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Monday, August 17, 2026

Taking screenshots makes you more likely to forget information

Binghamton University psychology research explores the mechanism behind the digital capture effect

Binghamton University

Snapping a photo or a screenshot to remember something? According to recent cognitive research from Binghamton University, State University of New York, the practice may make you more likely to forget.

If you take photographs or screenshots during an experience, consistent evidence has shown that your memory of the information or event is degraded, explained Sophia Fabrizio ’22, MA ’24, a Binghamton University doctoral candidate in psychology and the lead author of “Digital amnesia: The aftermath of a screenshot.” Co-authored with Rebecca Lurie, MA’19, PhD ’23, and Psychology Professor Deanne Westerman, the article was recently published in the journal Memory & Cognition.

Known as the photo-taking impairment effect, the phenomenon occurs for material that the picture-taker doesn’t review afterward. According to other research, using photographs to retrieve and review memories may benefit long-term retention, Fabrizio said. However, many of us take more photos and screenshots than we can use — around 20 photos a day, with around 2,000 photos stored on the average smartphone, according to estimates.

“Unless you are actively reviewing those images as cues for elaborative memory retrieval, it is unlikely to benefit you,” she said.

Another study suggests that our memory isn’t impaired when photographs are captured automatically, using a wearable clip camera; this indicates that there’s something about the act of taking a photo or capturing a screenshot that impairs memory, rather than the knowledge that something is being saved, Fabrizio said.

Binghamton researchers conducted a series of seven experiments to explore the digital capture effect. Participants captured images of artwork and were tested on their memory; some experiments also used math problems to test whether participants’ cognitive resources were reallocated. None showed clear benefits of taking screenshots when compared to the degree of memory impairment for the captured images.

Potential mechanisms

One possible mechanism behind digital amnesia is divided attention: The act of capturing an experience takes away cognitive resources that would otherwise be dedicated to encoding the information in memory. While divided attention plays a role, it’s unlikely to be the main source of memory impairment; people show a comparable deficit when extra time is provided to view an art piece before or after taking a photograph, and when the capture task is made less difficult, which should minimize its effects.

Another possibility is cognitive offloading, in which we do not allocate cognitive resources to remember information if it’s stored externally. Offloading allows us to redirect those conserved cognitive resources toward aspects of an experience that weren’t captured or toward unrelated tasks.

Individuals should only employ the strategy if the information is reliably saved and accessible. However, research has shown that memory remained impaired even when the picture-takers knew their images would be immediately deleted. With screenshots in particular, people were less likely to remember whether they captured an image or viewed a piece of art, and had worse memory for the art itself when it was captured.

A third hypothesis is attentional disengagement, in which the act of taking a photograph or screenshot causes us to unconsciously distance ourselves from the experience.

“This extends beyond captured information to the broader context of an event,” Fabrizio explained. “The poorer ‘source’ memory for whether the art pieces were screenshotted or viewed — and in the original museum study on this effect, worse memory for the location of photographed art pieces in the exhibit — provides some preliminary support for this account.”

This unconscious detachment may be sparked by a longstanding association between capturing images and the ability to offload information. Binghamton researchers and others continue to test predictions related to the attentional disengagement account.

A better option for remembering information: break out a pen and paper. Writing something down — for example, taking notes during a lecture — forces us to process and organize the information into manageable bullet points, and draw connections. Known as “desirable difficulty,” the mental effort in this kind of processing may make us more likely to remember the information.

However, it’s not foolproof; sometimes, writing something down can lead to cognitive offloading — such as forgetting a friend’s birthday after we add it to our calendar and set reminders. Like the phone numbers in your contact list, you may no longer be able to remember the specific information.

Screenshotting can potentially supplement your memory if you take only a few intentional shots and review them later — similar to how a calendar reminder can support your memory of an upcoming event. But taking frequent screenshots and letting them accumulate unreviewed has the opposite effect, research shows.

“Taken together, the results of the current study suggest that we are likely harming our memory for information and experiences with the press of a button, and that this impairment may even extend beyond what is captured,” Fabrizio said.

Journal

Memory & Cognition

DOI

10.3758/s13421-026-01921-2

Method of Research

Experimental study

Subject of Research

People

Article Title

Digital amnesia: The aftermath of a screenshot

Article Publication Date

14-Aug-2026

Saturday, August 15, 2026

The Climate Crisis and Its Solutions, by the Numbers

Math illuminates the parameters that humans must live within, and it shines a light on our possibilities. Above all it explains why these are the crucial years: Temperatures and solutions are rising at the exact same moment.

