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Ebola is again in news. Royal Free Hospital in London revealed on Wednesday that a nurse from Scotland who had recovered from deadly Ebola disease months ago is back in hospital, and this time, she is critically ill.

Scientists studying the disease knew that the virus can remain in a patient’s certain tissues of the body for some months. As per Wednesday’s report of The New England Journal of Medicine, traces of Ebola virus have been found in some men’s semen a few months after they fell ill. Another report of the journal reported that a survivor of Ebola in Liberia transmitted the disease to sexual partner about six months after the disease’s symptoms.

Scientists have uncovered a group of baby duck-billed dinosaurs from a slab of rock in a part of Mongolia that is quite fossil-rich, known as Dragon's Tomb. The remains were found near the fragments of eggshell indicating that the dinosaur babies were in the earliest stages of development.

As per the researchers, these fossils belonged to a group known as Saurolophus angustirostris. It is being considered that all of these creatures were from the same nest.

For now, the researchers are not sure about the fact that whether the creatures were still in the eggs or died just after they hatched. But the researchers are sure of one thing that they were dead and partly decomposed when they were buried.

The image that has won the first prize in the 2015 Nikon Small World Photomicrography Competition is a close-up of bee's eyes. In all, over 2,000 photographs were submitted for the competition. Of them, 20 were selected as winners.

The first prize winner is Australian photomicrographer Ralph Grimm, who shared that he has spent four hours to capture the beautiful shot. "In a way I feel as though this gives us a glimpse of the world through the eye of a bee. It's a subject of great sculptural beauty", affirmed Grimm.

The second winner's photo gives a closer look at a mouse colon. Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine in California have submitted the photo that shows the rodent colon has colonized with human microbiota.

Forty-seven teeth have been found in a cave in southern China. As per archaeologists, the teeth belong to Homo sapiens and will help them know something new about ancient humans. The teeth date back 80,000 to 120,000 years.

The researchers said these teeth have been rewriting the story of how modern humans spread out of Africa. The research paper published in the journal Nature has unveiled that modern humans are supposed to have arrived in Asia 50,000 years ago.

A video released by National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) showed a full and accurate map of Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System. According to the US space agency, it is the first-ever fully rotating map of the planet.

The video includes images of the fifth planet from the sun, which were captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a space telescope in low earth orbit that has been keeping an eye on Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune from a long time.

Researchers have unearthed an ancient fossil of a cute furball. The creature, known as Spinolestes xenarthrosus, was discovered by researchers in Las Hoyas Quarry in Spain. The discovery has been published in the journal Nature.

Dr Zhe-Xi Luo, researcher from the University of Chicago and co-author of the new discovery, said Spinolestes xenarthrosus is a spectacular discovery by the researchers. Unearthed remains of the creature are perfectly preserved skin and hair structures. "This Cretaceous furball displays the entire structural diversity of modern mammalian skin and hairs. The specimen's liver, lung and diaphragm tissues were found intact, as well as fur, spines and scales", the co-author added.