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An analysis by Sweden’s Karolinska Institute has linked neuro-developmental disorder autism to much shorter lifespan and the alarming sign is high risk of suicide among individuals suffering from autism spectrum disorder. People with autism die at a young age, some 12 to 30 years earlier compared to normal age for other individuals, as per the study.

Study researchers examining mortality trends among autistic individuals have found that major cause of death in adults with the condition isn’t a disease, but suicide. Detailed study results have been published in the British Journal of Psychiatry.

The listeria outbreak in recent years has been associated with Miller's Organic Farm in Bird-In-Hand, Pennsylvania. The raw milk sold by the farm to people who were drinking unpasteurized milk, could have been the cause of infection. The cases of listeria infection have been reported since 2014. However, the cause was discovered only after when two patients got sick from the bacteria and one of them died.

Most recent outbreak of disease includes one case from California and another from Florida and the latter one died. The Pennsylvanian organic farm was held responsible for causing infection by The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday.

Thousands of carcasses of sea birds discovered at the Alaskan lake have left biologists wondering about the reason behind the same. The common murres, which are not much seen at the lake, come flocking there in winters in search of food. Biologists opine that they could have died because of one or more reasons which could be lack of food, the weather, or some disease. However, that ultimate cause of mass death of the species in the region is yet unknown.

In Collier County, researchers have been keeping track of Burmese pythons under an ongoing study over their cryptic habits. During a time period of just three months, they have bagged over 2,000 pounds of snakes.

They have bagged many snakes with a monster among them that is 16 feet long and has a weight of 140 pounds, which as per researchers has set a new state record for the biggest male caught.

For the project, Conservancy of Southwest Florida biologist Ian Bartoszek collaborated with Denison University biologist Paul Andreadis, the Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve and the United States Geological Survey. The biologist Bartoszek called it kind of jaw-dropping discovery.

As part of a new proposal, Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, which includes the prominent detention center, may get transformed into a marine conservation area and an international peace park. The transformation would be undertaken once the inmates vacate the place.

The proposal has appeared in the journal Science on Thursday. It is considering the fate of the base keeping in mind the recent thaw in Cuba and the United States relations and the impending historic visit of President Obama.

In a telephone interview with The Christian Science Monitor, co-author Joe Roman, a conservation biologist at the University of Vermont said that the US embassy in Cuba is now open, and thus more business and tourists will come, placing more pressure on coastal systems.

Seismologist Lucy Jones, who was the face of earthquake science and safety in Southern California for a long time, will shortly retire from the US Geological Survey.

On Friday, in a Twitter post, Jones shared that though she is leaving federal service but will stay there at the California Institute of Technology, where she is serving as a research associate.

Since long, it was Jones to whom the public looked up to at the time of earth shakes. She was always there in front of news cameras at the Caltech seismology lab, explaining magnitudes, errors and other information.