They might not get as much attention as the Amazon Rainforest or the Great Barrier Reef, but the mountains of the Philippines are one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. Inch for inch, these misty cloud forests are home to more unique species of mammals per square mile than anywhere else on Earth. Finding these mammals, most of which are tiny and hard to spot, is difficult work for even the most seasoned scientists. But the late biologist Danilo Balete had a special knack for field work. One of the mice he discovered has been revealed to be not just a new species, but a whole new genus. And preserving this mouse might be the key to saving endangered Philippine giant eagles that share its habitat.

As technology progresses, devices are getting smaller, low-cost, and more efficient. The advent of Internet of Things (IoT) has made researchers explore ways to make sensors more compact and portable. In a new study, researchers from Chung-Ang University, Korea have developed a device that is operable via breathing and can, therefore, be integrated into gas masks. This device is capable of powering LEDs and Bluetooth trackers, and can monitor breathing patterns and chemical warfare agents.

An analysis of bumblebee wings from a network of UK museums shows signs of stress linked to increasingly hotter and wetter conditions.

Now, researchers at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) have shown that “seeding” electrodes with lithium ions can help increase the host’s lithium selectivity and repel unwanted elements. Their findings were published in Nature Communications.

All children born before full term are more likely to have poorer attainment during primary school compared with children born full term (39-41 weeks), but only children born very preterm—before 32 weeks— remain at risk of poor attainment at the end of secondary schooling, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Neora Alterman, Maria Quigley of Oxford Population Health, U.K., and colleagues.