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One of the more spectacular events one can witness during spring, is the mating season of the American toads. Toronto’s High Park is one of the best places to witness it.

During the past few months, the Polarstern ploughed through the thick ice of the South Pole. Shortly before that, it was at the North Pole. It turns out that the North Pole is becoming warmer and that the South Pole is becoming colder.

Contrary to common belief, life may not be an unlikely event. Evidence is mounting that, on the contrary, life is an inevitable outcome of sufficiently complex chemical soups. Moreover, it arose incredibly early in the existence of our planet.

People can increase their intelligence by doing some simple memory training, reveals a study by Swiss and American researchers.

Forty years after it was predicted, it has finally arrived: the memristor, the fourth fundamental element of electronic circuits. Researchers predict that this will enable future computers to boot substantially faster than now.

If climate change interests you, as a believer or as a sceptic alike, this photo exhibit is for you. It features pictures of several regions at the coast, in the mountains and the forests of Peru.

The large pine forests in Western Canada are suffering from a gigantic beetle plague. As a result, they do not fix carbon but actually lose about 270 million tons of carbon.

Tyrannosaurus rex looks more like a chicken than like a frog. Genetically, that is. This was confirmed by a group of scientists of Harvard University.