Genetics
Does Stress Speed Up Evolution?
Getting control of the molecular mechanisms that drive rapid mutations.
Sex Is a Coping Mechanism
Did sexual reproduction evolve to keep up with mitochondrial mutation?
The Secret, Stressful Stories of Fossils
A new field called paleoepigenetics is probing how evolution responds to sudden stress.
How Your Embryo Knew What To Do
The forgotten story of the woman who discovered how animals get their shape.
Science Is Proving That Tragic Curses Are Real
Epigenetics and behaviorism suggest the ancient Greeks were right.
Why the Russians Decapitated Major Tom
The story of the genetically engineered mouse cosmonaut.
What If Tinder Showed Your IQ?
A report from a future where genetic engineering has sabotaged society.
This Gender Mystery Starts Nine Months Before Birth
The ratio of boys to girls at conception has been misunderstood for centuries.
Red-Eyed Magpies, White-Speckled Ravens, & Other Birds of Unusual Feathers
The strange plumage of genetically mutated birds.