The Mainstreaming of Social Science in China Isn’t Necessarily a Good Thing - Sixth Tone

As the climate crisis intensifies, so do the international efforts to address it. Along with the urgency of the climate change comes a mix of information – some accurate, some worrying, and some misleading – to interpret this pressing global issue. Therefore, it has become more crucial than ever to understand climate science, climate change and its consequences properly. Only by equipping ourselves with accurate knowledge about climate, can we be better prepared to mitigate and adapt to new realities. To encourage a scientific understanding within the public, UNESCO collaborated with 9 other United Nations agencies (UNFCCC, ILO, IOM, UNDP, UNDRR, UNEP, UN ESCAP, UNICEF, and UNOSSC) to produce a series of 27 informative posters. Under the umbrella of the United Nations’ Issue-based Coalition on Climate Change and Resilience (IBC-CCR), this series consolidates the extensive climate knowledge possessed by the United Nations.

Stream restoration measures along the Mulde River in Germany: Bank reinforcement structures are being removed to restore more natural riverbank conditions. Credit: M. Vieweg The EU Nature Restoration Regulation adopted in 2024 establishes the restoration of ecosystem functions as an objective of stream restoration. But can conventional measures that focus primarily on restoring the physical structure of rivers and streams fulfill this task?

Venture will harness clinical data and laboratory tissue models in quest for potential new therapies

Brain beholder: Barbara Finlay, pictured here in the Wilder Brain Collection that she curated at Cornell University, spent her 40-year career studying how the brain develops and evolved. Finlay, who died on 12 September, championed the idea that developmental constraints dictate how evolution sculpts brains, a concept she used to model the timing of hundreds of events and align them across mammalian species.

A mother bat has one crucial challenge: find her own babies among hundreds of other bats in the colony. Making sure she cares for and nurses only her own offspring is important to ensuring their survival. Among Japanese house bats, mothers keep track of their pups using the babies' isolation calls.