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ETH Zurich researchers have developed a groundbreaking "living material" that actively captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere through two mechanisms: biomass production and mineral formation[^1][^2].
The material combines cyanobacteria (photosynthetic bacteria) embedded within a printable hydrogel matrix. The cyanobacteria convert CO2 into biomass through photosynthesis while simultaneously triggering the formation of solid carbonate minerals - a process called microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP)[^1].
Key achievements of the material include:
Sequestered 2.2 mg of CO2 per gram of hydrogel over 30 days
Captured 26 mg of CO2 per gram over 400 days in mineral form
Maintained viability for over one year
Required only sunlight and artificial seawater to function
Can be 3D printed into various structures[^1]
The research team demonstrated practical applications by creating:
A 3-meter high tree-trunk structure at the Venice Architecture Biennale that can bind 18kg of CO2 annually
Building facade coatings that could capture carbon throughout a building's lifecycle
Lattice structures that passively transport nutrients through capillary action[^2]
"As a building material, it could help to store CO2 directly in buildings in the future," said Mark Tibbitt, Professor of Macromolecular Engineering at ETH Zurich[^2].
The material represents a low-maintenance, environmentally friendly approach to carbon capture that operates at ambient conditions using atmospheric CO2, contrasting with industrial methods requiring concentrated CO2 sources and controlled conditions[^1].
Researchers are developing a living material that actively extracts carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Photosynthetic cyanobacteria grow inside it, forming biomass and solid minerals and thus binding CO2 in two different manners.
Resistance in Gaza: Command Post Struck, Tanks Destroyed
At least five Zionist soldiers were wounded in three separate incidents in the Gaza Strip, occupation newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on Saturday. A “security incident” in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, also prompted an emergency aerial evacuation of wounded personnel.
The Palestinian Resistance launched a series of coordinated attacks against Zionist occupation forces across the Gaza Strip, delivering yet another blow to the military amid the ongoing genocidal war.
Al-Qassam targets C2 position, snipes soldier
Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, announced that its fighters targeted a Zionist command-and-control post east of al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza City with heavy mortar fire. In a separate operation in Abasan al-Kabira, east of Khan Younis, a Resistance sniper struck a Zionist soldier with a fatal shot.
Al-Quds Brigades targets forces across Gaza
Simultaneously, al-Quds Brigades—the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)—confirmed multiple successful operations targeting armored vehicles. The group detonated a pre-planted anti-tank explosive device east of al-Tuffah, destroying a Merkava tank during its incursion.
Another explosive device was used to destroy a tank east of al-Zaytoun neighborhood. Fighters returning from the operation reported direct hits and confirmed the tank was neutralized.
Earlier in the day, al-Quds Brigades said its fighters struck a military vehicle along the Kissufim supply route northeast of Khan Younis using a pre-planted improvised explosive device (IED). Additionally, a barrel-shaped explosive device destroyed another military vehicle in the Sheikh Nasser area east of Khan Younis.
Occupation troops were also targeted with mortar fire on Jabal al-Sawrani, east of al-Tuffah, where occupation forces have been massing in recent days.
A groundbreaking study published in July 2025 demonstrates that African savannah elephants use intentional gestures to communicate their goals, similar to great apes[^1]. The research team presented semi-captive elephants with desired and undesired items, recording their communication attempts when experimenters met, partially met, or failed to meet their goals[^1].
The study identified 38 different gesture types that elephants used almost exclusively when a visually attentive experimenter was present[^1]. The elephants showed three key criteria for intentional communication:
Audience directedness - signaling only when someone was watching
Persistence - continuing to gesture when goals were partially met
Elaboration - using new signals when communication failed
The research was conducted at the Jafuta Reserve in Zimbabwe, where elephants combined specific vocalizations with gestures in greeting behaviors[^6]. They used different types of signals including:
Silent-visual gestures
Audible gestures
Tactile gestures
Rumble vocalizations
The findings reveal that elephants, like apes, assess the communicative effectiveness of their gesturing and adjust their signals based on the audience's visual attention[^6]. This expands understanding of intentional communication beyond the primate lineage[^9].
A crucial feature of language is the ability to communicate cognitive goals to a specific audience, i.e. goal-directed intentionality. Core criteria for...
«Γάζα: Ο ισραηλινός στρατός δολοφόνησε παιδιά που περίμεναν στην ουρά για νερό» διαβάζω για αυτούς που θέλουν να πείσουν τον κόσμο πως είναι οι απόγονοι του Ολοκαυτώματος. Δεν είναι. Είναι δολοφόνοι με λεφτά.
