Attenborough-backed appeal secures £30m estate

BBC Science Friday 30 October 2026, 06:16 UTC 1 min read

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The purchase of the vast Rothbury Estate by wildlife groups is hailed as "something very special".

Attenborough (PERSON) Rothbury Estate (ORG)

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In this week’s newsletter: There are too many meetings, and not enough decisions, say experts – and time is running out• Don’t get Down to Earth delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereWhen things are not going well at an environmental summit, organisers often tell delegates that the “world is watching” in an attempt to focus minds. But spend any time at biodiversity Cop17 in Armenia and it is clear that the world’s attention is elsewhere.

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Drift-induced nonreciprocity in image-polariton-mediated dipole emission

arXiv:2610.38348v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Electrical current bias offers a magnet-free route to nonreciprocal light propagation at the nanoscale. Here, we theoretically explore drift-induced nonreciprocity in graphene heterostructures containing hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), where graphene plasmons interact with hBN phonon polaritons in the infrared.

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