http://blogs.discovery.com – Analysis of a remarkable cluster of graves at a Stone Age burial site near Eulau, Germany, provides the oldest molecular genetic evidence for a nuclear family. The 13 graves, dating to 4,600 years ago, contained groups of adults and children buried facing each other – hands interlinked in many cases. The family members, ranging in age from very young children to adults 30 years and older, were interred simultaneously. Read more »

http://www.scientistlive.com – Scientist Live brings you all the latest science news and medical updates from around the globe. Read more »

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com – It’s been argued for years that Mars may have once had oceans of water, billions of years ago. Some catastrophe dried them up, making the evidence for them difficult to detect. Topographic (relief) maps look like there may have been two oceans in one spot, for example, separated by some time. There appear to be two separate shorelines, with one smaller, later ocean existing where there once had been a much larger ocean. Read more »

http://www.cnn.com – (CNN) -- Nearly half the respondents in a survey of U.S. primary care physicians said that they would seriously consider getting out of the medical business within the next three years if they had an alternative. Experts say if many physicians stop practicing, it could be devastating to the health care industry. Read more »

http://abcnews.go.com – Reporter's Notebook By JEFFREY KOFMAN BALSAS, Ecuador, Nov. 19, 2008 My left hand grabs the car seat, my right hand firmly clasps the handle above the passenger door inside our rented 4-by-4. We are bouncing our way up a deeply rutted road, passing banana trees and grazing donkeys. This is remote, rural southern Ecuador. A tropical Appalachia that until recently was cut off from the rest of the world. Read more »

http://www.850koa.com – Ashley Dupre, the woman at the center of the downfall of former New York Governor Elliot Spitzer comes clean in her first interview since the scandal broke. Read more »

http://news.ninemsn.com.au – A Northern Territory woman has endured a nightmare operation at Alice Springs Hospital after she became conscious during stomach surgery but remained paralysed by the anaesthetic. Read more »

http://www.boston.com – Several wildfires raged throughout Southern California this weekend, in the hills surrounding Los Angeles, burning some 35,000 acres (55 sq mi) and destroying around 1,000 homes as California's Fire Season extends toward becoming a year-round condition. Dry Santa Ana winds of up to 70 mph drove flames and embers across valleys and into neighborhoods, in some cases burning only a few homes, in others, wiping out entire communities. Read more »