>> This week, more than 25 states from around the world will gather in Bogotá, Colombia, for the “Emergency Conference” to halt the Gaza genocide: the most ambitious multilateral response since Israel began its campaign of devastation two years ago.
>> “The Bogotá conference will go down as the moment in history that states finally stood up to do the right thing,” said UN Special Rapporteur #FrancescaAlbanese, calling the formation of The Hague Group the “most significant political development of the last 20 months.”
>> Jointly convened by Colombia and South Africa, The Hague Group’s Co-Chairs, the conference brings together states far beyond the boundaries of the Group — from Algeria to Brazil, China to Spain, Indonesia to Qatar — “to move from condemnation to collective action,” in the words of Colombian President Gustavo Petro…
Convened by Colombia and South Africa as co-chairs of The Hague Group, the Emergency Ministerial Conference marks the boldest stand yet against the Gaza genocide and the collapse of the multilateral order.
Türkiye is active in international affairs and offers its mediation in a number of conflicts, however in the resolution of Armenian-Azerbaijani relations,
Kenyan Communist Revolutionary, Julia Njoki, Murdered in Police Custody
Communist revolutionay Julia Njoki was murdered by police in a cell in the Nanyuki police station, a city in central Kenya. Julia Njoki was kept in detention because she was unable to pay the deposit of 50,000 shillings decided by a Kenyan court. She died following multiple head injuries.
Her death comes in the context of a huge uprising against the right wing government.
The death toll from the uprising in Kenya has surged to over 30 people,with at least 107 others wounded during the nationwide marches.
The marches saw clashes erupt between protesters and police in the capital, Nairobi, as well as the city of Eldoret, with the KNCHR accusing the police of cooperating with armed gangs, who were armed with machetes and spears, in the wake of the violence.
There was widespread destruction of property in the uprising as the privatization of the country drives poverty and resistance.
The Trump administration is attacking academia because it threatens existing power structures and dominant elites. This is seen most clearly when it comes to Palestine.
Η κατάπαυση του πυρός στην #Γάζα είναι προϋπόθεση για την αναγνώριση της Παλαιστίνης ως κράτους, υπαινίχθηκε ο Μακρόν. Δλδ, για να το κάνουμε δίφραγκα, όσο το Ισραήλ σφαγιάζει τους φουκαράδες τους Παλαιστίνιους, ο Μακρόν δεν θα αναγνωρίσει την Παλαιστίνη ως κράτος. Και ύστερα κοροϊδεύετε το ζαβό.
το τέλος γενικότερα παρακολουθούμε των πάντων Δύσης και Ανατολής, αναπτυγμένων και υπανάπτυκτων κλπ. Μόνο οι χρόνοι θα έχουν μια διακύμανση με την έννοια οτι κάποιοι θα προσπαθήσουν να καθυστερήσουν το αναπόφευκτο αλλά αμφίβολο αν θα το καταφέρουν. Εγώ νιώθω οτι κάνω καταγραφή του τέλους την ανθρωπότητας, τουλάχιστον όπως την ξέρουμε...κάτι σαν τους τελευταίους δεινόσαυρους πριν την εξάλειψη
Macron is now indicating that a ceasefire in Gaza is a precondition for France to recognise the State of Palestine. What a gift to Netanyahu! All he needs do, to prevent the recognition of Palestine is ensure that there is no ceasefire in Gaza!
Hospital sources told Al Jazeera that Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 85 people since dawn, including 46 in Gaza City alone.
Meanwhile, Al-Shifa Hospital Director Muhammad Abu Salmiya warned that Gaza’s hospitals could shut down by tomorrow without fuel. He accused the Israeli army of restricting fuel deliveries “up to the point of death,” saying medical teams are stretched thin and supplies are running critically low.
People are absolute about their privacy. But none of those types will ever factor in that if the law is supposed to work, there needs to be an accurate record of interactions. The cops can't just write in a report, "Talked to a guy."
Just like the #Nazis tried to #erase #Jews from #Germany's #History, #Trump's attempt to erase #America's #LGBTQ+ population will not be successful. He can take down as many websites as he wants and erase as many #references to LGBTQ+ history and #culture that he wants but he will not be successful. ---
The following advertisement was not produced by boycott movements, but rather by the Israeli occupation Manufacturers Association to promote Israeli products — which, according to the ad, are turned into “Arrow missiles, Merkava tanks, and drones.
> Die AfD-Mitgliedschaft ist in Sachsen weiterhin kein Hinderungsgrund für einen Job im Staatsdienst. Das stellte das Innenministerium nach Bekanntwerden entsprechender Pläne in Rheinland-Pfalz klar.
