On June 24, two quakes above magnitude 7 struck the northern part of the country only 39 seconds apart. While doublet sequences aren't unheard of in seismology, they are uncommon—especially in such sh ...

Dear Carolyn: We have three grandsons around the same age (one by each of our three children). We love them all dearly. Two of our kids are pretty unashamed about asking us for regular babysitting and ...

Homologous recombination (HR) is a universal DNA repair mechanism that faithfully restores genomic integrity following double-strand breaks (DSBs) in DNA. The details concerning the transfer of ...

One major earthquake striking Caracas, where older buildings are vulnerable to strong shaking, could have caused widespread damage. A pair of them less than a minute apart was uniquely catastrophic, ...

Precision medicine exploits genetic differences to tailor drug treatments. Here the authors mapped ~1.17 M variants near drug-binding sites, built SNPdrug3D, and showed such variants often disrupt ...