The release this November includes the following contributions:

Planetary Vision by Peter Galison with Robert Pietrusko and Stewart Smith on the Black Hole Explorer, a space mission to launch a virtual telescope larger than the planet.

Substrates Unbound by Laura Tripaldi on material agency in the context of Synthetic Biological Intelligence.

The Noocene by Benjamin Bratton with GIGA on the future of the Noosphere and the artificialization of planetary history.

Long L by Lukáš Likavčan on the idea of substrate-agnostic ecology and planetary environmental thinking liberated from Earth-centric biases.

Planetary Sapience Symposium, which asks not only what planetary computation can do, but also what it is for?

Hemispherical Stacks with GIGA—the first collection of speculative scenario fiction essays, edited by Benjamin Bratton, Stanley Quifan Chen, and Lukáš Likavčan, with contributions from Benjamin Bratton, Iris Carver, Chor Pharn Lee, Nils Gilman, Roman Shemakov, Mi You, Jacob Dreyer, Christina Lu, Suhail Malik, Lucien Bratton, Iris Long, Yingjing Xu, Dalena Tran, Daniel Paul Barcay, Lukáš Likavčan, Alex Quicho, Taiyo Fujii and Stanley Quifan Chen.



The first release of Volume 2025 was unveiled in May at the opening of The Next Earth: Computation, Crisis, Cosmology at Palazzo Diedo – Berggruen Arts & Culture during the Venice Architecture Biennale. With the second release, this volume now comprises 22 articles developed by 17 author–designer pairs, blending philosophy, speculative design, cinematic fragments, and experimental UX.

Antikythera | Antikythera
https://research.antikythera.org/

How did the molecular building blocks of life arrive at early Earth? To find out, NASA sent a spacecraft called OSIRIS-REx to collect samples from the carbon-rich asteroid Bennu. Now, a team of Japanese and US scientists have discovered the bio-essential sugars ribose and glucose within the Bennu samples. RNA uses ribose for its structure. Glucose provides cells with energy and is used to make fibers like cellulose, a structural component of cell walls. The discovery suggests that these simple sugars were brought to the early Earth by meteorites. In this interview, OSIRIS-REx Project Scientist Daniel Glavin discusses the discovery of ribose and glucose in the Bennu samples and the implications for the formation and evolution of life.

Bio-Essential Sugars Discovered in Samples from Asteroid Bennu
https://youtu.be/9LyH6jTefU8?si=tNMQxwoxPk0uL-2i

TADEAS:

ukrajinska step (bylozravci&travy->cernozem) severni cernomori jako potravinova zakladna starovekyho recka


What Does This War Mean for the Future of Mankind and Today’s Civilization?
https://youtu.be/bu9BWMFFqNc?si=ab-09LbknxYImwki



The history of Ukraine and the future of the world. Timothy Snyder, Yaroslav Hrytsak, Serhii Plokhii
https://youtu.be/iI4oyPZbPmM?si=Q-zBBrYigDuTy01R

Daisyworld revisited: quantifying biological effects on planetary self-regulation
Original Research Papers
Authors
Timothy M. Lenton
James E. Lovelock

Abstract
Daisyworld demonstrates that self-regulation of the global environment can emerge from organisms altering their local environment in different ways. In Daisyworld, natural selection is directly linked to environmental effects such that what is selected for at the individual level is beneficial to the global environment. The model has been modified and extended in many studies that have highlighted the effect of biological processes on system self-regulation. Here we better quantify their effects and present new variants of the model in an attempt to resolve outstanding debates. The results confirm that Daisyworld is a remarkably robust self-regulating system and they offer some general lessons about systems where life has a strong effect on the environment, which we think are relevant to the Earth. As forcing becomes extreme, such systems can exhibit co-existing stable states with and without life (bi-stability), and rapid transitions from one to the other that are difficult to reverse. The growth response of organisms to the environment has a role in determining the range of forcing over which a system can regulate. Density-dependent ecological interactions improve Daisyworld’s regulatory properties, although increased inter-species competition destabilises the environment in one interval. Self-regulation is little affected by introducing organisms that ‘cheat’ by not altering their local environment and in so doing gain a growth advantage. Increased variation in an environment-altering trait (albedo) can weaken the negative feedback it provides on the environment. However, random mutation of this trait and subsequent natural selection can generate and extend the range of temperature regulation and improve the system’s response to perturbation with time. Internal adaptation of organisms toward prevailing environmental conditions, or to tolerate extremes, can also extend the range of forcing over which life persists.

Daisyworld revisited: quantifying biological effects on planetary self-regulation | Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology
https://b.tellusjournals.se/articles/10.3402/tellusb.v53i3.16597

Interplanetary defense system deployed by NASA-back researchers
https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/science/interplanetary-defense-system-deployed-by-nasa-back-researchers/

A NASA-backed planetary defense group has reportedly begun efforts to pinpoint comet 3I/ATLAS after it was observed emitting an alloy not seen in nature and exhibiting other strange behaviors.