ROME: Rosy-cheeked cherubs surrounded by blues, reds and golds have lost none of their brilliance in 17th-century frescoes discovered behind a false ceiling at the Villa Farnesina palace in Rome.

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This underwater plant captures tiny aquatic prey, like insect larvae, with vacuum-like traps that snap shut within milliseconds, sucking in anything that triggers its trapdoor mechanism. A distant ...