London, Oct 16 : A rare tombstone that shows a Roman soldier with the severed head of a barbarian, has gone on permanent display at a museum in Lancaster, UK.

According to a report by BBC News, the tombstone, dating to around 100AD, was discovered in 2005.

It was found during an excavation in Aldcliffe Road by the Greater Manchester Archaeology Unit, which is based at the University of Manchester.

London, Oct. 16 : A huge growth in internet telephone traffic is jeopardising the capability of police to investigate almost every type of crime, including terror-related ones.

Senior sources have told The Times that as more and more phone calls are routed over the web – using software such as Skype – police are losing the ability to track who has called whom, from where and for how long.

The key difficulty facing police is that, unlike mobile phone companies, which retain call data for billing purposes, Internet call companies have no reason to keep the material.

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London, Oct 16 : It has been found that the body parts of the dwarf planet Haumea keep turning up in new places throughout the Kuiper belt, a ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune.

Haumea, previously known as 2003 EL61, was discovered in 2005. The oblong object is nearly as long as Pluto and is covered by almost pure water ice.

According to a report in New Scientist, Haumea seems to have led a very violent life, with its two moons likely forming in an ancient collision. 

The dwarf planet boasts two small moons thought to have been created after a collision with another denizen of the Kuiper belt billions of years ago.

London, Oct 16 : They say that long distances often help revive romance in a relationship, as lovers can’t stand the stress of being parted. Now, the notion has been backed by a scientific study, which suggests that grief is nature''s way of keeping couples together.

While working with one of nature’s only monogamous mammals, the prairie vole, as a model for human attachment, Larry Young from the Emory University School of Medicine in Georgia and Oliver Bosch from the University of Regensburg, Germany, examined the role of stress, which is plays a significant role in the grieving process.

Washington, Oct 16 : Researchers from NYU Langone Medical Centre have discovered that specific types of bacteria in the intestine trigger the production of pro-inflammatory immune cells, a finding that can lead to new therapies for inflammatory bowel disease.

In the study conducted using mouse model, the researchers found that

cytophaga-flavobacter-bacteroidetes (CFB) bacteria were associated with the creation of Th17 cells.

The bacteria play a crucial role in digestion and protect against pathogens by outcompeting harmful bacteria.

“It’s not the amount of microbial flora but the kind of microbial flora that seems to count,” said Dr. Dan Littman, NYU School of Medicine.