
一 | British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace wants a major hike in armed forces spending in response to the conflict in Ukraine.,The BBC reported that Wallace will call on Chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak to raise defense spending from around two per cent of GDP — the NATO target figure — to 2.5 percent.,The minister is expected to make comments to that effect when he addresses the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Land Warfare Conference in Westminster later on Tuesday, before flying to Madrid for the NATO summit there.,"The defense secretary is expected to emphasize that now that the threat has changed, governments must be prepared to invest to keep us safe," said a defense source quoted by Sky News.,"We do not comment on alleged leaks," another defense source insisted, adding: "The defense secretary and the prime minister have always said that the government will respond to any changes in threat, which is why in 2020 the Ministry of Defence received a record defense settlement.",Britain has sent a battalion-sized force of soldiers to Estonia in a bid to confront Russia, while supplying Ukraine with thousands of man-portable anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons, over 120 armored vehicles and three M270 multiple-launch rocket artillery systems.,Wallace claimed earlier in June that Western military aid was helping the Ukrainian military make "significant progress" in the east of the country against Russian and Donbass forces. But recent days saw the capture of the city of Severodonetsk and a string of smaller settlements in Lugansk, with up to 8,000 Ukrainian troops now trapped in Lisichansk.,British Chief of General Staff General Sir Patrick Sanders told the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) conference on Tuesday morning that the crisis in Ukraine was "our 1937 moment" — a possible reference to then-prime minister Neville Chamberlain's simultaneous policy of appeasing towards Nazi Germany while re-arming Britain.,Sanders said his focus was on "mobilizing the army to meet the new threat we face", insisting: "The British Army is not mobilizing to provoke war, it is mobilizing to prevent war.",NATO Could Expand Eastern European Battlegroups to Brigade or Division-Size Forces: Report26 June, 15:49 GMT,The general called the scale of the conflict in Ukraine "unprecedented.","In all my years in uniform I haven't known such a clear threat to the principals of sovereignty and democracy and the freedom to live without fear of violence as the brutal aggression of President Putin and his expansionist ambitions," Sanders said.,"This is our 1937 moment," he added. "We are not at war but must act rapidly so that we aren't drawn into one through a failure to contain territorial expansion… I will do everything in my power to ensure that the British Army plays its part in averting war."。 8 月 26 日消息,据新华社今日报道,首都师范大学生命科学学院昆虫演化与环境变迁教育部创新团队联合国内外多个科研团队,通过对内蒙古宁城县道虎沟地区侏罗纪时期化石螽斯的研究,首次证实昆虫超声波通讯在距今 1.65 亿年前的中侏罗世已经出现。

二 | 相关研究成果于 2026 年 8 月 26 日在线发表于《美国科学院院刊》(PNAS)。研究团队选取了燕辽生物群中 9 种、20 件雄性螽斯前翅标本,与现仅分布在四川的螽斯孑遗类群长生铁鸣螽进行对照研究。团队搭建了“化石翅形态 — 翅共振模拟 — 音节重构 — 鸣声时序预测”的古动物声学重建流程,用以复原远古昆虫完整鸣声的声学特征。

三 | 论文共同通讯作者、首都师范大学教授任东介绍,9 种化石螽斯的鸣声频率覆盖 5kHz 至 20.5kHz 区间,其中 5 个物种为 5kHz 至 7kHz 的低频纯音,其余 4 个物种分布于 8kHz 至 20.5kHz 的中高频区间。化石物种奇异曲阿博鸣螽的载波频率可达 20.5kHz,证实中侏罗世已存在真正意义上的超声通讯类昆虫。此前学界长期认为,超声通讯类昆虫是为应对蝙蝠捕食而演化形成的。该项研究明确了超声通讯类昆虫的演化起源发生在蝙蝠出现之前,比始新世蝙蝠早出现超过 1 亿年。研究还发现,9 种化石螽斯的鸣叫声频谱范围异常狭窄,即“纯音”(注:指频率成分单一的声波)。

四 | 这种纯音鸣唱会降低捕食者对声源的定位能力 —— 侏罗纪早期哺乳动物虽具备一定高频听觉,但其中耳结构对纯音的方位分辨能力较弱。

五 | 因此,侏罗纪螽斯演化出纯音鸣唱,被认为是对抗捕食者窃听的关键演化适应。任东团队与英国布里斯托大学曾于 2012 年首次复原了道虎沟地区中侏罗世螽斯物种“悦耳古鸣螽”的鸣叫声。此次新成果不仅首次证实昆虫超声波通讯已在侏罗纪时期出现,还完整重建了史前森林螽斯群落的声景。

六 | 任东表示,该研究“穿越 1.65 亿年听见侏罗纪时期的虫鸣”,建立起中生代昆虫-哺乳类双向声学选择的新理论,完善了陆地动物听觉与发声协同演化体系。

七 | 附论文地址:
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2615107123。
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