A Canadian-led team of paleontologists has discovered the oldest dinosaur nursery ever found. At the 190-million-year-old site in South Africa, there are at least 10 nests containing the fossil eggs and embryos of a plant-eating dinosaur called Massospondylus. The site even includes the tiny fossil footprints of the newly-hatched babies. Dr. Robert Reisz of the University of Toronto Mississauga says the site provides a wealth of surprising, new information about early dinosaurs, including evidence that they nested in groups, returned to the same nesting site year after year, and likely cared for their young.

A good site for a big ground-based telescope is at high altitude, has clear skies with little air turbulence. Mauna Kea, the Hawaiian volcano has these conditions, and most of the world's largest telescopes are situated there. Astronomers are, however, considering other sites for star-gazing, and one of the best places might be the Canadian High Arctic. Dr. Eric Steinbring, an astronomer with the National Research Council's Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, has been looking at mountaintop sites on Ellesmere Island, north of 80 degrees, where skies are cool and clear, and where there is the additional advantage of a starry night that lasts months at a time.

In the summer of 2011, an international team of  scientists went to Borneo to study the diversity and abundance of animals in Borneo's Wehea Forest, an area the local community was trying to preserve from logging and development. Among the scientists was Brent Loken, a PhD student from the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, B.C. Mr. Loken was hoping to study the little-known clouded leopard, and camera traps were set up to capture images of the elusive cat.  However, when the images from the camera were reviewed, a mysterious monkey seemed to be making regular appearances. This monkey turned out to be the Miller's grizzled langur, which had been thought to be extinct. 

People have been practicing various forms of meditation for thousands of years, and recently psychologists have been giving new attention to some forms of the practice for their value in calming the mind and reducing anxiety. Dr. Judson Brewer, Medical Director of the Yale Therapeutic Neuroscience clinic at Yale University in Connecticut, was interested in whether meditation's effects were reflected in brain activity. Using Functional MRI imaging he studied experienced and novice meditators, and found that meditation did seem to reduce activity in parts of the brain associated with mind wandering and extraneous and often negative, thoughts.