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#XPRIZERainforest finalist team ETH BiodivX recently made their way to Amazonas, Brazil for finals testing. 🌱 The team has developed technology to collect and analyze eDNA, which is genetic material that's shed from living organisms and gets deposited in the environment.   “Traditional methods for monitoring biological species (such as visual inspection) often only work with specific species or a small number of species, but eDNA can detect not only specific species, but all species in the environment, meaning it is possible to monitor all life in nature.” - Martina Lüthi, a postdoctoral researcher at ETH   In addition to competing in XPRIZE Rainforest, ETH BiodivX is also designing biomimetic drones.   Learn more about the team’s technology in their feature on WIRED. https://lnkd.in/gcmi-Wz3   XPRIZE Rainforest is sponsored by Alana.    cc: Instituto Alana, Swissnex in Brazil 

Photocatalytic Stork-Ueno-type cyclization proceeding under visible light/eosin/DIPEA conditions can facilitate the synthesis of previously inaccessible (poly)cyclic acetals. https://lnkd.in/giV2dyj6 #chemistry #photocatalysis #acetal

In this week’s Top Tip Tuesday, we will show you how you can take an asset, such as a flower, created in Taiao, and emit particles from it, producing effects resembling pollen blowing from the stamen. Watch here 👉 https://lnkd.in/drJtQcgg #INSYDIUM #Taiao #toPlant #toFlower #xpJoin #nxWind #NeXus #nxTurbulence

It was a pleasure to be a co-author and co-advisor for David Broome's second of five planned articles in his PhD in Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Iceland. Entitled, 'Auroral ecosystem services: A cascade model and investigation of co-production processes', this study was published today in the Journal of Ecosystem Services. The paper delves into the stages involved in the formation of auroral ecosystem services (ES) and interactions between the geosphere, biosphere and anthroposphere. This is performed through the development of an auroral ES cascade model with the integration of four main co-production stages: (i) value attribution, (ii) mobilization of ES potential, (iii) value appropriation, and (iv) commercialization. The cascade model is expanded upon in detail by using examples from published academic and grey literature, highlighting the demand for capital inputs and strengthening the conceptual understanding of human-nature relationships in the context of auroral ES. The co-production stages illustrate the importance of action on the demand-side in order for the supply of benefits from auroral ES to be delivered. The potential for feedback from the anthroposphere into geophysical properties, processes and functions through anthropogenic space weather and artificial particle precipitation from the Van Allen Radiation Belts via ionospheric heating and low frequency radio wave generation is emphasized. Additionally, feedback via policy and decision making from the anthroposphere into the biosphere and geosphere is highlighted, especially in the context of managing light pollution and artificial space weather. The discussion considers the potential implications of the expanded model, in addition to the valuation of auroral ES across three value domains (monetary, socio-cultural and biophysical) and the potential use of such information in decision-making. https://lnkd.in/eabHF-DD? #aurora #northernlights #tourism #coproduction #values #ecosystemservices #naturescontributionstopeople

Major step towards international seaweed recognition as carbon sequestration element! From a major seaweed connoisseur, Japan.

Read this evocative new article to step into the midwater: 200-4000m down - an often forgotten place despite being the largest ecosystem on the planet. #science #sargassosea #deepsea #midwater https://lnkd.in/eVmE45JX

All good things come in threes. We recently had the third final Ocean Science Jam - this time it was all about the Polar World. A big thank you goes out to everyone who came, got involved in the experiment, participated artistically or simply let themselves be inspired. #oceanart #oceandecade #unoceandecade #oceansciencejam #polarworld #polar #artsciencecollaboration #artscience #improvisation #jamming #creativity #publiccommunication #sciencecommunication Deutsches Komitee der UN-Ozeandekade (ODK) Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung

It makes sense. The problem with fossils is that so few beings were fossilised. It is so rare to find anything with a softer body, and harder bodies are already “innovations”. Maybe we could use something akin to what is used to read subatomic particle collision paths in silicon wafers (with coarser resolution, of course) to see if we can find cellular fossils, or organic molecules, in deeper layers. Depending on finding perfectly-formed, comprehensible and repeated fossils to ascertain a life form is complicated and it happens so rarely. Life is so wonderful and complex, and the more I study, the more I get the impression that we know so little… On another topic: please, BBC News, you of all media shoud not mix “theory” and “hypothesis” as if they meant the same. It is confusing and makes people distrust science.

>>>>> Exordium #15: HMAppR&D -Brand-New Ocean Industry for the World-EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW The ocean industry has the potential to be significantly empowered to abundantly provide beneficial, life-promoting extensions from the ocean to support the happy and healthy lives of humanity across the Earth's land surface for the entire global population. This brand-new ocean industry can enhance operational values by at least threefold compared with current ones, adopting Gemintronics as the fundamental principles for its scientific technological, economic, affluent financial, & sustainable environmental achievements in all aspects of the new ocean industrial operations. Please write to KOOJHDR@GMAIL.COM for the details of this exordium.

The Scry’Ox are an old and powerful civilization that has spread through their systems by inclusion and adaptation. Their biotechnology expertise allows them to integrate and enhance species into their hive collective. Scry’Ox can sense and manipulate gravity, enabling faster-than-light communication and travel. This ability helps their queens maintain a collective consciousness, preserving individuals’ essences in new bodies after death. However, they now face “the blight,” which impairs this preservation, hoping that a new world will offer relief from a fate worse than death: oblivion. Follow the project here: https://lnkd.in/gTnF--bc