A 2023 billboard campaign by Fossil Free Media shows triple-digit temperatures across much of the United States, "brought to you by Big Oil."
(Photo by Fossil Free Media)

Bill Mckibben
Aug 14, 2026

The Crucial Years

Last time I marked the fifth anniversary of this newsletter with a remarkably heavy burst of analysis—a “where do we stand” summary that let me speak at the highest possible level about our past, present, and future. So of course I’m worn out, and perhaps you as well. We’re going to proceed less systematically this time—I’m going to show you some numbers that have arrived in the last few days, and try to make sense of each of them, with only slight regard for how exactly they fit together.

And it’s all a useful reminder that though the climate and energy crises have everything to do with psychology and sociology and economics and political science and theology and love and art and winter, they are rooted in quantifiable physical fact, which cannot be wished away and which must be faced resolutely.

So, to begin:

#76.9°Fahrenheit

That was the average temperature for the lower 48 states in July, according to just-released federal stats, making it the hottest month in American history, 3.3°F hotter than the 20th-century average. As the Wall Street Journal pointed out, Wyoming was the furthest above average for the month. Among other things, this development robs climate deniers of a cherished talking point. July 1936 had been the co-record holder. We understood why—in the words of climatologist Andrew Dessler:
During the early 20th century, aggressive plowing and the replacement of native grasses left Great Plains soils exposed. When drought conditions developed, those degraded soils dried out quickly, reducing evaporation and soil moisture and reinforcing the heat.

But try telling that to Fox News. Dessler, by the way, has had a fascinating three-part series on those century-old Midwestern extremes. But now it’s mostly academic; we’re living in a hotter country than any American has ever seen. And indeed a hotter world. As Jeff Masters reports, July 2026 tied for the warmest month in the planet’s history, with July 2024.

#3.6°F

That’s how much temperatures have risen on average in Europe since the 1960s, according to the new State of the Climate 2025 report, which veteran analyst Bob Berwyn broke down this week. Just think about that for a moment, because it helps you to understand the scale of what we’ve done. When you walk outside your home, in Europe or America, it’s 3°F hotter than it would have been a just few decades ago. Think of that amount of extra heat (and remember that ninety percent more is stored away in the oceans, waiting to be released).

Writing from Berlin, Jim Tankersley and Tatiana Firsova offer a vivid account of what that feels like in every day European life:
It’s changing the way children see summer.

“Some days it’s too hot, and the heat is just so oppressive. I’m more of a winter person,” said Sophia Nachtsheim, 15, who visited Krumme Lanke on Thursday with her mother and three younger siblings.

#$65 billion

That’s the windfall profit so far for the oil industry thanks to the Iran War, according to a new analysis from the folks at Oil Change International.
The five major international oil companies (IOCs) recorded massive jumps in profits in Q2 2026 compared to the same quarter of 2025. Their total adjusted net income amounted to $51 billion for the 3 months—that’s nearly $400,000 per minute. Meanwhile, people around the world are paying around 30% more for gasoline and diesel, with some countries, particularly in Southeast Asia, seeing increases of 80% or more.

It would of course make great sense to tax these windfall profits, earned entirely on the back of dead Iranians and Americans, and everyone who’s paying $4.50 a gallon at the pump. Portugal actually is, at a 33% rate. Exxon’s Darren Woods has responded to wider EU efforts with threats:
We canceled investments that we had planned for Europe based on the last time they passed a windfall profits tax. In fact, we’re suing the EU because we don’t think that’s a legal taking for the industry.

#4.8% of Global Energy-Related Carbon Emissions

So far the energy debate around AI has focused on how much electricity it takes to run data centers. But the number above comes from a different heretofore uncounted part of the problem: It’s what a new study says artificial intelligence could add to the atmosphere simply by making it easier for the fossil fuel industry to find and exploit oil and gas wells. Emily Atkin has a top-notch account of the new study, which makes it clear that a data center might as well have an oil derrick sitting on top. She includes these additional numbers:
Specifically, they found that Big Oil’s use of AI to produce more oil and gas could create 3.3 to 13.3 times more climate pollution than powering AI’s data centers.

On the low end, these tools could enable additional yearly carbon emissions equal to Mexico’s, according to the research. On the high end, they could enable yearly climate pollution equal to Russia’s—the world’s fourth-largest emitting country.

