Photographs from the series tori to te by Yoshinori Mizutani © The artist. Courtesy IBASHO, Antwerp
Danish scientists suggested that adults abstaining from all other meat can eat nine tenths of two chicken breasts a week without exceeding planetary boundaries. A 4º Celsius warming scenario was projected to cause a 40 percent loss to global GDP by 2100, and 111 fossil-fuel companies were linked to $28 trillion in lost productivity or incurred damage arising from climate change between 1991 and 2020. The universe may rotate at a rate of two turns every trillion years. An enormous cloud of molecular hydrogen, which may be in the process of star formation, was discovered 300 light-years from Earth. An Egyptologist who examined depictions of the sky goddess Nut bending over her brother and father, drawn from 555 ancient coffins, theorized that the version on the outer coffin of Nesitaudjatakhet, a chantress to Amun-Re, represents the Great Rift that runs through the Milky Way as a dark line running through Nut’s starry body. The Star Manual of Master Shi may predate the star catalogue of Hipparchus. Jupiter’s hailstorms precipitate mushballs of ammonia. Dipteryx oleifera trees thrive after direct lightning strikes, which rid them of parasitic vines.
Babies born in Portland, Oregon, have an additional 50 grams of birth weight when their mothers live within 100 meters of at least ten trees. Macaque mothers who lose an infant exhibit a period of protest but, unlike human mothers, do not subsequently exhibit despair. Lemur species of the genus Eulemur that are more sexually egalitarian possess more oxytocin receptors in their amygdalae as compared with species whose females routinely bully and dominate males. A survey of 1,786 conflicts between male and female Congolese bonobos revealed that 61 percent were won by females, who form coalitions to drive males into submission. Bite marks on the skeleton of a Yorkshire gladiator were found to be evidence of death by lion. A helicopter crash in South Africa was determined to have been caused by an unsecured penguin from Bird Island falling onto the cyclic-pitch controller. Authorities seized four lions who arrived in Israel by drone. Life expectancy in Gaza fell by 34.9 years between October 2023 and September 2024, and the probability of death in childhood increased sixfold from 2022 to 2023. Among Israeli irritable bowel syndrome sufferers, Jews have more diarrhea, whereas Arabs have more constipation. Religious scrupulosity in youth may be difficult to disentangle from OCD. When depleted of other energy sources, the brains of marathon runners consume their own myelin.
Small children perceive their own heartbeats from the age of three months, whereas the perception of their own breathing develops during their second year. Hot water circulating in the pants improves older adults’ cardiovascular health. Drone larvae homogenate collected from hives in late spring and applied to the lesioned backs of thirty male Wistar rats led to greater scar density and smaller wound diameter. The Antarctic midge, the continent’s sole native insect, was found to be the only organism to undergo both quiescence and obligate diapause. A hell ant preserved in Brazilian limestone was declared the oldest ant to have been discovered. Colossal and glacial glass squids were filmed in their natural environments for the first time. Long-eared owls have fluorescent feathers. Scientists created the color olo, the greenest green, which can be seen only by having a laser shot into one’s eye.
