Jungle delights

Jungle delights

Twelve scientists from Indonesia, Australia and the US recently returned from a two-week trek through the Foja Mountains in the Indonesian west of New Guinea. Their finds have yet to be evaluated and officially classified by experts around the world, but a preliminary count of new species includes one bird, four butterflies, five palms, one flower, four or five mammals, and 20 frogs — close to ...

Small delights

A display of 22 award-winning biomedical images went on display last month, winners of the Wellcome Image Awards for 2008. The exhibition recognises scientists who have created stunning and beautiful images as part of their own research but made them available for public use through the Wellcome Library’s image repository, Wellcome Images. The images have been selected by a panel including the ...

The garden of antimicrobial delights

Major advances in genomics, cloning and chemistry will re-stock the dwindling supply of effective antimicrobials and meet the threat of antibiotic resistance development.

The Garden of Earthly Delights

The Garden of Earthly Delights, Oil-on-wood triptych, 220 x 389 cm. Museo del Prado The Garden of Earthly Delights is a triptych painted by the early Netherlandish master Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516), housed in the Museo del Prado in Madrid since 1939. Dating from between 1490 and 1510, when Bosch was about 40 or 50 years old,[1] it is his best-known[2] and most ambitious work.[3] The master...

Jungle Days