"Key building block for life found at Saturn's moon Enceladus"

#RespectfortheNeighbors #Saturn #astronomy #astrobiology

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-key-block-life-saturn-moon.html

"Researchers led by Christi Gendron at the University of Michigan have found the link between death perception and reduced aging in flies."

Wow

#RespectfortheNeighbors #death

https://phys.org/news/2023-06-corpses-lifespan-flies.html

"Study provides framework for assessing emotions in wild animals"

"A world-first holistic framework for assessing the mental and psychological well-being of wild animals has been developed by UTS Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr. Andrea Harvey, a veterinarian and animal welfare scientist in the TD School at the University of Technology Sydney.

The significance of the study lies in its potential to revolutionize conservation efforts. Instead of focusing solely on population numbers and reproductive success, the research explores the quality of life experienced by wild animals."

#RespectfortheNeighbors #emotions #empathy

https://phys.org/news/2023-05-framework-emotions-wild-animals.html

"Scientists discover never-before-seen brain wave after reading octopuses' minds"

"Octopuses possess a brain wave that has never been seen before in animals, along with others similar to those found in humans, first-of-their-kind brain recordings reveal. "

#RespectfortheNeighbors #octopus #brain

https://www.livescience.com/animals/scientists-discover-never-before-seen-brain-wave-after-reading-octopus-minds

"Mushrooms and their post-rain, electrical conversations"

#ecology #RespectfortheNeighbors #mushroooms #mycelial

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-mushrooms-post-rain-electrical-conversations.html

"Animal consciousness: Why it's time to rethink our human-centered approach"

#consciousness #InterSpecies #RespectfortheNeighbors

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-animal-consciousness-rethink-human-centered-approach.html

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

"Billions of celestial objects revealed in gargantuan survey of the Milky Way"

"Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects—arguably the largest such catalog so far. The data for this unprecedented survey were taken with the Dark Energy Camera, built by the US Department of Energy, at the NSF's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NOIRLab.

The Milky Way Galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars, glimmering star-forming regions, and towering dark clouds of dust and gas. Imaging and cataloging these objects for study is a herculean task, but a newly released astronomical dataset known as the second data release of the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey (DECaPS2) reveals a staggering number of these objects in unprecedented detail."

#RespectfortheNeighbors @astronomy #universe

Does not seem surprising at all:

"Researchers discover chimpanzee communities have local gestural dialects"

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-chimpanzee-communities-local-gestural-dialects.html

#RespectfortheNeighbors