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The missing Mars robot Beagle2 has been found on the surface of the Red Planet, apparently intact. The UK-led probe tried to make a soft touchdown on the dusty world on Christmas Day, 2003, using parachutes and airbags - but no radio contact was ever made with the probe.

Gold rush
The environmental problem of deforestation of the Amazon is well-known. Now ecologists are concerned about the destruction of the forest for gold.

Soil and antibiotics
The big medical crisis of our age is antibiotic resistance, where bacteria gradually develop resistance to the medication we rely on to cure infection. Most antibiotics were mined from nature, many from bacteria in soil. But our failure to successfully culture bacteria from soil has meant a dearth of new antibiotics for several decades. But last week a team in the US succeeded in isolating a new antibiotic, called takes-o-bactin, which kills the bacteria Staphylococcus aureus.

Pregnant women and Ebola
In West Africa, the death rate in pregnant women with Ebola is so high that the charity Medicins Sans Frontieres says that almost all the pregnant women they’ve treated have died. Staff attending births or miscarriages are also at particular risk of contracting the virus themselves. ´óÏó´«Ã½ reporter Tulip Mazumder has been to Freetown in Sierra Leone to visit the only treatment centre specially for pregnant women in Sierra Leone.

Animal personalities
Professor Adam Hart explores the newest area in the science of animal behaviour – the study of personality within species as diverse as chimpanzees, song birds, sharks and sea anemomes. What can this fresh field of zoology tells us about the variety of personality among humans?

China offers 'childbirth pain' lessons for men
A hospital in China is trying to teach fathers-to-be about the experience of giving birth. A simulator uses electric currents to stimulate the skin to recreate some of the pain of childbirth. Medical staff believe the experience will give men greater sympathy towards their partners.

Presenter: Claudia Hammond, with comments from Smitha Mundasad
Producer: Deborah Cohen

(Photo: Beagle2 with its system of deployable petal-like panels. Credit: European Space Agency)