David Bradley's Nature Matters
Award-winning Science & Nature Writing | Since 1989
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Can dogs smell the time?
Dogs can smell the time, apparently. This is not a new discovery. It was discussed ten years ago by canine cognition scientist Alexandra Horowitz. But I just saw the phenomenon mentioned in the Gillian McAllister novel, That Night, the main protagonists of which are…
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Send that Sound – A song
An eclectic song of mine that started out with a complicated chord progression and some prog rock affectations, like an almost spoken word intro, but ended up just shuttling between an A-maj/Asus2 and a C(add9) it was ostensibly about song writer’s block, but once I got started…
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Mink, Mink, Goose
An outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza on a US mink farm that has been raging for months raises serious questions about public health, animal welfare, and the influence of commercial interests on government decisions. If it were a chicken farm, the hens would have been slaughtered…
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It’s a wild, wild life
I’ve talked about wilding my garden and our wildlife pond. There are so many plants and wildflowers that have popped up through the years since I started doing this. For instance, around the edge of the pond I currently have various wildflowers that come and go as the seasons…
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Give that man a beer! Cheers Ond?ej Surý
Interesting Atlantic interview by Charlie Warzel with PHP developer and security hero Ondrej Surý in the wake of the Black October internet meltdown that thankfully never was. Surý is a relatively unknown volunteer working on a relatively unknown, but incredibly important…
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Cruel, cruel summer
The Guardian recently reported that around 50000 people died because of the extreme heat in the summer of 2026. The article says that researchers estimate that the effects of anthropogenic climate change were largely to blame for about two-thirds of those deaths. At the…
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Slender-billed Nutcracker
As I understand it, there has not been a lot of kernels in the pine cones across Siberia this autumn. This has not been great news for the Nutcracker birds that feast on them in that part of the world. So, they have been departing their usual territories in droves and heading…
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Sir Terry Wogan in the house…well outside…
Many moth enthusiasts and recorders use the term “Wogan” to refer to a night of no moths in or near the trap, or indeed seen anywhere in the trapping site. It’s a reference to TV and radio entertainer, the late Sir Terry Wogan. He hosted a quiz show called Blankety Blank back in…
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Your natural legacy
If you regularly use nature recording apps and platforms like ObsIdentify, iRecord, eBird, or iNaturalist, you likely focus on the immediate thrill of the find, logging that rare moth, submitting a crisp recording of a bird song, or mapping the local flora. Yet few of us…
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Winter is coming, but there will be moths
While June and July are the peak of mothing season, there are plenty of stunning species that appear as the leaves fall and continue well into winter. Here in Cambridgeshire and beyond, any of the following species are likely visitors to your garden on a quiet night, drawn to an…
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Academic oddities
What are abbreviated copper nanotubes? Cu NTs some slipped past the editors of an academic journal and have provided chemists with a puerile sense of humour hours for fun for many years since. More about Cu NTs here. How do you carry out vegetative electron microscopy? You don’t…