Meanwhile, I mentioned this parenthetically last week, but it deserves more attention: Climate researcher Zeke Hausfather took the time to calculate how much energy is used when you really use AI “agents” for carrying out tasks. And the answer is: a lot. Asking Claude a question is not so energy-intensive, but as he explained to Robinson Meyer this week:
Increasingly AI is being used in an agentic form. And that more means that you give AI a set of instructions or a goal to achieve. And then AI goes off and does many, many, many, things to try to achieve that goal. AI agents are, at least in the corporate world and the software engineering and scientific world, the vast majority of AI use today. And those agents make both much more complicated calls than the prompts would suggest and many, many more calls. And so when you look at the actual energy use of these AI agents, it’s something on the order of 600 times larger per prompt than the traditional, like, type something in a chat box and got to get an immediate response. And so that does end up adding up. I actually looked at two months of my own AI use because I had local logs of all of the numbers there… I found that on average I was using about three kilowatt hours a day for my agentic energy use which is the equivalent of running two refrigerators.

#70%

That’s been the average growth in US battery installations over the last three years, according to the US Energy Information Administration, and it’s continuing to accelerate. Here’s the chart:

Notice that it’s continuing to rise this year. And as long as we’re doing charts, here it is broken down by state, with batteries in lavender. You’ll note that only four or five states are really participating in the battery revolution so far, which leaves enormous room for rapid growth elsewhere. Batteries are the transformative technology for the second half of this decade, as sun and wind were for the first half. Note also the incredible damage the Trump administration has done to the wind industry.

#44%

That’s how much you’d save in carbon emissions by retiring your internal combustion engine vehicle (ICEV) and replacing it with an EV—even if it was only two years old, and taking into account the amount of energy used to build both vehicles. A new study in Science from G. Elliott Campbell attempts to answer a question that’s puzzled many good-faith people: Does it really make sense to get rid of my ICEV if I’m worried about the climate. It does, beginning the day you drive it off the lot. It’s somewhat more complicated if you sell your used gas-guzzler to someone else, but as Science editor Jesse Smith notes:
The energy impact benefits from swapping an EV for an ICEV begin to accrue as early as the first day of the life of the ICEV, and that replacement early in the life cycle consistently provides reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. Financial considerations will also affect when people choose to make the replacement, of course, but from the perspective of emissions, it is almost never too soon to switch.

As Campbell explained to Tik Root:
“We’re trying to show that there’s not an environmental motivation for extending the lifetime of a gas vehicle,” he said. “Electric vehicles are a very clear winner.”

This isn’t true of everything you own, by the way. It basically depends on whether the carbon emissions of the thing mostly come from building it, or from powering it. Hence this chart that Professor Campbell sent me. Hold on to your cell phone another year!

#20 percent

That’s how much of French nuclear capacity is offline due to low river levels with the summer’s heat and fierce drought. (Oh, and a jellyfish invasion at a coastal plant, itself caused by warming seas). As Le Monde reports:
According to Agence France-Presse (AFP) calculations based on data published by energy group EDF since 2015, 20.4% of generating capacity was unavailable. Between 9:45 am and 10:00 am, EDF’s nuclear fleet recorded a new peak in outages due to “environmental constraints” or “external environmental causes,” both in terms of the number of reactors shut down or operating at reduced output and in terms of lost generating capacity.

The point is not to say “shut down nuclear power plants.” It’s merely to point out that charge long leveled at sun and wind—that they provide “intermittent power”—is probably truer now of other energy sources (including the natural gas that can get shut down if, say, a war breaks out in the Strait of Hormuz). See the numbers on batteries above—I think it’s pretty clear that once you connect them to a solar or a wind farm you’ve got some of the world’s firmest power. By the way, that’s how BMW has kept its Hungarian plant churning out EVs even as the country’s lone nuke shut down, causing a cascading energy shortage across the country.
#22%

That’s how much domestic airline emissions have fallen in Austria over the last three years, since the government banned short haul flights to domestic destinations that were served by trains; something similar happened in France, which passed a more limited version of the same law. As Logan Varsano writes:
These initial successes in Austria and France are promising.

They also prompt a number of follow-on questions: What might be the climate benefit if such policies were more broadly adopted across Europe? What if they were implemented beyond Europe’s borders? What if they were applied to short-haul international flights, and not merely domestic routes?

