Archives: July2009

• SPACE PHOTOS THIS WEEK: Lightning, Star Twins, More

  The earliest stars may have been twins, the newest Mars rover gets a massive heat shield, lightning strikes the space shuttle launch pad—and it’s all pictured in the week’s best space images.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• PANGOLIN PHOTOS: Fetus Soup, Other “Cures” Drive Trade

  Warning: disturbing images. Asian demand for whole-pangolin-fetus soup, pangolin-scale “medicines,” and other concoctions is driving these scaly anteaters to the edge of extinction, a new report says.

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

• THE ROUNDUP: Science and Nature News Around the Web

  Giant worm hunt is on; probe hints at past ocean on Venus; dinosaurs dug to avoid the cold; and more.