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It’s hard to believe, but true: the demise of a tall, willowy plant called the glacier lily, that grows in mountain meadows throughout western North America, could mean the end of hummingbirds. It flowers early in spring, when the first bumblebees and hummingbirds appear–or it did, anyway. In Earth’s warming temperatures, its first blooms appear around 17 days earlier than they did in the 1970s. By the time the hummingbirds fly in, many of the flowers have withered away, their nectar-laden blooms going with them.
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A new study leads researchers to conclude that there is an extensive amount of water in the interior of Mars, a conclusion that is very different from earlier speculations. Astronomers discovered this by analyzing meteorites that originated from the surface of the planet.

In fact, the research suggests that the volume of water within the Martian mantle is similar to the volume of water in Earth’s upper mantle. In other words, there’s an equal amount of water on Mars, you just have to dig for it.
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Think your desk is filthy? What about your hotel room? We all hope the room we rent is clean and hygienic, but we have no way of knowing how clean it really is. If recommended NASA cleaning standards are adopted by hotel chains, you can be sure that your hotel is at least as clean as a spaceship.

When a group of researchers decided to find out by swabbing surfaces in hotel rooms in Indiana, Texas and South Carolina, they found the bedside lamp switch and the TV remote control were the areas where most of the bacteria were found.
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A member of the Russian parliament accused the Kremlin of using chemicals to induce the torrential downpours that soaked tens of thousands of demonstrators at an anti-Putin demonstration, causing them to disband more than an hour before the protest was scheduled to end. Opposition leader Ilya Ponomaryov wrote on his blog. "An anomalously high content of silver iodide" was found in rainwater collected during the day and analyzed by chemists.

But if Putin was a rainmaker, wouldn’t he do something about the drought that is destroying Russian agriculture?
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