"Planet Venus: Earth's 'evil twin'":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4335628.stm
Even if nothing new has happened with Venus lately and this article is mostly an overview of our knowledge, I still found it interesting (and I do follow cosmology stuff well enough). Anything that says something about 'metallic mist' isn't all bad.
Thanks for the thread Alexander! Your contributions are always appreciated here at 4-ch.net.