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AddDNA tests and organizations such as 23andMe, DNAConnect, GEDmatch, and Nanchang Project are reuniting parents and children separated by China's one-child policy, Barbara Demick reports.
The complicated story of James Watson, whose landmark DNA discovery with Francis Crick was later overshadowed by his deeply offensive remarks
Some black holes get extremely massive. Is there an upper limit to their growth?
You may want to keep this news from your kids.
He’s one of the loudest voices of the AI haters—even as he does PR for AI companies. Either way, Ed Zitron has your attention.
How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth: 9781509540235: Economics Books @ Amazon.com
The cosmic traveller flying at 61km/s and steaming with gaseous cyanide is only the third object we’ve detected in our solar system that came from another star. And one Harvard professor believes it may be an alien spacecraft with malicious intent.
Some thoughts about how to schedule online meetings for a global organisation in an equitable way.
Was Zabihollah Mansouri secretly a prolific author?
Patients who had more cells had better outcomes, particularly for aggressive types such as triple-negative breast cancer
Michael and Mary Shelley were glamorous Sydney socialites, who became Christian fanatics and kidnappers. Three of their children - Steven, John and Hannah - were secretly placed into foster care with my parents, Lenore and Tom Blaine. The Shelleys were apocalyptically irritated to discover that the children of God had been fostered by working-class Queensland…
Twenty years after the first face transplant, patients are dying, data is missing, and the experimental procedure’s future hangs in the balance
Anna Funder
On the importance of a strong inside strategy.