Axon Enterprise’s Draft One — a generative artificial intelligence product that writes police reports based on audio from officers’ body-worn cameras — seems deliberately designed to avoid audits that could provide any accountability to the public, a…
Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighbouring regions of the
universe, ...
Does this explain the spooky redshift stuff that seems to say we're much closer to the outer expanse than previously thought? Seems like it confuses that even more.
Because they are not, in fact, older than the universe. That is literally, definitionally impossible.
The age of objects are derrived from simplified equations that proximate real-world phenomina. They're mathematical models, not absolute facts. When an object appears to be "older than the universe", it can mean many specific things, like the acceleration of the expansion of the universe changes over time when most mathematical models do not account for that. It could mean the object is simply further away than we expect to be able to see. It could mean it's simply traveling away from us in some uniquely fast way.
Basically, it means the mathematical model used to derive how "old" the object is, is likely wrong in some way, or that the measurements taken may have inaccurate results, both of which are absolutely and wholly normal for science. Again, they're mathematical models, based on measured observation, not absolute universal truths. There are many, many, many ways data can both be gathered incorrectly or analyzed incorrectly, not even requiring anyone to make a mistake. Science at the fringe of knowledge is very difficult, and requires rigerous testing and validation before it should be trusted. NEVER trust clickbait BS, especially if it's not directly from a scientist's mouth.
We already know our mathematical models are inaccurate in several ways (see dark matter and dark energy for the obvious ones). We just need to figure out how and why they are wrong.
1) this report seems to have evidence of a void 2) redshift observation would be impacted if true 3) ge er gravitational relationships between galaxies would be kind of a huge thing considering our limited view of their
So you're saying this article is all bullshit, or what?
"TURQUIE / KURDISTAN – Alors que le PKK a décidé de déposer les armes, les Kurdes commémorent les 4 prisonniers politiques du PKK morts à l’issus du « jeûne de la mort » lancé dans la prison tristement célèbre de Diyarbakır il y a 43 ans. Il y a 43 ans, 4 prisonniers politiques, cadres […] L’article Commémorations des martyrs du 14 juillet kurde est apparu
The Trump administration is attacking academia because it threatens existing power structures and dominant elites. This is seen most clearly when it comes to Palestine.
Ένα νέο πλοίο του "Στολίσκου της Ελευθερίας", με την ονομασία Handala, απέπλευσε την Κυριακή από το λιμάνι των Συρακουσών στη Σικελία με προορισμό τη Λωρίδα της Γάζας, μεταφέροντας ανθρωπιστική βοήθεια…
the fact that Devuan tweeted support of #Xlibre makes me never want to suggest this distro ever again.
and the fact that Artix already excitedly made an experimental ISO with Xlibre means I'm going to have to put BSD back on my laptop, if not Alpine. jfc.
PKK Burns Weapons in Bid for Integration Into Reactionary States
Following a call from PKK leader, Abdullah Öcalan, to lay down its arms, the PKK held a disarmament ceremony in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) on July 11th.
Besê Hozat, co-chair of the KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council, led the group of 15 male and 15 female guerrillas who burned their weapons and belts.
Speaking at the historic ceremony, Besê Hozat said: “We are taking this step in response to Leader Apo’s call, the February 27 call, and the decisions of the PKK’s 12th Congress.”
Kurdish militants want to return to Turkey and enter mainstream politics, one of the PKK’s joint leaders told AFP on Friday after the group’s fighters began destroying their arms at the ceremony.
Speaking to AFP after handing in her own weapon alongside 29 of her comrades, the Kurdistan Workers’ Party’s top female commander Bese Hozat said if Turkey were willing, the disarmament process could be completed very quickly.
But the 47-year-old militant also warned the fragile peace process risked being derailed if Ankara fails to free the PKK’s jailed founder Abdullah Ocalan, also known as ‘Apo’ — Kurdish for ‘uncle’.
“If Apo were freed tomorrow and… Turkey made legal and constitutional arrangements the next day, within a week we could return to engage” in bourgeois state politics, she said of a process which Ankara expects to last for months.
Hozat said it was essential Turkey put in place mechanisms to allow them to return without fear of prosecution or reprisal.
“We do not want to wage armed struggle against Turkey, we want to come to Turkey and do democratic politics. In order for us… to achieve democratic integration with Turkey, it is imperative we can freely travel to Turkey,” she said.
“If Turkey takes concrete steps, enacts laws and implements radical legal reforms… we will go to Turkey and engage in politics. If (not)… we will end up either in prison or being killed.”
Asked whether she now expected Turkey and its Western allies to remove the PKK from their blacklists of terrorist organisations, Hozat said the issue was irrelevant.
“Right now, the PKK no longer exists, we’ve dissolved it. We are a freedom movement.. advocating for peace and a democratic society.
