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Smart Park Design: How Benches and Ballparks Are Being Reimagined to Support Urban Wildlife timesofupdate.com/smart-park-d A New Era of Biodiversity-Friendly Public Spaces, Backed by Science As cities continue to expand and green spaces become more limited, a pressing question emerges: Can urban parks cater to both people and wildlife? A groundbreaking study by the Univer… #Materials #Nanotechnology #PhysicalNews #Physics #science #ScienceNews #TechnologicalNews #technology

Arctic Melt

Temperatures in the Arctic are rising faster than elsewhere, triggering more and more melting. Photographer Scott Portelli captured a melting ice shelf protruding into the ocean in this aerial image. Across the top of the frozen landscape, streams and rivers cut through the ice, leading to waterfalls that flood the nearby ocean with freshwater. This meltwater will do more than raise ocean levels; it changes temperature and salinity in these regions, disrupting the convection that keeps our planet healthy. (Image credit: S. Portelli/OPOTY; via Colossal)

Had to convince the language editor of my paper that "resting mass energy" is not equivalent to "rest-mass energy", it was tough.

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[I mean: the language editor wanted to replace all "my" rest-mass energy with resting mass energy, and so I had to ask them to replace everything with the only possible formulation which was originally there..]