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Six 'uniquely' human traits now found in animals

Video roundup: Animals with 'human' abilities

 

Bacteria Thrive in Inner Elbow; No Harm Done

By NICHOLAS WADE

Even after you have washed the skin clean, there are still one million bacteria in every square centimeter of skin in the crook of your elbow. But they are not bad bacteria.

 

 

Everglades Park Counts the Good and the Bad After a Blaze

By DAMIEN CAVE

The largest fire to burn in the Everglades in 19 years threatened residential areas and destroyed growth, but also benefited the ecosystem.

 

 

 

Werhner von Braun: a 20th-century Faust, a man willing to work with an evil regime in return for the resources to carry out his cherished research... more»

 

 

 

The future looks different from the past, but on a grand cosmological scale, maybe it’s all the same. Somewhere, maybe time runs backwards... more»

 

 

 

Air France-KLM warns of 'awesome challenge' for industry
Malaise gripping U.S. airlines spreading around world
--Reuters

 

 

 

 

At the top of the tree in Kew

Gallery (9 pictures), New £3m treetop walkway to be unveiled at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

 

 

 

 

'Nimrod fleet was never airworthy'

Inquest coroner criticises fleet introduced in 1969

 

 

 

 

Telectroscope: London's window on New York

An extraordinary new device is allowing people in London to see their counterparts in New York peering back at them through a 'telescope'.