Elephant Legs Are Much Bendier Than Shakespeare Thought

African elephants equate roads to poachers
New roads across Central Africa are forcing forest elephants into smaller habitat areas, experts found. It's not vehicles that are a danger, but the fact that roads bring in poachers.

Researchers Document World's Mammals In Crisis
From majestic African elephants to tiny and often unappreciated rodents, mammals on Earth are in a state of crisis. One in four mammal species on Earth is being pushed to extinction,...

Ivory Poaching At Critical Levels: Elephants On Path...
African elephants are being slaughtered for their ivory at a pace unseen since an international ban on the ivory trade took effect in 1989, but a conservation biologist believes there is...

Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love
"If you want flashes and particular experiences of romantic love, read novels. If you want to understand this central quality of human nature to its roots, read Why We Love." —Edward O....

The Perfect Machine: Building the Palomar Telescope
Almost a half-century after is completion, the 200-inch Palomar telescope remains an unparalleled combination of vast scale and microscope detail. As huge as the Pantheon of Rome and as heavy...