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New research suggests that rheumatoid arthritis (RA), a chronic autoimmune disease targeting the joints and resulting in painful inflammation, has a correlation with the bacteria that live in our intestines. The finding, published in...

Scientists at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a revolutionary transistor that behaves in similar ways to the synapses of neurons in our brains. The brain is the world's greatest...

For two weeks now, a story has been developing that seems more like the ominous beginning of a science fiction novel than genuine news. On Oct. 25, the technology news website CNET reported on...

On Sept. 19, 1991, Erika and Helmut Simon, vacationers from Nuremberg, Germany, discovered a man's body protruding from the ice in the mountains of the Ötztal valley. They were on their way down from...

Just in time for Halloween, a controversy has erupted in the scientific community over an early human skull that was found in a dig site in Dmanisi, Georgia. In 2000, a jaw bone was discovered...

China has received approval from the World Health Organization (WHO) for a live attenuated vaccine against Japanese encephalitis (JE), a viral brain infection transferred by mosquitoes that causes 10-15,000 deaths per year, mostly in...

In the late eighteenth century, Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier discovered fire." This is how the futurist and artificial intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky described it, and he's not far off the mark. Through much of the...