Fourth dwarf named
A new dwarf planet has been recognised by the International Astronomical Union. Makemake was discovered in 2005 beyond Pluto, a location which also makes it a plutoid. Named after a creator god of Polynesian mythology, it joins the same classification as Pluto, Eris and the asteroid Ceres.
Hopper hope
Frog mass extinctions could be halted through captive breeding programmes, thanks to the discovery of gene variants that make tadpoles resistant to a bacterium implicated in their global decline. The variants were found in the tadpoles of African clawed frogs exposed to the Aeromonas hydrophila bacteria (PLoS One…
