Enigmatic small primate finally caught on film in Taita, Kenya

Good news from the Kenyan Taita Hills: the Taita mountain dwarf galago still survives. This was…

Locust swarms arrive in South Sudan, threatening more misery

Swarms of locusts which are wreaking havoc across East Africa have now arrived in South Sudan,…

SpaceX announces partnership to send 4 tourists into deep orbit

SpaceX announced a new partnership Monday to send four tourists deeper into orbit than any private…

Off-grid sanitation systems show promise, despite toilet paper

As legend has it, when French workers felt their livelihoods threatened by automation in the early…

Study reveals origin of endangered Colombian poison frog hybrids

The origin of an understudied hybrid population of poisonous frogs—highly endangered colorful animals that live deep…

Fifteen years and 20 million insects: Sweden documents its insect fauna in a changing world

The Swedish Malaise Trap Project (SMTP) was launched in 2003 with the aim of making a…

New artificial neural network model bests MaxEnt in inverse problem example

Numerical simulations, generally based on equations that describe a given model and on initial data, are…

Unexpected insights into the dynamic structure of mitochondria

As power plants and energy stores, mitochondria are essential components of almost all cells in plants,…

A real global player: Previously unrecognised bacteria as a key group in marine sediments

Marine sediments cover more than two thirds of our planet’s surface. Nevertheless, they are scarcely explored,…

Bacteria get free lunch with butterflies and dragonflies

For humans, trade is second nature and civilizations have flourished and fallen with the fate of…