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Previous research has already shown the bacteria is "good" because it calms inflammation in the gut.

The researchers looked at data from more than 96,000 people, spanning 6 separate studies and found that skipping breakfast once a week is associate with a 6 per cent higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

Artificial light is a pollutant, changing the natural course of life for people, animals and plants.

Abdul Razak Ali Artan, the Somali-born attacker, who was fatally shot dead by policemen for launching a gruesome attack on Ohio State University students, had left an anti-US Facebook post that was quickly taken down by the authorities.

A U.S. government official confirmed the assailant was from Somalia, 18 years old and a lawful permanent resident of the United States.

"We do not have information at the moment on motive," added Monica Moll, public safety director at the university, saying only that the investigation was ongoing. 

Asked if authorities were considering the incident to be a terror attack, Columbus police chief Kim Jacobs said that investigators were considering it to be a "possibility."

CBS News quoted a federal law enforcement official as saying the suspect "has been tentatively identified as a young man of Somali descent," aged around 20.

A witness suggested that a suspect was driving a red SUV.

WBNS showed images of more than a dozen police cars parked at an intersection at the school and a line of about 10 ambulances parked nearby.

The research revealed that those with low job satisfaction and downward trending careers had more problems like back pain and frequent colds compared to the ones with high satisfaction group.

While other studies have shown that people commit fewer crimes when they get married, this is the first to show that people straighten up their act even before they tie the knot.

The Ohio State University chemists are developing paper strips that detect diseases including cancer and malaria.

One pattern is tuned to detect a furrowed brow, another is tuned to detect the upturn of lips into a smile, and so on.

Clothes with computer components that can gather, store or transfer data has come closer to reality after a team of researchers could embroider electronic circuits into fabric with 0.1 mm precision

Like other modern sewing machines, it embroiders thread into fabric automatically based on a pattern loaded via a computer file.

 In a world's first, a novel device has given a paralysed man functional control of his hand where he can grasp and swipe a credit card or play a guitar video game with his own fingers and hand.

Like other forms of sign language, ASL combines hand gestures, head and body movements and facial expressions to communicate individual words or phrases.

Grapeseed oil for now remains an excellent source of linoleic acid, which constitutes about 80 percent of its fatty acids.

Scientists have developed luminescent molecule that can light up the path taken by chemotherapy drugs in real time, which could help understand why cancer patients respond differently to the same treatment.