science news 8.10.2019

Today's selection of science news. Links are normally to press releases on EurekAlert (at the bottom end I may also add a couple of newspaper stories). I include quotes from the summary in italics in cases where the title alone doesn't reveal what the story is about. My own thoughts appear without italics if I have any.


solar system

Saturn surpasses Jupiter after the discovery of 20 new moons


evolution

Archaea hold clues to ancient ocean temperatures

The last mammoths died on a remote island


ecology

How plants react to fungi


climate change

Dual approach needed to save sinking cities and bleaching corals

Disappearing Peruvian glaciers


health

Novel compound interrupts malaria parasite's lifecycle


humans

Early humans evolved in ecosystems unlike any found today

Early hunter-gatherers interacted much sooner than previously believed
A nearly 4,000-year-old burial site found off the coast of Georgia hints at ties between hunter-gatherers on opposite sides of North America