A British Museum curator was sacked after the disappearance of jewellery and gems. His son says his father “hasn’t done anything” and is “devastated” to have lost his life’s work.

Researchers at the Florida Atlantic University says 95% of smartwatch and fitness straps harbour nasty things like e-coli, which they found on 60 percent. Hurricane Hilary could be the first tropical storm to make landfall in Southern California since 1939, causing “significant and rare impacts”.Also in this episode:

• What’s in the next Call of Duty Modern Warfare game?
• Researchers in Sweden say divorced men with diabetes could have a greater risk of limb amputation
• Eating salad while on antibiotics could create dangerous superbug
• 23-million-year-old relative to today's seals may have used whiskers to forage
• HD 45166: Astronomers identify a new type of star three thousand light years away from Earth, and it's bigger than the sun
• Blue light filter glasses may not make a difference, say a team at Melbourne University
• Watch out! Venomous snakes are out of hibernation early in the East Coast of Australia due to global warming

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