In this week’s Tuesday Science News we’re adding some multimedia. Enjoy!

Climate research in a quarter of the Indian Ocean has been shut down by pirates. Now the scientists are hoping to work with the US and Australian navies for the deployment of 20 robotic instruments. (Source)

Borneo’s rainbow toad was thought to be extinct, especially since the last sighting was in 1924 until a team of scientists found three of these toads recently.

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A species of tree dwelling lizards from Puerto Rico has now demonstrated some simple problem solving skills. Six of these lizards were able to remove a plastic cover to access the food hidden beneath it. When they switched which style cover hid the food they caught on very slow. This puts them behind crows and primates for problem solving skills, but it’s still a pretty elite club.

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A new strain of gonorrhea has been identified in Japan which is resistant to all existing antibiotics. There’s also a strain in the US that can only be treated with cephalosporins. This is definitely a good reminder of why it’s always good to wear a condom with a partner of unknown serology. (Source)

Some recent trials in Africa have shown that the daily prophylactic use of a combination of tenofovir and emtricitabine known as Truvada reduced the risk of a HIV negative partner contracting HIV from their positive partner by 73%. The effectiveness was equal in both men and women, a first for HIV prevention drugs. The results were so impressive that they ethically had to cut the trial short and get the people on the placebo on to the real drugs. (Source)

NASA’s Dawn probe entered orbit around Vesta, the brightest and one of the largest objects in the Asteroid Belt, on July 16. It will spend about a year there before moving on to Ceres. This is the first step in the preparation to have astronauts on an asteroid by 2025.

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With the Space Shuttle program ending with the return of Atlantis, NASA is privatizing orbital spaceflight. They were providing seed money for several projects, including Boeing’s CST-100 seen in the below video video. This is in part to free up NASA’s resources to focus on such projects as sending astronauts to asteroids and Mars in the next few decades.

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Russia has launched a radio telescope that will orbit near the moon and pair with several Earth bound radio telescopes to produce 10,000 times the resolution of Hubble. (Source)