“The PKK has achieved its main goal: the existence of the Kurds has been recognised.”
The PKK dissolution represents a severe turning point for internationalist politics, as the organization that permitted revolutionary collusion in the region speed walks its way into collaborationist politics.
Democratic integration into Turkish politics is essentially an oxymoron as class politics and reactionary parties dominate the state.
Furthermore, the PKK’s posture in Syria has also drifted into collaboration as the new regime continues its massacres and clearly settles into a riole as a gendarme for US and Zionist imperial schemes. The PKK’s attempt to join this regime is damning, even if minor concessions are wrangled out in the negotations.
“Demokratik Modernite: Kocasız, Karısız, Devletsiz, Akılsız Yeni Toplum!”🎭 Öcalan’ın düşünce laboratuvarından çıkan son icat: Evliya Çelebi misali dolaşıp “...
"Following a call from PKK leader, Abdullah Öcalan, to lay down its arms, the PKK held a disarmament ceremony in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) on July 11th. Besê Hozat, co-chair…"
The Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, has called for immediate Arab and international intervention to stop the ongoing U.S.- and Israeli-backed aid mechanism in Gaza, which the movement described as inhumane.
"L’Impasse, squat d’activités depuis plus d’un an et demi sur Toulouse, passe en mode été… et prépare sa rentrée ! En juillet et en août, la boîte mail de l’Impasse ne sera pas lue et les perm’ d’accueil + réus d’orga du jeudi seront réduites ! Y’aura 3 jeudis de l’été : jeudi 17 juillet : perm’ d’accueil de […]"
I discovered an anti-corpo lifehack and tbh I think its a pretty great one!
So you know those annoying "sign up for our free trial" sites that basically "forget" to notify you that you need to cancel and try to get you for like 10,000 years of subscriptions?
I found a way to counter.
I use a lot of cash purchased "nonreloadable" credit cards bc I'm trying to counterpunch with privacy, okay? Last night I was signing up for a free trial of a thing and I didn't have a disposable card avail that would cover the "post trial" cost.
So... I used one of the many leftover cards I have with like, less than five dollars on them for a "two hundred after trial" thing.
Aaaaaaand it worked.
So basically: - I used a throwaway email - I used a 'paid in cash' card to secure my trial - There's literally no way they can really charge me unless I decide I want to continue.
Obv this only works if they take gift card style credit cards (the ones I use only work for US based payment processing annoyingly) and you need to be able to like, GET one but yeah.
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"A Nintendo Switch 2 user reportedly got his brand-new console banned by Nintendo after buying used Switch 1 games and patching them on his console," reports Tom's Hardware:
According to Reddit user dmanthey, they purchased four used titles off the …
"via Priscilla Grim Dear Comrades,I’m excited to share that I now have copies of No Cop City, No Cop World: Lessons from the Movement available for direct purchase on my website. Get your copy now at priscillagrim.com/store/p/no-c… This urgent and deeply grounded collection gathers the voices of organizers, writers, and thinkers from
No Cop City, No Cop World is finally here! This book provides a comprehensive overview of the community's efforts to oppose a $100 million unneeded police training facility (Georgia has at least 12 others, according to my last count).
oh, i hadnt realised, #robbiegibb, who over 400 #bbc staff have called for removal of, is same guy as the spin doctor for theresa may.
#theresamay, btw, my most hated politician. she normalised mass murder oblivion, with her hands all over #averybritishgenocide (among other atrocities), and when asked what was the worst thing she did, she said she ran through a wheat field once. ... and so the guy behind her public relations spin, is also apparently the guy who's behind the bbc normalising a mass murder oblivion with regard to #gaza (etc.), ... so when asked, what was the worst thing the genocidalists in charge of israel did... they ran through a wheat field? ... and if you only get your information from the bbc, is that the reality to your managed naivety?
individual responsibility's how we mend this. no "just doing my job" excuse. ample forgiveness for those who turn to stand up, before the threat of punishment looms.
Ο σιδηρους σταυρός του Ράιχ με τους αδάμαντες θα απονειμοταν με τιμή στα εγγόνια του Αδολφου στη γη της Ιερουσαλήμ, αφου αυτά καταφεραν να εξελίξουν την ιδέα του παππού για την έννοια της γενοκτονίας. Ναι μεν ο παππους τα καταφερε, αφού οι ιδέες του ζουν στην ψυχή των εγγονιων του αλλα τα εγγονάκια τα πηγαν ακομα καλύτερα αφου βρηκαν τον τροπο και να διαπραξουν γενοκτονία και να μη τους λέει κανεις κουβέντα. Μεγαλη δουλεια.
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