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Took a pass through Phys.org:

phys.org: High elevation regions may become wildlife refuges through climate change

These simulations also extrapolated climate heterogeneity through the reminder of the century, identifying locations that may experience reduced climate variability, such as North America which is at an average elevation of ~1600 m and predicted to experience a mean temperature of 14.2°C.

Meanwhile, high elevation colder refugia identified include the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at more than 4,100 m, which is predicted to experience temperatures of 5.9°C during 2070–2098, but is already warming at an enhanced rate of 0.44°C per decade, twice the global average.

This research is significant as projections suggest up to 46% of land surfaces may transition to warmer and drier conditions by the end of the century, with this homogenization of climate types potentially threatening habitat and species distributions.

Some of it goes right over my head:

phys.org: Can a computer chip have zero energy loss in 1.58 dimensions?

What if we could find a way to make electric currents flow, without energy loss? A promising approach for this involves using materials known as topological insulators. They are known to exist in one (wire), two (sheet) and three (cube) dimensions; all with different possible applications in electronic devices.

Theoretical physicists at Utrecht University, together with experimentalists at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, have discovered that topological insulators may also exist at 1.58 dimensions, and that these could be used for energy-efficient information processing. Their study was published in Nature Physics.

Fractals. What can't they do?