Resumen de In Brief.

David Biello, J. R. Minkel, Charles Q. Choi

• This article presents scientific news briefs. Archaeologists say that the city of Tell Brak in Syria was urbanized more than 7,000 years ago. The mystery illness that killed 45 percent of the honeybees in U.S. commercial beekeeping operations is thought to be the Israeli acute paralysis virus. The U.S. National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) has created a computer chip for space that can operate for 1,700 hours at 500 degrees Celsius.