Famous Lake Vostok in Antarctica disappointed scientists

In the mysterious subglacial reservoir in Antarctica have not yet found life. Famous Lake Vostok in Antarctica, alas, disappointed scientists. As Sergey Bulat, a member of the St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics and the team leader for the study of the extracted samples from the lake ice, they could not find traces of life.

Preliminary test results reported Oct. 18 in the journal Nature, with reference to Bulat. According to him, the upper layers of the lake, apparently, lifeless. The scientist added that it is still very preliminary results, in addition, it is hoped to detect micro-organisms in the deeper layers.

When it was hot in Antarctica

In some parts of the ancient Antarctica was once as warm as it is today on the coast of California and Florida. On this claim scientists in their research using a new method of measuring the temperature in the past.

The findings, published in April in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, stressing the potential to raise the temperature of the Earth's poles, as well as the associated risk of melting of the polar ice caps and rising sea levels.

The Dead Sea Scrolls

In Jerusalem at the Israel Museum with the support of the largest search engine Google had lined the World Wide Web photos Qumran manuscripts, which are better known under the name of Dead Sea Scrolls. From now on, every user of the web can study the ancient manuscripts that are available in very high resolution.Among the images: a large scroll and leaf Temple prophet Ishayagu.

Discovered the oldest tiger

In the journal plos one by scientists from the National Museum of Scotland Edinburgh published a detailed description of the oldest tiger skull found in China as early as 2004. Age finds roughly determined 2,16-2,55million years. Details reports LiveScience website .

Skull found in near the town of Lunan District in the northern Chinese province of Gansu , slightly less than the skull of modern tiger, but is almost identical with it in shape and already has all the typical tiger features, such as the nose and large udlinnenny lower fangs.

Scientists believe the birthplace of Indo-European

An international team of linguists and biologists found that the birthplace of Indo-European languages ​​is Anatolia . The work is published in the journal Science, a brief description leads The New York Times.

Studies led by biologist Quentin Atkinson from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. For the analysis of Indo-European languages, scientists have used methods developed for studying the evolution of species. The researchers analyzed the vocabulary 103 Indo-European languages, and data on their geographical distribution and historical development.

Scientists looked at the so-called cognates - cognates having a common origin and a similar sound in two or more languages. Cognates are words usually the least exposed to changes in the evolution of languages .Comparing the number of cognates in different languages, the researchers were able to estimate the extent of their relationship, likening thus cognates genes and differences cognates mutations.

Discovered an ancient tomb of the unknown queen

Burial refers to the period of the Old Kingdom of the third millennium BC.

Czech archaeologists discovered an ancient tomb in Egypt previously unknown queen of the Fifth Dynasty. The tomb, whose age exceeds 4 greatly thousands of years, has been found in the Abu Cyr necropolis southwest of Cairo. Presumably, a noble woman was the wife of Pharaoh Neferefre or mother of Pharaoh Menkaure.

The name of the queen was previously unknown. Vystu paya with soobsch eniem o podtver divsheysya nahodke, ministr drevnostey and naslediya Egipta El Mamduh-Damati soobschil, chto on vnutrenney stene usypalnitsy udalos obnaruzhit nadpis with oboznacheniem imeni tsaritsy. Scientists have identified it as Kentakvess third.

Archaeologists have found a treasure with ornaments Mansi

Tyumen archeologists excavated near St. Andrew's Lake and got a boiler with two pounds of jewelry Mansi peoples.

The staff and students of the Tyumen State Academy of Culture and Arts, going on an archaeological expedition to the St. Andrew's Lake near Tyumen, did not even know that in the end will make a real discovery.

During the excavations they found leaky copper pot, which contained two kilograms of silver jewelry.