Jyoti Vakhlu [email protected] From laws of inheritance to the molecule of heredity – a journey of scientific triumphs, ethical fault-lines and the end of an era with the passing of ...
One of the fundamental rules of inheritance states that different alleles (gene copies) of a trait, such as sex, are inherited with equal frequency. "However, we have long known that there are genes ...
THE YOUNG SOCIALISTS, the youth wing of Switzerland’s Social Democratic Party, do not have any MPs in parliament, but they know how to make a stir. On November 30th the country held a referendum on ...
When Carmen Thomas was growing up in Boston, her mom told her that her absent dad’s name was Joe Brown. So when she sent a saliva sample to 23andMe in her 20s and got a match with a Brown, she was ...
The Dark Forest theory is one proposed solution to the famed Fermi Paradox, which has bewitched astronomers for more than half a century. To put it concisely, the paradox asks if the cosmos is nearly ...
Jennifer Simonson is a business journalist with a decade of experience covering entrepreneurship and small business. Drawing on her background as a founder of multiple startups, she writes for Forbes ...