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| October 15, 2013 |
 Hunters and farmers lived side-by-side for 2,000 years London, UK (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Hunter-gatherers and immigrant farmers lived side-by-side for more than 2,000 years in Central Europe, before the hunter-gatherer communities died out or were absorbed into the farming population. In a paper published in Science, researchers describe their analysis of DNA and isotopes from human bones found in the 'Blatterhohle' cave near Hagen in Germany, where both hunter-gatherers and f ... more |  |
 Want ripples on your icicles then add salt Toronto, Canada (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Though it's barely the beginning of autumn, scientists at the University of Toronto are one step closer to explaining why winter's icicles form with Michelin Man-like ripples on their elongated shapes. Experimental physicist Stephen Morris and PhD candidate Antony Szu-Han Chen were spurred to investigate by the ripples that appear around the circumference of icicles that occur naturally. I ... more |  |
Complex relationship between phosphorus and nitrogen removal in lakes Minneapolis MN (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - In the land of 10,000 lakes, one lake has been the starting place for research with implications for big lakes around the world. According to a study published online this week in Science, University of Minnesota researchers, building from studies of nitrogen levels in Lake Superior, uncovered a good news/bad news scenario for lake health that has long-term, global implications for pollution con ... more |  |
 Badgers ultimately responsible for around half of TB in cattle London, UK (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Badgers are ultimately responsible for roughly half of tuberculosis (TB) in cattle in areas with high TB prevalence, according to new estimates. However, only around six per cent of infected cattle catch TB from badgers, with onward transmission between cattle herds accounting for the remainder, the study suggests. The findings are published in the journal PLOS Currents: Outbreaks. T ... more |  |
 Football-shaped particles bolster the body's defense against cancer Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - Researchers at Johns Hopkins have succeeded in making flattened, football-shaped artificial particles that impersonate immune cells. These football-shaped particles seem to be better than the typical basketball-shaped particles at teaching immune cells to recognize and destroy cancer cells in mice. "The shape of the particles really seems to matter because the stretched, ellipsoidal partic ... more |  |
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 Iron in the Earth's core weakens before melting London, UK (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - The iron in the Earth's inner core weakens dramatically before it melts, explaining the unusual properties that exist in the moon-sized solid centre of our planet that have, up until now, been difficult to understand. Scientists use seismic waves - pulses of energy generated during earthquakes - to measure what is happening in the Earth's inner core, which at 6000 km beneath our feet is co ... more |  |
 3D model reveals new information about iconic volcano Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Oct 15, 2013 - The volcano on the Scottish peninsula Ardnamurchan is a popular place for the study of rocks and structures in the core of a volcano. Geology students read about it in text books and geologists have been certain that the Ardnamurchan volcano have three successive magma chambers. However, an international group of researchers, lead from Uppsala University, Sweden, has now showed that the volcano ... more |  |
Mass evacuations in Vietnam for typhoon Nari Hanoi (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Vietnam is evacuating tens of thousands of people in the path of Typhoon Nari, state media said Monday, after the powerful storm left 13 dead in the Philippines. Nari is expected to slam into central Vietnam on Tuesday morning, after ripping off rooftops, toppling trees and triggering flash floods in the northern Philippines over the weekend. "Very strong winds are expected from later Mo ... more |  |
Conflict and clashes over China's prized caterpillar fungus Tongren, China (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - In a dirty, dimly-lit room in a backstreet of one of China's poorest rural towns, a trader combs his leathery fingers through a $17,000 bag of caterpillar fungus, lamenting the curse that its value has wrought. The parasitic fungus, Cordyceps sinensis to science, only exists high on the Tibetan plateau, where it grows through the body of its host - the ghost moth caterpillar - killing it a ... more |  |
 Russia keeps Greenpeace ship captain behind bars Moscow (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - A Russian court on Monday rejected bail requests from the captain of a Greenpeace ship and a young female Argentinian activist involved in a protest against oil drilling in the Russian Arctic. A court in the northern region of Murmansk where the 30 crew members of the Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise are being held ruled that the ship's captain Pete Willcox, 60, and Camila Speziale, 21, should ... more |  |
