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• Birds defy gravity, but not by flying

  Waders consume prey in droplets lifted from the water.

  15 May 2008

• Spot the spacecraft

  Scientists hope the public can help find the Mars Polar Lander's resting place in released images.

  14 May 2008

• Flights of green fancy

  Air travel shows no sign of losing its allure but its environmental impact is not going to go away. Katharine Sanderson looks at some of the ways that scientists and engineers hope to reduce the carbon wing-print of aircraft.

  14 May 2008

• The hot new nanotech: testing chillies

  Nanotubes could give cooks a cheap device to rate their chillies.

  12 May 2008

• Don't turn your nose up at mouse urine

  Urinary proteins are key to ultra-sensitive artificial noses.

  09 May 2008

• Incubators seen to change babies' heartbeats

  Could the electromagnetic fields of incubator motors affect babies' health?

  01 May 2008

• Waste concrete could help to lock up carbon

  Old building sites could help to remove CO₂ from the atmosphere.

  02 April 2008

• Shocking the nose into action

  An electric shock helps people to better discriminate between smells.

  27 March 2008

• Mars rovers under strain from cuts

  Overspending on a new rover threatens other Mars projects at NASA.

  25 March 2008

• How pollution can help to clean the air

  Hydroxyl radicals, nature's atmospheric scrubbers, are produced by nitrogen pollution too.

  20 March 2008