Research published in 2021 found that, in Finland, replacing all short-haul flights with non-high-speed rail could cut emissions by 95%. One year later in 2022, different researchers took a broader look at commercial passenger flights across 31 countries. A 2023 study took a closer look at Spain’s two busiest domestic corridors: Madrid-Barcelona and Madrid-Valencia. In 2024, data from IATA focused a lens back on France. And more recently, a September 2025 study on commercial intra-European aviation concluded that substituting short-haul flights with rail alternatives could reduce a trip’s emissions by up to 97%, depending on the length of the trip.

I’d just add: City center to city center trains are infinitely nicer than dealing with airports, at least for me. Until we get the blimps up and running, more rail please!
#5.5°C vs 2°C

This last one is a little complicated, but it underscores the most important point I keep trying to make in this newsletter: We must act fast!

It comes from a new study about the collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Currents, or AMOC, the most important heat distribution on planet Earth, and one we’re threatening to wreck by raising temperatures. What the study—out Thursday in Nature—calculates is the risk of raising the temperature fast, which is what we’re doing now. On a “slow ramp,” this computer model shows that the currents stay stable until temperatures are raised 5.5°C—which is a lot of breathing room. But if you ramp up the temperature quickly, going past 2°C can shut them down. Rosa van den Dool interviewed one of the study’s authors:
The explanation lies in how the ocean is able to adjust to change. “Under slow warming, the entire ocean, from the surface down to its deepest layers, has time to gradually reorganize and adapt to the changing conditions,” says co-author Henk Dijkstra, professor of dynamical oceanography. “Under faster warming, the ocean simply can’t keep up.”

According to the researchers, the critical warming rate lies around 0.3°C per decade, a pace the world is already approaching. Van Westen compares it to driving a car: “If you’re driving toward a wall, it makes sense to steer around it. To do that, you need to brake, otherwise you fly off the road. When it comes to global warming, the world is still pressing extra hard on the accelerator right now.”

Math can’t tell us everything we need to know about the climate crisis. At some level, the crucial calculation is about the size of the human heart, and whether we’re ready to really press for the change that’s required. But math illuminates the parameters that humans must live within, and it shines a light on our possibilities. Above all it explains why these are the crucial years: Temperatures and solutions are rising at the exact same moment. Our job is to see if we can nudge the odds in this race.

And we can, so we must. Thank you for being part of the fight!

© 2022 Bill McKibben

Bill Mckibben
Bill McKibben is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College and co-founder of 350.org and ThirdAct.org. His most recent book is "Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?." He also authored "The End of Nature," "Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet," and "Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future."
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Friday, August 14, 2026

'Wall of fire' forces sea evacuation in Greece as wildfires continue across Europe

By Simon Ormiston

Published on 14/08/2026 - EURONEWS

Fishing boats came to the rescue of tourists fleeing the fires in northern Greece. 13 August, 2026. AP Phot

As blazes strain fire services from the Mediterranean to the Midlands in the UK, questions are being asked about Europe's ability to deal with continued heatwaves.

A three-kilometre wall of flames up to 30 metres high forced hundreds of tourists into the sea off northern Greece, as wildfires also tore across, Croatia, France and the UK amid a punishing summer heatwave.

More than 200 firefighters, water-bombing planes and helicopters battled for hours to stop a blaze spreading across the Halkidiki peninsula, south of Thessaloniki, as it bore down on the resorts of Siviri and Fourka, packed with summer tourists.

Judging evacuation by road too dangerous, officials sent around 500 tourists into small boats, coast guard vessels and fire brigade craft, including roughly 200 taken to a ship waiting offshore, while cars trying to flee by road became gridlocked.

"We are on the beach and looking for a way to get away," one local homeowner, Sophia, told AFP, saying flames had already reached the town's houses.

Two firefighters were hospitalised, and authorities banned public access to the region's pine forests as forecasters warned of winds up to 100 km/h.

The fire was later brought under control, though crews stayed on alert for flare-ups.

Greece remains under its highest wildfire alert nationwide, still reeling from a blaze near Athens this month that killed two helicopter crew and burned 110 square kilometres of forest.

Coastal town evacuated

More than 150 firefighters battled a blaze that swept quickly from a pine forest into the tourist town of Lokva Rogoznica in Croatia, destroying homes and vehicles.

At least 1,000 displaced residents were sheltered in a sports hall in nearby Omis, and a coastal road was closed, causing long queues of traffic.

