NEWSMAKERS: ========= Australians have just experienced the warmest September since records began, with temperatures almost 3 degrees Celsius above the long-term average. The latest record also makes the past 12 months the warmest documented and 2013 will likely be the hottest calendar year in Australia, surpassing 2005. Climate change is increasing the risk of more frequent and longer heatwaves and more extreme hot days, as well as exacerbating bushfire conditions in Australia. Read more: bit.ly/1cinY1m, bit.ly/1e1QSRw The image shows the maximum temperature deciles across Australia for September 2013, showing which areas are the highest on record. Credit: Australian Bureau of Meteorology >>>>>> 4000 year old preserved brain is one of the oldest ever found: A brain was found in a Bronze Age settlement in western Turkey which is thought to have been flattened in an earthquake, with people buried before fire spread through the rubble. The flames would have consumed all oxygen and boiled the brains in their own fluids. The lack of moisture and oxygen then prevented tissue breakdown, and the chemistry of the soil also aided the preservation of the shape of the soft brain tissue. Read more: bit.ly/GDrDtI >>>>>> James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas Sudhof jointly won the 2013 Nobel Prize For Physiology or Medicine on Monday. The trio earned the prize for their discoveries of machinery regulating vesicle traffic and for solving "the mystery of how the cell organizes its transport system," the Nobel Prize Twitter feed reported. Rothman is a professor and chairman in the department of cell biology at Yale University. Schekman is a professor in the department of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley. Sudhof is a professor of molecular and cellular physiology at Stanford University.
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