Four countries are acting as safe havens for African elephants
Botswana, Gabon, Namibia and Uganda are bucking the trend of steep declines in elephant numbers, and their successes hint at good ways to protect the animals
‘Female Viagra’ to treat low libido gets go-ahead from FDA panel
A US Food and Drug Administration advisory panel has approved the drug, which will be given the brand name Addyi
How Will NASA Land Big Payloads on Mars? Inflatable Donuts
NASA will test the Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator. What makes this landing system different from other landings?
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A Better Way for California to Water Its Farms
There's a limit to how much produce farmers can eke out of the soil with the water that CA Governor Jerry Brown has given them to work with. Or maybe there isn't.
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Feedback: When art intimates life
Legal depositions, inimitable bowel syndrome, top shelf science and more (full text available to subscribers)
Listening to meteorites hitting Mars will tell us what’s inside
NASA's InSight mission may be able to use seismic waves from meteorite strikes to probe the Red Planet's interior
Researchers Are Finally Studying the Other Chemical in Pot
The THC in weed gets you high, but the compound CBD might have all kinds of important medical uses.
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Smart probiotics: Wiring friendly bacteria to take out disease
Forget about yoghurt. We're engineering bugs that will patrol our guts and take out pathogens (full text available to subscribers)
Cheap blood test reveals every virus you’ve ever been exposed to
Your blood keeps track of every virus you meet. Now a test can detect them all, perhaps exposing hidden infections or the causes of confusing conditions
Poisonous orange mini-frogs discovered in Brazilian forest
They are some of the smallest vertebrates on land, but seven species discovered in cloud forests in Brazil could already be under threat from climate change
