defying ice and imagination! 🩸❄️"

🌟 #BloodFalls #Antarctica #NaturalWonder #ScienceMystery #NatureNews
🔗 https://blog.rapusia.org/animals/2679/blood-falls-antarcticas-crimson-wonder-defying-ice-and-imagination/

#NatureNews AI’s computing gap: academics lack access to powerful chips needed for research https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03792-6 Survey highlights disparity between academic and industry scientists’ access to computing power needed to train machine-learning models.

#NatureNews AI’s computing gap: academics lack access to powerful chips needed for research www.nature.com/articles/d41... Survey highlights disparity between academic and industry scientists’ access to computing power needed to train machine-learning models.

#NatureNews Antimatter to be transported outside a lab for first time — in a van. BASE-STEP’s trap will contain around 1,000 antiprotons. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03841-0 The volatile substance will be driven across the CERN campus in trucks to different facilities.

#NatureNews ChatGPT turns two: how the AI chatbot has changed scientists’ lives. How many researchers are using the AI tool? Nature gathers data and talks to members of the academic community. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03940-y
"Wiley surveyed 1,043 researchers: 81% had used ChatGPT.
ChatGPT by the numbers: 60,000 is the minimum number of scholarly papers published in 2023 that are estimated to have been written with the assistance of a large language model (LLM). This is slightly more than 1% of all articles in the database surveyed by the research team. 10% is the minimum percentage of research papers published by members of the biomedical science community in the first half of 2024 estimated to have had their abstracts written with the help of an LLM."

JWST is most in-demand telescope ever - leaving many astronomers in the cold

Reviewers will likely approve only one in every nine research proposals submitted in latest application cycle. #JWSTCycle3

https://nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00315-1

#JWST #NASA #Webb #NASAWebb #ESA #ESAWebb #space #teslescope #spacetelescope #observatory #science #research #proposal #reviewers #ALMA #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #nature #news #naturenews #article #STScI

Jude Coleman at #NatureNews is #punny

“How do #otters protect salt #marshes from #erosion?

**Shellfishly**

Sea otters inadvertently protect the vegetation that binds sandy shorelines together.”

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00217-2

Our Research Integrity Manager @mattjhodgkinson Hodgkinson spoke to Gemma Conroy at @Nature about the use of ChatGPT and other generative AI by paper mills.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02477-w

#PublicationEthics #NatureNews #ChatGPT #PaperMills #AIethics

“If we want to reduce these distorting practices, then we have to take away the incentive to do them. It’s a systemic corruption of the process.”

I spoke to Dalmeet Singh Chawla about coercive citation.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01532-w

#PublicationEthics #CoerciveCitation #SelfCitation #Referencing #Bibliometrics #NatureNews

"There are already clear #authorship guidelines that mean #ChatGPT shouldn’t be credited as a co-author, says Matt Hodgkinson, a research-integrity manager at the UK Research Integrity Office in London, speaking in a personal capacity."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00107-z

#NatureNews #AIwriting #AIethics #PublicationEthics