It takes a village of Phayre’s leaf monkeys to raise this golden monkey infant. While they’re babies, these monkeys, Trachypithecus…
Mini Magnetic Shield Found on the Moon
A small magnetosphere protects a pocket of the lunar surface from solar wind. For the first time, scientists have observed…
New Planets… Backward Orbits
In a batch of 27 planets found outside our solar system, half a dozen have “wrong way” orbits, astronomers have…
Deepest Volcanic Sea Vents Found
Three miles (five kilometers) below the surface of the Caribbean Sea (map), great volcanic chimneys gush subterranean water hot enough…
“Tyrant King” Leech Discovered
The new species—dubbed Tyrannobdella rex, or “tyrant leech king”—was discovered in the remote Peruvian Amazon, according to a new study.…
Brain ‘splits to multi-task’
An inability to deal with more than two things at a time may be “hard-wired” into our brain, research suggests.…
Cement Plant Becomes First to Capture CO2
A Canadian company called Pond Biofuels is capturing CO2 emissions from a cement plant in algae — algae the company…
Missing Florida Girl Is Found Alive
HTML clipboard A missing 11-year-old central Florida girl with Asperger syndrome was found alive today, four days after she disappeared…
Mummy Found in Egyptian Oasis
HTML clipboard Egyptian archaeologists discovered an intricately carved plaster sarcophagus portraying a wide-eyed woman dressed in a tunic in a…
Empathetic mirror neurons found in humans at last
HTML clipboard BRAIN cells that may underlie our ability to empathise with others have been detected directly in people for…