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Overnight Science News: Humans are messing up earth's light as well as its heat, study shows [1]

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Date: 2025-06-28

Street lights are lengthening growing seasons

Artificial light at night outweighs temperature in lengthening urban growing seasons — nature

We show that artificial light at night has a stronger effect than temperature in lengthening urban growing seasons. Urban light is reshaping ecology. Here we used multiple satellite observations of 428 Northern Hemisphere cities from 2014 to 2020 to analyze phenological patterns along a gradient from rural to urban. We found that ALAN increased exponentially toward urban centers, and exerted stronger influence than air temperature in lengthening the urban growing season, especially by delaying its end, although the effects varied across climate zones. Our findings demonstrate that ALAN is a critical driver of vegetation dynamics in cities, one we should consider during urban management and development.

intense fishing is driving the evolution of a fish

x Why have eastern chipmunks’ skulls become larger in urban areas over the past century? Why has the bony structure housing the ear become smaller in eastern vole skulls from urbanized areas? Read on: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/s... (gift article). 🌎



[image or embed] — Lyn Heideman (@heidelyn.bsky.social) June 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM

heat is changing humans

x Hot take: Heat waves might literally be aging your DNA. Researchers found that people in hotter regions show faster biological aging, even after accounting for lifestyle differences. (By Eunyoung Choi @usc.edu)

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#health #summer #heatwave



[image or embed] — The Conversation U.S. (@us.theconversation.com) June 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM

Earth's cloud cover is rapidly shrinking and contributing to record-breaking temperatures, according to new research [that] analyzed satellite observations to find between 1.5% and 3% of the world's storm cloud zones have been contracting each decade in the past 24 years.

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On a windswept spur of Cookes Peak in Luna County, New Mexico, geologists have logged three minerals never before cataloged by science. The additions, raydemarkite, virgilluethite, and stunorthropite, nudge the global mineral count to 5,998 … “Unlike the plant or animal kingdoms, which have millions of known species, the mineral kingdom has far fewer members,” explained Dr. John Rakovan with the New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources at New Mexico Tech. “Today, there are 5,998 known mineral species, but new minerals are being discovered every year.”

academic fights back

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Ash trees are also fighting back

x BIG NEWS! We’ve found that ash trees are fighting back against ash dieback disease! 🌳💪 Scientists at Kew & QMUL ‪@qmul.bsky.social have discovered that young ash trees are evolving resistance to this devastating fungus - & fast 🌍 Read the story👉 www.kew.org/read-and-wat... #PlantScience #SciNews



[image or embed] — Kew Gardens (@rbgkew.bsky.social) June 27, 2025 at 4:32 AM

this fish fights back by shrinking

Clownfish are known for their remarkable ability to change sex to survive. Turns out, one species, clown anemonefish (Amphiprion percula), popularized in the Pixar hit movie Finding Nemo, have yet another surprising survival trick up their fins: they can also shrink themselves to weather heat waves and dodge social squabbles. When things get hot and tense on the reef, these little fish size down to stay alive and keep the peace, a new study finds. Published this May in Science Advances, the study reveals a fascinating finding: these clownfish can actually get shorter — not just skinnier — to survive extreme heat. And this shrinking strategy boosts their odds of making it through a heat wave by up to 78%.

Yale University ecologists reveal a lizard lineage that rode out the dinosaur-killing asteroid event with unexpected evolutionary survival traits. Night lizards (family Xantusiidae) survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K-Pg) mass extinction event 66 million years ago (formerly known as the K-T extinction) despite having small broods and occupying limited ranges, a departure from the theory of how other species are thought to have persisted in the aftermath of the event.

Swarms of tiny nose robots could clear infected sinuses, researchers say — the guardian

Swarms of tiny robots, each no larger than a speck of dust, could be deployed to cure stubborn infected sinuses before being blown out through the nose into a tissue, researchers have claimed. The micro-robots are a fraction of the width of a human hair and have been inserted successfully into animal sinuses in pre-clinical trials by researchers at universities in China and Hong Kong. Swarms are injected into the sinus cavity via a duct threaded through the nostril and guided to their target by electromagnetism, where they can be made to heat up and catalyse chemical reactions to wipe out bacterial infections.

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