Evolution’s hotspots
Biologists at the University of the Andes in Colombia claim to have discovered one of the fastest evolving ecosystems on the planet. This rapid diversification…
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Genetically engineered mosquitoes can help reduce malaria occurrence
Genetically engineered (GE) biotechnologies are on the rise. We are all familiar with the progress that has been made with genetically modified crops. Now advances…
Breakthrough against Lou Gehrig’s disease
A team of researchers and graduate students from the University of Manitoba has made a discovery concerning amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), more commonly known as…
Gut bacteria have a say in rheumatoid arthritis
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…
Brain computing
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…
Google’s mystery barges
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…
The Iceman cometh
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…
Bone business
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…
It’s official!
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…
Time’s arrow: Antoine Lavoisier
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…