Croatia's fire chief, Slavko Tucakovic, warned of a "difficult night ahead" as reinforcements were called in, with four Canadair water-bombers grounded until dawn.

Officials said strong winds had driven the fire's spread and that some residents suffered burns. It followed a separate blaze on the island of Brac brought under control a day earlier, amid a heatwave setting record coastal temperatures.

Météo France placed four departments under its highest wildfire alert on Friday, warning that weather conditions make the risk of fires starting and spreading "very high compared with summer norms".

Overnight, firefighters brought the Aude blaze near Carcassonne under control after saving 73 homes, while the Pas-de-Calais fire near Mont-Frieux remained active into Friday morning.

With the heatwave persisting, authorities across France are urging continued vigilance heading into the weekend.

Teenager detained over fatal blaze

A 15-year-old has been placed under formal investigation and held in juvenile detention over a forest fire near Bordeaux airport that killed two firefighters trapped in their truck on 21 July.

The deaths, along with that of a volunteer firefighter in southeast France, have angered fire unions, whose representatives met Interior Minister Laurent Nunez this week but said his commitments fell short, threatening strike action in September over inadequate resources.

A wildfire with multiple points of origin tore through homes near Stourbridge in the UK on the region's hottest day of the year, damaging at least six properties and forcing evacuations.

Three firefighters and a child were hospitalised, while six others were treated for smoke inhalation.

West Midlands' Chief Fire Officer Simon Tuhill called it "one of the most significant incidents" the service had ever attended, blaming rapid spread on "tinder-dry" conditions.

Nearly three-quarters of England is in drought, and Prime Minister Andy Burnham has urged retailers to limit sales of disposable barbecues.

Hundreds of tourists rescued by boat as forest fire threatens northern Greek beaches

By Ioannis Karagiorgas & Gavin Blackburn

Published on 13/08/2026 - EURONEWS

A fire service spokesman said the evacuation had to be by sea as the flames were getting close to the beaches.

A fleet of small boats evacuated hundreds of tourists from beaches in northern Greece as a forest fire bore down on two popular resorts.

Water bombing planes and helicopters and almost 150 firefighters battled the flames spreading across the Halkidiki peninsula south of the city of Thessaloniki, the fire service said.

Two injured firefighters were taken to hospital, the service added.

Within hours of erupting, the fire bore down on homes around the popular resorts of Siviri and Fourka, which are packed with summer tourists. The region is dominated by flammable pine forests.

And more than 250 tourists in bathing costumes, many carrying children in their arms, were evacuated by sea in 15 small boats brought into service for the emergency, ERT public television reported.

A fire service spokesman said the evacuation had to be by sea as the flames were getting close to the beaches.

Dozens queued on a pontoon at Fourka waiting to flee as smoke blotted out the sky over the resorts, according to images broadcast by ERT.

There were also traffic jams of cars trying to leave Fourka and Siviri.

Wall of flames

ERT said a three-kilometre-long wall of flames up to 30 metres high was closing in on the resorts.

"We are on the beach and looking for a way to get away," Sophia, a home owner in the region who only gave her first name, told the AFP news agency by phone.

"From where we are, we can see that flames have reached the town and the houses."

Firefighters said strong winds made the battle difficult.

Greek authorities had issued a maximum five alert for fires for much of the Greek mainland.

Halkidiki authorities had banned the public from entering the region's pine forests.

Firefighters work to extinguish a wildfire in Siviri, 13 August, 2026 AP Photo

Weather forecasters have predicted winds of up to 100 kilometres (60 miles) an hour on Friday.

Greece is badly hit by wildfires every year and experts say the risk is growing because of human-fuelled climate change that has made droughts and other weather phenomena more extreme.

The authorities said that 40 forest fires were reported across Greece in 24 hours and that nine were still not controlled by late Thursday.

Already this month, two crew from a helicopter helping to battle a forest fire near Athens died when their aircraft collided with another helicopter in mid-air.

The fire destroyed 110 square kilometres of forest.

