A satellite picture of Mars shows Mawrth Vallis, one of the possible landing sites for NASA’s next rover. A new…
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Rarest snake races back
The rarest snake in the world, the Antiguan racer, has slithered back from the brink. The population has increased ten-fold,…
Goat-Dotted Dam
Cingino Dam isn’t completely vertical, allowing ibex—such as these goats pictured in summer 2010—to gain some purchase. Adapted to their…
Plants Clean Air Pollution Better Than Expected
Plants, especially some trees under stress, are even better than expected at scrubbing certain chemical pollutants out of the air,…
2050 – and immortality is within our grasp
Supercomputers could render the wetware of the human brain redundant. Photograph: Gregor Schuster/Getty ImagesAeroplanes will be too afraid to crash,…
Snub-Nosed Monkey Sneezes When It Rains
A new species of snub-nosed monkey, described in the American Journal of Primatology, has such an upturned nose that it…
New Bubble-Bottom Frog
The poison dart frog Ranitomeya amazonica is one of more than 1,200 new species of plants and vertebrates discovered in…
Mars Rover Spirit Finds Evidence of Water
Stuck in the sands of Mars, the grounded Spirit rover unearthed evidence of subsurface water in the planet’s recent past.…
Flamingos use colourful cosmetics to enhance feather
Flamingos in the wild use pigments as “cosmetics” to enhance the colour of their plumage, according to scientists. Researchers studying…
Coworkers revive man twice
Herb Swift survived a massive heart attack and he has his coworkers to thank for it – twice. “They say…