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A newly described snake from the forests of New Guinea has been given a name familiar to rock fans around the world. Scientists have named the non-venomous species Lielaphis slashi, or Slash's groundsnake, after Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash, whose real name is Saul Hudson.

Scientists at IIT Madras have built the IntelliSeat, a smart driver's seat that senses fatigue from the way a person sits and warns them before a crash. Here is how the wireless seat works, the science of muscle fatigue behind it, and why it could make India's roads safer.

Thousands of hours of rainforest recordings are helping scientists teach artificial intelligence to recognise Amazonian birds that can be difficult to identify by sound alone. In Colombia, Cornell researchers have been collecting acoustic data from cattle ranches, rubber agroforestry plots and forest to build a clearer picture of which species are using each landscape.

For more than a century, a frog living across the forests of western Ecuador and southern Colombia carried the wrong scientific name. It was not hidden in some unexplored corner of the rainforest, either.

For centuries, lake sturgeon have moved quietly through the rivers and lakes of the Great Lakes region, growing slowly and aging in a way that has been difficult to measure. Their lives can stretch far beyond those of most freshwater fish, but just how far has remained uncertain.

A $12 million research project at Penn State is trying to give drones a new way of making decisions, drawing inspiration from the small brains of insects and other animals. Funded by the US Army's Army Research Laboratory, the project aims to develop an onboard sensing system that can pick out useful information without sending large amounts of data to external computers.

Dry air is not completely without water. There is moisture suspended in the atmosphere even when rainfall is scarce, and 13-year-old Aniket Sarkar wanted to find out whether some of it could be recovered for agriculture.

Nearly 400 fossils discovered in southern France are giving scientists a detailed view of marine life that lived close to the South Pole about 470 million years ago. The fossils belong to the newly described Cabrieres Biota, an Early Ordovician fossil site in the Montagne Noire that preserves both hard-bodied animals and delicate soft tissues.

Training a rhesus monkey to sit calmly in one place for a routine health check can be difficult, especially when the animal lives in a busy social group. Removing one monkey from its companions can cause stress and disrupt the group, so researchers tested whether the animals could instead be taught to walk to their own individual station and remain there voluntarily.

Scientists have taken a cue from elephants to develop a material that may hold the key to fighting extreme heat which is becoming frequent as the planet continues to warm.