Rock mining with microbes may aid space explorers UK scientists show how astronauts on the Moon or Mars could one day mine for metals using bacteria. Source
Hurricane season: Record number of named Atlantic storms Theta is the 29th Atlantic storm this hurricane season and another system is forming in the Caribbean. Source
Two-million-year-old skull of human ‘cousin’ unearthed The fossil from a large-toothed species helps shed more light on how humans evolved, researchers say. Source