How the flu vaccine turned out to be a poor match for this year's flu

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Friday, December 5, 2014 View in browser |  View text version How the flu vaccine turned out to be a poor match for this year's flu When it comes to developing a seasonal flu vaccine, researchers must take aim at an invisible target. SCIENCE     King Richard III's DNA opens a door to a new historical mystery It's a 500-year-old missing persons case, and researchers say it has now been solved, definitively. SCIENCE NOW Human ancestors developed a taste for alcohol 10 million years ago Happy hour started way earlier than we thought. ›  Asteroids, asteroids will rock you, Queen guitarist warns ›  A contest to build high-flying airships? NASA's thinking about it ENVIRONMENT What doomed the American mastodon? Was it over overkill or overchill? Meat-hungry humanity has long been suspected of hunting North American megafauna to extinction, but new research suggests that Homo sapiens... ›  2014 set to be hottest year on record, U.N. climate agency reports ›  How much precipitation do we need to end the drought? ADVERTISEMENT HEALTH AND MEDICINE CDC: Dominance of H3N2 viruses may portend more deaths this flu season The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a warning for Americans: Get ready for a potentially nasty flu season. ›  7.6% of Americans are depressed, but few seek mental health treatment ›  Circumcision cited as defense against HIV in proposed CDC guidelines HIGHLIGHTS   Oldest art ever? Zigzags on a clam shelll are more than 400,000 years old       Scientists say that a series of marks carved onto a freshwater clam shell represent the earliest known engravings made by a human ancestor. ›  To prevent or reverse obesity and its ills, timing may be everything ›  L. Stephen Coles dies at 73; studied extreme aging in humans