Monday, August 10, 2026

SPAGYRIC HERBALISM

Natural insecticide made by nanoemulsification of compounds found in garlic and spearmint found to be effective on adzuki bean beetles with low non-target impacts

Researchers develop a new environmentally friendly insecticide against the adzuki bean beetle—a known legume pest—from nanoemulsions of diallyl disulfide and carvone

Kyushu University

Graphical abstract of the research — image:
Diallyl disulfide (DDS) is an organosulfur compound derived from garlic and (R)-carvone (Car) is a monoterpenoid derived from spearmint. These compounds were processed into oil-in-water nanoemulsions via ultrasonication. The nanoemulsions exhibited high toxicity and improved insecticidal efficacy against the adzuki bean beetle. Additionally, the nanoemulsions of both only DDS and its mixture with Car exhibited relatively low toxicity against the *Anisopteromalus calandrae*, a parasitic wasp that is the natural enemy of adzuki bean beetle.
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Credit: Midori Tuda/Kyushu University

Fukuoka, Japan—In an effort to develop more environmentally friendly alternatives to synthetic insecticides, researchers from Kyushu University have developed and tested a new insecticide made from compounds derived from garlic and spearmint.

In their paper published in Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, the research team processed diallyl disulfide, an organosulfur compound derived from garlic, and R-carvone, a monoterpenoid from spearmint, into an emulsion of nanometer-sized droplets of oil-in-water. These nanoemulsions were then tested on a known legume pest called the adzuki bean beetle. They found that the insecticidal efficacy of the individual compounds was enhanced, and mixing the two compounds together added to their toxicity towards the pest.

“When people hear the term “insecticide,” they often think of synthetic chemicals that could be damaging to people and the environment. However, plants have evolved to produce compounds with potent insecticidal activity as a means of defending themselves from insect attack,” explains Urvashi Sahu, a JSPS postdoctoral fellow at Kyushu University’s Faculty of Agriculture and first author of the study. “In our research, we aim to develop ways to enhance the effect of natural insecticides.”

The team decided to utilize nanotechnology to develop a natural insecticide against the adzuki bean beetle Callosobruchus chinensis, a legume pest that causes significant postharvest losses. The compounds they turned to were diallyl disulfide (DDS) and R-carvone (Car), the active compounds found in garlic and spearmint, respectively. These are the compounds that give the plants their distinct odors.

Ultrasonication was used to emulsify both DDS and Car into oil-in-water droplets about 50-60 nm in diameter. These nanoemulsions were then placed in a container with adzuki bean beetles to test their insecticidal efficacy.

“We found that processing the compounds into nanoemulsions greatly enhanced their toxicity against the beetles. DDS showed a 30.5% increase in toxicity and Car toxicity increased by 8.2%,” continues Sahu.

Furthermore, the nanoemulsions had relatively low toxicity to Anisopteromalus calandrae, a known parasitic wasp that infects adzuki bean beetle larvae. Specifically, when half of the adzuki bean beetles die from the pesticide, only up to 22% of the wasps perished. This means that using both the nanoemulsions and parasitoid wasps can potentially enhance the effectiveness of pest control. The nanoemulsions were also safe on adzuki seeds and enhanced their root growth. No residual compounds were detected on the seeds themselves.

The next step for the team is to verify the efficacy of their new nanoemulsion under real-world environmental conditions and at large-scale grain and legume storage facilities. They also hope to elucidate the mechanism of how these nanoemulsions work to control the lifespan of the adzuki bean beetle.

“We will be looking into whether our insecticide can be effective on other pests. Our goal is to commercialize this technology as a sustainable, environmentally friendly alternative to pest control and management,” concludes Professor Midori Tuda, who led the research team. “Applying new technologies to compounds already found in nature holds massive potential for the future of science, agriculture, and humanity.”

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For more information about this research, see "Enhanced toxicity of diallyl disulfide and carvone nanoemulsions against a stored bean pest and their nontarget effects on its parasitoid and seed viability," Urvashi Sahu, Eman Ahmed Mohamed Helmy, Midori Tuda, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoenv.2026.120374

About Kyushu University
Founded in 1911, Kyushu University is one of Japan's leading research-oriented institutions of higher education, consistently ranking as one of the top ten Japanese universities in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World Rankings. Located in Fukuoka, on the island of Kyushu—the most southwestern of Japan’s four main islands—Kyushu U sits in a coastal metropolis frequently ranked among the world’s most livable cities and historically known as Japan’s gateway to Asia. Its multiple campuses are home to around 19,000 students and 8,000 faculty and staff. Through its VISION 2030, Kyushu U will “drive social change with integrative knowledge.” By fusing the spectrum of knowledge, from the humanities and arts to engineering and medical sciences, Kyushu U will strengthen its research in the key areas of decarbonization, medicine and health, and environment and food, to tackle society’s most pressing issues.