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Something’s Fishy on Mars

JPL scientists call one of the strange objects observed on Mars the “Sushi Stone” because of its odd shape and unusual marks. Another has two prongs and looks like some sort of bizarre fossil. It’s supposed to be a fragment of the lander’s airbag, although there isn’t a trace of a mark in the soil anywhere near it. A third, microscopic object, is so beautifully rounded that it appears machined. Not only that, Europe’s Mars Express has returned numerous images that appear to show traces of water, and one that might reveal standing water in a deep canyon.
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New research shows that our brains help make us fat, because they think of our obese bodies as normal, so they don’t stop craving food. And there?s a country in the world where fat is considered beautiful, and women go to special camps to be “fattened up” before marriage.
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A new form of bird flu, different from the Asian strain, has turned up in the U.S. As scientists worry that bird flu in Asia may have mutated and become contagious, they are looking at what happened in the past. In 1918, the worst flu epidemic in history killed 50,000,000 people worldwide, caused by a flu virus that jumped from birds to humans.

Researcher John Skehel says, “If we find that the structure of a bird virus resembles that of the structure of the 1918 virus that we have determined, then we will know that it potentially poses a threat to man, and it will have to be kept under more active surveillance than usual.”
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