A little more than a year ago, on a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, some colleagues and I met a 12-year-old Masai boy named Richard Turere, who told us a fascinating story. His family raises livestock on the ...

In the days of cold, hard newsprint, only people who could draw were successful comic strip authors. In some cases, this resulted in comic strips that had very nice pictures, but weren't all that ...

A group of physicists from Loughborough University in the UK has recently turned the phrase “playing the world’s smallest violin” into reality. While the expression often pokes fun at someone who’s ...

The human genome comprises both our protein-coding genes and the regulatory information that controls when, and to what extent, those genes are expressed. While humans mostly share the same repertoire ...

How does the cell convert DNA into working proteins? The process of translation can be seen as the decoding of instructions for making proteins, involving mRNA in transcription as well as tRNA. But ...

Your why may not be what you think it is. by Jonathan Knowles, Tom Hunsaker, Hannah Grove and Alison James Today’s business leaders are under pressure to come up with a corporate purpose, much as they ...

As many as eighteen violin makers named Gagliano are known. The following among them are outstanding: Alessandro (Naples, Italy, flourished c. 1700-c. 1735), who worked in the shops of Nicolo Amati ...