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 Italy deploys drones, warships after refugee tragedies Rome (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Italy on Monday said it was deploying drones and warships in a large-scale high seas patrol mission to scare people smugglers amid a growing influx of asylum seekers crossing the Mediterranean. "We have given the go-ahead to Operation Mare Nostrum (Our Sea)," Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said after a government meeting, following two refugee shipwreck disasters this month. Defence M ... more |  |
 Somali pirates on trial for seizing French yacht Rennes, France (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Three Somali pirates went on trial Monday for the 2009 hijacking of a French yacht which prompted a rescue operation by elite forces in which the skipper died. French troops stormed the Tanit sailboat on April 10, 2009 and captured the trio during a bid to free Florent Lemacon, his wife, their three-year-old son and two others. French commandos killed two pirates but also accidentally sh ... more |  |
India, US trying to hamper Pakistan quake relief: top militant Islamabad (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - The founder of a militant Islamist group blamed for the 2008 Mumbai attacks Monday accused the US and India of trying to hamper efforts to help victims of Pakistan's earthquake. Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, who has a $10 million US government bounty on his head, said joint US-Indian efforts to block funds for his Jamat-ud-Dawa (JuD) organisation were aimed at stopping its relief work in Baluchistan ... more |  |
 Antarctic ozone hole linked to warming in southern Africa Bindura, Zimbabwe (UPI) Oct 14, 2013 - A decades-long warming trend in southern Africa is likely the result of the ozone hole over the Antarctic and its effect on wind circulation, researchers say. In early summer southern Africa is affected by what is known as the Angola Low, a low-pressure system that pulls in warm air from the lower latitudes, increasing temperatures. But during the past 20 years, the researchers s ... more |  |
India cyclone survivors return home to destruction Gopalpur, India (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Hundreds of thousands of people who fled India's strongest cyclone in 14 years returned home to scenes of devastation Monday, as a massive relief operation kicked into gear. Teams raced to restore power and other services after the cyclone struck India's eastern coast on Saturday, killing at least 22 people and leaving a trail of destruction. Cyclone Phailin pounded the states of Orissa ... more |  |
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 Maldives president bows out of election Male, Maldives (UPI) Oct 14, 2013 - Maldivian President Mohamed Waheed has withdrawn from the presidential election after a poor showing in the first round of voting, which courts have annulled. Waheed, who was installed after an alleged coup ousted President Mohamed Nasheed in February 2012, took 5 percent of votes and came in last in the contest. His decision not to remain in the race comes after the Supreme Cour ... more |  |
 Rare mosquito fossil shows female's blood-filled belly Washington (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - A unique 46-million-year-old mosquito fossil with a belly full of dried blood has been found in a Montana riverbed, US researchers said Monday. "It is an extremely rare fossil, the only one of its kind in the world," said Dale Greenwalt, lead author of the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Cutting-edge instruments detected the unmistakable traces of iron in he ... more |  |
Living descendants of 5,300-year-old 'Iceman' identified Innsbruck, Austria (UPI) Oct 14, 2013 - Scientists say DNA analysis allowed them to identify 19 living Austrian men related Oetzi the Iceman, whose 5,300-year-old frozen body was found in the Alps. Researchers at the Institute of Legal Medicine at Innsbruck Medical University said the DNA tests were taken from blood donors in Tyrol. The men who matched the Iceman's DNA have not been informed of the connection, the BBC reporte ... more |  |
Mexico issues warning ahead of Tropical Storm Octave Mexico City (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - The Mexican government issued a tropical storm warning Monday as Octave took aim at an already disaster-weary Mexico, while a second storm, Priscilla, strengthened far out to sea. Tropical Storm Octave, with winds of up to 60 miles (96 kilometers) per hour, was expected to approach the west coast of Baja California late Monday and Tuesday, US National Hurricane Center said in its latest advi ... more |  |
 Taiwan looks to first vaccine against fatal H7N9 avian flu Taipei (AFP) Oct 14, 2013 - Taiwan is scheduled to roll out its first vaccine against the H7N9 strain of avian flu in late 2014, after the island confirmed the first outbreak of the deadly virus earlier this year, researchers said Monday. Health authorities in Taiwan confirmed in April that a 53-year-old Taiwanese man, who had been working in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou, showed symptoms three days after returnin ... more |  |
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