Russian scientists use a mass spectrometer to look inside an ancient Greek amphora and other top stories.

• Russian scientists use a mass spectrometer to look inside an ancient Greek amphora

  Russian scientists have identified the components of the oldest bitumen sample to be found in an ancient vase and made an accurate estimate of its age. In their article in the Journal of Mass Spectrometry, the researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), the Institute for the History of Material Culture, the Talrose Institute for Energy Problems of Chemical Physics, and the Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Ph..

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• Bornean orangutan, whale shark and widehead shark on verge of extinction

  

  Habitat loss and hunting threaten to wipe out the charismatic Bornean orangutan, a leading conservationist body said on Friday. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) based near Geneva, Switzerland also said that the world's largest fish, the majestic whale shark, and a hammerhead shark species are now endangered. The IUCN issued a new "Red List," identifying the Bornean orangutan as "Critically Endangered," or on the verge of extinction. It stated the whale shark and w..

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• Capercaillie numbers surge dramatically Forest Enterprise Scotland recognised

  

  The capercaillie, also known as the wood grouse, has made a remarkable comeback in a part of Scotland – the spectacular population surge has been recognised by the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management (CIEEM), which has given a top award to Forest Enterprise Scotland. Forest Enterprise Scotland has been awarded CIEEM’s prestigious Corporate Achievement Award for its outstanding 15-year successful effort to integrate the production of timber and recreation with capercailli..

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• Neanderthal the Cannibal: Species Ate Dead as Funeral Rite

  

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• Dawn maps Ceres craters where ice can accumulate

  

  Scientists with NASA's Dawn mission have identified permanently shadowed regions on the dwarf planet Ceres. Most of these areas likely have been cold enough to trap water ice for a billion years, suggesting that ice deposits could exist there now. "The conditions on Ceres are right for accumulating deposits of water ice," said Norbert Schorghofer, a Dawn guest investigator at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. "Ceres has just enough mass to hold on to water molecules, and the permanently shadowe..

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• How Nasa's Jupiter probe could be about to solve the solar system's biggest mystery of all

  

  Most importantly, that mission hinted at the strength of Jupiter’s invisible magnetosphere - the vast magnetic field that surrounds it, full of charged particles from the sun, nearby planets and cosmic radiation. Researchers have since theorised there must be a solid body beneath Jupiter’s storm clouds in order to create this magnetosphere - so big that, if visible, it would appear the size of two full moons in the sky from Earth. Six years after Pioneer 10 came Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, which r..

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• Could Saturn's moon Titan support life, even without water?

  

  When Kurt Vonnegut’s protagonist, Malachi Constant, travelled to the surface of Saturn’s moon Titan, he found the source of his destiny. New research focused on Titan, using data from the Cassini spacecraft and the Huygens probe, has added more credence to theories that Titan may also be another kind of source – a moon with potential to give rise to life.A study released this week by researchers at Cornell University suggests that prebiotic chemical conditions may exist on Titan's surface due t..

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